cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inertia: of interior, surface, matter
Creators: name: Preston, Julieanna
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: inertia: OF interior, surface, matter is a creative practice-led doctoral research project that asks: What can an interior surface do? This seemingly simple and open-ended question set in motion a series of creative works that inquired about an interior’s material constitution as a site of political protest and everyday demonstration, a surface of resistance and compliance, and a space of ethical exchange and engagement. Dwelling primarily in the domains of interior design, spatial design and architecture, the project liberally migrated amongst other bodies of knowledge such as continental feminist philosophy, fine art practice, contemporary social science theory, building construction and material science as a means to disrespect, to cross out, or to cross over artificial divides separating theory and practice, interior and exterior, art and design, making and philosophy. Incited by this transdisciplinary material feminist ethos, I found myself working at full scale, using common materials and technologies, testing the limits of my own labouring (female) body and creating sculptural objects, performative installations, site-specific exhibitions, videos and spatial practice essays to liberate interior surfaces from an oppression of supposed inertia. These creative works and the accompanying critical reflection attest to interior surfaces as affective and affirmative assemblages of live, politically-charged matter and highlight a future research trajectory focused on the advocacy of a sustaining ethical engagement with matter developed at the synapse of art, design and philosophy.
Scaling Residential Analysis of Urban Liveability and Sustainability Indicators From Local to Global
Creators: name: Higgs, Carl
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460106
subject: Spatial data and applications
classificationCode: 330413
subject: Urban planning and health
classificationCode: 420205
subject: Epidemiological modelling

description: City planning contributes to complex, interrelated crises that threaten population, ecosystem and planetary health and sustainability. Calls to actions for urban indicators to inform planning for healthy and sustainable cities have been advocated for with increasing urgency. Yet, their delivery within and between-cities remains inequitable and faltering. Advances in computational power and data availability mean that the technical capacity to identify where policies and planning goals are not being met and inform interventions to improve urban equity for diverse contexts globally is unprecedented. However, the effective realisation of urban indicators to support planning for healthy and sustainable cities—indicators that are comparable, contextualised, meaningful and reproducible—is hindered by a concurrent crisis in reproducibility and trust in science.
Through this thesis I have developed methods for scaling up analysis and reporting of indicators for healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and cities in formats to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. In the first part of this thesis, I addressed the question: How can urban liveability be measured both locally, and at scale in a meaningful and useful way to support the needs of diverse stakeholders? I reviewed gaps in existing approaches for measuring urban liveability identifying a need for policy relevant urban indicators to be produced at different scales, in different mediums, for different audiences, and for different places. I proposed and demonstrated a flexible method of residential analysis for entire cities that could be extended for new indicators in diverse urban settings, as well as repeated longitudinally or in new cities for meaningful comparisons across time, between cities as well as within cities.
However, to create local impact, you need local involvement, which occurs through collaboration and contextualisation. Therefore, in the second part of my thesis, I addressed a deeper question: What do diverse stakeholders need to monitor, plan and advocate for healthy and sustainable cities? A synthesis of action research and software engineering methodologies was used to build knowledge of how to scale from code that could be used, to software designed for and with a specific group of users to be useful, usable, and used in diverse global settings. Engaging with an international network of researchers, students, practitioners and advocates, I elucidated and iteratively implemented their requirements for calculating and communicating urban indicators. An open science toolkit was co-designed, and is now being used to support local teams around the world to participate in a 1000 City Challenge to map, monitor and build contextual understanding of indicators of healthy and sustainable cities.
sj-docx-1-ctj-10.1177_17407745231182010 – Supplemental material for Chronic pain trials often exclude people with comorbid depressive symptoms: A secondary analysis of 346 randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Cheng, Darren K
name: Ullah, Maarij Hannan
name: Gage, Henry
name: Moineddin, Rahim
name: Sud, Abhimanyu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ctj-10.1177_17407745231182010 for Chronic pain trials often exclude people with comorbid depressive symptoms: A secondary analysis of 346 randomized controlled trials by Darren K Cheng, Maarij Hannan Ullah, Henry Gage, Rahim Moineddin and Abhimanyu Sud in Clinical Trials
Additional file 1 of Association of prothrombin time, thrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time levels with preeclampsia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Ermiyas
name: Mohammed, Ousman
name: Belete, Melaku Ashagrie
name: Mulatie, Zewudu
name: Debash, Habtu
name: Gedefie, Alemu
name: Weldehanna, Daniel Gebretsadik
name: Eshetu, Bruktawit
name: Shibabaw, Agumas
name: Tekele, Saba Gebremichael
name: Tilahun, Mihret
name: Ebrahim, Hussen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613231182180 – Supplemental material for A longitudinal examination of mental health and marital functioning of mothers and fathers of autistic adolescents during COVID-19
Creators: name: Ekas, Naomi V
name: Kouros, Chrystyna D
name: Rigsby, Brock A
name: Madison, Sarah
name: Hymel, Julianne
name: Filippi, Maddy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613231182180 for A longitudinal examination of mental health and marital functioning of mothers and fathers of autistic adolescents during COVID-19 by Naomi V Ekas, Chrystyna D Kouros, Brock A Rigsby, Sarah Madison, Julianne Hymel and Maddy Filippi in Autism
"Von Der Oer Erstellung Zur Oer Nutzung" Implementierung Von Oer Beispiel Der Univ. Wien
Creators: name: Lingo, Sylvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: OER
Kulturwandel
Open Education Austria
Fachportal
Medienproduktion

description: Das in der Session-Beschreibung vorgestellte HRSM-Projekt „Open Education Austria“ hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt bis Dezember 2018, ein OER-Fachportal zu implementieren, auf dem Offene Bildungsressourcen (in Form von Videos, Bildern, Texten und Lernpfaden etc.) aller beteiligten Partner gefunden werden können. Das Konzept sieht vor, dass vorerst alle Projektpartner ihre OER in einem lokalen Repositorium ablegen und verwalten. Das Portal holt sich die Informationen über die OERs (Metadaten) und stellt diese über einer gemeinsamen Suchoberfläche zur Verfügung. Der Prototyp ist zum Zeitpunkt des Vortrags bereits in Betrieb und mit den Repositorien der Partner verbunden.

Die Universität Wien betreibt dieses Fachportal für alle Partneruniversität über den Zeitraum des Projekts hinaus und die Projektpartner sowie das CTL sind bestrebt, den Anteil an OERs durch Qualifizierungs- und Unterstützungsangebote vor allem für Lehrende zu erhöhen (siehe Session 2 und 3). Das Fachportal kann auf Wunsch mit einer Vielzahl universitärer Repositorien verknüpft werden.

Die Gründe für ein Fachportal sind vielfältig:

	Bündelung von qualitätsvollen OERs: Beliebigkeit vermeiden, Fokus und Differenzierung auf Disziplinen
	Akzeptanz unter den AnwenderInnen und ErstellerInnen: Vertrauenswürdigkeit innerhalb der Fachgemeinschaft
	Gute Sichtbarkeit des Gesamtangebots, bessere Auffindbarkeit im Internet
	Informationssicherheit: Erschließung und Langzeitarchivierung
	Vernetzung und Einbettung: Funktion eines „Schaufensters“ der Institution bzw. Fachgemeinschaft

Der im Vortrag vorgestellte Workflow (siehe Grafik 1) von der OER Erstellung bis hin zur OER-Nutzung soll an zwei konkreten Fallbeispielen dargestellt. Dabei werden auch die Herausforderungen im Bereich der Erstellung, Metdadaten-Anreicherung und Nutzung aufgezeigt.
Actions of Danshen and its bioactive compounds on ROS productions in vitro
Creators: name: O'Loughlan, Meredith
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis documents a research program in which Australian grown Danshen extracts and related bioactive compounds have been demonstrated to be effective in scavenging free radicals, namely ROS generation, in a cell free system and NADPH oxidase derived superoxide (O2-) generation in vascular tissue (rat aorta). Danshen extracts, both aqueous and ethanol, and their active compounds (Tanshinone IIA, Salvianolic Acid B and Danshensu) demonstrated anti-oxidant activity however findings exhibited stronger activity in a cell free system than in the aortic vascular tissue. Despite the difference observed in the potency and actions of different Danshen extracts and active compounds, the findings of this study provided the first in vitro evidence on the effects of Australian grown Danshen on ROS scavenging activity and NADPH oxidase derived O2-, indicating the potential of using Australian grown Danshen for anti-oxidant applications, indicating treatment of NADPH oxidase related vascular disease. The literature review demonstrated Danshen to be generally well tolerated and safe in clinical use with few adverse reactions. However, the research suggested that caution be taken with Danshen, including potential herb-drug interactions.
sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024231164361 - Supplemental material for Children under 6 years with acute headache in Pediatric Emergency Departments. A 2-year retrospective exploratory multicenter Italian study
Creators: name: Raucci, Umberto
name: Parisi, Pasquale
name: Ferro, Valentina
name: Margani, Erika
name: Vanacore, Nicola
name: Raieli, Vincenzo
name: Bondone, Claudia
name: Calistri, Lucia
name: Suppiej, Agnese
name: Palmieri, Antonella
name: Cordelli, Duccio Maria
name: Savasta, Salvatore
name: Papa, Amanda
name: Verrotti, Alberto
name: Orsini, Alessandro
name: D’Alonzo, Renato
name: Pavone, Piero
name: Falsaperla, Raffaele
name: Velardita, Mario
name: Nacca, Raffaella
name: Papetti, Laura
name: Rossi, Roberta
name: Gioè, Daniela
name: Malaventura, Cristina
name: Drago, Flavia
name: Morreale, Cristina
name: Rossi, Lucia
name: Foiadelli, Thomas
name: Monticone, Sonia
name: Mazzocchetti, Chiara
name: Bonuccelli, Alice
name: Greco, Filippo
name: Marino, Silvia
name: Monte, Gabriele
name: Versace, Antonella
name: Masi, Stefano
name: Di Nardo, Giovanni
name: Reale, Antonino
name: Villani, Alberto
name: Valeriani, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024231164361 for Children under 6 years with acute headache in Pediatric Emergency Departments. A 2-year retrospective exploratory multicenter Italian study by Umberto Raucci, Pasquale Parisi, Valentina Ferro, Erika Margani, Nicola Vanacore, Vincenzo Raieli, Claudia Bondone, Lucia Calistri, Agnese Suppiej, Antonella Palmieri, Duccio Maria Cordelli, Salvatore Savasta, Amanda Papa, Alberto Verrotti, Alessandro Orsini, Renato D’Alonzo, Piero Pavone, Raffaele Falsaperla, Mario Velardita, Raffaella Nacca, Laura Papetti, Roberta Rossi, Daniela Gioè, Cristina Malaventura, Flavia Drago, Cristina Morreale, Lucia Rossi, Thomas Foiadelli, Sonia Monticone, Chiara Mazzocchetti, Alice Bonuccelli, Filippo Greco, Silvia Marino, Gabriele Monte, Antonella Versace, Stefano Masi, Giovanni Di Nardo, Antonino Reale, Alberto Villani and Massimiliano Valeriani in Cephalalgia
Derivative kinematics in relatively rotating coordinate frames: investigation on the Razi acceleration
Creators: name: Mohd Harithuddin, Ahmad Salahuddin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The Razi acceleration has been discovered as a new acceleration term that appears due to relative motion of multiple moving reference frames. When Newton's laws of motion are transformed between a stationary frame and a rotating frame, additional acceleration terms called inertial accelerations, must be introduced to take into account of the acceleration of the rotating frame itself. Traditionally, there are three types of inertial acceleration that acts on a particle in a rotating frame: the centripetal acceleration, the Coriolis acceleration, and the tangential acceleration. Most of the discussion of kinematics of rotating frames is, however, limited to only two frames and often the attention is restricted to two-dimensional models. Introducing a third relatively-rotating frame, the vector derivative transformation between three frames exhibits a peculiar acceleration term, which is written as a triple product of two angular velocity vectors and a position vector. The acceleration term arises when a displacement vector is twice-differentiated using the angular velocities of the rotating frames and transformed into an inertial reference frame. It appears that the Razi acceleration term is present when one transposes the vector derivatives between multiple rotating frames. This discovery leads to a new perspective of analysing the acceleration acting on rigid bodies in compound rotation, such as a tumbling or nutating motion. Three research questions are formulated in investigating the Razi acceleration: (1) How to improve the theory of vector derivatives to produce a complete equation of motion for a rigid body in multiple rotating coordinate frames; (2) What are the components of acceleration for such rigid body motion, and specifically, is the Razi acceleration a necessary inclusion for a complete rigid body acceleration expression, and; (3) Can the Razi acceleration be observed experimentally. This work aims to answer these questions by revising and extending the classical method of Euler derivative transformation between frames. The modification of the method is done for two purposes: to devise a general derivative kinematics formula for systems with an arbitrary number of rotating frames, and to identify the influence and the characteristics of the Razi acceleration. An experiment is setup using an industrial robotic manipulator to simulate compound rotation motion to investigate the appearance of the Razi acceleration in a mechanical system. It has been demonstrated by both mathematical and experimental methods that the acceleration of a rigid body in complex rotation motion can be resolved into its components to show the appearance of the Razi acceleration.
The potential of flipped classroom pedagogical practice on classroom interactions in Singapore primary classrooms
Creators: name: Abdul Kader, