cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parameterisation and efficient MCMC estimation of non-Gaussian state space models
Creators: name: Strickland, Chris M.
name: Martin, Gael M.
name: Forbes, Catherine S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The impact of parameterisation on the simulation efficiency of Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for two non-Gaussian state space models is examined. Specifically, focus is given to particular forms of the stochastic conditional duration (SCD) model and the stochastic volatility (SV) model, with four alternative parameterisations of each model considered. A controlled experiment using simulated data reveals that relationships exist between the simulation efficiency of the MCMC sampler, the magnitudes of the population parameters and the particular parameterisation of the state space model. Results of an empirical analysis of two separate transaction data sets for the SCD model, as well as equity and exchange rate data sets for the SV model, are also reported. Both the simulation and empirical results reveal that substantial gains in simulation efficiency can be obtained from simple reparameterisations of both types of non-Gaussian state space models.
Asignaturas con mayor dificultad según percepción de estudiantes Licenciatura Nutrición-UAZ
Creators: name: Castro Lugo, Maureen Patricia
name: Falcon Ramos, José Antonio
name: García Mayorga, Elda Araceli
name: Rocha Aguirre, Lourdes Lizbeth
name: Velázquez Sandoval, Sandra Isela
name: Carlos Sánchez, María Dolores
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: La investigación tiene como objetivo identificar cuáles son las materias con mayor reprobación, y determinar con quienes acuden los estudiantes para entender las asignaturas reprobadas; mejorando el desempeño académico de los estudiantes. Se aplicó cuestionario auto administrado: materias que influyen en la reprobación estudiantil del Programa de Nutrición. La población fue de 479 alumnos, se tomó una muestra probabilística de 146 por el método de varianzas con un nivel de confianza del 95% (p=0.05), un error estándar aceptable del 1.5% (0.015). La fórmula para el calculó de muestra es: n=S²=p (1-p)/e². (Hernández, Fernández y Baptista, 2014). Se observó en términos generales el indicador de Materias que principalmente se reprueban y porcentaje amplio por reprobar junto con otras materias del plan de estudio Biología celular + otras materias (37.66%), Bioquímica + otras materias (36.97%), Fisiopatología I y II otras materias (40.04%).
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 8 Núm. 15 (2018): Vol.8, Núm. 15, Enero-Junio 2018
Employment systems and practices in China's industrial sector during and after Mao's regime
Creators: name: Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua
name: Dowling, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This article reviews the employment system during and after Mao's regime, and reports the results of a recent survey of employment practices in Chinese industrial enterprises. The research findings indicate a series of changes in hiring practices since the economic reforms in China. The implications of these employment reforms for MNEs are discussed.
International Human Resource Management: Challenges for Teaching and Practice
Creators: name: De Cieri, Helen
name: Fenwick, Marilyn
name: Hutchings, Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the last two decades there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of organisations that have internationalised their operations, assisted and encouraged to do so by the removal of national protectionist trade policies, deregulation of international fiscal and monetary markets, and rapid advances in communications and distribution channels. The international movement of labour that has been concomitant with such expansion of international business has meant that issues associated with the management of human resources across international borders have become of increasing importance to international human resource managers and academics. The research on which this paper is based examines the pedagogy and practice of IHRM in Australia and shares knowledge about critical developments within this field. It reports international human resource management (IHRM) scholars' and practitioners' understanding of the major issues for teaching and practice in IHRM and elucidates current and future issues challenging this field.
Mastering international business: lessons from industry on developing sustainable service exports
Creators: name: Coulthard, Max
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research looked at service exporters recent experiences. It was found there were key differences and similarities between goods and service exports. Some of the key advantages of service exports over goods included their more effective ability to overcome geographic and economic trade barriers. Service exports were also found to be not as price sensitive as exporting goods. Their often unique solutions became a marketing tool to promote themselves to other potential clients. There were many challenges identified that service exporters continue to face. These include measuring their value to the economy, gaining access to finance, the high cost both in terms of time and labour in developing one off solutions, protection of intellectual property, plus attracting and keeping key staff to deliver their services. These challenges will need further attention from government, industry advisors, plus those organisations servicing service exporters.
Career Stage, Organisational Commitment And Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
Creators: name: Pettit, Trisha
name: Donohue, Ross
name: Cieri, Helen De
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Changing workforce demographics and an increasingly competitive environment for employee retention has resulted in increased interest in careers and organisational behaviour. The current study explores the affects of both age and tenure upon organisational commitment and Organisational Citizenship Behaviours (OCB). Using a sample of 220 Monash University Alumni it was found that age does not significantly affect organisational commitment. However, age does influence the amount an employee will engage in OCB. No significant relationship was found between tenure and organisational commitment or OCB. It is proposed that new career theories (i.e. boundaryless and protean) may explain these results.
