cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Innovation in the Australian spatial information industry: incentives and impediments
Creators: name: Woodgate, Peter
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The spatial information industry in Australia is in a state of rapid flux. In recent years it has had to transition itself from the use of traditional surveying and cartographic services to the ubiquitous world of on-line, mobile positioning and imaging services.
This thesis sets out to examine the factors and processes that are operating to assist and impede innovation in Australia's spatial information industry today. The emphasis of the thesis is on small to medium enterprise (SME) firms operating in Australia.

A comprehensive review of the literature of innovation was undertaken. The review identified 60 factors of innovation. The process of innovation was also investigated. The literature review yielded next to no information on comparable studies on the spatial information industry anywhere in the world.

The research involved detailed case studies on five firms operating in the Australian spatial information industry. In each firm interviews were conducted separately with the Chief Executive Officer and one Innovator. An industry-wide survey was conducted and 85 individual returns from 70 separate firms were obtained. A realist research method and an inductive research strategy were employed to analyse the data.

The research found that 74 percent of firms believe that innovation was critical to their success. On average Australian firms devote 8 percent of their total turnover to research and development. Seventy-nine percent of firms felt that lack of skilled labour was limiting innovation, the largest impeding factor. Sixty-four percent felt government red tape was also impeding innovation. The most popular research partners were Australia's Cooperative Research Centres. A close examination of working practice in Australian firms revealed the potential for significant lapses in the quality of communication between the CEO and the Innovators of the firm.

A methodology of innovation best practice management for innovation in the spatial information industry was derived from all of the sources of research; literature review, case study interviews and the industry-wide survey.
A systems engineering approach to support policy decision-making for Vietnam paddy production.
Creators: name: Le Cat, Tuong
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In the last decade, a 69 percent increase in the Vietnam paddy production resulted from a 33 percent improvement in productivity and a 27 percent expansion in cropping area. In this decade a 20 percent increase in paddy production, up to 39 million tons by 2010 from 32.5 million tons in 2000, is needed to respond to expected rice consumption and export. However, a reduction in the paddy cropping land is required in order to help improve the allocation of crops.
The overall objective of this research was to establish the levels of resources necessary to meet these targets. To achieve this, this research applied a process of systems planning in systems engineering with a linear programming model, based on considering the Vietnam paddy production system a nation-level goal-specified system in which farmers behave with their farm-level profits.
This research found the followings:
1) The target of 39 million tons of paddy could be reached by 2010 with a 10 percent reduction in the cropping area but a 2.6 percent increase in the irrigated area during the period 2000-2010.
2) Average paddy productivity could be improved up to 5.7 tons per hectare by 2010 through intensification of paddy production with increased use of seeds, fertilizers, protective chemicals and tractors of up to 185 kg, 563 kg, 21 USD and 136 horse-power.days per hectare, respectively.
3) Labour use would be reduced down to 93 person.days per hectare by the expansion of mechanical operation through the increased use of tractors.
4) With no supports and subsidies it would be difficult to have hybrid paddy varieties cropped for the commercial purpose because they produce less profits for farmers, compared with conventional ones.
5) The broadcasting seeding method would be desirable as it gives higher profits and is less labour intensive, compared with transplanting seeding.
6) Irrigated land would still be the most favourable environment for profitability.
Additional file 2 of Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) pediatric resident training course: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Lo Bianco, Manuela
name: Presti, Santiago
name: Finocchiaro, Maria Carla
name: Trobia, Gian Luca
name: Sciacca, Tiziana Virginia
name: Cucuzza, Maria Elena
name: Caudullo, Elia
name: Calcara, Giacomo
name: Ruggieri, Martino
name: Di Stefano, Vita Antonella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
sj-docx-2-cjo-10.1177_00084174221142184 - Supplemental material for The Multiple Errands Test: A Guide for Site-Specific Version Development
Creators: name: Scarff, Shannon M.
name: Nalder, Emily J.
name: Gullo, Hannah L.
name: Fleming, Jennifer
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-cjo-10.1177_00084174221142184 for The Multiple Errands Test: A Guide for Site-Specific Version Development by Shannon M. Scarff, Emily J. Nalder, Hannah L. Gullo and Jennifer Fleming in Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
Supplemental Material - Predicting housing construction period based on a cox proportional hazard model––an empirical study of housing completions in the greater Toronto and Hamilton area
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu
name: Miller, Eric J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geography
Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for Predicting housing construction period based on a cox proportional hazard model––an empirical study of housing completions in the greater Toronto and Hamilton area by Yu Zhang and Eric J Miller in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Investigation of crystallisation inhibitors through molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Hannam, Stephen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510304
subject: Thermodynamics and statistical physics

