cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An investigation into Integrated Urban Water Management and its implementation in Melbourne, Australia
Creators: name: Furlong, Casey
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330410
subject: Urban analysis and development
classificationCode: 400508
subject: Infrastructure engineering and asset management
classificationCode: 400513
subject: Water resources engineering

description: Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) is an emerging practice which involves, among other things, the integrated planning of water supply, sewerage and drainage services, and consideration of alternative water sources such as wastewater and stormwater reuse projects. This research has aimed to deepen and increase the understanding of the IUWM concept, and the practicalities of its implementation within Melbourne. The primary methods of the research have included consultation with 43 experts from 25 organisations, an industry survey, and seven in-depth IUWM project planning case studies. Over its seven body chapters, the research covers the meaning and origins of IUWM, puts forward conceptual models for understanding IUWM planning, uses the case studies to explore the practicalities of implementing IUWM projects, and puts forward practical recommendations for future efforts. It is found that IUWM is a loosely defined concept, with many associated objectives and methods. The in-depth case study analysis provided demonstrates that implementing IUWM is extremely challenging and does not always work out as planned. Therefore it is recommended that potential project risks need to be taken more seriously in the planning of future IUWM projects, and some form of regional collaboration on policy and strategy, between all relevant stakeholders, is required in order to enable the effective implementation of IUWM.
Variable-length particle swarm optimization for feature selection on high-dimensional classification
Creators: name: Tran, Binh
name: Xue, Bing
name: Zhang, Mengjie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: With a global search mechanism, particle swarm optimization (PSO) has shown promise in feature selection (FS). However, most of the current PSO-based FS methods use a fix-length representation, which is inflexible and limits the performance of PSO for FS. When applying these methods to high-dimensional data, it not only consumes a significant amount of memory but also requires a high computational cost. Overcoming this limitation enables PSO to work on data with much higher dimensionality which has become more and more popular with the advance of data collection technologies. In this paper, we propose the first variable-length PSO representation for FS, enabling particles to have different and shorter lengths, which defines smaller search space and therefore, improves the performance of PSO. By rearranging features in a descending order of their relevance, we facilitate particles with shorter lengths to achieve better classification performance. Furthermore, using the proposed length changing mechanism, PSO can jump out of local optima, further narrow the search space and focus its search on smaller and more fruitful area. These strategies enable PSO to reach better solutions in a shorter time. Results on ten high-dimensional datasets with varying difficulties show that the proposed variable-length PSO can achieve much smaller feature subsets with significantly higher classification performance in much shorter time than the fixed-length PSO methods. The proposed method also outperformed the compared non-PSO FS methods in most cases.
title: Essays on the nature, purpose and measurement of social impact
Creators: name: Lucchino, Paolo
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: H Social Sciences
subject: HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform

description: This thesis consists of a series of papers relating to the nature, purpose and measurement of social impact. Paper 1 makes an empirical contribution to the understanding of firm incentives to be perceived as social, and finds that even quite distinct variants of social enterprises can nevertheless benefit form a strategic use of social responsibility. Paper 2 relates to the theoretical prediction that non-profits will deliver higher standards of quality in markets where this quality is hard to observe, and tests this, possibly for the first time in the literature, in the case of unemployment support services. In contrast to existing literature, we do not find strong evidence of for-profit vs. non-profit differentials in product quality, be it observed or unobserved. The immediate focus of Paper 3 and Paper 4 is on the role of access to light in the socio-economic transformation and growth of rural communities in the developing world, which partly constitutes a second strand of this thesis. Using a randomised controlled trial, Paper 3 identifies strong evidence of a causal link between access to light and educational attainment. Through a further randomised controlled trial, Paper 4 finds that access to light contributes to a diversification in household livelihoods from agricultural to non-farm economic activities. To our knowledge, this constitutes the first robust evidence that small-scale lighting sources can help stimulate the very first steps in the direction of economic transformation. Importantly, Paper 3 and Paper 4 also speak to the questions of measurement of social impact evoked in Papers 1 and 2 and some of the practical challenges typically faced in this pursuit. Bringing these various threads together, these papers contribute to our understanding of contemporary social enterprise, with a particular focus on the role of information and its measurement in tightly linking social enterprise with genuine social impact.
Processi Antropici Ed Evoluzione Degli Ambienti Costieri E A Bassofondale
Creators: name: Scarpa, Gian Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The interdisciplinary investigation shows that the transit of large vessels in the shallow water areas has a considerable impact on the hydrodynamic and morphology in the central Lagoon of Venice. Ship depression wakes are the major stress factor and contribute to the significant erosion of the channel margins and shoals. Morphological and sedimentological analysis using remote sensing and GIS tools were combined with the study of waves, to evaluate the impact of the navigation in the Malamocco-Marghera channel. Wave heights till a maximum of 2.45 m can propagate for 1000 m on the near mudflats where high values of turbidity were measured. The depression also adversely affects the lagoon morphology. On the channel side a fast shoreline retreat of more than 10 m/year was observed. Variables related to the phenomena were studied to evaluate a new management of the port ship traffic controlling ship wakes formation to minimize the environmental effects of the navigation in the lagoon.
Additional file 11 of No genetic causal associations between periodontitis and brain atrophy or cognitive impairment: evidence from a comprehensive bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Deng, Zhixing
name: Li, Jiaming
name: Zhang, Yuhao
name: Zhang, Yinian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 11: Figure S6. Scatter plots of causal relationships of brain atrophy measures and cognitive impairment with periodontitis utilizing different MR methods (In replication cohort).
sj-docx-3-ldx-10.1177_00222194231223526 – Supplemental material for Derivational Morphology Training in French-Speaking, 9- to 14- Year-Old Children and Adolescents With Developmental Dyslexia: Does it Improve Morphological Awaraness, Reading and Spelling Outcome Measures?
Creators: name: Ardanouy, Estelle
name: Zesiger, Pascal
name: Delage, Hélène
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Education
Psychology not elsewhere classified
Special Education and Disability

