cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating academics' voluntary usage of a learning management system
Creators: name: Vilela-Malabanan, Cenie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This research investigates the voluntary usage of learning management system (LMS) in a blended learning environment used by academics. The problem this research seeks to answer is: how do academics use the LMS in a voluntary context? This investigation was conducted in Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU – IIT), a university based in Southern Philippines. Thirty-three academics from different disciplines and professional levels participated in this study. Two major processes were carried out in this investigation: one-on-one in-depth interview; and analysis of computer logs of each of these participants. The mixed data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. The overarching findings in this study suggest that academics have different levels of acceptance of using the LMS. The benefits they get from using the LMS are associated with their motivation and their own disposition to use the system. More importantly, the study has provided support that academic disciplines have crucial influences to the voluntary usage of the LMS. This research found that there are varied approaches for each course, and more specifically, on subject content that can best fit a blended delivery of instruction. This thesis is significant in two aspects: Firstly, a model has emerged that has incorporated the four concepts: the drivers’ concept and three environmental constraints concepts, which are: training, learning environment, and institutional level constraints. Secondly, this study has provided a solid groundwork for the proposed model of voluntary LMS usage presented in this study. A framework that highlights necessary measures to increase or improve the voluntary use of the LMS was proposed. It is important to consider that academics’ use of the LMS largely rely on the conditions they are in. Academics’ voluntary use of the system can be influenced by the socio-technological landscape of the learning environment. Thus, this thesis proposed a measure of voluntary LMS usage as an ‘extra rich’ measure described as: the extent and way to which the user employs the system to carry out tasks given the environmental conditions that the user is situated.
Coupled surface and bulk diffusion in crystals
Creators: name: Kosolobov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze point defect bulk and surface diffusion near the crystal-vacuum interface and show that bulk diffusion is altered by atomic reactions at the surface-vacuum boundary. A new atomic mechanism for point defect generation and recombination is presented. In this mechanism, atomic steps are considered as sources and sinks not only for adsorbed atoms and surface vacancies but also for bulk native point defects -- vacancies and self-interstitials. We demonstrate that bulk diffusion is coupled with the diffusion of adatoms and surface vacancies at the surface via the atomic processes in the intermediate subsurface layer, containing adsorbed self-interstitials and bulk vacancies. The results show the existence of the fundamental relation between equilibrium concentrations of the point defects in bulk and at the surface of the crystal.
Highlander: variant filtering made easy
Creators: name: Helaers, Raphael
name: Vikkula, Miikka
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2018

description: A substantial amount of data is being produced by NGS at ever-increasing rates. The technology generates considerable numbers of false positives, and their differentiation from true mutations is difficult. Moreover, the identification of changes-of-interest among thousands of variants requires annotation from various sources and advanced filtering capabilities. We developed Highlander, a Java software coupled to a local database, in order to centralize all variant data and annotations, and to provide powerful filtering tools that are easily accessible to the biologist. Data can be generated by any NGS machine and most variant callers. Variant calls are annotated using DBNSFP (providing predictions from 6 different programs, splicing predictions, prioritization scores from CADD and VEST, MAF from 1000G and ESP), ExAC, GoNL and SnpEff, subsequently imported into the database. The database is used to compute global statistics, allowing for the discrimination of variants based on their representation in the database. The GUI easily allows for complex queries to this database, using shortcuts for criteria such as “sample-specific variants”, “variants common to specific samples” or “combined-heterozygous genes”. Users can browse through query results using sorting, masking and highlighting of information. Highlander also gives access to useful additional tools, including visualization of the alignment, an algorithm that checks all available alignments for allele-calls at specific positions, and a module to explore the ‘variant burden’ gene by gene. Highlander is Open-Source (available at http://sites.uclouvain.be/highlander/) and also used by genetic centers of two university hospitals in Brussels, as well as in the BridgeIris project (http://bridgeiris.ibsquare.be/).
VOIP traffic classification in IPsec tunnelled networks
Creators: name: Yildirim, Taner
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Traffic classification and identification in modern networks is of fundamental importance to both network management and security. Due to increasing demand for security and Quality of Service (QoS) in converged networks, accurate traffic classification becomes an integral part of network management. This research presents a novel technique for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic classification in IP Security (IPSec) tunneled networks and demonstrates how this can be used to achieve acceptable QoS in an overloaded network. The proposed solution uses the well known IP tables framework and its Application Programming Interface (API). Importantly the algorithm developed makes very low demands on CPU time and memory unlike other algorithms found in the literature.

