cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aggregation Over Firms and Flexible Functional Forms
Creators: name: Kim, H. Youn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents a generalized class of cost functions suitable for aggregation of firms and considers various flexible functional forms to assess whether they possess desirable aggregation properties. This set of cost functions includes two output functions and subsumes linear and nonlinear cost functions employed in existing analyses. While the quadratic and the generalized Leontief and McFadden cost functions satisfy the generalized aggregation condition, the translog cost function and its variants are less capable of possessing desirable aggregation properties. A modified quasi-homothetic translog form is presented that is useful for aggregate analysis. Possible extensions of the generalized aggregation rule are discussed.
専門情報機関におけるSNS利用 : 論文の共有を中心に
Creators: name: Hayashi, Takanori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: 本稿では，論文の共有を中心にSNS の活用と効果測定について紹介した
Determinants of B2B E-commerce Implementation and Performance: a Causal Model from Australian Empirical Evidence
Creators: name: Power, Damien
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Much of the literature proposes an extensive set of benefits for organizations that choose to implement a range of B2B e-commerce technologies. Another parallel theme that emerges is that implementation has been limited for many of the established technologies and practices such as EDI. This paper seeks to address the question of what some of the determinants of implementation of these technologies could be, and how these relate to the issue of business performance. A causal model has been developed based on data from 335 Australian companies that have been involved in the use of B2B enabling technologies for the management of their supply chains. The results provide some interesting insights, particularly in clarifying the nature of the relationship between extent of implementation and performance. In the case of the former, extent of implementation has no significant direct effect on performance, although they are highly correlated. The nature of the relationship is shown to result from their shared dependence on other organizational factors such as capability, process for formulation of strategic logic and knowledge of technological options and potential.
A Matter of Size: Does Organisational Culture Predict Job Satisfaction in Small Organisations?
Creators: name: Gray, Judy H.
name: Densten, Iain L.
name: Sarros, James C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines executive perceptions of organisational culture and job satisfaction in small organisations (<100 employees, N=655). Despite extensive research on corporate culture, very little empirical research has examined the culture of small organizations. An updated version of the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP, O'Reilly, Chatman and Caldwell, 1991) and a single measure of job satisfaction were used in an Australia-wide survey. (N=1918). The results of hierarchical regression analysis indicate that innovation, stability, and emphasis on rewards predict job satisfaction in small organizations. Suggestions for future research are discussed.
Sustainable human resource management: a new perspective for organisations
Creators: name: Mariappanadar, Sugumar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Retrenchment and downsizing has not been an effective cost efficient strategy. On the contrary many organisations have lost their valuable HR asset and the community and government is left with handling the aftermath of retrenchment and downsizing. Decline in the rate of population growth in many developed countries poses a major HR supply threat to organisations. But organisations HR waste their HR by construing that HR supply is readily available in the community because it is the gift of Mother Nature. Using Sustainable Human Resource Management (Sustainable HRM) framework, this study attempts to explain HR as a scarce resource and how retrenchment cause damages to the social and emotional web of the community and depletes the HR supply. Sustainable H RM is defined as "the management of HR to meet the needs of the company and community of the present without compromising the ability to meet the needs of the future". Sustainable HRM is a theoretical framework, which highlights the direct and indirect effects of downsizing or retrenchment on the community, government and eventually the organisation too. Sustainable HRM explores the benefit of HR conservation in understanding HR asset and how this can be used in the retrenchment and downsizing strategies.
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS`S PERCEPTION ON TELE-MEDICINE/TELE-HEALTH USAGE IN THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA
Creators: name: Shittu, Lukeman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 100510 Wireless Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Concern has been expressed for the past few years now, about the impact of globalization and telecommunication on the economic growth of any nation especially in the developing worlds with limited or no resources available for its implementation. However, tele-medicine and tele-health are newer emerging concepts in the healthcare delivery system in this part of the world. Hence, we aim to determine the perception of the professional health care providers at all levels of health care institutions towards tele health/ telemedicine in Lagos, South-west Nigeria.
A prospective postal survey of a cross section of professional health care providers in Lagos, Nigeria was conducted using a modified highly structured questionnaires administered to health workers (doctors, nurses, medical laboratory scientists, health records) in the secondary and teaching hospital (LASUTH/ LASUCOM), and community heath workers, medical doctors and nurses at the local government areas. The result showed that 74% of the health workers agreed that telemedicine was beneficial in the health care delivery in Nigeria. While, some concern of its ethical consideration was expressed by 58.7% of health workers. However, 40.5% of respondents had never heard of telemedicine/tele-health as a means of improving health care delivery. Moreover, the main sources of information on this subject came from media (12%) and 13.5% got awareness through internet and professional partner. 74.3% of the health workers indicated their willingness to adopt Tele medicine in health care delivery if available and when giving appropriate training on its usage. In addition, twenty-two (22%) of respondents stated that Tele medicine should be adopted in our healthcare system for reasons of affordable and accessible health care, while 15% had agreed to its adoption for improving quality healthcare services offered to all patients in Nigeria.
