cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Planning public transport networks in the post-petroleum era
Creators: name: Stone, John
name: Mees, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Oil depletion scenarios suggest that public transport powered largely by electricity, together with cycling and walking, will be the mainstays of future urban mobility. This paper argues that there is great scope, in a time-scale of years rather than decades, for transport planners to increase the number and types of trips for which public transport is a convenient option. Our argument begins with a snapshot of Melbourne during the last period of intense and sustained constraints on oil supply and an overview of the performance of various transport modes in the three decades from 1976 to 2006. The decline of public transport since 1950 occurred at a faster rate than changes in density and can be reversed without the need for widespread re-creation of the urban form. The key to making these changes lies in the approach to public transport planning used in successful European and North American cities: service-based network planning. This model offers hope for greater public transport use in Australian cities, and is outlined in the central part of the article. We conclude with some comments on the forms of transport governance required to deliver ‘networked’ public transport services.
Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Melanoma Lesion Detection
Creators: name: Endalkachew, Wolde
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Detection of skin cancer in the earlier stage is very critical. Nowadays, skin cancer is seen as one of the most hazardous form of cancers found in humans. The most common types of skin cancers are Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC), Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) and Melanoma. Among these melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer. The detection of Melanoma cancer in early stage can be helpful to cure it. Computer vision plays an important role in medical image diagnosis and this has been proved by many existing systems. A computer aided skin image diagnosis system has a significant potential for screening and prognosis. It is utmost important in countries where unaided visual diagnosis system is the practice and where there is insufficient number of dermatologists. This thesis presents a computer aided diagnosis system for the detection of melanoma skin cancer using a novel mathematical scheme. The proposed method uses a holistic representation of skin color images to extract useful features for use in effective segmentation of melanoma lesions. The segmentation scheme is preceded by a processing stage composed of noise filtering color space transformation. Vertex component analysis and principal component analysis are integrated to form a hybrid approach for unmixing and feature dimension reduction. An optimized feature selection technique is also used to obtain the best achievable performance in effectively detecting the lesions. Support vector machine (SVM) along with geometrical and color feature threshold values are integrated to make effective detection of melanoma lesions. The effectiveness of the developed scheme to classify lesions into benign, suspicious and malignant melanoma is found to be promising. The proposed scheme has been tested on images taken from standard dermoscopy image databases and achieved 96.4% sensitivity, 99.4% specificity, and 97.9% overall accuracy for pixel based classification of melanomas while it achieved 98% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 98.6% accuracy for image based classification justifying it"s great promises.
title: Versteinerungen
Creators: name: Schorkopf, Frank
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Die 22. Folge hat die Änderung der vertraglichen Grundlage der Europäischen Union zum Gegenstand. Sie geht den Fragen nach, weshalb die Europäische Union ihre Vertragsgrundlagen nur unter großen Anstrengungen ändern kann und wie sie die politischen Risiken in der Praxis zu vermeiden sucht. 
Im Detail geht um Regierungskonferenzen und die Konventsmethode, um Referenden und Ratifikationen in den Mitgliedstaaten, um Supranationalität und Intergouvernementalität Es wird die Kette von Änderungsverträgen seit der Einheitlichen Europäischen Akte bis zum Vertrag von Lissabon in den Blick genommen.
Der Podcast enthält Originalzitate u.a. von Jacques Chirac, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Bertie Ahern, Rolf-Dieter Krause.
description: Europas Weg: Verfassungsgeschichte der Europäischen Union, vol. 22
Linearizing a Ricatti's equation.
Creators: name: Sherif, Abbas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Applied Physics
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering

description: An attempt at finding subclasses of the Ricatti's equation solvable via the Sundman Transformation.
Zelurus lepeletierianus Kirkaldy 1909
Creators: name: Melo, María C.
name: Gimena Dellapé
name: Leonela Olivera
name: Varela, Pablo S.
name: Montemayor, Sara I.
name: Dellapé, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Zelurus
Zelurus lepeletierianus

description: Zelurus lepeletierianus (Kirkaldy, 1909) Distribution. Argentina: Corrientes, Entre Ríos (Pennington 1921), and Misiones: Puerto Iguazú (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1951); Brazil and Panama (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1947 a, 1951). Material examined. 1♀, P. Iguazú, I-[19]44, A. Bridarolli coll., PNI0106 (MACN).
description: Published as part of María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, pp. 479-511 in Check List 13 (5) on page 485, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.479, http://zenodo.org/record/1143518
description: {"references": ["Kirkaldy GW (1909) Hemiptera: new and old. No. 1. The Canadian Entomologist 41: 30 - 32.", "Pennington MS (1921) Lista de los Hemipteros Heteropteros de la Republica Argentina. Authors edition, Buenos Aires. Part 2: 17 - 47.", "Lent H, Wygodzinsky P (1951) Estudos sobre o genero Zelurus Hahn (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 11 (1): 1 - 28.", "Lent H, Wygodzinsky P (1947 a) Sobre algumas especies de Zelurus Hahn (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 7 (1): 25 - 55."]}
From liking to loyalty: the impact of network affinity in the social media digital space
Creators: name: Krishen, Anjala S.
name: Trembath, Leanne
name: Muthaly, Siva
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Building on existing models and social influence theory, we propose a hybrid social network affinity model which focuses on developing lasting relationships between consumers and social networking firms. Our model incorporates both rational and social influence motivations as antecedents to satisfaction and loyalty. Based on 352 adult respondents, we utilize a partial least squares structural equation method, and find that social network affinity is an important predictor of satisfaction and loyalty within a social network. In addition to other implications, our study indicates that social networking firms must build a sense of belonging, encourage interactivity, and offer ways to develop an emotional connection for their consumers.
IVADS - Interactive Visualization of Advanced Data Structures
Creators: name: Chauhan, Rahul Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Data Structures

description: Visualization is any method that is used to create images, diagrams, or animations to convey a message. Since the beginning of human existence, visualization through the utilisation of visual imagery has been a powerful method to pass on both abstract and concrete information. Examples from history include cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek geometry, and Leonardo da Vinci’s revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engineering and scientific purposes. In today’s world, visualization has growing applications in fields like science, education, interactive multimedia, medicine, and many others. The aim of this project is to use visualization, in the form of an interactive web application, to capture the attention of students so as to help them better understand the concepts of a particular course. This project will describe the adoption of a developed web application as an effective tool for visual learning. The application focuses on the visualization of some advanced data structures such as ”Splay Trees”, ”RedBlack Trees”, ”B Trees” and their associated insertion and deletion operations
Independent Research for Undergraduate Students
Creators: name: Weal, Steve
name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Can undergraduate students be expected to undertake independent research? What role, if any, can independent research play in undergraduate degrees? This paper attempts to answer these questions by presenting details on an undergraduate student seminar program that has been used in final year Operations Research studies at Swinburne for many years now. It also looks at a recent extension of this program which involves the students in preparing a paper on their chosen research topic. The paper will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the program.
title: #5 Umweltvölkerrecht
Creators: name: Schuberth, Sophie
name: Eschenhagen, Philipp
name: Lischewski, Isabel
name: Tuchtfeld, Erik
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Umweltvölkerrecht könnte eine Erfindung jüngeren Datums sein, ist aber ungefähr so alt wie das Völkerrecht selbst: Denn Streitigkeiten über die Verteilung globaler Ressourcen und die Auswirkungen von menschengemachter Umweltverschmutzung gab es schon immer. Warum ist es dann vergleichsweise schwierig, auf internationaler Ebene mit den Mitteln des Völkerrechts gegen die Klimakrise anzukämpfen?

Isabel erklärt im Grundlagenteil, warum das bisherige Umweltvölkerrecht oft eher einem Nachbarschaftsstreit gleicht. Philipp spricht mit Dr. Roda Verheyen, die als Anwältin u.a. in der vergangenen Woche erfolgreich vor dem BVerfG war und auch vor dem EGMR Klagen gegen die Klimapolitik der europäischen Staaten betreut.

Hintergrundinformationen:

 BVerfG, Beschluss des Ersten Senats vom 24. März 2021, Az. 1 BvR 2656/18

Wir freuen uns über Lob, Anmerkungen und Kritik an podcast@voelkerrechtsblog.org oder hier in den Kommentaren. Abonniert unseren Podcast via RSS, über Spotify oder überall dort, wo es Podcasts gibt.

Moderation: Philipp Eschenhagen & Sophie Schuberth
Grundlagenteil: Isabel Lischewski

Interview: Dr. Roda Verheyen & Philipp Eschenhagen
Schnitt: Erik Tuchtfeld
Technische Unterstützung: Anna Sophia Tiedeke

Credits:
Anton Hofreiter, 27. September 2018 im Bundestag
Angela Merkel, 24. September 2015 im Bundestag
description: Völkerrechtsblog
Rhodnius brethesi Matta 1919
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Jader
name: Gaiani, Marco
name: Velasquez, Diony
name: Savini, Vilma
name: Ayala, José Manuel
name: Da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira, Maria Tercília
name: Chaboli Alevi, Kaio Cesar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Rhodnius
Rhodnius brethesi

description: 2. Rhodnius brethesi Matta, 1919  (Figs. 7, 8)
VENEZUELA, T.F. Amazonas, Atabapo (Santa Cruz), 1 female, 1 male, IV.1945, col. R. Lichy, det. J. Oliveira; Maroa (River Casiquiare), 2 females, 1 male, 11.X.1987, det. J. Oliveira.
description: Published as part of de Oliveira, Jader, Gaiani, Marco, Velasquez, Diony, Savini, Vilma, Ayala, José Manuel, Da Rosa, Joao Aristeu, Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira, Maria Tercília & Chaboli Alevi, Kaio Cesar, 2020, The importance of biological collections for public health: The case of the Triatominae collection of the Museum of the Institute of Agricultural Zoology " Francisco Fernández Yépez ", Venezuela, pp. 357-375 in Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 46 (2) on page 360, DOI: 10.35249/rche.46.2.20.24, http://zenodo.org/record/13204982
Public attitudes and fear of crime victimization: assessing the role of attitude formation theory
Creators: name: Fairhead, Kerry
name: Pfeifer, Jeffrey
name: Thompson, Donald
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A review of the current literature indicates that, despite the large quantity of research on fear of crime, it has remained an elusive concept that is difficult to measure and assess. Research findings on this issue are varied and often contradictory and, in general, appear to lack a synthesizing theory. This lack of synthesis appears to be especially prevalent with regard to an understanding of public perceptions of crime in general versus public perceptions of specific crimes. It is suggested that the application of attitude formation and response theory might provide a more comprehensive understanding of this general/specific fear of crime issue. Specifically, it is argued that attitude formation and response theory might better explain why public perceptions of general and specific crimes are skewed and what cognitive factors lead to this discrepancy. As such, the current study had two major objectives. The first goal of this study was to compare perceived and actual crime rates to determine if people are able to accurately assess the occurrence of both general and specific crime in their areas. The second of the research was to apply attitude formation theory to interpret fear of crime, specifically with regard to cognitive antecedents and responses. As expected, results indicate that subjects are inaccurate in their assessment of general crime rates but very accurate in terms of their assessment of specific crime rates. In addition, there was a significant relationship between subjects’ attitudinal antecedents and their responses regarding fear of crime. Findings are discussed in terms of improvements to the measurement of fear of crime and associated responses to this phenomenon.
Zelurus stillatipennis stillatipennis (Stal 1859
Creators: name: Melo, María C.
name: Gimena Dellapé
name: Leonela Olivera
name: Varela, Pablo S.
name: Montemayor, Sara I.
name: Dellapé, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Zelurus
Zelurus stillatipennis

description: Zelurus stillatipennis (Stål, 1859) (Fig. 14) Distribution. Argentina: Misiones: Puerto Iguazú; Brazil (Lent and Wygodzinsky 1947 a, 1951). Material examined. 1♂, 1 without abdomen, Iguazú, XI-1944, M. Birabén coll., PNI0107-8 (MLP).
description: Published as part of María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, pp. 479-511 in Check List 13 (5) on page 485, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.479, http://zenodo.org/record/1143518
description: {"references": ["Stal C (1859) Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Fregatten Eugenies Resa. Arkiv for Zoologi. Utgifvet af Konglinga Svenska Vetens- kaps-Akademien Stockholm. 4: 219 - 298.", "Lent H, Wygodzinsky P (1947 a) Sobre algumas especies de Zelurus Hahn (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 7 (1): 25 - 55."]}
Using artificial neural network to predict the particle characteristics of an atmospheric plasma spray process
Creators: name: Choudhury, T. A.
name: Hosseinzadeh, N.
name: Berndt, Christopher
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Thermal Spray is a general term for a group of coating processes used for metallic or non-metallic coatings to protect a functional surface or improve its performance. There are several processing parameters defining the coating quality and they must be combined and planned in an optimised way in order to have the selected coating exhibit the desired properties. To have the proper combination is critical as it influences both the cost and coating characteristics. The plasma spray process combines the highest number of processing parameters and to have full control over the system, one of the major challenges is to understand the parameters interdependencies, correlations and their individual effects on coating properties and characteristics. A robust methodology is thus required to study these interrelated effects. This paper proposes a new approach based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to play this role. The obtained database of the input processing parameters and the output particle characteristics is used to train, validate and optimise the neural network. The optimisation steps are discussed and the predicted outputs are compared with the experimental ones.
Census nightmares: the more we know, the less we trust it?
Creators: name: Carter, Meg
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 2006 elevated levels of non-response to the census were recorded in affluent, innerurban areas characterised by high levels of socioeconomic status. This finding challenged the view, supported over decades by studies in Australia and elsewhere, that people of higher socio-economic status are more likely than others to participate in civic activities such as the census. Measures of socio-economic status rely heavily on indices of education and occupation, which may be taken as proxy measures for being 'well-informed'. The pattern identified in the 2006 census raises what would be for the Australian Bureau of Statistics the unwelcome possibility that the more we know about the census, the less likely we are to complete it. This paper reports on a qualitative study concerned with investigating reasons for non-response to the census. It begins by defining some key concepts and outlining a model for thinking about non-participation in the census, then discusses some ideas about non-participation as it relates to questions of trust. The paper concludes by setting out what remains to be done to investigate the possibility that, regarding the census, 'the more we know, the less we trust it'.
Linearizing a Ricatti's equation.
Creators: name: Sherif, Abbas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Applied Physics
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering

description: An attempt at finding subclasses of the Ricatti's equation solvable via the Sundman Transformation.
Prediction of Soil Water Characteristic Curve Based on Gsd and Pi for Red Clay and Expansive Soils Found In Addis Ababa
Creators: name: smail, Nuru I
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: Many researchers have done researches on unsaturated soil mechanics worldwide to bring the unsaturated soil mechanics in to practices. Among those researches some of them focused on simplifying the complex and expensive testing mechanism by developing models which can be used to predict the unsaturated soil parameters from basic soil prosperities such as Grain Size Distribution (GSD) and Plasticity Index (PI) along with the saturated shear strength parameters. Soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) was proved to have good relationship with the unsaturated soil parameters. In this study an attempt was made to check whether those developed models would work for expansive and red clay soils found in Addis Ababa. Using the model developed by Fredlund and Xing (1994) along with the correlation equation given by Perera et.al (2005), family of SWCC for soils found in Addis Ababa has been plotted. It was observed that the family of SWCC plotted was out of the widely referenced family of curves developed by Zapata et.al (2000) to some extent. Even though the family of curves seems to be out of the range provided by Zapata et.al (2000), the model gave good prediction for the unsaturated shear strength parameter Φb. The percentage error between the measured values of unsaturated shear strength parameter Φb in previous researches of Habtom (2010) and Getaneh (2010) with predicted unsaturated shear strength parameter Φb in this study was compared. For red clay samples the percentage error lie in the range 2.07 to 6.37% for suction ranges of 36.67 to 52.9 kPa and at lower suctions of 16.75 and 21.5 kPa the percentage error ranges from 11.42 to 25.39% . For expansive soil samples for suction of 23.1 and 32.9 kPa, the percentage error is in the range from 3.86 to 6.13%. For suction values of 14.5 and 52 kPa the range of error is about 9.45 to 13.40% and for suctions of 38.8 and 48.6 kPa the error lies between 18.94 and 38.84%.
Analiza finansowa ekonomicznej kondycji na przykładzie polskich instytucji. M.Drabent, K.Kuropka, B.Namiel, M.Stepaniuk
Creators: name: Namiel, Beata
name: Stepaniuk, Marta
name: Kuropka, Karolina
name: Drabent, Marta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Celem niniejszej pracy jest analiza i ocena kondycji ekonomicznej trzech zupełnie różnych wybranych instytucji. Pierwszą badaną jednostką jest organizacja non-profit, kolejną instytucja finansowa, a ostatnią instytucja prowadząca działalność gospodarczą. Do oceny ogólnej sytuacji finansowej wykorzystuje się wskaźnik kondycji finansowej(φ), opracowany przez Johna Zietlowa, zaprezentowany w 2012r. w pracy „A Financial Health Index for Achieving Nonprofit Financial Sustainability”. W skład FHI wchodzą wskaźniki płynności, wypłacalności oraz elastyczności finansowej, a obliczany jest jako wypadkowa wyników cząstkowych podzielonych ze względu na horyzont czasowy: perspektywa ogólna (0-36 miesięcy), natychmiastowa (0-3miesiące), krótkoterminowa (3-12miesięcy) oraz średnioterminowa (12-36miesięcy). Uzyskane wyniki obrazują tendencje instytucji w danym okresie czasu.
Environmental perspectives, practices and performance in small firms
Creators: name: Raar, Jean
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The importance of the need to gain insights into the inclusion of environmental issues into the normal business activities has been well documented in the academic and professional literature. Using stakeholder theory, the purpose of this study was to survey the SMEs in Australia. Its purpose was to determine the SME awareness of, and their motivation for expenditure on environmental issues. In addition the study sought to ascertain the inclusion by SMEs of environmental issues in their internal information system. The results suggest that the SME sector is incorporating environmental issues into their normal business activities, although it appears that perceptions and activities may not be consistent across all SME respondents.
Solving a Ricatti's equation without a Prior solution
Creators: name: Sherif, Abbas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Applied Physics
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering

description: Using the Sundman Transformation to linearize and solve (a transformed) second-order Ricatti's equation.
Integration of Electronics and Photonics on Monolithic Silicon to Improve the Performance of Conventional Electronic Devices
Creators: name: Hagos, Gebreyesus
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Conventional electronics have shown dramatic improvement in dimensions and performances over the last four decades and plays a great role in computing, storing, transmitting and retrieving data in all electronic devices. However, chip-to-chip and on-chip interconnect which have affected by a parasitic load became the real performance bottleneck due to its extremely reduced cross section dimension along with moore's law. Now, there are metal (copper) interconnections and dielectric materials in IC fabrications that faces great challenges for the future in the electronics, imposing problems of interconnect that the performance and functionality of conventional electronic devices are leading their physical limit in speed, bandwidth, power consumption (heating) and electromagnetic interference. In contrary, photonic devices have advantages like large bandwidth, lower power consumption (low heating) and immune to electromagnetic interference. So an integrated electro-photonic interconnect have seen an alternate solution for the future technology nodes due to their special physical characteristics. Therefore in order to overcome these electronic limitations ha ve been faced, an integrated electronics and photonics on monolithic silicon substrate has been proposed as a potential solution by merging the advantage of both technologies, electronics for data processing and storing while photonics for both on-chip and off-chip interconnection to obtain a future supper computing device. To study the integration of electronics and photonics on monolithic silicon substrate to improving the performance of conventional electronic devices, two experimental set up were prepared on laboratory at device level. The first experimental set up was integrated electronic and photonic interconnect. Its components were connected with waveguide or glass rod and represented by electrophotonic interconnect. The second experimental set up was conventional electronic circuit. Its components were connected by copper wire (Cu). Both experiments had similar three different lengths (30, 10, and 5) cm of Cu wire and waveguide at  of 1mm and 1cm respectively for both voltage and current output measurements from the system. And both experiments had again similar three different  (13, 9, and 6) mm of Cu wires and (1, 0.5, and 0.2) mm of waveguides at equal length of 25cm for delay and powe r measurements in the system at different clock frequencies (50, 75 and diameters 100) kHz. Comparisons were made and based on the result found electrophotonic interconnect performed better than that of the Cu interconnect in terms of delay and power. Therefore, delay and power dissipation on Cu interconnect was higher than electrophotonic interconnect by 62.8% and 60% respectively.
Isolated early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Forbes, Duncan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Isolated early-type galaxies are very rare, yet offer important leverage in terms of testing galaxy formation models free of environmental processes. They also act as a valuable control sample. Here I briefly summarise past samples of isolated early-type galaxies and a new well-defined sample. The morphology, stellar populations and scaling relations of these galaxies are compared to their high density counterparts.
Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake 1915
Creators: name: Melo, María C.
name: Gimena Dellapé
name: Leonela Olivera
name: Varela, Pablo S.
name: Montemayor, Sara I.
name: Dellapé, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Saica
Saica apicalis

description: Saica apicalis Osborn & Drake, 1915 (Fig. 15) Distribution. Argentina: Corrientes; Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guatemala and Panama (Gil-Santana 2008). Material examined. 1♀, Misiones, P.N. Iguazú, X-1980, PNI0110 (MACN). Remarks. First record for Misiones province. This species can be distinguished by the general red coloration of the body and the hemelytra with three completely closed discal cells (McAtee and Malloch 1923). The specimen we examine fits with the specific diagnosis given by McAtee and Malloch (1923) where the posterior pronotal spines are short and acute.
description: Published as part of María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, pp. 479-511 in Check List 13 (5) on page 485, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.479, http://zenodo.org/record/1143518
description: {"references": ["Osborn H, Drake CJ (1915) Records of Guatemalan Hemiptera - Het- eroptera with description of new species. Ohio Naturalist 15: 529 - 541.", "Gil-Santana HR (2008) New records, and nomenclatural and biological notes on Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Bolivia and Brazil. Zootaxa 1785: 43 - 53.", "McAtee WL, Malloch JR (1923) Notes on American Bactrodinae and Saicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 16 (3): 247 - 254."]}
No. 8 Wire: a New Zealand lifestyle or growth model: a case study of Auckland technology companies
Creators: name: McDonald, Ian
name: Knoche, Martin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: NZ Statistics figures indicate the technology companies in New Zealand's main business center Auckland are mainly in the 6-9 FTE bracket and rarely grow beyond this 'magical lifestyle entrepreneur' threshold. New Zealand's technology entrepreneurs rank highly on the GEM scale of generating niche ideas. The same entrepreneurs seem to be suffering the New Zealand disease or are life style entrepreneurs. Our hypothesis is that Auckland technology companies have multiple inhibitors to growth. An investigation of the contribution of each of these growth inhibitors is subject of this paper. We will compare the results of our studies of Auckland companies with experiences based on running the Connect Programme in Edingburgh, Scotland, for over eight years.
Making your data FAIR
Creators: name: Hettne, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FAIR

description: Invited lecture on making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) at the May 8th, 2020 online course "Data management for Archaeologists" given by ARCHON research school of archaeology (https://www.archonline.nl/digital-archaeology-working-group/data-management-for-archaeologists/).
title: Raubkunst im Humboldt Forum!- Down the Rabbit Hole of Intertemporality: Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen 11
Creators: name: Martin, Edward
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Das Humboldt-Forum befindet sich im wiederaufgebauten Berliner Stadtschloss, und wird in diesem Jahr sukzessive eröffnen. Beherbergen soll das Museum u.a. die Sammlungen des ethnologischen Museums und des Museums für Asiatische Kunst. Große Teile der Sammlungen dieser Museen, aber auch vieler anderer europäischer Museen wurden unter kolonialen, oft gewaltsamen, Bedingungen zusammengetragen, wobei sich die Museen die kolonialen Strukturen zu Nutze gemacht haben. Was damals vermeintlich legal und üblich war, begegnet heute völkerrechtlichen Bedenken. Sollten die Artefakte außereuropäischer Kulturen an diese zurückgegeben werden und kann man die koloniale Praxis überhaupt an heutigen Rechtsmaßstäben messen? Dr. Edward Martin liefert auf diese Fragen eine Antwort. Sein Buch zum Thema ist vor wenigen Wochen erschienen: https://www.duncker-humblot.de/buch/the-application-of-the-doctrine-of-intertemporality-in-contentious-proceedings-9783428181865/?page_id=0&typ=buc. Im Rahmen der Völkerrechtlichen Tagesthemen wird Dr. Martin seine Forschungsergebnisse erstmals der Öffentlichkeit vorstellen und sich interessierten Fragen stellen.
description: Völkerrechtsblog
'Multinational corporations'; (MNCs): motivations to invest in the Vietnamese services industry
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thi Lan Anh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research presented in this thesis examined the significant factors that have motivated Multinational Corporations to invest in the Vietnamese services industry. The study used a quantitative research strategy and the findings showed that market-seeking, government policies and the culture dimension are key factors influencing Multinational Corporations to invest in the Vietnamese services industry with infrastructure and trade agreements also key factors in attrating Foreign Direct Investment. This study provides new knowledge to improve policies that attract more Foreign Direct Investment into Vietnam and given the increasing volume of this Investment into developing countries, the findings have important implications for the global economy generally.
title: Fünf Fragen an Stephan Marquardt
Creators: name: Kettemann, Matthias C.
name: Kleinert, Lukas
name: Marquardt, Stephan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Framing of climate change impacts and use of accounting techniques in emissions management
Creators: name: Kumarasiri, Jayanthi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study examines how large Australian companies perceive climate change issues and use accounting techniques in mitigating risk associated with carbon emissions. Interviews with managers involved directly in carbon emissions management revealed a positive association between their perceptions of risks and opportunities arising from climate change issues and use of accounting practices by their companies. It was evident that financial pressure exerted through Australia’s carbon tax had a direct influence on companies’ climate change actions. The study provides insights into how perceptions of climate change issues and external pressures influence companies to use accounting techniques in managing climate change risk.
Utilizing case-based reasoning and multimedia to enhance clinical decision making of novice practitioners: product implementation and evaluation
Creators: name: Oliver, Mary
name: Naidu, Som
name: Koronios, Andy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes the outcomes of a self-paced multimedia learning environment designed to enhance critical thinking skills in clinical decision making of graduate nurses entering the workforce. The multimedia-learning environment represents a contrived situation that simulates the complexities of life in a typical hospital ward, which places the users in the role of problem-solvers. Problem solving in the simulation is based on a rich repository of cases and stories that have been extracted from the experiences of expert practitioners. This case-based reasoning architecture reflects a model of learning where users are coached in the development of decisionmaking skills within the context of a contrived but an authentic presenting problem. Users engage in critical thinking and decision making after accessing the experiences and expert stories of practitioners, which are presented in the form of audio/video clips on the CD-ROM. The formative evaluation of the learning environment, with embedded activities involved structured and open ended question types with individual and small groups of practicing nurses and subject matter experts. A semi-structured questionnaire was employed to ascertain user perceptions and this enabled us to evaluate the utility and the efficacy of the product from the perspective of graduates. The results show a very high user acceptance of this learning environment and the approach to learning.
Ctenotrachelus macilentus Stal 1872
Creators: name: Melo, María C.
name: Gimena Dellapé
name: Leonela Olivera
name: Varela, Pablo S.
name: Montemayor, Sara I.
name: Dellapé, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Ctenotrachelus
Ctenotrachelus macilentus

description: Ctenotrachelus macilentus Stål, 1872 (Fig. 16) Distribution. Brazil (Barber 1930). Material examined. 1♂, 25°40ʹ40.8ʺ S, 0 54°26ʹ55.9ʺ W, 2-XI-2012, light trap, PNI0111 (MLP). Remarks. New country record. This species can be distinguished by the unarmed lateral margins of the pronotum; pronotum twice longer than head, and over twice as long as wide; the post-ocular region twice as long as the pre-ocular margin of head (Barber 1930).
description: Published as part of María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, pp. 479-511 in Check List 13 (5) on page 486, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.479, http://zenodo.org/record/1143518
description: {"references": ["Barber HG (1930) Essay on the subfamily Stenopodinae of the New World. Entomologica Americana 10 (3 - 4): 149 - 283."]}
Performance Evaluation of Stormwater Drainage System: The Case of Hawassa City
Creators: name: Ydnekachew, Adane
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The main objective of this study was to investigate the existing Hawassa city stormwater drainage problems with respect to its hydraulic performance. The methodological approaches employed in this study include; the identification of the existing stormwater drainage network flow direction, and delineation of contributing areas. Field surveying work was conducted to inspect the existing drainage condition and to measure channel geometric dimensions. In order to develop the Intensity Duration Frequency curve (IDF) the rainfall intensities for different duration were analyzed for a period of 1985-2016. Probability distribution functions were analyzed and identified using Microsoft Excel. The analysis from the frequency distribution indicate that General Extreme Value Type I (GEV-I) distribution was fitted well reasonably for the rainfall intensities. Rainfall quantiles for a duration of 24hr with a magnitude of 52.75, 68.67, 79.20, 92.51, 102.4 and 112.2 mm/hr was predicted for a return period of 2,5,10,25, 50 and 100 years respectively. Based on the flow direction of the study area the existing drainage channel capacity were checked by using flow master software. Established on settlement of the city about 66, sub-catchments were delineated in the existing system and by using the intensity estimation (T=10 years) the hydrological peak flow determined by using Bentley CivilStorm software. The rational formula is used to compute the peak flood estimation for (T= 10). The result from model compared with existing hydraulic capacity of the channels and it shows that at Wanza square stormwater drainage were not sufficient to carry the expected runoff during rainfall events. In general, the flood problems identified at Wanza square and Wanza square to Old bus station were mainly due to in adequacy of the drainage channel capacity and further substantiated by the waste disposal from different sources into the drainage channels. To resolve these problems BMP's have been recommended. Finally, the analysis from this study permits future work on stormwater drainage design should strictly follow the standards of hydrologic and hydraulic design and social and environmental considerations.
Using WebCT with an off-campus diagnostic ultrasound course
Creators: name: Wells, Peter
name: Weaver, Debbi
name: Combs, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, offers a Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound by off-campus distance learning (DL). These DL students are required to study under significantly different circumstances than on-campus students. They miss the social and educational advantages of mixing with both their fellow students and their lecturers and tutors. In an attempt to compensate for this lack of personal interaction the academic staff involved in conducting DL courses need to find ways to encourage other forms of effective and efficient communication. In this paper we will describe the manner in which communication with these DL students is maintained, specifically in one subject in this Graduate Diploma, SON4000: Physics of Medical Ultrasound and Instrumentation. A decision was made early in 2003 to use WebCT to enhance lecturer-student and studentstudent communication and provide additional support to the students. We briefly describe the particular WebCT tools that we have specifically chosen to support SON4000. We discuss the initial cost to staff in setting WebCT up for a subject like SON4000, the perceived long term benefits to the teaching staff, and most importantly, the reactions and responses of the students in accessing the WebCT site and contributing to the various communication options. A summary of the WebCT student-tracking data and the use of the mid-semester evaluation survey is presented.
CONCEPT, FUNCTIONS AND TYPES OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Creators: name: Abdullayev, Tursunboy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article discusses the concept, functions and types of social institutions. The purpose of this work is the study and general characteristics of social institutions. Society is formed from a system of social institutions and is a complex set of economic, political, legal, spiritual relations that ensure its integrity as a social system.
Heart rate variability is associated with emotion recognition: Direct evidence for a relationship between the autonomic nervous system and social cognition
Creators: name: Quintana, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: It is well established that heart rate variability (HRV) plays an important role in social communication. Polyvagal theory suggests that HRV may provide a sensitive marker of one's ability to respond and recognize social cues. The aim of the present study was to directly test this hypothesis. Resting-state HRV was collected and performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test was assessed in 65 volunteers. HRV was positively associated with performance on this emotion recognition task confirming our hypothesis and these findings were retained after controlling for a variety of confounding variables known to influence HRV — sex, BMI, smoking habits, physical activity levels, depression, anxiety, and stress. Our data suggests that increased HRV may provide a novel marker of one's ability to recognize emotions in humans. Implications for under- standing the biological basis of emotion recognition, and social impairment in humans are discussed.
Ganthobleda toba Giacchi 1970
Creators: name: Melo, María C.
name: Gimena Dellapé
name: Leonela Olivera
name: Varela, Pablo S.
name: Montemayor, Sara I.
name: Dellapé, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Ganthobleda
Ganthobleda toba

description: Ganthobleda toba Giacchi, 1970 Distribution. Argentina: Buenos Aires, Chaco, Entre Ríos, Mendoza, Misiones, Santa Fe, and Tucumán; Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Giacchi 1977). Material examined. 1♀, P.N. Iguazú, XII-1979, Carpintero coll., PNI0112 (MACN).
description: Published as part of María C. Melo, Gimena Dellapé, Leonela Olivera, Pablo S. Varela, Sara I. Montemayor & Pablo M. Dellapé, 2017, Diversity of true bugs from Iguazú National Park, Argentina, pp. 479-511 in Check List 13 (5) on page 486, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.479, http://zenodo.org/record/1143518
description: {"references": ["Giacchi JC (1970) Notas y descripciones sobre Stenopodainos de la Argentina. I. Gnathobleda toba sp. nov. (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). Physis 30 (80): 125 - 129.", "Giacchi JC (1977) Revision de los Stenopodainos americanos. IV. El genero Gnathobleda Stal, 1859 (Heteroptera - Reduviidae). Physis 37 (93): 261 - 274."]}
What matters to Australian entrepreneurship scholars? An exploratory survey of recent publications
Creators: name: Lindsay, Noel J.
name: Hindle, Kevin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This exploratory research examines the presentations by Australian scholars of papers at the 2001 and 2002 Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conferences and the publications by Australian scholars during 2001 and 2002 in the Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. The purpose of this was to provide insights into contemporary Australian entrepreneurship research. It is argued that there is a need for greater communication and collaboration among Australian entrepreneurship scholars to facilitate greater quality research output. The establishment of an Australian Entrepreneurship Research Network/Forum is mooted as one way of achieving this.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: September 2019 Impeachment
Creators: name: National Public Radio
name: PBS NewsHour
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: President Donald Trump job approval (1); Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi job approval (1); Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell job approval (1); impeachment inquiry into President Trump (4); seriousness of Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (1); impeachment inquiry a factor in your 2020 vote (2); worth it for House Democrats to vote to impeach Trump if Senate Republicans will not vote to convict (1).
Financial analysis of economic health – Polish entities case
Creators: name: Gutan, Paulina
name: Cichy, Katarzyna
name: Bosak, Ewelina
name: Borzemska, Agnieszka
name: Majewska, Celina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: The subject of the thesis concerns the use of the financial condition of the PHI ratio presented in the work of John Zietlow’a the example of three different institutions in the years 2010-2012. The work results refer to the components of measurement PHI and their interpretation, and ultimately lead to the calculation and comment on the entire index. As is clear from the work G. Świderska and W. Więcław, financial statements are the main source of information about the financial situation of enterprises, and therefore on the basis of their analysis will be presented the financial condition of the units.
Penetration depth of single-, two-, and three-photon fluorescence microscopic imaging through human cortex structures: Monte Carlo simulation
Creators: name: Deng, Xiaoyuan
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Penetration depth is investigated in terms of the performance of transverse image resolution and signal level in human cortex under single-, two-, and three-photon fluorescence microscopy. Simulation results show that, in a double-layer human cortex structure consisting of gray and white matter media, the signal level is strongly affected by the existence of the white matter medium under three-photon excitation. Compared with three-photon excitation, two-photon excitation keeps a better signal level and sacrifices a slight degradation in image resolution. In a thick gray matter medium, a penetration depth of 1500μ m with a near-diffraction-limited resolution is obtainable under three-photon excitation. It is also demonstrated that the numerical aperture has a slight influence on image resolution and signal level under two- and three-photon excitation because of the nonlinear nature in the excitation process. © 2003 Optical Society of America.