This work attracted attention from industry; Exinda Proprietary Limited invested $ 7000 Australian dollars for ongoing research and its possible application to commercial devices.

This research has been demonstrated and took its place in two IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) sponsored conference proceedings, one in Seoul, Korea (ICACT 2010) and another in Kyoto, Japan (ICEIE 2010).
Dual-mode microresonators as straightforward access to octave-spanning dissipative Kerr solitons
Creators: name: Weng, Haizhong
name: Afridi, Adnan Ali
name: Li, Jing
name: McDermott, Michael
name: Tu, Huilan
name: Barry, Liam P.
name: Lu, Qiaoyin
name: Guo, Weihua
name: Donegan, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kerr soliton frequency comb is a revolutionary compact ruler of coherent light that allows applications, from precision metrology to quantum information technology. The universal, reliable, and low-cost soliton microcomb source is key to these applications. In this work, we thoroughly present an innovative design strategy for realizing optical microresonators with two adjacent modes, separated by approximately 10 GHz, which stabilizes soliton formation without using additional auxiliary laser or RF components. We demonstrate the deterministic generation of the single-solitons that span 1.5-octaves, i.e., near 200 THz, via adiabatic pump wavelength tuning. The ultra-wide soliton existence ranges up to 17 GHz not only suggests the robustness of the system but will also extend the applications of soliton combs. Moreover, the proposed scheme is found to easily give rise to multi-solitons as well as the soliton crystals featuring enhanced repetition rate (2 and 3 THz) and conversion efficiency greater than 10%. We also show the effective thermal tuning of mode separation for stably accessing single-soliton. Our results are crucial for the chip-scale self-referenced frequency combs with a simplified configuration.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, with 3 pages supplementary material
Additional file 1 of Lung cancer cell-intrinsic IL-15 promotes cell migration and sensitizes murine lung tumors to anti-PD-L1 therapy
Creators: name: Hu, Shaojie
name: Meng, Kelin
name: Wang, Tianlai
name: Qu, Rirong
name: Wang, Boyu
name: Xi, Yu
name: Yu, Taiyan
name: Yuan, Zhiwei
name: Cai, Zihao
name: Tian, Yitao
name: Zeng, Chenxi
name: Wang, Xue
name: Zou, Wenbin
name: Fu, Xiangning
name: Li, Lequn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1
Schrödinger as a Quantum Programmer: Estimating Entanglement via Steering
Creators: name: Philip, Aby
name: Rethinasamy, Soorya
name: Russo, Vincent
name: Wilde, Mark M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantifying entanglement is an important task by which the resourcefulness of a quantum state can be measured. Here, we develop a quantum algorithm that tests for and quantifies the separability of a general bipartite state by using the quantum steering effect, the latter initially discovered by Schrödinger. Our separability test consists of a distributed quantum computation involving two parties: a computationally limited client, who prepares a purification of the state of interest, and a computationally unbounded server, who tries to steer the reduced systems to a probabilistic ensemble of pure product states. To design a practical algorithm, we replace the role of the server with a combination of parameterized unitary circuits and classical optimization techniques to perform the necessary computation. The result is a variational quantum steering algorithm (VQSA), a modified separability test that is implementable on quantum computers that are available today. We then simulate our VQSA on noisy quantum simulators and find favorable convergence properties on the examples tested. We also develop semidefinite programs, executable on classical computers, that benchmark the results obtained from our VQSA. Thus, our findings provide a meaningful connection between steering, entanglement, quantum algorithms, and quantum computational complexity theory. They also demonstrate the value of a parameterized mid-circuit measurement in a VQSA.
description: v4: 33 pages, 12 figures, all source code available as arXiv ancillary files, update to complexity theoretic results for QIP$_{\operatorname{EB}}(2)$, accepted to Quantum
sj-docx-1-ltr-10.1177_13621688231216295 – Supplemental material for Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing
Creators: name: Guan, Yi
name: Zhu, Siyu
name: Zhu, Xinhua
name: Yao, Yuan
name: Jiang, Yue
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education
Language Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ltr-10.1177_13621688231216295 for Performance-based differences in the associations among ideal self, enjoyment, and anxiety: A longitudinal study on L2 integrated writing by Yi Guan, Siyu Zhu, Xinhua Zhu, Yuan Yao and Yue Jiang in Language Teaching Research
Evidence of cluster dipole states in germanium detectors operating at temperatures below 10 K
Creators: name: Mei, D. -M.
name: Panth, R.
name: Kooi, K.
name: Mei, H.
name: Bhattarai, S.
name: Raut, M.
name: Acharya, P.
name: Wang, G. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By studying charge trapping in germanium (Ge) detectors operating at temperatures below 10 K, we demonstrate for the first time that the formation of cluster dipole states from residual impurities is responsible for charge trapping. Two planar detectors with different impurity levels and types are used in this study. When drifting the localized charge carriers created by $α$ particles from the top surface across a detector under a lower bias voltage, significant charge trapping is observed when compared to operating at a higher bias voltage. The amount of charge trapping shows a strong dependence on the type of charge carriers. Electrons are trapped more than holes in a p-type detector while holes are trapped more than electrons in a n-type detector. When both electrons and holes are drifted simultaneously using the widespread charge carriers created by $γ$ rays inside the detector, the amount of charge trapping shows no dependence on the polarity of bias voltage.
description: 6 pages and 5 figures
Molecular markers of ecotoxicological interest in the rainbowfish Melanotaenia fluviatilis
Creators: name: Ponza, Pattareeya
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The Crimson-spotted rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) from the Murray-Darling basin of Australia is a common indicator species in Australian ecotoxicology. Biochemical changes have been investigated in this species, but not molecular markers of ecotoxicological interest. In this study genes of M. fluviatilis were isolated using a cDNA library and sequences analysed. Of 345 randomly selected clones, 94 shared similarity with 26 different genes in other organisms in public databases. Amongst these, reproductive genes coding for vitellogenin, retinol binding protein, sialyltransferase and zona pellucida protein were considered of interest in ecotoxicology. The vitellogenin gene was selected for study as it has been widely used as a molecular marker of exposure to 17â-estradiol (E2) in teleosts. Gene expression was examined via northern blot, RT-PCR and Real-Time PCR relative t o the housekeeping gene (18S rRNA). The expression of vitellogenin mRNA was observed at 12 hours post-exposure, peaked at 48 hours according to northern blot analysis; and cleared within 4 days, partly consistent with RT-PCR. However, Real-time PCR yielded an inconclusive result, probably due to differences between pooled and individual samples. Vitellogenin in blood plasma was confirmed by western blot, found to be significantly increased and retained in the plasma in fish treated with E2 compared to controls. It was concluded that vitellogenin mRNA is a molecular marker of exposure to 17â-estradiol in the rainbowfish, and could potentially be used as a marker of exposure to environmental estrogenic chemicals. Further investigations of the expression of genes in the cDNA library, could establish other molecular markers of ecotoxicological interest in M. fluviatilis.
Spin injection into vanadium dioxide films from a typical ferromagnetic metal, across the metal-insulator transition of the vanadium dioxide films
Creators: name: Tamura, Kazuma
name: Kanki, Teruo
name: Shirai, Shun
name: Tanaka, Hidekazu
name: Teki, Yoshio
name: Shikoh, Eiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A vanadium dioxide VO2 film shows metal-insulator transition (MIT) induced by changing environmental temperature. We report the temperature dependence of electromotive force properties generated in VO2/Ni80Fe20 bilayer junctions under the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) of the Ni80Fe20 layer. An electromotive force generated in a VO2/Ni80Fe20 bilayer junction under the FMR showed a small change across the MIT temperature of the VO2 film, while the VO2 film resistance drastically changed. This behavior was not only explained with the temperature dependence of the electromotive force property generated in the Ni80Fe20 film itself under the FMR, but also with the generated electromotive forces due to the inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in the VO2 film under the FMR of the Ni80Fe20 film. That is, we successfully demonstrated the spin injection from a Ni80Fe20 film into a VO2 film across the MIT temperature of the VO2 film.
description: 5 pages
Additional file 9 of Lung cancer cell-intrinsic IL-15 promotes cell migration and sensitizes murine lung tumors to anti-PD-L1 therapy
Creators: name: Hu, Shaojie
name: Meng, Kelin
name: Wang, Tianlai
name: Qu, Rirong
name: Wang, Boyu
name: Xi, Yu
name: Yu, Taiyan
name: Yuan, Zhiwei
name: Cai, Zihao
name: Tian, Yitao
name: Zeng, Chenxi
name: Wang, Xue
name: Zou, Wenbin
name: Fu, Xiangning
name: Li, Lequn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 9
Evaluation of computerised methods of design optimisation and its application to engineering practice
Creators: name: Adams, Ryan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The ongoing drive for lighter and more efficient structural components by the commercial engineering industry has resulted in the rapid adoption of the finite element method (FE) for design analysis. Satisfied with the success of finite elements in reducing prototyping costs and overall production times, the industry has begun to look at other areas where the finite element method can save time, and in particular, improve designs. First, the mathematical methods of optimisation, on which the methods of structural design improvement are based, are presented. This includes the methods of: topology, influence functions, basis vectors, geometric splines and direct sensitivity methods. Each method is demonstrated with the solution of a sample structural improvement problem for various objectives (frequency, stress and weight reduction, for example). The practical application of the individual methods has been tested by solving three structural engineering problems sourced from the automotive engineering industry: the redesign of two different front suspension control arms, and the cost-reduction of an automatic brake tubing system. All three problems were solved successfully, resulting in improved designs. Each method has been evaluated with respect the practical application, popularity of the method and also any problems using the method. The solutions presented in each section were all solved using the FE design improvement software ReSHAPE from Advea Engineering Pty. Ltd.
sj-docx-2-inc-10.1177_17511437231214146 – Supplemental material for Neurological outcome following out of hospital cardiac arrest: Evaluation of performance of existing risk prediction models in a UK cohort
Creators: name: Livesey, John A
name: Lone, Nazir
name: Black, Emily
name: Broome, Richard
name: Syme, Alastair
name: Keating, Sean
name: Elliott, Laura
name: McCahill, Cara
name: Simpson, Gavin
name: Grant, Helen
name: Auld, Fiona
name: Garrioch, Sweyn
name: Hay, Alasdair
name: Craven, Thomas H
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Cardiology
Emergency Medicine
Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-inc-10.1177_17511437231214146 for Neurological outcome following out of hospital cardiac arrest: Evaluation of performance of existing risk prediction models in a UK cohort by John A Livesey, Nazir Lone, Emily Black, Richard Broome, Alastair Syme, Sean Keating, Laura Elliott, Cara McCahill, Gavin Simpson, Helen Grant, Fiona Auld, Sweyn Garrioch, Alasdair Hay and Thomas H Craven in Journal of the Intensive Care Society
Additional file 1 of The histone lysine acetyltransferase KAT2B inhibits cholangiocarcinoma growth: evidence for interaction with SP1 to regulate NF2-YAP signaling
Creators: name: Ma, Wenbo
name: Zhang, Jinqiang
name: Chen, Weina
name: Liu, Nianli
name: Wu, Tong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of The histone lysine acetyltransferase KAT2B inhibits cholangiocarcinoma growth: evidence for interaction with SP1 to regulate NF2-YAP signaling
Creators: name: Ma, Wenbo
name: Zhang, Jinqiang
name: Chen, Weina
name: Liu, Nianli
name: Wu, Tong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
The machining of titanium alloys with polycrystalline diamond tools
Creators: name: Pan, Wencheng
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The excellent mechanical properties and unrivalled corrosion resistance of Titanium have led to the successful application of Titanium alloys in aerospace industry. However, the inherent properties of low thermal conductivity and high chemical reactivity of Titanium alloys cause poor machinability. They adversely affect tool life, cause premature tool failure, and eventually lead to extremely low machining efficiency. Recently, Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools have been successfully used in the turning of Titanium alloys. The significant hardness and the excellent thermal conductivity of PCD make it the most advantageous tool material for the machining of Titanium alloys, in particular Ti6Al4V. This research investigated the application of PCD tools in the end milling of Ti6Al4V by using customized cutting tools. The discharge characteristics of PCD was analysed; the mathematical relationship between cutting force and cutting parameters was developed; tool life, tool wear, and causes that lead to tool failure were discussed. A cutting temperature model was developed and validated to investigate the relationship between cutting temperature and machining parameters. To analyse tool wear and cutting temperatures, residual chemical components on the PCD tool were examined with X-ray diffraction method, while surface integrity of cutting tools was inspected based on the images taken by the scanning electrical microscope. Finite element analysis models were developed to simulate the initiation of cracks under different loading cycles. It was found that brittle chipping and fatigue were the two major modes of failure, and feed rate was the dominant factor that causes large cutting forces. Evidences of material diffusion and chemical reaction on PCD tools showed that some region of cutter suffered from higher than detected temperature. Based on SEM photos of serrated chips, serration frequency was investigated. Results from chip morphology scanning illustrated that serration frequency changed on each single chip.
sj-pdf-9-sgo-10.1177_21582440231221323 – Supplemental material for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Coping in the Time of COVID-19: A Longitudinal Assessment
Creators: name: Herge, Whitney M.
name: Gale, Emily B.
name: Stapleton, Emily J.
name: Ofori, Ashley
name: Poppino, Kiley F.
name: Cerza, Shelby P.
name: Sucato, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: Education
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: sj-pdf-9-sgo-10.1177_21582440231221323 for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Coping in the Time of COVID-19: A Longitudinal Assessment by Whitney M. Herge, Emily B. Gale, Emily J. Stapleton, Ashley Ofori, Kiley F. Poppino, Shelby P. Cerza and Daniel J. Sucato in SAGE Open
Additional file 2 of Double lumen endobronchial tube intubation: lessons learned from anatomy
Creators: name: Cameron, Robert B.
name: Peacock, Warwick J.
name: Chang, Xinlian Grace
name: Shin, John S.
name: Hoftman, Nir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
sj-pdf-3-pmj-10.1177_02692163231223089 – Supplemental material for Understanding the extent to which PROMs and PREMs used with older people with severe frailty capture their multidimensional needs: A scoping review
Creators: name: Howard, Faith D
name: Green, Richard
name: Harris, Jenny
name: Ross, Joy
name: Nicholson, Caroline
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Geriatrics and Gerontology
Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-pmj-10.1177_02692163231223089 for Understanding the extent to which PROMs and PREMs used with older people with severe frailty capture their multidimensional needs: A scoping review by Faith D Howard, Richard Green, Jenny Harris, Joy Ross and Caroline Nicholson in Palliative Medicine
title: Von Riesen und Zwergen
Creators: name: Blaha, Barbara
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen innerhalb des verbreitenden Buchhandels in Deutschland und Österreich. Dabei wird einerseits untersucht, wie sich der Strukturwandel im Handel bemerkbar macht. Zur Analyse herangezogen wird u.a. die Entwicklung der Vertriebskanäle. Hier ist eine starke Verschiebung innerhalb der Vertriebswege messbar, d.h. eine Veränderung zugunsten des Online-Handels wie auch des Direktvertriebs der Verlage. Darüber hinaus ist auch die Umsatzzunahme im Bereich Non Book zu verzeichnen. Auch die Konzentrationstendenzen werden analysiert und aktuelle Zahlen der Berechnung zurgunde gelegt. Die Untersuchung zeigt auf, welche Faktoren die Konzentration begünstigen, und welche sie möglicherweise auch verlangsamen. Darüber hinaus belegt die Arbeit anschaulich, welche Auswirkungen konzentrierte Marktmacht auf Lieferant/innen, Mitbewerber/innen und Konsument/innen hat. Deutlich wird hier die unterschiedliche Marktstruktur der beiden Länder: In Österreich konnten marktmissbräuchliche Verhaltenweisen nicht nachgewiesen werden, die Kapitaldecke der kleinteiligen Verlagsszene ist für große finanzielle Forderungen von seiten der Ketten offenbar zu dünn. Auch die Rolle der Buchleser/-innen wird untersucht, sie haben einen entscheidenden Anteil an den Veränderungen im Buchhandel. Der Trend zum Erlebniskauf kann nur von den größten Buchhandlungsunternehmen geboten werden. Zuletzt wird anschaulich dargestellt, welche unterschiedlichen Strategien die betroffenen Marktteilnehmer/-innen anwenden, um im Strukturwandel zu bestehen. Einkaufsgemeinschaften und andere Formen der Kooperation werden mittlerweile auch vom Sortiment verstärkt forciert, auch wenn sich im stark individualisierten inhabergeführten Buchmarkt noch kein Modell als durchschlagen erfolgreich darstellen konnte. Die Zukunft des Buchhandels zeigt sich in der Analyse ambivalent: Internet und Filialsysteme werden dem unabhängigen Sortiment weiter zusetzen. Damit ändert sich auch die Rolle des Buchhändlers/der Buchhändlerin: Gerade in filialisierten Betrieben werden die Einkaufskompetenzen der Mitarbeiter/-innen immer stärker beschränkt, implizit leidet darunter auch der Prestigefaktor des Berufes. Noch nicht abzusehen sind darüberhinaus die Folgen der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung.
Stakeholder participation and corporate social responsibility : a critical study of problem gambling in the New South Wales registered club sector
Creators: name: Fallon, Wayne
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Within the context of 'business-in-society', this study highlights a dialectical dilemma for registered clubs in New South Wales, between the economic and the social perspectives of their gambling operations. The research sought to discover the circumstances in which stakeholder interaction around the various perspectives on problem gambling might lead to a socially responsible approach to the management of poker machine gambling in clubs. The study's methodology adapted a learning history framework of participative action research, and recruited stakeholders to act as 'co-researchers' in a transparent-research approach to the exploration of the research question.