Moreover, telephone uses appear to be a major significant telemedicine tool available. Thus, it is highly desirable to give tele medicine a chance in the healthcare delivery system in order to breach for the present deficiency in the system.
Pregnancy outcome following swim up preparation of both fresh and cryopreserved spermatozoa
Creators: name: Shittu, Lukeman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111404 Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: This study was designed to assess the impact of swim up preparation of both fresh and cryopreserved sperm on the pregnancy outcome in a private fertility centre in Lagos. A cross-sectional prospective analysis of 34 asthenozoospermic semen samples of men whose wives were undergoing assisted reproduction was studied. The basic semen parameters comprising of the volume, count, and motility of the sperm before and after swim up preparations with pregnancy outcome were measured. For fresh semen (n = 28, mean age = 37.0 ± 1.1 years, mean volume = 2.16 ± 0.1 ml), the sperm count decreased significantly (p<0.01) from the pre swim up value of 55.4 ± 3.10 to 44.6 ± 3.20 x 106/ml post swim up. While, the motility increased significantly (p<0.01) from 39.6 ± 3.84 to 58.5 ± 4.29%. The percentage pregnancy outcome in the fresh semen was 66%. For the cryopreserved semen (n = 6, mean age = 41.0 ± 5.4 years, mean volume = 1.8 ± 0.1 ml), the sperm count decreased significantly (p<0.01) from pre swim up value of 35.6 ± 3.03 to 33.3 ± 4.33 x 106/ml post swim up, while the motility increased significantly (p<0.01) from 25.1 ± 4.01 to 32.8 ± 6.18%. The pregnancy outcome of cryopreserved was 30%. The pregnancy outcome was higher with fresh than the cryopreserved semen. However, the motility was a significant indicator for the successful outcome. Swim up procedure improve the motility of both cryopreserved and fresh semen with a better pregnancy outcome in this study.
Decentralized Navigation of Quadrotor Teams in Uncertain Workspaces
Creators: name: Desai, Arjav Ashesh
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A fundamental requirement for realizing scalable and responsive real-world multirobot systems for time-sensitive critical applications such as search and rescue or building clearance is a motion-planning and coordination framework that exhibits three essential properties. The first property is safety that encompasses aspects relating to kinodynamic feasibility and collision-avoidance. The second propertyis reliability that relates to the successful handling of multi-robot motion planning queries in a wide variety of uncertain three-dimensional workspaces with varying topologies and spatiotemporal characteristics, varying team sizes, and inter-robot communication constraints. Finally, the third property is decentralized operation that seeks to leverage onboard planning and inter-robot communication in order to safely navigate the robots towards their respective goals. This thesis aims to develop such a safe, reliable, and decentralized motion-planning and coordinationframework in order to enable navigation of multi-robot teams in uncertain 3D workspaces. To this end, in the first part of the thesis, we first introduce a planning representationand a centralized decoupled search algorithm for kinodynamic multi-robot motion planning in known and static two-dimensional workspaces. The representation, by virtue of invariance, allows for offline preprocessing and abstraction of kinodynamic feasibility evaluations and collision-checking into fast lookup operations thus enabling online planning for large teams of robots. We then extendthe planning framework to known and static three-dimensional workspaces and incorporate optimizations that exploit the invariant nature of the planning representationto improve scalability. In the second part of the thesis, we relax the static workspace assumption and introduce stochastic dynamic obstacles into the problem formulation. To handle the presence of these dynamic obstacles, we propose an efficient collision-avoidance methodology, extend the planning framework to a decentralized formulation and, via simulation, show safe operation in various dynamic workspaces. We then address the primary limitations of myopic decentralized planning methods, i.e.,increased likelihood of deadlocks with an increase in the density of robots or workspace clutter, by proposing a hierarchical local planner composed of deliberativeand reactive components. The advantages of the proposed hierarchical local planner over state-of-the-art decentralized frameworks are shown via various simulation studies. Finally, we demonstrate that the proposed algorithms inthis thesis enables efficient multi-robot navigation in cluttered and dynamic 3D workspaces, exhibiting needed planning capabilities to enable multi-robot deploymentsfor complex applications such as search and rescue and building clearance.