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-ldx-10.1177_00222194231223526 for Derivational Morphology Training in French-Speaking, 9- to 14- Year-Old Children and Adolescents With Developmental Dyslexia: Does it Improve Morphological Awaraness, Reading and Spelling Outcome Measures? by Estelle Ardanouy, Pascal Zesiger and Hélène Delage in Journal of Learning Disabilities
Spinaeschna tripunctata
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Aeshnidae
Spinaeschna
Spinaeschna tripunctata

description: Spinaeschna tripunctata (Martin, 1901)
Fig. 22
 Theischinger (1975, 1982, 2002); Hawking (1986, 1995); Hawking & Theischinger (1999); Theischinger & Hawking (2003, 2006); Peters & Theischinger (2007); Theischinger & Endersby (2009); Hawking et al. (2013).
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 88, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169
Explorations with 'place' for ecologically responsive urban dwelling: a study of more-than-human place (making) and ecological design in two Australian cities
Creators: name: Robertson, Sarah
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330410
subject: Urban analysis and development
classificationCode: 440407
subject: Socio-economic development
classificationCode: 440610
subject: Social geography

description: `Sense of place' and `placemaking' are popular terms in urban-focused research and practice. In large part, place-focused efforts promote human connection to place as important for human health, wellbeing and sustainability outcomes in cities. However, the challenges facing cities are social and ecological; they are more-than-human. This PhD thesis examines and takes `western' thinking about place beyond an anthropocentric frame to think through what `place', human engagements with place and human designs for place in urban realms mean for ecologically sustainable urban dwelling. The research explores place as designed and as lived experience to examine the possibilities of reconfiguring human-place connections toward greater ecological responsiveness; a dynamic and enacted yet enmeshed ethic that actively acknowledges the intra-relationships in which humans are always engaged in becomings¿with other-than-human entities and more-than-human worlds.

To explore the potential of this more-than-human framing of place, I first conducted empirical qualitative research with designers and project leaders of `sustainable' residential design projects in three Australian cities. In-depth empirical research followed at two Australian urban residential design projects as examples of place-responsive projects that aim to create more 'sustainable' cities. Data sets were made with the project leaders and residents in these case studies using ethnographic walking, photojournaling and interview methodologies. The resulting data were analysed using a novel approach to narrative analysis and re-presentation. Drawing on this empirical work, the thesis critically examines the hope that stronger human-place connections can achieve positive socio-ecological change by asking if and how ecological responsiveness plays out for those people who live in places designed to be `environmentally sustainable'.

The thesis renders participant accounts with images and poetic-like narrative prose alongside critical analysis of these more-than-human experiences. This analysis brings forth the entanglements of humans and nonhumans in urban realms to emphasise that `place' is always in the making, and that places and place experiences are always defined by more-than-human intra-actions. These more-than-human entanglements of place have implications for the ethics, politics and practices of design and dwelling in cities. In particular, the thesis argues that attending to the micro-entanglements of more-than-human design and dwelling can open opportunities for reconfiguring and reorienting people (and cities to an extent) toward greater ecological responsiveness or processes of socio-ecological change.
Additional file 12 of No genetic causal associations between periodontitis and brain atrophy or cognitive impairment: evidence from a comprehensive bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Deng, Zhixing
name: Li, Jiaming
name: Zhang, Yuhao
name: Zhang, Yinian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 12: Figure S7.docx Leave-one-out analysis of periodontitis with brain atrophy measures and cognitive impairment (In exploration cohort).
Petalura hesperia Watson 1958
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Petaluridae
Petalura
Petalura hesperia

description: Petalura hesperia Watson, 1958
Fig. 24
 Watson (1958, 1962); Williams (1980); Watson & O’Farrell (1991); Watson et al. (1991); Theischinger (2002); Theischinger & Hawking (2003, 2006); Theischinger & Endersby (2009).
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 88, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169
Working well: a systematic scoping review of the Indigenous primary healthcare workforce development literature
Creators: name: McCalman, J
name: Campbell, Sandra
name: Jongen, C
name: Langham, E
name: Pearson, K
name: Fagan, R
name: Martin-Sardesai, A
name: Bainbridge, R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Strong and effective workforce models are essential for improving comprehensive Indigenous primary healthcare service (PHC) provision to Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA (CANZUS nations). This review systematically scoped the literature for studies that described or evaluated models and systems that support the sustainability, capacity or growth of the Indigenous PHC workforce to provide effective PHC provision. Methods: Eleven databases, 10 websites and clearinghouses, and the reference lists of 5 review articles were searched for relevant studies from CANZUS nations published in English from 2000 to 2017. A process of thematic analysis was utilised to identify key conditions, strategies and outcomes of Indigenous PHC workforce development reported in the literature. Results: Overall, 28 studies were found. Studies reported enabling conditions for workforce development as government funding and appropriate regulation, support and advocacy by professional organisations; community engagement; PHC leadership, supervision and support; and practitioner Indigeneity, motivation, power equality and wellbeing. Strategies focused on enhancing recruitment and retention; strengthening roles, capacity and teamwork; and improving supervision, mentoring and support. Only 12/28 studies were evaluations, and these studies were generally of weak quality. These studies reported impacts of improved workforce sustainability, workforce capacity, resourcing/growth and healthcare performance improvements. Conclusions: PHCs can strengthen their workforce models by bringing together healthcare providers to consider how these strategies and enabling conditions can be improved to meet the healthcare and health needs of the local community. Improvement is also needed in the quality of evidence relating to particular strategies to guide practice.
Austroaeschna (Pulchaeschna) muelleri Theischinger 1982
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Aeshnidae
Austroaeschna
Austroaeschna muelleri

description: Austroaeschna (Pulchaeschna) muelleri Theischinger, 1982
Fig. 20
Theischinger (1982, 1993, 2002); Theischinger & Hawking (2006); Theischinger & Endersby (2009).
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 87, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169
Supplemental Material - Understanding information needs during COVID-19: A comparison study between an online health community and a Q&A platform
Creators: name: Peng, Rachel X
name: Wang, Ryan Yang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplemental Material for Understanding information needs during COVID-19: A comparison study between an online health community and a Q&A platform by Rachel X Peng and Ryan Yang Wang in Health Informatics Journal
Hospital characteristics, rather than surgical volume, predict length of stay following colorectal cancer surgery
Creators: name: Vicendese, Donato
name: LT Marvelde
name: PD McNair
name: K Whitfield
name: DR English
name: SB Taieb
name: RJ Hyndman
name: R Thomas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objective: Length of hospital stay (LOS) is considered a vital component for successful colorectal surgery treatment. Evidence of an association between hospital surgery volume and LOS has been mixed. Data modelling techniques may give inconsistent results that adversely impact conclusions. This study applied techniques to overcome possible modelling drawbacks. Method: An additive quantile regression model formulated to isolate hospital contextual effects was applied to every colorectal surgery for cancer conducted in Victoria, Australia, between 2005 and 2015, involving 28,343 admissions in 90 Victorian hospitals. The model compared hospitals’ operational efficiencies regarding LOS. Results: Hospital LOS operational efficiencies for colorectal cancer surgery varied markedly between the 90 hospitals and were independent of volume. This result was adjusted for pertinent patient and hospital characteristics. Conclusion: No evidence was found that higher annual surgery volume was associated with lower LOS for patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery. Our model showed strong evidence that differences in LOS efficiency between hospitals was driven by hospital contextual effects that were not predicted by provider volume. Further study is required to elucidate these inherent differences between hospitals. Implications for public health: Our model indicated improved efficiency would benefit the patient and medical system by lowering LOS and reducing expenditure by more than $3 million per year.
Additional file 13 of No genetic causal associations between periodontitis and brain atrophy or cognitive impairment: evidence from a comprehensive bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Deng, Zhixing
name: Li, Jiaming
name: Zhang, Yuhao
name: Zhang, Yinian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 13: Figure S8. Leave-one-out analysis of brain atrophy measures and cognitive impairment with periodontitis (In exploration cohort).
Policy innovations for pro-poor climate support: social protection, small-scale infrastructure, and active citizenship under India’s MGNREGA
Creators: name: Fischer, Harry
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. While extensive scholarship has explored principles for pro-poor climate support, there is a need for knowledge of specific strategies that can achieve these objectives on the ground. This paper examines India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and its effects on climate risk reduction. Although the MGNREGA was not designed specifically as a climate programme, it incorporates three key elements with the potential to advance pro-poor climate assistance objectives: (a) social protection through the provision of minimum wage labour; (b) the development of small-scale, natural resource-focused infrastructure; and (c) a decentralized, ‘community-based’ planning architecture. Analysis of a primary dataset comprising 1400 households and 798 projects in India's state Himachal Pradesh, interpreted through intensive qualitative fieldwork, shows that both projects and labour have helped vulnerable households confront climate and other risks, while the Act's decentralized architecture has expanded the channels for citizens to claim support for local challenges. The paper argues for the importance of building a broader ‘ecosystem’ of support to target diverse local needs, and of the need to strengthen the political architectures through which vulnerable groups access these benefits on the ground–especially in the context of decentralized approaches for climate assistance.
Developing methods for the overarching synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence: The interweave synthesis approach
Creators: name: Coon, Jo Thompson
name: Gwernan‐Jones, Ruth
name: Garside, Ruth
name: Nunns, Michael
name: Shaw, Liz
name: Melendez-Torres, Gerardo
name: Moore, Darren
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Authors. Research Synthesis Methods published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd The incorporation of evidence derived from multiple research designs into one single synthesis can enhance the utility of systematic reviews making them more worthwhile, useful, and insightful. Methodological guidance for mixed-methods synthesis continues to emerge and evolve but broadly involves a sequential, parallel, or convergent approach according to the degree of independence between individual syntheses before they are combined. We present two case studies in which we used novel and innovative methods to draw together the findings from individual but related quantitative and qualitative syntheses to aid interpretation of the overall evidence base. Our approach moved beyond making a choice between parallel, sequential, or convergent methods to interweave the findings of individual reviews and offers three key innovations to mixed-methods synthesis methods: The use of intersubjective questions to understand the findings of the individual reviews through different lenses, Immersion of key reviewers in the entirety of the evidence base, and Commencing the process during the final stages of the synthesis of individual reviews, at a point where reviewers are developing an understanding of initial findings. Underlying our approach is the process of exploration and identification of links between and across review findings, an approach that is fundamental to all evidence syntheses but usually occurs at the level of the study. Adapting existing methods for exploring and identifying patterns and links between and across studies to interweave the findings between and across reviews may prove valuable.
Additional file 14 of No genetic causal associations between periodontitis and brain atrophy or cognitive impairment: evidence from a comprehensive bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Deng, Zhixing
name: Li, Jiaming
name: Zhang, Yuhao
name: Zhang, Yinian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 14: Figure S9. Leave-one-out analysis of periodontitis with brain atrophy measures and cognitive impairment (In replication cohort).
Supplemental Material - Attributing Values to Devices
Creators: name: Caspi, Avner
name: Etgar, Shir
name: Kavé, Gitit
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material for Attributing Values to Devices by Avner Caspi, Shir Etgar, and Gitit Kavé in Social Science Computer Review.
sj-pdf-1-hpp-10.1177_15248399221128609 – Supplemental material for WiFi in the Woods
Creators: name: Burch, Shanaé R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-hpp-10.1177_15248399221128609 for WiFi in the Woods by Shanaé R. Burch in Health Promotion Practice
Additional file 15 of No genetic causal associations between periodontitis and brain atrophy or cognitive impairment: evidence from a comprehensive bidirectional Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Deng, Zhixing
name: Li, Jiaming
name: Zhang, Yuhao
name: Zhang, Yinian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 15: Figure S10. Leave-one-out analysis of brain atrophy measures and cognitive impairment with periodontitis (In replication cohort).
Improving the enabling environment for evidence-informed policymaking: an example from Indonesia
Creators: name: Jackson, Elisabeth
name: Pellini, Arnaldo
name: Prasetiamartati, Budiati
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021

description: Background:Indonesia’s growth and prosperity as a lower-middle-income country hinges on the ability of policymakers to develop effective public policies based on evidence. Yet Indonesia’s policy and regulatory environment does not support the production of high-quality
 evidence and its use in policymaking. Key points for discussion:This article examines an international donor programme which aims to build sustainable capacity for evidence-informed policymaking by improving this enabling environment. The article reflects on the programme’s
 experience in working with local stakeholders to reform public procurement regulations to make commissioning of research easier. This experience suggests that facilitating stakeholders to work together to define a problem and break it down into its component parts helps generate realistic
 entry points and feasible solutions. It also suggests that a focus on purposively expanding the space for reform is necessary throughout the reform process. Leadership by individuals with decision-making authority is critical, as is building consensus around problems and maintaining momentum
 for solving them. Most importantly, to work effectively, programme staff and facilitators need to engage with the political economy of the policy problem. Conclusion and implications:This experience provides lessons for those seeking to support the systems that underpin
 evidence-informed policymaking in other middle-income country contexts.
Supplement Material.-.Meta-Analysis Comparing Bivalirudin Versus. Unfractionated Heparin in Adult Patients With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Creators: name: Kido, Kazuhiko
name: Kabulski, Galen M.
name: Szymanski, Thomas W.
name: Shiga, Tsuyoshi
name: Shimizu, Mikiko
name: Hashiguchi, Masayuki
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplement Material for Meta-Analysis Comparing Bivalirudin Versus. Unfractionated Heparin in Adult Patients With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by Kazuhiko Kido, Galen M. Kabulski, Thomas W. Szymanski, Tsuyoshi Shiga, Mikiko Shimizu, and Masayuki Hashiguchi in Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Austrogomphus (Austrogomphus) ochraceus
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Gomphidae
Austrogomphus
Austrogomphus ochraceus

description: Austrogomphus (Austrogomphus) ochraceus (Selys, 1869)
Fig. 32
Tillyard (1916b, 1917b, 1926); Hawking (1986); Hawking & New (1996); Theischinger (1998d, 2000b, 2004); Hawking & Theischinger (1999); Theischinger & Hawking (2003, 2006); Theischinger & Endersby (2009).
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 91, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169
Physical capacity of New South Wales ambulance paramedics
Creators: name: Hunter, Jayden
name: AJ Macquarrie
name: SC Sheridan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine.
Background: Paramedics are among the most frequently injured health professionals in Australia. A lack of physical capacity may contribute to injury risk in this occupational population. Aims: This study sought to describe and compare the physical fitness of male and female paramedics across age groups to ascertain differences in physical capacity. Methods: A group of regional Australian paramedics (n = 140; 78 males; mean ± SD 37.4 ± 9.9 years; body mass index 28.1 ± 4.9 kg/m2) underwent a fitness assessment. Measures included upper, lower and core-body muscular strength and flexibility. Outcomes were compared between genders and across age groups using two-way between-groups analysis of variance. Results: Male paramedics had greater upper body strength (P < 0.05; push-ups) mean (95% CI): 22.6 (19.4-25.9) versus 18.7 (15.2-22.3); similar lower body strength (single-leg wall squat): 39.0 (32.6-45.3) s versus 36.7 (27.1-46.3) s; greater core strength (P < 0.05; prone plank hold): 87.9 (77.6-98.3) s versus 73.8 (63.7-83.8) s; similar upper body flexibility (back scratch): -4.0 (-6.7 to -1.3) cm versus -0.3 (-2.2 to 1.7) cm; and similar lower body flexibility (sit and reach): 20.4 (18.2-22.6) cm versus 26.1 (23.5-28.7) cm to female paramedics. Core, upper and lower body strength all decreased with age (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Core, upper and lower body strength and upper body flexibility were poorer for older compared to younger regional paramedics in New South Wales, Australia. Future research should investigate whether these outcomes are associated with occupational injury risk. This information would assist in the design of injury prevention interventions for paramedics such as tailored workplace exercise programs.
Supplementary Table 1
Creators: name: Sampaio, Keytyanne de Oliveira
name: Silva-Junior, Valdemiro Amaro da
name: de Sousa-Filho, Reginaldo Pereira
name: Aleixo, Grazielle Anahy de Sousa
name: Mori da Cunha, Marina Gabriela Monteiro Carvalho
name: da Silva, Ellen Cordeiro Bento
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Clinical signs of intact, prepubertal and post-pubertal neutered cats with urethral obstruction.
Size dependent bending analysis of two directional functionally graded microbeams via a quasi-3D theory and finite element method
Creators: name: A Karamanlı
name: Vo, Thuc
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
This paper presents the flexural behaviour of two directional functionally graded (2D-FG) microbeams subjected to uniformly distributed load with various boundary conditions. A four-unknown shear and normal deformation theory or quasi-3D one is employed based on the modified couple stress theory, Ritz method and finite element formulation. The material properties are assumed to vary through the thickness and longitudinal axis and follow the power-law distribution. Firstly, the static deformations of conventional FG microbeams are investigated to verify the developed finite element code. For the convergence studies, a simply supported FG microbeam is considered by employing various number of elements in the problem domain, aspect ratios, material length scale parameters and gradient indexes. The verification of the developed code is established and then extensive studies are performed for various boundary conditions. Secondly, since there is no reported data regarding to the analysis of 2D-FG microbeams, verification studies are performed for 2D-FG beams with different aspect ratios and gradient indexes. The effects of the normal and shear deformations as well as and material length scale parameters on the flexural behaviour of the 2D-FG microbeams are investigated. Finally, some new results for deflections of conventional FG and 2D-FG microbeams for various boundary conditions are introduced for the first time and can be used as reference for future studies.
Geometrically nonlinear isogeometric analysis of functionally graded microplates with the modified couple stress theory
Creators: name: HX Nguyen
name: E Atroshchenko
name: H Nguyen-Xuan
name: Vo, Thuc
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2017 Elsevier Ltd In this study, a new and efficient computational approach based on isogeometric analysis (IGA) and refined plate theory (RPT) is proposed for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of functionally graded (FG) microplates. While the microplates’ size-dependent effects are efficiently captured by a simple modified couple stress theory (MCST) with only one length scale parameter, the four-unknown RPT is employed to establish the displacement fields which are eventually used to derive the nonlinear von Kámán strains. The NURBS-based isogeometric analysis is used to construct high-continuity elements, which is essentially required in the modified couple stress and refined plate theories, before the iterative Newton-Raphson algorithm is employed to solve the nonlinear problems. The successful convergence and comparison studies as well as benchmark results of the nonlinear analysis of FG microplates ascertain the validity and reliability of the proposed approach. In addition, a number of studies have been carried out to investigate the effects of material length scale, material and geometrical parameters on the nonlinear bending behaviours of microplates.
Additional file 1 of DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Nadiger, Nikhil
name: Veed, Jyothisha Kana
name: Chinya Nataraj, Priyanka
name: Mukhopadhyay, Arpita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Search strategy for the systematic review of DNA methylation association with T2DM
A refined quasi-3D isogeometric analysis for functionally graded microplates based on the modified couple stress theory
Creators: name: HX Nguyen
name: TN Nguyen
name: M Abdel-Wahab
name: SPA Bordas
name: H Nguyen-Xuan
name: Vo, Thuc
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The isogeometric analysis associated with a novel quasi-3D shear deformation theory is proposed to investigate size-dependent behaviours of functionally graded microplates. The modified couple stress theory with only one material length scale parameter is employed to effectively capture the size-dependent effects within the microplates. Meanwhile, the quasi-3D theory which is constructed from a novel seventh-order shear deformation refined plate theory with four unknowns is able to consider both shear deformations and thickness stretching effect without requiring shear correction factors. The NURBS-based isogeometric analysis is integrated to exactly describe the geometry and approximately calculate the unknown fields with higher-order derivative and continuity requirements. The proposed approach is successfully applied to study the static bending, free vibration and buckling responses of rectangular and circular functionally graded microplates with various types of boundary conditions in which some benchmark numerical examples are presented. A number of investigations are also conducted to illustrate the effects of the material length scale, material index, and aspect ratios on the responses of the microplates.
Macromitrium taoense Ther.
Creators: name: Thouvenot, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Orthotrichales
Orthotrichaceae
Macromitrium
Macromitrium taoense

description: Macromitrium taoense Thér.   (Figs 1F, 21)
 Diagnoses d’Espèces et de Variétés nouvelles de Mousses 8: 5 (1910).
 TYPE. — New Caledonia. “Tao, forêt, sur l’écorce des arbres, alt. 0 à 100 m ”, Franc s.n. (lecto-, designated here: PC [PC 0096517]!; isolecto-, PC [PC 0695985, PC 0695986]!).
DISTRIBUTION IN NEW CALEDONIA. — Rarely found in North (type locality) and South Provinces.
TOTAL RANGE. — Endemic to New Caledonia.
 SELECTED SPECIMEN. — New Caledonia. Province Sud, Dumbéa, trail to Mt Dzumac, 900 m, 26.IX.2012, Larraín 35357.
description: Published as part of Thouvenot, Louis, 2019, A review of the genus Macromitrium Brid. (Orthotrichaceae, Bryophyta) in New Caledonia, pp. 167-217 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (16) on page 208, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a16, http://zenodo.org/record/12215595
Size-dependent behaviour of functionally graded microbeams using various shear deformation theories based on the modified couple stress theory
Creators: name: LC Trinh
name: HX Nguyen
name: Vo, Thuc
name: TK Nguyen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study investigates the mechanical behaviours of functionally graded (FG) microbeams based on the modified couple stress theory. The material properties of these beams are varied through beam's depth and calculated by using classical rule of mixture and Mori–Tanaka scheme. The displacement fields are presented by using a unified framework which covers various theories including classical beam theory, first-order beam theory, third-order beam theory, sinusoidal beam theory, and quasi-3D beam theories. The governing equations of bending, vibration and buckling problems are derived using the Hamilton's principle and then solved by using Navier solutions with simply-supported boundary conditions. A number of numerical examples are conducted to show the validity and accuracy of the proposed approaches. Effects of Poisson's ratio, material length scale parameter, power-law index, estimation methods of material properties and slenderness ratio on deflections, stresses, natural frequencies and critical buckling loads of FG microbeams are examined.
sj-docx-2-ajs-10.1177_03635465221131281 – Supplemental material for Inequalities in the Evaluation of Male Versus Female Athletes in Sports Medicine Research: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Paul, Ryan W.
name: Sonnier, John Hayden
name: Johnson, Emma E.
name: Hall, Anya T.
name: Osman, Alim
name: Connors, Gregory M.
name: Freedman, Kevin B.
name: Bishop, Meghan E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-ajs-10.1177_03635465221131281 for Inequalities in the Evaluation of Male Versus Female Athletes in Sports Medicine Research: A Systematic Review by Ryan W. Paul, John Hayden Sonnier, Emma E. Johnson, Anya T. Hall, Alim Osman, Gregory M. Connors, Kevin B. Freedman and Meghan E. Bishop in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Vibration and lateral buckling optimisation of thin-walled laminated composite channel-section beams
Creators: name: HX Nguyen
name: J Lee
name: Vo, Thuc
name: D Lanc
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study presents vibration and lateral buckling optimisation of thin-walled laminated composite beams with channel sections. While flanges' width, web's height, and fibre orientation are simultaneously treated as design variables, the objective function involves maximising the fundamental frequency and critical buckling moment. Based on the classical beam theory, the beam element with seven degrees of freedom at each node is developed to solve the problem. Micro Genetic Algorithm (micro-GA) is then employed as an optimisation tool to obtain optimal results. A number of composite channel-section beams with different types of boundary conditions, span-to-height ratios, and lay-up schemes are investigated for the optimum design. The outcomes reveal that geometric parameters severely govern the optimal solution rather than the fibre orientation and it is considerably effective to use micro-GA compared with regular GA in term of optimal solution and convergence rate.
sj-docx-1-soq-10.1177_01902725221128387 – Supplemental material for Skin Tone and Mexicans’ Perceptions of Discrimination in New Immigrant Destinations
Creators: name: Marrow, Helen B.
name: Okamoto, Dina G.
name: García, Melissa J.
name: Adem, Muna
name: Tropp, Linda R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-soq-10.1177_01902725221128387 for Skin Tone and Mexicans’ Perceptions of Discrimination in New Immigrant Destinations by Helen B. Marrow, Dina G. Okamoto, Melissa J. García, Muna Adem and Linda R. Tropp in Social Psychology Quarterly
Odontogomphus donnellyi Watson 1991
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Gomphidae
Odontogomphus
Odontogomphus donnellyi

description: Odontogomphus donnellyi Watson, 1991
Fig. 35
 Watson (1991), under Genus Odontogomphus; Theischinger (1998d, 2000b); Theischinger&Hawking(2006); Theischinger & Endersby (2009); Hawking et al. (2013). Genus monotypic.
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 92, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169
Five-year changes in anterior segment parameters in an older population in urban southern China: the Liwan Eye Study
Creators: name: Jiang, Yu
name: Wang, Decai
name: Wang, Wei
name: Chen, Feng
name: Wang, Lanhua
name: Scheetz, Jane
name: Huang, Wenyong
name: Huang, Shengsong
name: He, Mingguang
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021

description: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Purpose To investigate the 5-year changes in static and dynamic anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) parameters and their predictors. Methods This was a prospective, population-based cohort study of people aged 50 years and older residing in the Liwan District, Guangzhou, China. Standardised AS-OCT scans were performed in November 2008 and November 2013 under dark and light conditions. Customised software was used to analyse horizontal AS-OCT images. Parameters in dark and measurements of light-to-dark changes were used for analyses. Results A total of 186 (71.8%) subjects underwent AS-OCT twice, 5 years apart and were included for analyses. The mean age in 2008 was 64.7±7.0 years, and 60.2% were women. The anterior chamber width (ACW) decreased from 11.74±0.44 mm in 2008 to 11.60±0.37 mm in 2013 (p=0.001). There was a trend towards a decrease in dynamic capacity (light-to-dark changes) in the anterior segment, with decreased iris thickness at 750 μm ( "IT750), "ACW, Δanterior chamber area (ACA) and Δpupil diameter at 5 years (all p<0.05). After adjusting for age and sex, the following baseline parameters were associated with a greater decrease rate in trabecular iris space area at 500 μm (TISA500) at 5 years: TISA500, IT750 and ACA in dark (p<0.001 for all). Conclusions Anterior chamber angle width decreased and the amount of light-to-dark changes declined during 5-year follow-up. Subjects with greater height, wider angle width and thicker iris at baseline have greater angle narrowing at follow-up.
Additional file 2 of DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Nadiger, Nikhil
name: Veed, Jyothisha Kana
name: Chinya Nataraj, Priyanka
name: Mukhopadhyay, Arpita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 Qualitative assessment of research articles included in the review based on the New Castle Ottawa Scale (NOS)
Reconstructing a graph from its edge-contractions
Creators: name: Poirier, Antoine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Graph Theory
Reconstruction
Edge contraction

description: In this thesis, we investigate the contraction reconstruction conjecture. It states that all simple graphs with at least four edges are reconstructible, that is they are uniquely determined from their collection of single edge contraction minors, called the deck. Similar questions have been studied in the past, the vertex reconstruction conjecture being the most famous. There are usually two steps to show that a class of graph is reconstructible. The first one is to show that the class is recognizable, meaning that it is possible to determine if a graph G belongs to that class by looking at its deck. In order to recognize some classes of graphs, we show that a wide range of graph properties are reconstructible. We investigate the connectivity of graphs, which is useful to recognize disconnected, separable, and 2-connected graphs. We also show that the number of cycles of various lengths, the degree sequence, the number of spanning trees, the planarity, the presence of cliques of various sizes, and the diameter are reconstructible. Knowing the lengths of cycles allows us to recognize the class of bipartite graphs, while knowing the degree sequence allows us to recognize regular graphs. The second step in showing that a class of graph is reconstructible is called weak reconstruction. We say that a class of graph is weakly reconstructible if no two graphs in that class share the same deck. A class of graphs that is both weakly reconstructible and recognizable is reconstructible. In this thesis, we show that disconnected graphs, bipartite graphs, most separable graphs and most 2-edge connected graphs are reconstructible. We also show that distance regular graphs and some cubic graphs are reconstructible. We quickly delve into the theory of probabilities to give a proof that almost all graphs are reconstructible. Finally, the relation between edge contraction and graph automorphisms is studied. We study the automorphism group of a graph in relation to those of its cards. We also study the concept of contraction pseudo-similarity. Two edges are contraction pseudo-similar if they are not similar, but their contractions yield isomorphic graphs. We completely characterize the graphs that contain contraction pseudo-similar edges.
Parasynthemis regina
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Synthemistidae
Parasynthemis
Parasynthemis regina

description: Parasynthemis regina (Selys, 1874)
Fig. 41
 Tillyard (1910b), Hawking (1986), both as Synthemis regina; Hawking & Theischinger (1999); Theischinger (2001a); Theischinger & Hawking (2003, 2006); Theischinger & Endersby (2009); Hawking et al. (2013). Genus monotypic.
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 95, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169