Taking a critical orientation, the study uncovered significant tensions between stakeholders, and drew attention to State Government policy and administration of gambling. The findings highlighted the need for a public health approach to gambling administration in the State. The position of the government department in the stakeholder network was found to leave it vulnerable to the introduction of an interloper which could have the potential, by engaging strategically with other stakeholders, to assume an influential role in the network dynamic. Drawing on the co-researchers' perspectives on problem gambling, an interloper's access to the public health approach to gambling policy and administration was taken to offer a possible impetus for such a move, and the State and Federal health departments were suggested to represent potential interlopers.

The social responsibility of clubs was found to be influenced by the government's policy approach to problem gambling. The discussion situates this finding in a wider context of the policy influences on the contemporary practice of corporate responsibility in Australia. The capacity for change in the social responsibility for problem gambling was considered in a sector-wide context, and the intervention of a potential interloper was found to offer the possibility of a catalyst for change.

The methodological contribution of the study is its proposal for a critically-inspired framework for multi-stakeholder involvement in exploring the social dimensions of business. This methodology is claimed to have potential for uncovering alternative stakeholder engagements that can contribute to an unsettling of the hegemonic arrangements of a stakeholder network.
Assessment of the Serum Amyloid A Assay for Diagnostic Disease in Neonatal Foals
Creators: name: Strouss, Samantha W.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Abstract:
Diagnosing disease in equine neonates poses a challenge for the equine industry because of the nonspecific manifestations of many diseases and the rapid deterioration that occurs. The differential diagnostic procedure requires many laboratory tests, whose results take days to receive. Serum amyloid A (SAA) is the only major acute phase protein identified in the horse; it exists in low levels in the healthy horse and increases over 100 fold in response to inflammatory stimulus 6-8 hours post stimulus. A point of care test allows veterinarians to obtain a SAA concentration within minutes that indicates the existence of infection. Being able to test and quantify this protein at the onset of illness may reduce the time before treatment is initiated and therefore increase the chance of survival for the equine neonate, which would greatly help a large problem in the industry.
Copyright: © Samantha Whitney Strouss 2018
Funding information: University of Kentucky Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky Equine Program
Changing world of gay men, 1950-2000
Creators: name: Robinson, Peter
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The focus of this thesis is the lived experience of 80 Australian gay men in the second half of the twentieth century. The oldest man in the sample was born in 1922 and the youngest in 1980. Their understanding of what it was to be gay is historically contingent, for their lives spanned the greater part of the twentieth century: from when homosexuality was illegal through the less repressive but no less problematic eras of gay liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic.

Qualitative in approach, the thesis was based on oral history interviews. Interviewees were asked set questions about their social, affective and sexual lives. The sample comprised an old cohort of 22 men, a middle cohort of 30 men, and a young cohort of 28 men. The majority of interviewees were of Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Celtic decent. The exceptions were Aboriginal men, and the children of migrants to Australia from South-east Asia and Southern Europe.

Interviewees' personal narratives included their experiences of the repression of the Cold War period, the exuberance, and, for some, personal confusion of gay liberation and the disco culture of the 1970s, and the trauma of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Through their life stories, the men in this sample illustrated the significant shifts in sexual attitudes and culture that Australia experienced in the latter part of the twentieth century. Aspects of the lives examined included the men's experience of coming out and development of their sexual identity, their social and affective lives, and their involvement in the gay 'scene' and gay community.
Additional file 1 of Measuring, visualizing, and diagnosing reference bias with biastools
Creators: name: Lin, Mao-Jan
name: Iyer, Sheila
name: Chen, Nae-Chyun
name: Langmead, Ben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Full normalized mapping balance to normalized assignment balance (NMB-NAB) plot. Figure S2. Normalized mapping balance to normalized assignment balance (NMB-NAB) plot stratified by allele length. Figure S3. Example of local decision by Bowtie 2 and BWA MEM. Figure S4. Example of local decision by default BWA MEM and BWA MEM with option -L 30. Figure S5. An example of the low coverage result of LevioSAM 2 and direct-to-GRC methods. Table S1. Number of balanced sites and different categories of biased sites on chromosome 16.
Collaborative modes of practice: incomplete trajectories of thinking guiding a practice
Creators: name: Joris, Ephraim
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Through the course of this research I looked at the mode of my practice considering the collaborative as an important instrument in the way I work as well as the nature of the work produced through this practice driven by contextual concerns and negotiated by a variety of design tools informing both my practice and my teaching. In my practice, this collaborative mode concerns the notion of the embedded practice as part of a wider interactive network of practices. In my teaching, this concerns the notion of the social learner, investigating modes of interactive learning communities. In both practice and teaching the contextual is explored in terms of emplacement or place making referring to ideas described by Marc Auge. As I will address in the writing of my catalogue, the parameters used in the negotiation of contextual designs changed as the actual location of my practice changed resulting in the production of different tools by which the design is explored.