description: The main objective of this study is to contribute towards the understanding of the vitrification process in multicomponent systems. In particular, the aim was to gain a better understanding of how additives inhibit crystallisation and thus promote glass formation. To this end, two very different glass formers were studied: the first was a colloidal suspension that is often used as a model system to study vitrification, and the second was a trehalose solution that has more biological interest. Both glass formers were studied using molecular dynamics simulation as it is a powerful technique that can complement experiment, and allows the determination of properties that may be quite difficult to determine experimentally. By first studying the system without the additives, and then comparing to when the additives are present, a potential mechanism for crystallisation inhibition was observed. The results demonstrate that a key predictor of crystallisation inhibition in both colloidal suspensions and trehalose solutions can be found in the behaviour of the interdiffusion coefficients. The interdiffusion coefficients are related to a multicomponent systems ability to make compositional changes that are needed after a quench for the local stoichiometry to match the equilibrium crystal. It was found that if the value of the interdiffusion coefficient is negligible, this indicated that compositional changes could not occur, and so a long-lived metastable glassy state forms. This was observed in both glass forming systems studied and therefore points to an underlying mechanism that links the interdiffusion process with glass formation. This study supplies evidence of this link, and points out the importance of compositional relaxation in vitrification of multicomponent systems and the need to study the collective properties, rather than just single particle properties, when studying vitrification.
Supplemental Material - Supplemental Material for Ethnic Disparities in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Outcomes and Processes of Care in Patients With and Without Standard Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Nationwide Cohort Study
Creators: name: Weight, Nicholas
name: Moledina, Saadiq
name: Sun, Louise
name: Kragholm, Kristian
name: Freeman, Phillip
name: Diaz-Arocutipa, Carlos
name: Dafaalla, Mohamed
name: Gulati, Martha
name: Mamas, Mamas A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental Material for Supplemental Material for Ethnic Disparities in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Outcomes and Processes of Care in Patients With and Without Standard Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Nationwide Cohort Study by Nicholas Weight, Saadiq Moledina, Louise Sun, Kristian Kragholm, Phillip Freeman, Carlos Diaz-Arocutipa, Mohamed Dafaalla, Martha Gulati, and Mamas A. Mamas in Angiology
Additional file 2 of Construction and preliminary validation of a tool to measure the needs of adolescents and young adults (AYA) diagnosed with cancer: the QUestionnaire nEEd Cancer AYAs: QUEEC-AYAs
Creators: name: Justafré, S.
name: Marino, P.
name: Touzani, R.
name: Dupeyre-Alvarez, F.
name: Dantin, P.
name: Viens, P.
name: Vey, N.
name: Calvin, S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Usme: A Space for Hope. A case study of decolonial resistance and processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation in Bogotá, Colombia.
Creators: name: Vargas Marino, Andres Felipe
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The increasing urbanisation of Latin America posits challenges for the rural life, especially for those places around the cities where the land is being transformed from farms to heavily industrialised zones or dense populated zones. Usme is an example of that transformation: a former farmer town that was co-opted by Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. In 1954 the city took control over the jurisdiction of Usme, and since then the town has been subject to deep transformations that are in conflict with the everyday life of the rural culture of Usme. Among the most negative changes are the construction of the third biggest landfill in Latin America, the mining contracts multinationals have in Usme, and a badly planned housing project. This thesis is a case study of Usme, it provides an account about how the community of Usme is reacting to those challenges by proposing an alternative way to understand the world.

This thesis explores how the aforementioned negative transformations of the land are a consequence of the oppressive side of modernity; coloniality. In that manner, the thesis argues that governments have created an assemblage of Usme as a place that has no productive value unless it is used as a repository of natural resources for the city. This assemblage lies in the modern/colonial idea of development.

But this thesis is not only about the oppression and exclusion of Usme. It also addresses how the activists from Usme challenge the modern/colonial impositions over their land. In that manner, the thesis describes how Usme activists are creating an alternative way to understand their world; one in which the memory of the pre-Hispanic joins with the campesino[1]’s memory to de-locate modern ideas of science and environmentalism. For the activists, human and nature can dialogue as equals and science is the language used to communicate with nature.