The development and delivery of novel therapeutics for cancer
Creators: name: Rushworth, James Luke
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) have recently re-emerged as a viable target in cancer therapy. These cells are dependent on several receptors and signalling nodes for their growth and activity; targeting these receptors is an attractive strategy to eliminate or repolarise TAMs to the pro-inflammatory, tumouricidal (M1) phenotype. However, many current macrophage-specific small molecule inhibitors suffer from poor bioavailability or have a certain degree of promiscuity, leading to off-target effects. One feasible way to mitigate these problems is to encapsulate these small molecules into a drug delivery system. Herein, we have utilised reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerisation and high-throughput methodology to access a range of macrophage-targeting cross-linked amphiphilic drug delivery systems that can self-assemble into micelles and higher-order structures such as polymersomes. These quasi-block copolymers were designed and synthesised with the aim of increasing selectivity to macrophages. Effective delivery of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, dasatinib, was achieved and preferential uptake in macrophages was observed. As an extension to this work, we have designed a novel bioreductive pro-fluorescent pro-drug and have incorporated it into a series of hydrophilic copolymers. These materials selectively release their cargo under hypoxic conditions. The second project described is the synthesis of [5]-helistatin, the first potential helicene-based drug. The parent compound, combretastatin [A-4], is a stilbene and the Z isomer is a highly potent tubulin inhibitor, whereas the E isomer is inactive. There has been a drive, therefore, to develop ‘Z-locked’ derivatives. The conformation afforded by the [5]-helicene provides this rigidity. Furthermore, the synthesis of unsymmetrical [5]-helicenes is extremely challenging and we are developing an efficient way of accessing these scaffolds with cheap, robust chemistry.
Labour Productivity in Australian Manufacturing: The Impact of Import Competition and Market Structure
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Mita
name: Bloch, Harry
name: McDonald, James Ted
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Through altering competitive conditions, globalization can have a significant impact on productivity of the domestic economy. We estimate the impact of import competition and domestic market structure on labour productivity growth in Australian manufacturing using a panel data analysis covering a period of nearly three decades. The results show strong evidence that import competition increases labour productivity growth, particularly in industries where domestic production is highly concentrated.
Does the option market produce superior forecasts of noise-corrected volatility measures?
Creators: name: Martin, Gael M.
name: Reidy, Andrew
name: Wright, Jill
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents a comprehensive empirical evaluation of option-implied and returns-based forecasts of volatility, in which recent developments related to the impact on measured volatility of market microstructure noise are taken into account. The paper also assesses the robustness of the performance of the option-implied forecasts to the way in which those forecasts are extracted from the option market. Using a test for superior predictive ability, model-free implied volatility, which aggregates information across the volatility ‘smile’, and at-the-money implied volatility, which ignores such information, are both tested as benchmark forecasts. The forecasting assessment is conducted using intraday data for three Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stocks and the S&P500 index over the 1996-2006 period, with future volatility proxied by a range of alternative noise-corrected realized measures. The results provide compelling evidence against the model-free forecast, with its poor performance linked to both the bias and excess variability that it exhibits as a forecast of actual volatility. The positive bias, in particular, is consistent with the option market factoring in a substantial premium for volatility risk. In contrast, implied volatility constructed from liquid at-the-money options is given strong support as a forecast of volatility, at least for the DJIA stocks. Neither benchmark is supported for the S&P500 index. Importantly, the qualitative results are robust to the measure used to proxy future volatility, although there is some evidence to suggest that any option-implied forecast may perform less well in forecasting the measure that excludes jump information, namely bi-power variation.
Collegia: The First Trade Unions?
Creators: name: Jerrard, Marjorie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper refutes claims made by Melbourne University classicist Andrew Turner in 1994 by focusing on the available epigraphical, literary, legal and even archaeological evidence to demonstrate that Roman collegia were not just clubs which organised funeral funds but were actually industrial organisations that were more akin to modem trade unions than to simple superannuation funds. A comparison of Roman collegia, particularly the collegium fabrum tignuarum and the collegium fullonum, against classic and modem definitions of trade unions representing thoughts from both sides of the Atlantic and also Australia demonstrates that the Roman organisations definitely fulfilled industrial, political, social, and economic roles that are met by modem trade unions. Even if the polemical and largely outdated argument that there is a thread of continuity from collegia through to medieval guilds and then to trade unions is discounted, there is enough evidence to prove that the collegium was the Roman version of the trade union.
Issues inherent in measuring and monitoring quality in contracted services
Creators: name: Dean, Alison M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Once the decision to contract a service has been made, and a contract agreed, an important question is how to ensure that service quality levels are maintained. By considering literature from a variety of disciplines, this paper considers issues inherent in the measurement and monitoring of quality in the context of contracted services. Key findings include the complexity introduced by the separation of purchaser and provider, the need to consider both business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships, the lack of consensus about quality definitions and measures, the lack of guidance from the literature in terms of performance monitoring, and the need to ensure that the costs of quality measurement activities do not exceed the benefits of contracting. The analysis is used to develop a model that incorporates operations, strategy and marketing perspectives, and illustrates six key processes that need to be integrated to ensure a comprehensive approach to quality evaluation. This model provides managers with a framework for improving their quality monitoring practices with contractors and customers, and highlights areas for future research.
Sistematización de Procesos Administrativos del SUA de la UACyA
Creators: name: Falcón Cordero, Diego Alberto
name: Barba Pinedo, Arantza Concepción
name: González García, Leticia
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: En la Unidad Académica de Contaduría y Administración, (UACyA), se desarrolló, implemento y evaluó una herramienta, con la cual se pretende eficientar el proceso administrativo de gestión del personal en el Sistema de Unidad Abierta (SUA) de dicha Unidad. La evaluación se realizó en los ámbitos de la funcionalidad, usabilidad, eficacia, portabilidad y la calidad de uso, y se aplicó a los usuarios finales del sistema, los resultados arrojan en general una tendencia muy buena, con respecto al instrumento que se utilizó, se validó con un valor alfa de Cronbach de 0.987, lo que indica una confiabilidad excelente del mismo; De los porcentajes de cada categoría en específico, se obtuvo: en funcionalidad da un 87.45%; en usabilidad da un 85.3%; en eficacia da un 87.5%; en portabilidad da un 79.15% y en calidad de uso da un 86%, por lo que son valores expresan una aceptación de buena a muy buena por parte de los usuarios.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 8 Núm. 15 (2018): Vol.8, Núm. 15, Enero-Junio 2018
Three new polyketide derivatives of the endophytic fungus Aspergillus cristatus 2H1
Creators: name: Wu, Xue-Ming
name: Dai, Guan-Cheng
name: Zhou, Bei-Bei
name: Chen, Yong
name: Tan, Ren-Xiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Three new polyketide derivatives, 2-ethoxycarbonyl-endocrocin (1), 6-methoxy-2-ethoxycarbonyl-endocrocin (2) and pannorin C (3), along with sixteen known compounds (4–19) were isolated from a plant endophytic fungus Aspergillus cristatus 2H1. Their structures were elucidated by 1D/2D NMR and HR-ESI-MS data analysis. Compound 3 showed weak antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus (MIC 20 μg/ml). Compounds 14 and 15 showed effective cytotoxicity on human melanoma A375 cells (IC50 4.13 μM for 14, 3.39 μM for 15).
Educación para la salud y hábitos en los escolares
Creators: name: De La Rosa Basurto, Martha Patricia
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: La educación en salud bucal se orienta a la integración de conocimientos no como un fin en sí mismo, sino como un medio para el desarrollo de habilidades y prácticas que coadyuven al mejoramiento de la salud bucal, haciendo conciencia acerca de los riesgos que conlleva la práctica de ciertos hábitos nocivos y brindar a los individuos modelos alternativos de comportamiento saludable, iniciando desde la infancia y continuando a lo largo de todas las etapas de la vida, para generar y reforzar hábitos adecuados de higiene bucal y general.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 8 Núm. 15 (2018): Vol.8, Núm. 15, Enero-Junio 2018
El derecho social a la salud: Retos y compromisos de la universidad
Creators: name: Yepez Miño, Patricio
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: Diferentes periodos políticos y económicos a lo largo del Siglo XX y lo que ha transcurrido del Siglo XXI han determinado la dinámica de la salud pública en nuestros países, lo cual es necesario tomar en cuenta para el análisis y la redefinición del nuevo espacio de compromiso de la universidad con la salud y el desarrollo social de la población para aportar con una nueva dimensión estratégica que responda en forma comprometida a las necesidades y prioridades de nuestras poblaciones.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 8 Núm. 15 (2018): Vol.8, Núm. 15, Enero-Junio 2018
Efficiency and Liquidity in the Electricity Market: A Preliminary Analysis
Creators: name: Goss, Barry A.