With this research, exploring the mode, nature and tools of my practice I aimed to develop an understanding of my practice in order to further develop the organizational principles governing this practice to accommodate possible overlaps between practice and teaching. As a conclusion to this research I will present InsideOpen, a web tool I developed, complementing my current practice and teaching to offset a trajectory where I can substantiate the idea of collaborative modes of practice in both practice and teaching.
Additional file 2 of Measuring, visualizing, and diagnosing reference bias with biastools
Creators: name: Lin, Mao-Jan
name: Iyer, Sheila
name: Chen, Nae-Chyun
name: Langmead, Ben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2: Review history.
Additional file 1 of Exploring women’s experiences of care during hospital childbirth in rural Tanzania: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Metta, Emmy
name: Unkels, Regine
name: Mselle, Lilian Teddy
name: Hanson, Claudia
name: Alvesson, Helle Molsted
name: Al-beity, Fadhlun M. Alwy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
A (comparative) catalogue: images, observed moments, buildings
Creators: name: Simeoni, Robert
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: For some years this practice was, as many others have been, immersed in small architecture – alterations and additions to existing houses and buildings. In these projects an intensity of connection between building, architect and client fostered a
search for references and for connections at a small scale. This developed into a continuous catalogue of moments rather than complete buildings which
is in the process of further development through a step into larger commissions.

The real interest relates to the idea of a catalogue, not of patterns or models but of moments, a sense of the building captured in one frame, its unexpectedness
and sometimes the beauty in its awkwardness. Early projects rely on the pre-existing to create separation and connection. In later projects, new buildings are often formed through an invented context. Rarely is the building considered complete but rather an ambiguous sense of suspension is strived for. Throughout, the re-appropriation of
catalogue images sourced from within the work becomes apparent. In this way the distillation of images and projects leads to a more complete resolution. It is through (these) moments that a design is held together - light through a void, tunnel, or a distant horizon. The creation of these moments is not about systems or forms and stand in lieu of the complete building.

This is an illustration of a continued distillation of certain similar, recurrent moments in the work.
Additional file 2 of Exploring women’s experiences of care during hospital childbirth in rural Tanzania: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Metta, Emmy
name: Unkels, Regine
name: Mselle, Lilian Teddy
name: Hanson, Claudia
name: Alvesson, Helle Molsted
name: Al-beity, Fadhlun M. Alwy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Decoding creative decision-making: the influence of social context on the choices art directors and copywriters make about what is novel and valuable in creative advertising
Creators: name: Powell, Jill
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This was an action-oriented study of the concrete experiences of a peer group of mostly middle-level male art directors and copywriters (collectively known as ‘creatives’) engaged in decision making at the evaluation end of the advertising process in some of the world’s largest advertising agencies. The emergent focus was on how they perceived and interpreted concepts of novelty and originality, and planned and negotiated their version around what was generally considered to be a complex, ambiguous and uncertain social process.

As is appropriate for an exploratory study, empirical material was derived from both literature and from grounding in practitioner experience, and reported via a combination of informant accounts and reflective researcher observations. Fieldwork was conducted over a three-year period between April 2001-December 2003. Sixty-seven interviews across three sample groups and two agency observations were conducted in major centres of advertising in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia.

A number of social influences emerged from the data, the most significant was that too many decision-makers with contradictory and unclear performance expectations and multiple entities outside the group with conflicting values and different decision-making styles made it difficult for art directors and copywriters to moderate, maintain and manage the standards of novelty and originality they advocated to management, clients and expected of themselves and demanded of their peers.

The outcome of the investigation a coherent naturalistic worldview of the affective reactions of art directors and copywriters to workplace situations, and a workable definition of what it means to be creative in an agency that may help facilitate an understanding of how both agencies and creatives can make themselves more creatively sustainable in future. A conceptual framework of the inter-relationship between the creative process and creative person is proposed.
Relay path selection for peer-to-peer voice-over-IP systems
Creators: name: Bui, Duc
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Selecting one or multiple peers to relay voice calls is a critical component of large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems, such as Skype. The challenge is to determine good relay paths for a given voice call in a practical manner. We study different VoIP relay path selection schemes which are usually instantiated during the call session initiation and refreshed periodically. This not only allows end hosts behind Network Address Translations (NATs) or firewalls to establish voice calls but also allows communication in periods of poor performance to be switched to alternate relay paths quickly.

We propose an enhanced version of existing algorithms for selecting VoIP relay paths and demonstrate that it improves voice quality. Then, we provide a series of simulations and analytical discussions on the correspondences of relay path performance to overlay network scenarios. We show that there are more opportunities for P2P VoIP systems to obtain good relay paths when selecting relay nodes located at highly connected Transit domains. For better relay path performance, we recommend to select relay nodes whose distances are less than four hops from the source. We also show that, in general, increasing relay node density can reduce relay path length but generate more hop overlaps to the default path due to the breadth first search manner in existing algorithms. Finally, we fully address the problem of selecting VoIP relay path by taking a new approach, including the development of overall formulation, a new network model to effectively identify the optimal solution space, and a new heuristic algorithm for selecting VoIP relay paths.
Additional file 1 of Virulence, antibiotic resistance phenotypes and molecular characterisation of Vibrio furnissii isolates from patients with diarrhoea
Creators: name: Zhou, Yanyan
name: Yu, Li
name: Liu, Ming
name: Liang, Weili
name: Li, Zhenpeng
name: Nan, Zheng
name: Kan, Biao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Sprache ohne Worte?
Creators: name: Steiner, Waltraud
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema der empathischen Kommunikation in der Arzt-Patienten-Beziehung. Anhand neuerer Studien wird der aktuelle Forschungsstand dargestellt. Im Anschluss wird die Ambivalenz zwischen Emotionalität und Rationalität, mit der jeder Arzt konfrontiert ist, erläutert. Der Begriff Empathie wird definiert und anhand der Gesprächspsychotherapie nach Carl R. Rogers abgehandelt. In Zusammenhang mit dem vorliegenden Thema sind auch die aktuellen neurobiologischen Erkenntnisse wesentlich. In einem bio-psycho-sozialen Modell von gesund und krank ist Empathie als Unterstützungsqualität ein wichtiger Faktor. Es zeigte sich, dass der empathischen Kommunikation in der Arzt-Patienten-Beziehung ein großer Stellenwert beigemessen wird, da sich diese erwiesenermaßen positiv auf die Patientenzufriedenheit auswirkt und vor allem auch zur Verbesserung der subjektiven Befindlichkeit der Patienten beiträgt. Trotz vieler Studienerkenntnisse zum Thema werden diese kaum umgesetzt. Veränderungen hin zu einer verbesserten empathischen Arzt-Patienten- Kommunikation bleiben vielfach aus.
sj-pdf-7-imr-10.1177_03000605221117134 - Supplemental material for Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Heiran, Alireza
name: Azarchehry, Seyede Pegah
name: Dehghankhalili, Saeid
name: Afarid, Mehrdad
name: Shaabani, Sonia
name: Mirahmadizadeh, Alireza
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-7-imr-10.1177_03000605221117134 for Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Alireza Heiran, Seyede Pegah Azarchehry, Saeid Dehghankhalili, Mehrdad Afarid, Sonia Shaabani, Alireza Mirahmadizadeh in Journal of International Medical Research
Additional file 2 of Virulence, antibiotic resistance phenotypes and molecular characterisation of Vibrio furnissii isolates from patients with diarrhoea
Creators: name: Zhou, Yanyan
name: Yu, Li
name: Liu, Ming
name: Liang, Weili
name: Li, Zhenpeng
name: Nan, Zheng
name: Kan, Biao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Neue Wege im Dokumentarfilm
Creators: name: Besenböck, Andreas
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Kontroverse rund um Michael Moore gelöst werden kann. Kritiker werfen ihm Demagogie und Populismus vor und er selbst ist nicht gerade der Erste, der einen Anspruch auf den Titel seriösester Dokumentarfilmer des Jahres erheben würde. Da er aber der erfolgreichste Dokumentarfilmer aller Zeiten ist, lohnt sich die Beschäftigung mit seinen Werken. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, Moore und seine Werke genauer zu beschreiben, um sie wissenschaftlich einteilen zu können. Hierfür wird die Theorie des New Journalism bemüht, da der der Autor Paralellen zwischen Moores Filmen und den Werken der New Journalists rund um Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe und Norman Mailer sieht. Die Überprüfung ob Michael Moore nach den Prinzipien des New Journalism arbeitet wird mittels Kriterien überprüft die für den New Journalism stilgebend sind. Zuerst mussten diese aber vom Printmedium auf das Medium Film übertragen werden. Letztendlich kann diese Arbeit nicht endgültig Michael Moore als New Journalist bezeichnen, es spricht aber einiges dafür.