[1] In this thesis the word campesinos refers to the small farmers of Usme. I will use this term as a loanword from Spanish. This is very important, as the literary translation of campesinos into English is peasant, but as it was pointed out by one of my thesis examiners, peasant is attached to feudal systems, and therefore to the past. Instead Campesino, and as pointed out by the social movement organized as La Via Campesina (2011), campesino is the word used to name a broader community of “millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world”
sj-docx-1-jet-10.1177_15266028231179865 – Supplemental material for Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Invasive Surgery Skill Based on a Custom Training Simulator
Creators: name: Liang, Shichao
name: Li, Long
name: Yang, Bin
name: Yuan, Panpan
name: Li, Shilong
name: Shi, Yue
name: Gao, Feng
name: Deng, Yiming
name: Jiao, Liqun
name: Chen, Duanduan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology
Medicine
Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jet-10.1177_15266028231179865 for Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Invasive Surgery Skill Based on a Custom Training Simulator by Shichao Liang, Long Li, Bin Yang, Panpan Yuan, Shilong Li, Yue Shi, Feng Gao, Yiming Deng, Liqun Jiao and Duanduan Chen in Journal of Endovascular Therapy
title: Wachstum von Silber-Ausscheidungen in Aluminium unter Last und Temperatur
Creators: name: Akbarzadeh, Moghadam Johanna Masume
Year: 2009

description: Die Temperaturabhängigkeit des Ausscheidungswachstums wurde an zwei Legierungen Al-2at%Ag und Al-6at%Ag untersucht. Es wurde die Änderung der Radien und der Abstände der Ausscheidungen einmal mit Hilfe des "Guinier Fits" und einmal mit Hilfe des "Hard-Sphere-Modells" bestimmt, graphisch dargestellt und verglichen. Um das Experiment zu realisieren, wurde im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit ein Ofen entwickelt, der in eine Zugmaschine einbaubar und röntgendurchlässig ist. Damit war es möglich, die Probe während eines Zugversuches zu beheizen, um eine eventuelle Änderung in der Ausscheidungsform in Abhängigkeit einer von außen angelegten Kraft und einer Temperatur zu untersuchen. Es wurde festgestellt, dass im Rahmen der Auflösungsgrenze von etwa 1% keine messbare Änderung in der Form stattfindet. Alle Versuche wurden in der Röntgenkleinwinkelanlage "NANO-STAR" der Firma Bruker-AXS durchgeführt.
description: The temperature dependence of the precipitation growth was investigated by two alloys: Al-2at%Ag and Al-6at%Ag. Changes in radii and the mean distance between the precipitations were, firstly, determined by "Guinier-fits" and afterwards by using the "Hard-Sphere-Model". The results of both calculation methods are depicted in graphics and are compared with each other. To realize the experiment, an X-Ray transparent furnace was developed which could be mounted on the tensile machine. Due to this furnace, the investigation of the precipitations' shape modification in dependence of external load and temperature was possible. It was found out that there were no measurable changes in shape within a resolution limit of 1%. All experiments were carried out in the Small Angle X-Ray Scattering-machine "NANO-STAR" by Bruker-AXS.
Instructor approaches to uptake and sustain the use of emerging technologies for education
Creators: name: Ananiev, Anabianca
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing
classificationCode: 460903
subject: Information modelling, management and ontologies

description: Emerging Technologies for Education (ETEs) have been defined by Veletsianos (2010) as “tools, innovations, and advancements utilized in diverse educational settings … to serve varied education-related purposes”. As noted by Veletsianos (2010), “ETEs satisfy the ‘not yet’ criteria. … [they] are not yet fully understood. … [and] are not yet fully researched”.

The present research project attempts to address this challenge by conducting case-study research into the perspectives and behaviours of instructors, identified as relevant stakeholders within the tertiary education sector. The case studies examine instructors’ approaches when taking decisions to uptake and sustain use of a selection of learning ETEs.

Data collection was undertaken, through semi-structured interviews with case-study respondents, about the broad features of different ETEs, with the concept of perceived affordance facilitating the discussion. System acceptability theory and other Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) concepts underpin the design of the data collection instruments. Interpretation of data collected interrogates decisions to uptake and sustain use of ETEs. This research investigates beyond any particular technology and its specific features, as it looks at a number of technologies though their affordances. Data collected in the course of a case-study, at a major Australian university, is viewed through a design science lens. The interpretation of the collected data allows understanding of the processes employed by instructors, when deciding whether (or not) to uptake and sustain the use of an ETE.

The insights developed may inform future technology providers developing ETEs, increasing the likelihood of positive uptake and sustained use. As a result, instructors may improve the decision to uptake and sustain the use of an ETE via an appreciation of the perspectives and behaviours that impact on technology choices.
sj-doc-1-acr-10.1177_02841851231179933 - Supplemental material for Radiomics model based on intravoxel incoherent motion and diffusion kurtosis imaging for predicting histopathological grade and Ki-67 expression level of soft tissue sarcomas
Creators: name: Zhu, Yi-feng
name: Li, Yu-shi
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Liu, Ya-jie
name: Zhang, Yi-ni
name: Tao, Juan
name: Wang, Shao-wu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Radiology and Organ Imaging

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-1-acr-10.1177_02841851231179933 for Radiomics model based on intravoxel incoherent motion and diffusion kurtosis imaging for predicting histopathological grade and Ki-67 expression level of soft tissue sarcomas by Yi-feng Zhu, Yu-shi Li, Yu Zhang, Ya-jie Liu, Yi-ni Zhang, Juan Tao and Shao-wu Wang in Acta Radiologica
sj-docx-3-hss-10.1177_15563316231177207 – Supplemental material for The National Football League Concussion Protocol: A Review
Creators: name: Jacobi, Jaclyn
name: Wasserman, Erin B.
name: D. Mack, Christina
name: Heinzelmann, Morgan
name: Cárdenas, Javier
name: Rehberg, Robb
name: Solomon, Gary
name: Sills, Allen
name: Vargas, Bert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-hss-10.1177_15563316231177207 for The National Football League Concussion Protocol: A Review by Jaclyn Jacobi, Erin B. Wasserman, Christina D. Mack, Morgan Heinzelmann, Javier Cárdenas, Robb Rehberg, Gary Solomon, Allen Sills and Bert Vargas in HSS Journal®
title: Subersiver Pop?
Creators: name: Berner, Elias
Year: 2009

description: Absicht der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, über das subversive Potential Populärer Musik der letzten fünfzig Jahre in ihrem weitesten Sinn nachzudenken. Die Arbeit beginnt mit einer bewußt sehr einfach gehaltenen Annäherung an den unüberschaubaren Zusammenhang zwischen Politik und Musik. Hier sollen die Probleme der Musikwissenschaft sinnvoll mit dieser Thematik umzugehen verdeutlichet werden. In gewisser Weise als Reaktion auf, und Ausweg aus dem im ersten Kapitel verursachten Chaos folgen vier Kapitel, die jeweils einer politischen Perspektive auf das Thema gewidmet sind. Die Wahl der Perspektiven bezieht sich auf eine Arbeit von John Street. Er unterscheidet in dem Kapitel „political theories of culture“ seiner Arbeit politics and popular culture zwischen vier politischen Perspektiven auf Populäre Kultur, die im 20. Jahrhundert die politische und wissenschaftliche Praxis im Umgang mit Kultur geprägt haben. Subversion lässt sich danach je nach Perspektive als für die Gesellschaft wünschenswerte oder zu verhindernde Kraft verstehen, dementsprechend unterschiedlich wird das subversive Potential populärer Kultur eingeschätzt. Streets Einteilung soll auch in dieser Arbeit verdeutlichen, dass „das subversive“ nicht objektiv an einer Musik oder ihrem Text festgestellt werden kann. Je nach politischer Perspektive wird die Musik zu einem gewissen System in ein Verhältnis gesetzt, das beschränkend und kontrollierend wirken, aber auch angegriffen und unterwandert werden kann. Streets Beschreibung der politischen Positionen dienen hierbei immer nur als Ausgangspunkt, um andere wissenschaftliche Überlegungen, musikwirtschaftliche und musikästhetische Prozesse aus unterschiedlichen Richtungen passend zu zuordnen. Zum Abschluss sollen die in den unterschiedlichen Kapiteln herausgearbeiteten Positionen zusammengefasst gegenüber gestellt werden, um ihre Reibungspunkte und somit auch ihren Zusammenhang, also ihre Abhängigkeit voneinander zu zeigen.
Additional file 1 of A Pfs48/45-based vaccine to block Plasmodium falciparum transmission: phase 1, open-label, clinical trial
Creators: name: Alkema, M.
name: Smit, M. J.
name: Marin-Mogollon, C.
name: Totté, K.
name: Teelen, K.
name: van Gemert, G. J.
name: van de Vegte-Bolmer, M.
name: Mordmüller, B. G.
name: Reimer, J. M.
name: Lövgren-Bengtsson, K. L.
name: Sauerwein, R. W.
name: Bousema, T.
name: Plieskatt, J.
name: Theisen, M.
name: Jore, M. M.
name: McCall, M. B. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Solicited local and systemic adverse events. Table S2. Clinically significant laboratory abnormalities. Figure S1. Solicited local adverse events after each vaccination. Figure S2. FDA graded local adverse events. Figure S3. Individual level antibody responses. Figure S4. Antibody decay after vaccination 3 and 4.
sj-pdf-1-vdi-10.1177_10406387231217505 – Supplemental material for Lipoprotein profiles in Miniature Schnauzer dogs with idiopathic hypertriglyceridemia and hypercortisolism
Creators: name: Bunn, Troy
name: Langner, Kathrin
name: Foster, Susan
name: Hayward, Douglas
name: Howard, Gretta
name: Paltrinieri, Saverio
name: Giordano, Alessia
name: Rossi, Gabriele
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Veterinary Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-vdi-10.1177_10406387231217505 for Lipoprotein profiles in Miniature Schnauzer dogs with idiopathic hypertriglyceridemia and hypercortisolism by Troy Bunn, Kathrin Langner, Susan Foster, Douglas Hayward, Gretta Howard, Saverio Paltrinieri, Alessia Giordano and Gabriele Rossi in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation
title: Plurizentrische Sprachen und translatorische Praxis
Creators: name: Illek, Sigrid
Year: 2009