name: Avsar, S. Gulay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Following varying degrees of deregulation of the New South Wales and Victorian electricity markets, consumers in those states have faced market determined prices, and since September 1997 instruments for risk management, in the form of electricity futures contracts, have been available. This paper addresses two important questions in relation to these new markets. The first is whether the electricity futures prices, determined on the Sydney Futures Exchange, reflect all publicly available information as fully as possible. This issue is investigated by the forecast error approach, which permits a test of the semi-strong efficient markets hypothesis (EMH). Rejection of this hypothesis would imply that agents are responding to price signals which are not of the best possible quality, so that unarbitraged profit opportunities remain, and some misallocation of resources could occur. The second question addressed is whether there is evidence of increasing returns to liquidity in this market. Liquidity is measured here by the standard deviation of market clearing prices, and a simple binomial model is employed to generate the hypothesis of increasing returns. An implication of support for the hypothesis of increasing returns is that larger markets could be expected to grow further, and contracts with smaller volumes could be expected to disappear. This would apply also to multiple contracts in the same commodity. The results suggest first, that the EMH cannot be rejected, and second, that there is no significant relationship between volume and liquidity in these markets at this stage.
Additional file 3 of Comparative analysis of gene expression profiles in differentiated subcutaneous adipocytes between Jiaxing Black and Large White pigs
Creators: name: Zhang, Dawei
name: Wu, Wenjing
name: Huang, Xin
name: Xu, Ke
name: Zheng, Cheng
name: Zhang, Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3.
Chemical constituents from Solanum nigrum and their neuroprotective activities
Creators: name: Bai, Ming
name: Zhang, Qian
name: Hou, Zi-Lin
name: Li, Chuan
name: Zhou, Wei-Yu
name: Yao, Guo-Dong
name: Huang, Xiao-Xiao
name: Song, Shao-Jiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Ten compounds (1–10) including four new compounds (1–4) and six known compounds (5–10) were isolated from Solanum nigrum. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data, gauge-including atomic orbital (GIAO) calculation of NMR data, DP4+ probability analysis and comparison of their experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectral data. All the isolated compounds were tested for their neuroprotective activities against H2O2-induced damage in SH-SY5Y cells. Among them, compounds 1, 5 and 7 displayed moderate neuroprotective effects.
Terapia láser de baja potencia. Una alternativa en el manejo del dolor y la regeneración tisular
Creators: name: Carrera García, Raymundo
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: El uso del láser terapéutico, en países europeos y en diversas latitudes del mundo, ha sido utilizado desde hace más de cuatro décadas; sin embargo, en México aún no se ha generalizado su uso. Hoy en día, los avances científico-tecnológicos permiten trabajar con Terapia Láser de Baja Potencia (Low Level Laser Terapy LLLT por sus siglas en inglés o TLBP en español), se realiza de forma cotidiana, ya sea a nivel hospitalario, en la consulta del médico familiar e inclusive en los centros de rehabilitación y fisioterapia. Su aplicación en el tejido produce analgesia, desinflamación y estimulación en los procesos de cicatrización, favorece la micro circulación, estimula el trofismo celular y es considerado, por algunos autores como un biomodulador de las funciones celulares. Además, reduce de forma dramática la sintomatología y el tiempo de recuperación de los pacientes.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 8 Núm. 15 (2018): Vol.8, Núm. 15, Enero-Junio 2018
An Analytical Framework of Producer-consumers, Economies of Specialization and Transaction Costs
Creators: name: Wen, Mei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper, an analytical framework of producer-consumers is presented. It is proved that a producer-consumer does not buy and sell the same good, does not buy and self-provided the same good, and sells one good at most if there exist economies of specialization and transaction costs. Based on this, a lot of classical economic thoughts can be resurrected and many interesting results can be obtained from this kind of analytical framework.
Utilization of EntomopathogenicPathogenic Fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschn.) Control Recilia dorsaliand Nephotettix virescens (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
Creators: name: Nichanun Kernasa
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2020
Subjects: entomopathogenic fungi, virulence, LC50, sucking insect pests

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 48, 1, 153-162
Mixtures of Tails in Clustered Automobile Collision Claims
Creators: name: Kalb, Guyonne R. J.
name: Kofman, Paul
name: Vorst, Ton C. F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Knowledge of the tail shape of claim distributions provides important actuarial information. This paper discusses how two techniques commonly used in assessing the most appropriate underlying distribution can be usefully combined. The maximum likelihood approach is theoretically appealing since it is preferable to many other estimators in the sense of best asymptotic normality. Likelihood based tests are, however, not always capable of discriminating among non-nested classes of distributions. Extremal value theory offers an attractive tool to overcome this problem. A much larger set of distribution classes is nested by their tail parameter. This paper shows that both estimation strategies can be usefully combined when the data generating process is characterized by strong clustering in time and size. We find that the extreme value theory is a useful starting point in detecting the appropriate distribution class. Once that has been achieved, the likelihood-based EM-algorithm is proposed to capture the clustering phenomena. Clustering is particularly pervasive in actuarial data. An empirical application to a four-year data set of Dutch automobile collision claims is therefore used to illustrate the approach.
Additional file 7 of Comparative transcriptomes reveal geographic differences in the ability of the liver of plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi) to respond and adapt to toxic plants
Creators: name: Tan, Yuchen
name: Wang, Yanli
name: Liu, Qianqian
name: Wang, Zhicheng
name: Shi, Shangli
name: Su, Junhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 7
NAFAS OLISH A'ZOLARI KASALLIKLARI
Creators: name: Axadova, Mushtariy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqola orqali Organizm bilan tashqi muhit o‘rtasida bo'lib turadigan gazlar almashinuvi jarayonida ishtirok etuvchi nafas sistemasi havo o'tkazuvchi a'zolar majmuyi, ya’ni burun bo‘shlig‘i, hiqildoq, traxeya (kekirdak), bronxlar va o'pka bilan bog‘lik jarayonlar haqida ma’lumot berilgan.
Estudio diagnóstico de salud bucal en pacientes atendidos en la CLIJANI "Zacatecas".
Creators: name: Carlos Sánchez, María Dolores
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: Se presenta el reporte de una investigación de salud bucodental en preescolares y escolares de la Clínica del Jardín de Niños (CLIJANI) Zacatecas, de la Unidad Académica de Odontología (UAO), de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ). El estudio fue de tipo transversal, descriptivo y retrospectivo, la información se recopiló de 116 expedientes de los niños de ambos sexos. Este estudio permitió conocer el diagnóstico de salud bucal de los pacientes atendidos en el primer año de servicio odontológico de la clínica (ciclo 2009-2010), implementar programas de prevención acorde con las necesidades, sensibilizar a los padres de familia para mejorar los niveles de salud bucodental de sus hijos y contribuir en los procesos futuros de evaluación sobre el impacto de la atención que se brinda en esta clínica.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 7 Núm. 14 (2017): Vol.7, No. 14, Agosto-diciembre 2017
Organized Crime a Specific Approach
Creators: name: Victoria, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: If the basic characterization of organized crime is to be found, one can find, among scholars of the subject, quite unanimity - the same is no longer the case with the precise definition of the concept: In fact, it is difficult to establish a final concept on organized crime when, on the one hand, it is faced with multiple and renewed criminal practices, triggered by groups or networks in permanent dynamic adaptation and, on the other hand, we find “users” with varying degrees of conceptual demand and practical requirements, depending on the different purposes pursued: criminal investigation, criminal prosecution, exercise of legislative power, etc. In fact, the investigator will be particularly interested in the objective screening of the organized criminal structure that he intends to dismantle, the magistrate the legal and penal framework of the criminal occurrences that occurred and their insertion in the legal figures created by the legislator (who, in fact, in Portugal, at no time) uses the expression “organized crime” in the current legislative frameworks, rather opting for “close” figures such as that of the “Criminal Association” (arts. 2874. of the Penal Code) or “Association of Delinquents” (art ”. 284. of the Decree) Law 430/83). Origin and evolution of the organized crime Organized criminal practice dates back to other centuries, being referenced, for example, in England, at the beginning of the sec. - XVIII (case of the group controlled by Jonathan Wild that was dedicated to theft, robbery and extortion in the city of London).
D8.2 First short scientific report
Creators: name: CNR-ISAC
name: CNR-ICMATE
name: ZAG
name: IZNAB
name: PIETRE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: InnoWEE
H2020
report
project
activities

description: This document provides a clear, informative and concise account of the InnoWEE project activities related to the first 6 months.
Conflict and collaboration in the 1998 Melbourne port labour dispute: the role of discourses in domain evolution
Creators: name: Spicer, André
name: Selsky, John W.
name: Teicher, Julian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper we examine how discourses are mobilised and deployed by actors in a domain during a critical incident. In particular we examine the changes and the continuities in the way that the major parties in the Melbourne port dispute of 1997-98 related to each other. We focus on the discourses used to structure the ways that these organisations related. We adopt perspectives from critical domain theory and discourse theory, and derive our main concept and unit of analysis, what we call the discursive domain. The main process that occurs in a discursive domain is actors' 'mapping' discourses onto concepts, and concepts onto objects, in order to make certain courses of action rational and sensible. We propose that different mapping processes occur in differently organised domains. We employ case study method. Data was gathered from an analysis of media reports about the port of Melbourne during 1997-98. These texts are used to examine the kinds (number and diversity) of discourses used by each of two main networks of organisations in the domain during that period. The main finding is an unexpected association between the 'organised' domain and the 'complex' mapping performed by actors. Our contribution is to build on previous understandings of the role of discourses in domains by examining the complexity of 'mapping' by domain actors during critical incidents such as a major industrial dispute. We conclude by drawing implications of the discursive domain approach for domain theory and discourse theory.