A comparative study of curve-fitting algorithms used for radiation detection efficiencies
Creators: name: E.-M. Lykiardopoulou
name: A. Khaliel
name: Mertzimekis, Theo J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 20202 Nuclear Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A poster presented at HNPS2017 (9-10.06.2017)
Additional file 1 of Defining a patient-centered approach to cancer survivorship care: development of the patient centered survivorship care index (PC-SCI)
Creators: name: Mead, K. Holly
name: Wang, Yan
name: Cleary, Sean
name: Arem, Hannah
name: Pratt-Chapman, Mandi L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Evolution Acceptance Survey
Creators: name: Dunk, Ryan
name: Campbelb@Uwm.Edu
name: Ajpetto@Uwm.Edu
name: Wiles, Jason R
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The data set included is from a survey of Anatomy and Physiology students at a medium sized midwestern public university. The questions were set to explore their acceptance of evolution and related factors, and includes their responses to measures of their knowledge of evolution, understanding of the nature of science, acceptance of evolution (MATE), attitudes about evolution (EALS-SF), and the Big Five Inventory personality measure. This data was used in the publication "A Multifactorial Analysis of Acceptance of Evolution (DOI:10.1186/s12052-017-0068-0)" and was collected with institutional IRB approval.
In The Epic Land
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Archaeology
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: But one conclusion that we can safely draw at this point is : the kshatriya inhabited the entire Indo-Gangetic plain when the ārya (those who would eventually set themselves apart as brāmhaṇa) arrived there looking for fresher pastures and later driven by the drought in their homeland. What resulted was an unique cultural amalgam; of course, there was a second stage to that process : the fusion of the kshatriya-brāmhaṇa culture with the culture of the vaḍukar and the tāmiḷ - which produced the sanātana  heritage of contemporary India.
Show Me The Copyright!
Creators: name: Bowley, Chealsye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80706 Librarianship
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Teaching copyright law and fair use can be a challenge. The audience’s eyes might glaze over. Even if an audience is attentive, how do you know if the information is being understood? Using game techniques and role playing can give the presenter immediate feedback on if information is being retained, and allow an audience to immediately utilize the taught information.
Attitudes and Perceptions of the DI Preceptor Role by AZ Nutrition Professionals
Creators: name: Winham, Donna
name: Wooden, Alissa
name: Hutchins, Andrea
name: Morse, Lisa
name: Shepard, Christina
name: Mayol-Krieser, Sandra
name: Hampl, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Attitudes and perceptions on the role of preceptors in dietetic internships were assessed by anonline survey among 552 registered dietitians and other nutrition professionals. Significant differenceswere observed in the scores concerning the value of the preceptor role, institutionalsupport for precepting, and benefits of interns by preceptor experience categories. More nonpreceptorswanted input on selection and scheduling interns, preceptor training, and access to an“on-call” preceptor specialist than current or former preceptors. Continuing professional educationunits were more popular than financial compensation as an incentive for supervising interns.Addressing these concerns may encourage greater dietetic internship preceptor participation.
Learning 3D Registration and Reconstruction from the Visual World
Creators: name: Lin, Chen-Hsuan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Humans learn to develop strong senses for 3D geometry by looking around in the visual world. Through pure visual perception, not only can we recover a mental 3Drepresentation of what we are looking at, but meanwhile we can also recognize where we are looking at the scene from. Finding the 3D scene representation from RGB images (i.e. 3D reconstruction) and localizing the camera frames (i.e. registration) are two long-standing problems in computer vision. Simultaneously solving both tasks makes it an even more challenging chicken-and-egg problem — recovering the 3D structure requires observations with accurate camera poses, while localizing the cameras requires reliable correspondences from the reconstruction. In this thesis, we explore the problem of learning geometric alignment and dense 3D reconstruction from images and videos using self-supervised learning techniques. Toward this end, we discuss the general importance of factorizing geometric informationfrom visual data. First, we build up the theoretical foundations from learning-based planar registration for images. We show that incorporating geometric priors in learning models increases learning efficacy for alignment algorithms, and we demonstrate both discriminate and generative applications of image registration with modern deep neural networks. Second, we explore more complex 3D shape priors parametrized by neural networks, which we train from images without 3D supervision by utilizing differentiable rendering techniques. We develop methods for learning from multi-view depth observations and even single-view supervision from static RGB images. Finally, we investigate the challenging problem of joint optimization of3D registration and reconstruction. Given a video sequence, we demonstrate how one can exploit pretrained 3D shape priors to register and refine the shape reconstructionto the video sequences, as well as a more generic rendering prior for learning neural 3D scene representations from unknown camera poses. Images and videos contain very rich and detailed information about the 3D world. Baking in suitable geometric priors allows learning models to effectively recover both the dense 3D scene structures and the corresponding camera poses using image synthesis as the proxy objective. We believe this is an essential ingredient towards scalable learning of in-the-wild spatial 3D understanding for future AI systems.