description: In dieser Arbeit beschäftige ich mich mit der Thematik der plurizentrischen Sprachen im Zusammenhang mit der translatorischen Praxis. Die Arbeit beginnt mit einer Darstellung dessen, was plurizentrische Sprachen kennzeichnet und ausmacht. Daraufhin gehe ich im speziellen auf das österreichische Deutsch und das irische Englisch als nationale Varietäten plurizentrischer Sprachen ein, wobei ich einige der spezifischen Merkmale dieser Varietäten aufzeige. Folglich befasse ich mich mit der Sprachenpolitik auf staatlicher und nichtstaatlicher Ebene. Zuerst untersuche ich die staatliche Sprachenpolitik in Österreich und der Republik Irland mit speziellem Augenmerk auf die Förderung der nationalen Standardvarietäten; danach gehe ich auf die diesbezüglichen Aktivitäten nichtstaatlicher Einrichtungen sowie der Berufsverbände für Übersetzer- und DolmetscherInnen ein. Das folgende Kapitel ist dem Zusammenhang zwischen translatorischer Praxis und plurizentrischen Sprachen gewidmet. Dabei stütze ich mich auf die Verbindung von Sprache, Text, Kultur und Identität und die Auswirkungen dessen auf die translatorische Praxis im Hinblick auf plurizentrische Sprachen. Den Abschluss bildet ein Ausblick darauf, wie der Status plurizentrischer Sprachen aus Sicht von TranslatorInnen verbessert werden kann und wie TranslatorInnen und TranslationswissenschafterInnen dazu beitragen können.
The gentle hand + the greedy eye: an everyday baroque practice in architecture
Creators: name: Hurst, Rachel
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330399
subject: Design not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified

description: This research responds to discourse on the everyday in architecture [and cross-disciplinary areas of interior architecture, and art] concerning the multi-sensorial and embodied aspects of architectural perception, thinking and production.

A major premise is that there are instinctive, complex and significant patterns and typologies in the way we use space in ordinary, intimate settings, and that these can give insights to larger, more public spaces traditionally handled by the architectural profession. The argument is that by virtue of their subtlety and familiarity, some of these fundamental patterns – both physical and occupational – have been overlooked by the shapers of our built environment in favour of conventional agenda, such as formal, functional, theoretical or political schema. Alternatively, they may be present but invisible or unrecognised, their profundity dismissed as trivial. The PhD addresses these observations as relevant spatial and material content for an architectural approach redefined by theories of the everyday.

A further argument is that everyday architecture, because of its evolved, interstitial, diverse nature, is inherently multi-sensory and contingent in the way it operates, as opposed to a tendency toward the rational, ocularcentric and definitive in orthodox architectural practice. The PhD addresses these ideas as relevant to the process of an architectural approach influenced by the everyday.

Through a hybrid practice of creative works, curation, critical writing and education, the PhD investigates specific everyday settings, notably the table, to deepen the understanding of potential spatial and operational analogies for architecture. Three publicly-exhibited major suites form the spine of the research. Each has multiple components, uses different media, scales and forms of collaborative practice, and is supported by a raft of secondary creative endeavours and explorations. In this way the PhD demonstrates ways to use the everyday as a productive source for architectural analysis, response, and ultimately as an agent for an expanded model of practice.
Laspinema thermale Heidari and Hauer 2018
Creators: name: Song, Ji-Ho
name: Kim, Do-Hyun
name: Lee, Nam-Ju
name: Kim, So-Won
name: Lee, Hye-Ryeung Wang and Ok-Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteriia
Cyanobacteriales
Oscillatoriaceae
Laspinema
Laspinema thermale

description: Laspinema thermale Heidari and Hauer, 2018 (Fig. 1)
Filaments straight, blue-green or olive green in color. Trichomes cylindrical, unbranched, motile, slightly constricted at the cross-walls. Apical cells longer than other vegetative cells, conical and rounded at the apex, curved or straight, without calyptra. Cells 1.29-2.28 μm long, 3.88-4.75 μm wide.
 Ecology. This species appeared in thermal springs (Heidari et al., 2018) and was isolated from freshwater in this study.
 Distribution. Iran (Heidari et al., 2018).
 Site of collection. 483-1, Daeheung-ri, Seonjang-myeon, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do (37°01′07.5″N, 127°55′ 11.4″E).
 Date of collection. May 25, 2020.
 Specimen deposit No. FBCC-A1475.
description: Published as part of Song, Ji-Ho, Kim, Do-Hyun, Lee, Nam-Ju, Kim, So-Won & Lee, Hye-Ryeung Wang and Ok-Min, 2022, Four newly recorded species of planktonic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) in Korea, pp. 321-329 in Journal of Species Research 11 (4) on page 324, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2022.11.4.321, http://zenodo.org/record/13138672
sj-pdf-1-jhs-10.1177_17531934231220637 - Supplemental material for Comparison of computer-aided and manual measurements in the evaluation of carpal alignment
Creators: name: Sippo, Robert
name: Huuska, Kira
name: Höglund, Theresa
name: Waris, Eero
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine
Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jhs-10.1177_17531934231220637 for Comparison of computer-aided and manual measurements in the evaluation of carpal alignment by Robert Sippo, Kira Huuska, Theresa Höglund and Eero Waris in Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from wind-induced flutter
Creators: name: Deivasigamani, Arvind
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Piezoelectric energy harvesting from fluid flow, to power Ultra Low Power (ULP) devices, has gained interest among researchers over the last decade. In this research, a "leaf and stalk" construct was investigated to harvest energy from wind-induced flutter. Fundamental Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) studies were carried out to experimentally determine the dependence of physical properties of highly compliant cantilever beams on their flutter onset and flutter frequency. The results indicated that the theoretical 2D scaling laws could be extended to 3D environment. Also, for the first time, theoretical and experimental analyses were carried out to understand flutter characteristics of slender connected body systems consisting of revolute hinge, when placed at various positions along the beam. The analysis showed that as the hinge position was varied from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the beam, the system transitioned to higher modes of flutter, thereby reducing the amount of harvestable energy. Several leaf-stalk configurations were also experimentally tested to investigate the possibility of energy harvesting from coupled bending-torsional flutter. High-speed videos were used to identify and differentiate the flutter modes of the configurations to validate the power output results. The results indicated that asymmetrical configurations, when subjected to flutter, are more prone to chaotic flapping and fatigue, thereby reducing the overall power output and effective lifespan of these harvesters. Therefore, two symmetrical-type harvesters were placed in stream-wise, cross-stream and vertical directions to identify the proximity effects of these harvesters on their power output. It was found that when two harvesters were placed in stream-wise direction, at a particular separation distance, the downstream harvester provided 20-40% high power compared to the upstream harvester. The overall purpose of this work was to develop a scalable energy harvesting system for urban sustainability, mainly to power ULP devices like sensors and LED lights.
Design by discourse
Creators: name: Lyon, Carey
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330104
subject: Architectural history, theory and criticism
classificationCode: 330105
subject: Architectural science and technology

description: This PhD reflects on the processes, methodologies and completed projects that have defined my creative practice over three decades. The creative works examined within this dissertation, and which have been the substantive focus of my reflections, were developed through my work as a founder (with Corbett Lyon) of the architectural practice Lyons. From these reflections I have identified the role that discourse, and the discursive, has in my design practice, both as a means of making design, how it finds its way into the completed architectural projects. The discursive is discussed in two ways, as a noun referring to discourse in the manner of a field of knowledge, but also as an adjective to describe ways of practice, both formal and informal, that create a type of creative sociability, through which talk develops an influential agency.

Talk, and other forms of discursiveness in my design processes, are proposed as a primary means of making architecture, different to the conventions of designing by drawing. This includes talking about, and talking through architecture, and also where the architecture itself talks back. Such discursiveness is proposed as having agency, by positioning my creative practice as a form of continuous speculation. This discursive model of design allows me to reframe a design approach as an opening up of a series of enquiries – with my clients, within my mind, within the practice of Lyons, with questions around the public and community, and directly with the design process itself. These discursive explorations open up a varied array of fields of enquiry, each of which overlap, blend and interconnect.

From this overlapping, the process becomes one of developing a design out of its accumulated entanglement. This then becomes another proposition in which such discursive intricacies and talk become directly embedded into my completed designs, and what I have termed the discursive object. The projects designed through this methodology can therefore be considered as having the same character of openness as the process itself, and are equally intended to remain as a kind of open question or enquiry, to be an expression of the inclusionary, the plural and the multiple. This is extended to become a proposition for the design of public buildings in contemporary democratic Australia (which has formed the primary basis of my creative practice) and for these to also have the quality of being speculative, like a perpetual work in progress.
Next generation flight management systems for manned and unmanned aircraft operations - automated separation assurance and collision avoidance functionalities
Creators: name: Ramasamy, Subramanian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400103
subject: Aircraft performance and flight control systems
classificationCode: 400104
subject: Avionics
classificationCode: 400199
subject: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The demand for improved safety, efficiency and dynamic demand-capacity balancing due to the rapid growth of the aviation sector and the increasing proliferation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in different classes of airspace pose significant challenges to avionics system developers.