Nonsimultaneity and Futures Option Pricing: Simulation and Empirical Evidence
Creators: name: Hibbard, Robert E.J.
name: Brown, Rob
name: McLaren, Keith R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Empirical tests of option pricing models are joint tests of the 'correctness' of the model, the efficiency of the market and the simultaneity of price observations. Some degree of nonsimultaeity can be expected in all but the most liquid markets and is therefore evident in many non-US markets. Simulation results indicate that nonsimultaneity is potentially a significant problem in empirical tests of futures option pricing models. Empirical results using Australian data show that a five-minute window for matching transactions does not remove the nonsimultaneity bias for near-the-money and out-of-the money options. A more accurate matching may therefore be required. The nonsimultaneity bias is effectively removed if a five-minute window is employed for in-the-money options.
Additional file 1 of Ferulic acid alleviates lipotoxicity-induced hepatocellular death through the SIRT1-regulated autophagy pathway and independently of AMPK and Akt in AML-12 hepatocytes
Creators: name: Xu, Tiantian
name: Song, Qing
name: Zhou, Li
name: Yang, Wenwen
name: Wu, Xiangyao
name: Qian, Qianyu
name: Chai, Hui
name: Han, Qiang
name: Pan, Hongzhi
name: Dou, Xiaobing
name: Li, Songtao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary data file.
The effect of grouping on regression analysis
Creators: name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Social science data is often collected in grouped form, respondents indicating that their ages and incomes are in ranges such as 30 -39 years and $40,000 to $49,999 respectively. Although grouping biases and makes less precise estimates of population statistics, social scientists appear to have ignored its effects. Its effects are usually mild but very common and occasionally severe (it can exacerbate the effects of multicolinearity). In many cases ignoring grouping makes tests of hypotheses weaker than they need be. In some cases, it is easy to modify statistical formulae to partially remove bias and recover some otherwise lost statistical power. The paper's assertions are based on theory verified by simulations.
"Organising Works" Is It Meeting the Challenge of Declining Trade Union Membership?
Creators: name: Holland, Peter
name: Hanley, Glennis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Since the mid-1980s the Australian trade union movement has started to confront the issue of declining union membership. This issue, as much as any other, has the potential to threaten the labour movement's long-term future and influence in both the economic and political arenas. To this end, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has developed a recruitment division to support and develop the refocusing of the movement from a servicing-based to a recruitment-based culture. In this paper the development of a recruitment focus within the trade union movement is documented. An evaluation of how effective this process has been in achieving its objectives is also conducted.
Effect of Calcium Hydroxide Treated Oil Palm Frond on Feed Intake and Digestibility in Goats
Creators: name: Puwadon Hamchara;Peerawat Choopeng;Nunyarat Koomkrong;Sophol Boonlum
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oil palm frond, calcium hydroxide, goats

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 48, 1, 163-176
Robust forecasting of mortality and fertility rates: a functional data approach
Creators: name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Ullah, Md Shahid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We propose a new method for forecasting age-specific mortality and fertility rates observed over time. Our approach allows for smooth functions of age, is robust for outlying years due to wars and epidemics, and provides a modelling framework that is easily adapted to allow for constraints and other information. We combine ideas from functional data analysis, nonparametric smoothing and robust statistics to form a methodology that is widely applicable to any functional time series data, and age-specific mortality and fertility in particular. We show that our model is a generalization of the Lee-Carter model commonly used in mortality and fertility forecasting. The methodology is applied to French mortality data and Australian fertility data, and we show that the forecasts obtained are superior to those from the Lee-Carter method and several of its variants.
Is 'lean' a universal production system? Batch production in the automotive industry
Creators: name: Cooney, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper sets out to test the claim made in the lean production literature that the lean production system is universally applicable. The proponents of the lean production model insist that it will supersede both mass production and specialized batch production; but this paper argues that whilst lean production practices have been adopted and adapted by many producers, batch production has an enduring value from both a work design and a business process design perspective. The paper reviews the evidence for the persistence of batch production and of craft work methods in both luxury vehicle manufacture and specialty component manufacture and highlights the conditions under which batch production remains viable.
La odontología social para el siglo XXI.
Creators: name: Chávez Lamas, Nubia Maricela
name: Gracia Cortés, María Del Carmen
name: Rivas Gutiérrez, Jesús
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: El devenir histórico del origen de las escuelas de odontología está fuertemente ligado a las escuelas y facultades de medicina humana, tan es así que su origen se remonta a ser consideradas como anexos a ellas. Curricularmente fue igual, se tomaron asignaturas y contenidos propios de la formación del médico general y posteriormente, con el surgimiento de nuevos pensamientos críticos y sociales, la odontología empieza a tomar otro matiz paradigmático y se replantea su fundamento con la idea de un servicio con características sociales y más enfocado a la atención integral, preventiva y de servicio, desafortunadamente la fuerza del contexto capitalista, neoliberal, comercial y elitista envuelve a esta profesión médica y la convierte en un producto disponible para el mejor postor.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 7 Núm. 14 (2017): Vol.7, No. 14, Agosto-diciembre 2017
Dispersive Liquid‐Liquid Microextraction (DLLME) Based on Solidification of Switchable Hydrophilicity Solvent Coupled with High‐Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with Photodiode Array (PDA) Detection for the Determination of Pyrethroid Pesticides in Grains
Creators: name: Cao, Hui
name: Chen, Zixin
name: Kong, Yanan
name: Wei, Ziqi
name: Ye, Tai
name: Yuan, Min
name: Yu, Jinsong
name: Wu, Xiuxiu
name: Hao, Liling
name: Yin, Fengqin
name: Xu, Fei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Rapid dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) based on the solidification of a switchable hydrophilicity solvent (SHS) was established for the preconcentration of pyrethroid pesticides from grain prior to determination using high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with photodiode array (PDA). Lauric acid was selected to be the switchable hydrophilicity solvent due to its conversion between hydrophobic and hydrophilic forms and solidification at low temperature, thereby avoiding a time-consuming centrifugation step. The results show that the optimal conditions for pyrethroid pesticides included 30 mmol/L lauric acid, hydrochloric acid as the hydrogen donor, a 1:1.8 stoichiometric ratio of sodium laurate and hydrochloric acid, an extraction temperature of 50 °C, an extraction time of 8 min, and a solidification time of 3 min. Under the optimal conditions, this approach provided a high enrichment factor (308.4 to 330.2), a short pretreatment period of less than 15 min, and sensitive detection limits from 5 to 20 ng/g suitable for the analysis of food. The method was employed for the determination of pyrethroid pesticides in grain. The recoveries were 84.3% to 115.7%, and the relative standard deviation was less than 9.9%.
Tests for over-identifying restrictions in partially identified linear structural equations
Creators: name: Forchini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cragg and Donald (1996) have pointed out that the asymptotic size of tests for overidentifying restrictions can be much smaller than the asymptotic nominal size when the structural equation is partially identified. This may lead to misleading inference if the critical values are obtained from a chi-square distribution. To overcome this problem we derive the exact asymptotic distribution of the Byron test statistic. This allows the calculation of asymptotic critical values and p-values corrected for possible failure of identification.
The roman public building industry: challenging the terminology and application of post-Fordism
Creators: name: Jerrard, Marjorie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The primary evidence from the Roman building industry under the period of the Empire (AD14-565) demonstrates that the high level of skill held by tradesmen (all building and construction workers were male) promoted worker control over their tasks and that this control was increased because of the various layers of supervision on the building site which effectively distanced managerial control from the workers at the site. This is contrary to the deskilling hypothesis put forward by sociologists and ancient historians writing about Roman workers. It also suggests that aspects of the French Regulation School and post-Fordist theses are more applicable to the Roman world of two millennia previously than to the globalized market conditions of the 1990s and later for which they were developed. This is also contrary to the ideas of what constitutes a pre-industrial society and pre-industrial modes of production.
Development of cobalt-based superalloys
Creators: name: Reynolds, Lucy Rhiannon
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: This work presents an investigation into alloying effects on cobalt/nickel-based polycrystalline superalloys for gas turbine applications, focusing primarily on the Al/Cr ratio and C/B levels. Screening of the microstructure, physical properties and mechanical behaviour was carried out on alloys to elucidate the optimum alloying balance. Compositions between 10Cr-13.5Al and 13Cr-11Al were reviewed to determine the maximum Al and Cr that could be accommodated before five alloys with varying C and B contents were fabricated. Finally, two powder metallurgy (PM) alloys, V208G and V208H were characterised along with their ingot metallurgy (IM) counterparts. Alloying with more than 11.5 at.% Al led to extensive B2 NiAl precipitation, increased density, a reduced γ′ solvus and diminished secondary γ′ area fraction. NiAl did provide a beneficial effect to the alloy’s oxidation performance, while increasing the Co:Ni dramatically decreased oxidation performance. This elevated Co:Ni was also found to be detrimental to a number of other alloy properties. Cr levels above 12.5 at.% were found to encourage decomposition of carbides after long term ageing at elevated temperatures. NiAl prevailed in alloys containing 13Cr-11.5Al, complicating interpretation of the slow strain rate tensile testing (SSRTT) behaviour. C was found to form Zr-rich MC and Mo-rich M23C6 while B promoted Mo-rich MB2 borides. Carbides were beneficial to SSRTT behaviour at 750°C, an increased C content encourages creation of carbo-nitrides (instead of C being lost as CO or CO2). Carbides at the surface experienced oxidation and volume expansion while their depths remained unoxidised. Atom probe tomography (APT) revealed unoxidised regions of carbides had nitrided. Formation of carbo-nitrides appeared to strengthen alloys during SSRTT. Scanning transmission electron microscopy energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (STEM-EDX) revealed that the oxidised carbides were enveloped in a layer of alumina. Borides oxidised, a discrete layer of B was found in the oxide scale in focussed ion beam mass spectroscopy (FIB-SIMS). V208G and V208H were fabricated via both IM and PM with compositions selected to build on the previous findings. V208H confirmed 11.5 at.% Al content is sufficient for B2 NiAl formation while V208G displayed no presence of NiAl, suggesting the optimum Al content lies between 11.5 at.% and 10 at.%. V208G had satisfactory oxidation behaviour without V208H’s NiAl providing Al for alumina. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) indicated that the alloys have a small freezing range and an increased processing window compared to a current nickel-based superalloy.
Access to Essential Facilities: Implementing Hilmer
Creators: name: Maddock, Rodney
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Hilmer reform process is getting to the difficult implementation stage. Simple solutions such as private negotiations, non-discrimination, and the exclusion of firms from downstream markets which are suggested in the Report all have significant weaknesses. The most preferred solution of privately negotiated outcomes with a fallback to arbitration seems likely to disperse many of the benefits of the reforms. This is especially true if public enterprises subject to considerable government control are privatised. A stronger regulatory hand is required despite the fact that we are unlikely to design a perfect regulatory solution. Auctions for markets or for the use of facilities are the most effective ways of revealing the information needed for regulation.
Estrés oxidativo y su relación con caries dental.
Creators: name: Rudecino García, Mario Alberto
name: Rodríguez Guajardo, Nelly Alejandra
name: Martínez López, Gerardo De María
name: Rodríguez Aguirre, María Del Rocio
name: Del Muro Casas, Fátima Erendida
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: Caries dental (CD) continúa siendo un problema de salud pública importante y es considerada una pandemia mundial. El diagnóstico de caries dental basado en la microbiota involucrada en la enfermedad, ha demostrado variabilidad de la composición de la placa dental, por tal motivo, CD es de difícil erradicación. En tal sentido es importante involucrar y relacionar los mecanismos que pudieran conducir a la susceptibilidad a CD, tal es el caso de la participación de los sistemas oxidante, como sistema de agresión, así como también la repercusión en el pH salival, para diseñar un mejor abordaje de prevención y de los tratamientos. Es de vital importancia correlacionar los diferentes mecanismos que conducen al proceso carioso, una vez identificados y relacionados tales factores, se tendrá un mayor control y manejo de la misma, derivándonos la pauta para una mejorada estrategia de prevención.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 7 Núm. 14 (2017): Vol.7, No. 14, Agosto-diciembre 2017
Adoption of Analytics in Decision Making Processes for Startups
Creators: name: Tahera Khambaty, Prof. Bhagyashree Patil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores how startups incorporate analytics into their decision-making processes, examining theinfluence of data-driven approaches on business strategies and daily operations. Given the resourcelimitations typical in early-stage businesses, adopting analytics can help improve decision-making precision,boost efficiency, and drive innovation. The paper highlights common obstacles, such as resource shortages,lack of technical expertise, and organizational culture, that impede adoption. It also emphasizes theadvantages of using analytics, such as enhanced market positioning and sustainable growth. Finally, theresearch offers practical strategies for startups to adopt analytics effectively, enabling them to achieve betteroutcomes in a competitive landscape.
El malestar didáctico en la docencia. Los dilemas de los docentes de la educación superior.
Creators: name: Alanís Huerta, Antonio
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2018

description: Saber qué enseñar parece no ser el problema para los noveles docentes de la educación superior; de hecho, sus incertidumbres se centran más en cómo enseñar y cómo enfrentar al grupo de estudiantes. Consecuentemente, el contenido de sus cursos o seminarios no constituyen la preocupación principal; sus dilemas son las maneras de enseñarlos; por tanto, hablamos de las estrategias docentes y de los recursos didácticos que, con frecuencia, ignoran estos jóvenes maestros; recurriendo necesariamente a sus recuerdos de alumno, cuando sus profesores le enseñaban sus cursos en la universidad, en la escuela normal o en el instituto de ciencias o de ingenierías.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 7 Núm. 14 (2017): Vol.7, No. 14, Agosto-diciembre 2017