Iraqi Muslim Immigrant Women’s access to Women-Only English Classes in Australia
Creators: name: HASSAN MAHDI ABDILAH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200303 English as a Second Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This qualitative case study examines the access of Iraqi Muslim Immigrant Women to the women-only English literacy programs in Australia. The research participants are eight Iraqi Muslim Immigrant Women who arrived in Melbourne, Victoria within the last five years. Data were collected in two stages, involving questionnaire and both individual and focus group interviews. Factors such as single-gender environment, the availability, proximity and access to support networks and flexibility of time were found to likely increase their access into the women-only English classes. Nevertheless, factors such as lack of information and limited provision of such classes were reported as obstacles
Identity practices of African female international students in Australia: Gender, race and education.
Creators: name: Kamuyu, Grace
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research examines ways in which African female students from Kenya studying in Australian universities construct their identity, and how their race and gender plays out in the way they are perceived in Australian universities and in the broader community. The findings of this research include that Kenyan female students studying in Australian universities have multiple, shifting and contextual identities. Their Kenyan socio-economic background, experiences of discrimination and negative representations of African women in Australia, and empowerment from their studies influence the ways in which they construct their identities.
Indium and the Future of Critical Metals in Australia
Creators: name: TIMOTHY TYSON WERNER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90702 Environmental Engineering Modelling
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Indium is a crucial metal for renewable energy technologies, although we haven’t known how much is left. This research develops a new method that allows the global resources of specialty metals like indium to be quantified. It shows that Australia hosts more resources of indium than any other country, however we don't currently produce it. The research also explores whether electronics could be recycled for specialty metals in future, showing that this is largely not viable. However, mine wastes are shown to contain large quantities of specialty metals which could still be recovered to meet future energy needs.
Building an analog polarity altenator for electromagnets
Creators: name: G. Zagoraios
name: Mertzimekis, Theo J.
name: E. Tsillis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 20202 Nuclear Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A poster presented at HNPS2017 (9-10.06.2017)
Luminosity Function of collapsar Gamma-Ray Bursts:the Progenitor of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Is Not Singular
Creators: name: Qu, Yan-Kun
name: Man, Zhong-Xiao
name: Yi, Shuang-Xi
name: Yang, Yu-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful probes of the high-redshift universe. However, the proportion of collapsar GRBs among long GRBs and their event rate relative to the star formation rate (SFR) remain contentious issues. We assume that long GRBs with $z\geq 2$ are all collapsar GRBs and construct the luminosity function using a high-redshift sample from the Swift satellite spanning 2004 to 2019. We model the luminosity function with a broken power-law form and consider three scenarios: no evolution, luminosity evolution, and density evolution. Our results are as follows: 1) The no-evolution model can be ruled out. 2) The fitting results indicate that to adequately explain the observations, a significant redshift evolution in either luminosity (evolution index $δ= 1.54^{+0.21}_{-0.22}$) or density ($δ= 2.09^{+0.29}_{-0.26}$) is required. This excludes the possibility that the evolution of long GRBs with redshift is due to contamination from non-collapsar GRBs. 3) The luminosity evolution model predicts that the number of collapsar GRBs with $z<2$ and $P \geq 1 \, \text{ph} \, \text{cm}^{-2} \, \text{s}^{-1}$ is 138.6, accounting for 82.5% of the observed long GRBs with $z<2$ and $P \geq 1 \, \text{ph} \, \text{cm}^{-2} \, \text{s}^{-1}$. The density evolution model predicts that the number of collapsar GRBs with $z<2$ and $P \geq 1 \, \text{ph} \, \text{cm}^{-2} \, \text{s}^{-1}$ is 80.2, accounting for 47.7% of the observation. Regardless of the model, a substantial portion of the long GRBs are not collapsar GRBs.
description: 11 pages,5 figures,publiced on The Astrophysical Journal
The Tomb of the Author in Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues
Creators: name: Csirmaz, Elod Pal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Literature
Poetry
Dramatic Monologue
Authorship

description: Even after the death of the Author, its remains, its tomb appears to mark a text it created. Various readings and my analyses of Robert Browning’s six dramatic monologues, My Last Duchess, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church, Andrea del Sarto, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” Caliban upon Setebos and Rabbi Ben Ezra, suggest that it is not only possible to trace Authorial presence in dramatic monologues, where the Author is generally supposed to be hidden behind a mask, but often it even appears to be inevitable to consider an Authorial entity. This, while problematizes traditional anti-authorial arguments, does not entail the dreaded consequences of introducing an Author, as various functions of the Author and various Author-related entities are considered in isolation. This way, the domain of metanarrative-like Authorial control can be limited and the Author is turned from a threat into a useful tool in analyses. My readings are done with the help of notions and suggestions derived from two frameworks I introduce in the course of the argument. They not only help in tracing and investigating the Author and related entities, like the Inscriber or the Speaker, but they also provide an alternative description of the genre of the dramatic monologue.
Degradation of organophosphorus flame retardant tri(chloro-propyl)phosphate (TCPP) by (001) crystal plane of TiO2 photocatalysts
Creators: name: He, Huan
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Cheng, Chen
name: Yang, Shaogui
name: Wang, Xiaomen
name: Liu, Qing
name: Wang, Yong
name: Wang, Zunyao
name: Zhang, Limin
name: Sun, Cheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper demonstrates the successful synthesis of TiO2 with (001) crystal plane; its morphology and structure were characterized using XRD, TEM and Raman spectrometer. The results showed that TiO2 nanosheets were bounded by (001) facets on both the top and bottom. TiO2-001/UV photocatalytic process was proved to be a powerful method for degrading tri(chloro-propyl) phosphate (TCPP) in aqueous solution. Under the given parameters, 95% of TCPP was removed in 360 min. The photodegradation followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic reaction. The reactive species during photocatalytic oxidation of TiO2-001 was mainly hydroxyl radical. TCPP was decomposed into small molecule organics by hydroxyl radicals, along with the release of PO43− and Cl−, and most of these intermediates were eventually degraded into carbon dioxide and water.
Degradation of Organophosphorus Flame Retardant Tri(chloro-propyl)phosphate (TCPP) by (001) Crystal Plane of TiO2 Photocatalysts
Creators: name: He, Huan
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Cheng, Chen
name: Yang, Shaogui
name: Wang, Xiaomen
name: Liu, Qing
name: Wang, Yong
name: Wang, Zunyao
name: Zhang, Limin
name: Sun, Cheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: This paper demonstrates the successful synthesis of TiO2 with (001) crystal plane; its morphology and structure were characterized using XRD, TEM and Raman spectrometer. The results showed that TiO2 nanosheets were bounded by (001) facets on both the top and bottom. TiO2-001/UV photocatalytic process was proved to be a powerful method for degrading tri(chloro-propyl) phosphate (TCPP) in aqueous solution. Under the given parameters, 95% of TCPP was removed in 360 min. The photodegradation followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic reaction. The reactive species during photocatalytic oxidation of TiO2-001 was mainly hydroxyl radical. TCPP was decomposed into small molecule organics by hydroxyl radicals, along with the release of PO43- and Cl-, and most of these intermediates were eventually degraded into carbon dioxide and water.
Supporting Professional Learning and Research in a Collaborative Inquiry: A Case Study of a Technology in Mathematics Classroom Assessment Focused Collaboration
Creators: name: Lazarus, Jill N.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Collaborative Inquiry
Mathematics Education
Distributed Leadership
Complexity Theory
Classroom Assessment
Educational Technologies

description: This thesis presents findings from a qualitative study of a collaborative inquiry into the use of technology in mathematics classroom assessment. The inquiry included five high school mathematics teachers, two instructional coaches, two technology coaches, and myself―a doctoral student researcher and part-time teacher. In this thesis I examine what was learned about using technology in assessment and how our learning was facilitated. This study was informed by the premise that our learning could be prompted by our interactions with one another and with different ideas for using technology in assessment (Davis & Simmt, 2003, 2006). For my study of our learning, I analyzed data that were collected from our face-to-face and online (synchronous and asynchronous) communications (e.g., meeting transcripts, my observation reflection notes), and from the materials that participants created and shared (e.g., sample assessment materials, participant-created meeting summaries). I use different lenses to examine this inquiry in three articles that are included in this thesis by articles. In the first article I focus on what was learned about using technology in assessment. This article shows that participants found that different tools could enrich formative assessment (as and for learning) by making it possible to improve the immediacy of feedback to teachers and students, to support student self-assessment, and to capture and share student thinking (e.g., video recordings of their solution strategies and/or their thinking about a problem, pictures of their work). Participants also found that technology could support summative assessment (assessment of learning) by changing the ways students can demonstrate their learning. In the second article I look at how our learning was supported. This article shows that teachers appreciated opportunities to share ideas and resources, and to hear what their colleagues were doing; that online communications helped to enable more frequent sharing between teachers at different schools; and that project leaders, particularly coaches who were in teacher support roles, supported professional learning and inquiry processes by sharing leadership responsibilities and by mediating technical demands on teachers. In the third article I examine my own experiences with navigating multimebership, as a teacher, project leader, and researcher in this collaborative inquiry. These findings show how I experienced internal tensions when it came to leading, learning, and conducting research in this inquiry with my colleagues.
Changing Times? Public Perceptions and Knowledge About Parole
Creators: name: Small, Taylor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Parole
Public Opinion
Public Perception
Public Knowledge

description: In Canada, parole has become increasingly difficult to obtain over the last several decades. This resistance is arguably rooted – at least partially – in a number of high-profile parole violations and changes to both the laws and practices governing parole that are almost certainly a reflection of wider fear of crime and the rise of the risk society. This increased difficulty in obtaining parole should be seen as a concern (rather than the correct or most appropriate response) given that parole is believed to be a major step in the successful reintegration of offenders into the community (Parole Board of Canada, 2016). Within this context, it is intriguing to note the very recent increase in the use of parole in Canada. However, there has been very little academic research conducted to explain or understand this new phenomenon. Given that actual policies and practices governing parole are often influenced by public opinion/attitudes (Roberts, Stalans, Indermaur, & Hough, 2003), one possible explanation may reside in the current knowledge/perceptions of parole held by Canadians. Unfortunately, despite earlier research (Roberts, 2004), our understanding of public attitudes regarding parole is still very limited. In particular, little is known about recent public knowledge of this correctional release procedure and perceptions regarding its use. Through the use of a survey questionnaire, this study presents an updated view of public perceptions and knowledge about parole. Further, it examines potential correlations between these two constructs. The results reveal little public knowledge of parole and generally ‘negative’ perceptions of it. Further, little evidence was found to support the notion that these current attitudes differ in any significant way from findings reported in earlier polls. In conclusion, the recent increase in the use of parole does not seem to be rooted in changes in Canadians’ knowledge or perceptions of it.
Szivárványív a jövőbe: érdekcsoport-, helyszín- és kormánybiztos-váltások a budapesti EXPO-történetben
Creators: name: Fleischer, Tamas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 140218 Urban and Regional Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Description from 1992 about the half-decade long history of the Budapest Expo (1995) preparation. (Later the whole idea has been abandoned.) In different periods of the story there appeared new slogans, lobby-groups, even-sites and government representatives to change the earlier ones. The description is supplemented by a detailed chronology of the period.
ANNEX 03.06.2017.docx
Creators: name: Tosun, Jale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 140301 Cross-Sectional Analysis
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This is the codebook for the publication "Party support for post-exceptionalism in agri-food politics and policy: Germany and the United Kingdom compared" in the Journal of European Public Policy (DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2017.1334083).

The codebook allows to replicate Table 2 ("Overview of the parties’ positions on actors, farmer interests and needs, and concerns from other policy areas") in the publication.

In order to replicate Table 1, one needs to extract the information from the dataset offered by the Manifesto Project. This information was only extracted by the author of the above paper, but not (re-)coded.
The critical role played by endotoxin-induced liver autophagy in the maintenance of lipid metabolism during sepsis
Creators: name: Chung, Ki Wung
name: Kim, Kyung Mok
name: Choi, Yeon Ja
name: An, Hye Jin
name: Bonggi Lee
name: Kim, Dae Hyun
name: Lee, Eun Kyeong
name: Eunok Im
name: Jaewon Lee
name: Im, Dong Soon
name: Yu, Byung Pal
name: Chung, Hae Young
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Macroautophagy/autophagy is a central mechanism by which cells maintain integrity and homeostasis, and endotoxin-induced autophagy plays important roles in innate immunity. Although TLR4 stimulation mediated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) also upregulates autophagy in hepatocytes and liver, its physiological role remains elusive. The objective of this study was to determine the role of LPS-induced autophagy in the regulation of liver lipid metabolism. LPS treatment (5 mg/kg) increased autophagy, as detected by LC3 conversion and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis in C57BL6 mouse livers. AC2F hepatocytes also showed increased autophagic flux after LPS treatment (1 μg/ml). To investigate the role of LPS-induced autophagy further, liver lipid metabolism changes in LPS-treated mice and fasted controls were compared. Interestingly, LPS-treated mice showed less lipid accumulation in liver than fasted mice despite increased fatty acid uptake and lipid synthesis-associated genes. In vitro analysis using AC2F hepatocytes demonstrated LPS-induced autophagy influenced the degradation of lipid droplets. Inhibition of LPS-induced autophagy using bafilomycin A1 or Atg7 knockdown significantly increased lipid accumulation in AC2F hepatocytes. In addition, pretreatment with chloroquine aggravated LPS-induced lipid accumulation and inflammation in C57BL6 mouse livers. The physiological importance of autophagy was verified in LPS-treated young and aged rats. Autophagic response was diminished in LPS-treated aged rats and lipid metabolism was impaired during sepsis, indicating autophagy response is important for regulating lipid metabolism after endotoxin challenge. Our findings demonstrate endotoxin-induced autophagy is important for the regulation of lipid metabolism, and suggest that autophagy helps maintain lipid metabolism homeostasis during sepsis.
Additional file 2 of HMGCR gene polymorphism is associated with residual cholesterol risk in premature triple-vessel disease patients treated with moderate-intensity statins
Creators: name: Li, Jiawen
name: Tang, Xiaofang
name: Xu, Jingjing
name: Liu, Ru
name: Jiang, Lin
name: Xu, Lianjun
name: Tian, Jian
name: Feng, Xinxing
name: Wu, Yajie
name: Zhang, Yin
name: Wang, Dong
name: Sun, Kai
name: Xu, Bo
name: Zhao, Wei
name: Hui, Rutai
name: Gao, Runlin
name: Song, Lei
name: Yuan, Jinqing
name: Zhao, Xueyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional File 2: Material
Tissue engineering strategies to improve osteogenesis in the juvenile swine alveolar cleft model
Creators: name: Caballero, Montserrat
name: Jones, Donna
name: Zhengyuan Shan
name: Solelmani, Sajjad
name: Aalst, John A. Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Stem Cells

description: Alveolar clefts are the most common congenital bone defect in humans, affecting 1 in 700 live births. Treatment for these defects relies on autologous bone transfer. The preferred source for autologous harvest of bone is the iliac crest marrow. This harvest requires a second surgical site, is limited in quantity, increases surgical time, and is associated with potential complications at the surgical site. Improvements in treatment protocols that avoid these limitations would be beneficial to patients with clefts and other craniofacial skeletal defects. There have been steady advances in tissue engineered solutions for long bone defects and adult patients, but advances for the pediatric craniofacial skeleton have been slower to emerge. This study utilizes a previously established juvenile swine model with a surgically created, critical size alveolar defect to test the efficacy of umbilical cord (UC) mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) treatments on nano-microfiber scaffolds. At one month after treatment, new bone formation was examined by computed tomography (CT), and histology, and subjected to mechanical testing. Both undifferentiated and pre-differentiated (toward an osteogenic lineage) UC MSC generated bone within the cleft on a scale comparable to iliac crest cancellous bone. CT scans demonstrated limited bridging bone within the defects. The treated pigs demonstrated limited evidence of growth restriction, with variation among pigs, and more pronounced asymmetric overgrowth of the contralateral untreated maxilla in a limited cohort of pigs.
Additional file 7 of Bioinformatic comparison of Kunitz protease inhibitors in Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto and E. multilocularis and the genes expressed in different developmental stages of E. granulosus s.s.
Creators: name: Zhang, Hui
name: Tian, Mengxiao
name: Qi, Wenjing
name: Wu, Juan
name: Zheng, Huajun
name: Guo, Gang
name: Zhang, Liang
name: Ranasinghe, Shiwanthi L.
name: McManus, Donald P.
name: Li, Jun
name: Zhang, Wenbao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S5. Phylogenetic analysisof E. granulosus s.s. , E. multilocularis and Fasciola hepatica Kunitz-type inhibitors.
Additional file 1 of Integrative multi-omics identifies high risk multiple myeloma subgroup associated with significant DNA loss and dysregulated DNA repair and cell cycle pathways
Creators: name: Ortiz-Estévez, María
name: Towfic, Fadi
name: Flynt, Erin
name: Stong, Nicholas
name: Jang, In Sock
name: Wang, Kai
name: Trotter, Matthew W. B.
name: Thakurta, Anjan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary document.
Additional file 9 of Bioinformatic comparison of Kunitz protease inhibitors in Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto and E. multilocularis and the genes expressed in different developmental stages of E. granulosus s.s.
Creators: name: Zhang, Hui
name: Tian, Mengxiao
name: Qi, Wenjing
name: Wu, Juan
name: Zheng, Huajun
name: Guo, Gang
name: Zhang, Liang
name: Ranasinghe, Shiwanthi L.
name: McManus, Donald P.
name: Li, Jun
name: Zhang, Wenbao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Table S3. The assembly accession numbers of the E.multilocularis, E. granulosus s.s., Fasciolahepatica and Schistosomamansoni KDPIs
Efficient single-photon directional transfer between waveguides via two giant atoms
Creators: name: Bao, Daqiang
name: Lin, Zhirong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the single-photon transport properties in a double-waveguide quantum electrodynamic system. We force the energy degeneracy of the collective states by adjusting the direct coupling strength between the two giant atoms. Our results indicate that resonant photons can be completely transferred between the two waveguides owing to the scattering interference of eigenstates, which also results in the directional propagation of resonant photons in the output waveguide. Perfect transfer occurs when the two scattering states degenerate in the energy and decay rates. We further propose a simple scheme to realize the efficient photon transfer with directional control. This study has potential applications in quantum networks and integrated photonic circuits.
description: 8 pages,5 figures
Eremophilane sesquiterpenes from the endophytic fungus Xylaria sp. GDG-102
Creators: name: Liang, Yan
name: Xu, Weifeng
name: Liu, Chengmei
name: Zhou, Dexiong
name: Liu, Xiaobo
name: Qin, Yuyue
name: Cao, Fei
name: Li, Jun
name: Yang, Ruiyun
name: Qin, Jiangke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new eremophilane sesquiterpene, xylareremophil (1), together with five known eremophilanes, 1α,10α-epoxy-3α-hydroxyeremophil-7(11)-en-12,8β-olide (2), 1,10α,13-trihydroxyeremophil-7(11)-en-12,8-olide (3), 1α,10α-epoxy-13-hydroxyeremophil-7(11)-en-12,8β-olide (4), mairetolides B (5) and G (6) were isolated from the endophytic fungus Xylaria sp. GDG-102 cultured from Sophora tonkinensis. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data analysis. The absolute configurations of 1 was determined by comparing computed electronic circular dichroism (ECD) and optical rotation (OR) with experimental results. Compounds 1, 5 and 6 showed antibacterial activities against Proteus vulgaris, Micrococcus luteus, Micrococcus lysodeikticus and Bacillus subtilis with MIC values of 25–100 μg/mL.
Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Makino Preparation promotes sleep by increasing REM sleep
Creators: name: Lin, Sisi
name: Nie, Bo
name: Yao, Guihong
name: Yang, Hui
name: Ye, Ren
name: Yuan, Zhengzhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Makino Preparation (PTP) is widely used to treat insomnia in traditional Chinese medicine; however, its specific role is not clear. In this study, PTP was prepared at three concentrations. For locomotor activity tests, mice were treated with PTP and evaluated for 14 days. For polygraph recordings, mice were treated for 14 days and recorded after treatment. The main chemical constituents in PTP were identified by Ultra performance liquid chromatography/quadrupole time spectrometry (UPLC/Q-TOF-MS). The results showed that 0.9 g/mL PTP significantly reduced locomotor activity. The effect was related to the time of treatment. PTP reduced wakefulness and increased sleep in mice. Furthermore, PTP promoted sleep by increasing the number of REM sleep episodes with a duration of 64–128s and increasing the number of transitions from NREM sleep to REM sleep and from REM sleep to wakefulness. A total of 17 compounds were identified.
title: The dynamics of literary translation : a case study from English to Persian
Creators: name: Emami, Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014

description: This thesis aims to elucidate the translation process by devising a way of ‎retrieving evidence of this process from its output. It further aims to assess the ‎claims made by some scholars concerning the possible existence of Translation ‎Universals. In order to isolate the interaction of texts and contexts, a corpus of ‎American short stories was created, with their translations into Persian published ‎after the 1979 Revolution. Three complementary methodologies gave a rounded ‎picture: (1) Corpus-based Descriptive Translation Studies; (2) The pragmatic and ‎rhetorically-based approach of Thinking Translation devised at St Andrews; and ‎‎(3) The analytical framework mostly established by Halliday in his ‎Systemic ‎Functional Grammar.‎ Approaching the process of translation in the ‎specific order devised in this thesis provided four vantage points to analyse the ‎data in a systematic way from linguistic, discourse, cultural and literary views ‎before reaching what are at once the most personal and most characteristic ‎aspects of a translator’s work. The research begins with a literature review of the ‎field and an account of linguistic constraints and of all Translation Universals ‎hypothesised so far, followed by an extensive analysis of data in two consecutive ‎chapters. With reference to the choices made in this corpus, it is discussed in the ‎Conclusions chapter that most of the Translation Universals so far claimed are ‎not in fact universal. It is the role of the translator which has emerged as the ‎determining factor in producing a translated text, and thus as the key to ‎resolving the issues explored in this thesis. It seems there are no constraints ‎beyond the translator’s reach, and there are no parameters which do not involve ‎the translator, who introduces his or her own choices, or manipulates certain ‎parameters. Only when they have done so, will the translation, as both process ‎and product, be accomplished.‎