The design of Next Generation Flight Management Systems (NG-FMS) for manned and unmanned aircraft operations is performed by addressing the challenges identified by various Air Traffic Management (ATM) modernisation programmes and UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system initiatives. In particular, this research focusses on introducing automated Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance (SA&CA) functionalities (mathematical models) in the NG-FMS. The innovative NG-FMS is also capable of supporting automated negotiation and validation of 4-Dimensional Trajectory (4DT) intents in coordination with novel ground-based Next Generation Air Traffic Management (NG-ATM) systems.

One of the key research contributions is the development of a unified method for cooperative and non-cooperative SA&CA, addressing the technical and regulatory challenges of manned and unmanned aircraft coexistence in all classes of airspace. Analytical models are presented and validated to compute the overall avoidance volume in the airspace surrounding a tracked object, supporting automated SA&CA functionalities. The scientific basis of this approach is to assess real-time measurements and associated uncertainties affecting navigation states (of the host aircraft platform), tracking observables (of the static or moving object) and platform dynamics, and translate them to unified range and bearing uncertainty descriptors. The SA&CA unified approach provides an innovative analytical framework to generate high-fidelity dynamic geo-fences suitable for integration in the NG-FMS and in the ATM/UTM/defence decision support tools.
Managing demand and supply in Chinese fashion apparel firms: an exploratory study under the fourth industrial structural change
Creators: name: Ye, Ying
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350605
subject: Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations)
classificationCode: 350709
subject: Organisation and management theory
classificationCode: 350903
subject: Logistics

description: The Chinese market represents one of the largest growing retail markets in the world. The new rise of e-commerce and digital technology has transformed the local commerce and retail landscape creating significant competitions and opportunities. Driving $4.84 trillion worth of sales alone in 2016, Chinese retail market is fuelled by rising demand from the large inland and regional areas, and growing purchases for high quality services and products. The fashion apparel (FA) sector, often characterised by short product lifecycles, high market volatility, low demand predictability, and a high number of impulse purchases, is one of the main retail industries in China experiencing radical transformations. Traditional FA companies have encountered a series of disruptive changes, including rising labour costs, out-dated manufacturing lines, and a chronic oversupply problem, which has led to supply chain breakdowns. Despite the challenges and uncertainties faced by the industry, research on how Chinese FA companies adapt to these changes is limited.

The present study explores how the Chinese FA companies manage and restructure their supply chain under the emerging market dynamics. As supply chain management (SCM) is still at the nascent stage of development in China, this study establishes an exploratory research, proposing a strategic SCM framework, comprised of core demand and supply process elements, and management components based on Western practice. Drawing upon the theoretical perspective of Alignment Theory, the study introduces four strategic fit types of the supply chain configurations: Make-to-forecast/Administration (A), Make-to-order/Production (P), Pack-to-order/integration (I), and Buy-to-order/Development (D). Working under the proposed SCM framework, the study applies the framework into the Chinese market context to probe how domestic FA companies have restructured their internal supply chain during the period of transformation, and whether the alignment of internal supply chain elements and components of the external market situation exists in current businesses.

The findings of this study reveal that companies capable of leveraging a new strategic fit of SCM alignment among their process elements and management components encourage a better business performance during the transformation. Key actions driving the business into a successful strategic fit configuration are identified in the findings. The findings also unveil some of the common characters residing in the Chinese economic ecosystem, and prescribe a series of practical implications in terms of formulating strategic supply chain solutions and enhancing competencies for the Chinese businesses.
sj-docx-1-gcq-10.1177_00169862221132279 – Supplemental material for Motivational Pathways Underlying Gifted Underachievement: Trajectory Classes, Longitudinal Outcomes, and Predicting Factors
Creators: name: Ramos, Alicia
name: Lavrijsen, Jeroen
name: Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa
name: Soenens, Bart
name: Vansteenkiste, Maarten
name: Sypré, Sabine
name: Boncquet, Michiel
name: Verschueren, Karine
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-gcq-10.1177_00169862221132279 for Motivational Pathways Underlying Gifted Underachievement: Trajectory Classes, Longitudinal Outcomes, and Predicting Factors by Alicia Ramos, Jeroen Lavrijsen, Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Bart Soenens, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Sabine Sypré, Michiel Boncquet and Karine Verschueren in Gifted Child Quarterly
Mindfulness and behaviour therapy for insomnia: an assessment of efficacy in a naturalistic Australian sample
Creators: name: Peters, Allison
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520304
subject: Health psychology
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition

description: Insomnia is now a common major health concern that causes significant distress and disruption in a person’s life. This thesis focuses on investigating the validity of Mindfulness Based Therapy for Insomnia (MBT-I): a new treatment for insomnia, which combines Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) with the behavioural component of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). A pilot study by Ong, Shapiro and Manber (2008) evaluated MBT-I in a group of subjects who met the criteria of psychophysiological insomnia, with indications of subjective treatment efficacy. This paper draws on the findings of Ong and colleagues in order to show that MBT-I may be effective in the treatment of a wide range of insomnia presentations. Thirty participants who met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM–5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) diagnosis of insomnia, participated in a six week, group intervention developed by Ong (2008). The treatment included: mindfulness meditation, sleep restriction, stimulus control and sleep hygiene. Outcome measures were a daily sleep diary and actigraphy during pre-treatment and the treatment period, along with subjective sleep outcomes collected at baseline, post-treatment and three-month follow-up. Analysis of the findings show that MBT-I was associated with a large decrease in insomnia severity, with indications of maintenance of treatment effect. There were also significant improvements in both objective and subjective sleep parameters, such as: reduced sleep onset latency; increased sleep efficiency; reduced time awake after sleep onset; and indications of cognitive arousal reduction. Overall, this study indicates that MBT-I can be successfully replicated, with evidence of treatment efficacy in a naturalistic sample. Furthermore, this study extends on previous research by identifying objective improvements in sleep following MBT-I. These results warrant further exploration of MBT-I with Phase III clinical research.
sj-docx-1-ijo-10.1177_0306624X221133007 – Supplemental material for The Pragmatic American Revisited: A Direct Replication of Pickett and Baker (2014)
Creators: name: Jones, Angela M.
name: Roche, Sean Patrick
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijo-10.1177_0306624X221133007 for The Pragmatic American Revisited: A Direct Replication of Pickett and Baker (2014) by Angela M. Jones and Sean Patrick Roche in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Supplemental Material - What Are the Effects of Posterior Corrective Surgery, With or Without Thoracoplasty, on Pulmonary Function in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Turner, Henry
name: McManus, Robin
name: Kiely, Pat
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material for What Are the Effects of Posterior Corrective Surgery, With or Without Thoracoplasty, on Pulmonary Function in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Henry Turner, Robin McManus, and Pat Kiely
sj-docx-1-hol-10.1177_09596836221131696 – Supplemental material for A 5000-year record of relative sea-level change in New Jersey, USA
Creators: name: Walker, Jennifer S
name: Li, Tanghua
name: Shaw, Timothy A
name: Cahill, Niamh
name: Barber, Donald C
name: Brain, Matthew J
name: Kopp, Robert E
name: Switzer, Adam D
name: Horton, Benjamin P
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geography
History

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hol-10.1177_09596836221131696 for A 5000-year record of relative sea-level change in New Jersey, USA by Jennifer S Walker, Tanghua Li, Timothy A Shaw, Niamh Cahill, Donald C Barber, Matthew J Brain, Robert E Kopp, Adam D Switzer and Benjamin P Horton in The Holocene
sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089221134447 - Supplemental material for Experimental study on effectiveness in segmental baffled shell tube and heat exchanger using Al2O3 nanofluid at variable concentrations
Creators: name: Sameer, Syed
name: Prakash, SB
name: Shaik, Sharmas Vali
name: G, Narayana Swamy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089221134447 for Experimental study on effectiveness in segmental baffled shell tube and heat exchanger using Al2O3 nanofluid at variable concentrations by Syed Sameer, SB Prakash, Sharmas Vali Shaik and Narayana Swamy G in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
sj-docx-1-alh-10.1177_14697874221131970 – Supplemental material for The impact of feedback mode on learning gain and self-efficacy: A quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Johannes, Christine
name: Haase, Astrid
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-alh-10.1177_14697874221131970 for The impact of feedback mode on learning gain and self-efficacy: A quasi-experimental study by Christine Johannes and Astrid Haase in Active Learning in Higher Education
Supplemental Material - Theoretical and Pre-Clinical Models of Vacuum Assisted Closure
Creators: name: Orgill, Dennis P.
name: McNulty, Amy K.
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
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplementary Material for Theoretical and Pre-Clinical Models of Vacuum Assisted Closure by Dennis P. Orgill and Amy K. McNulty in Surgical Innovation.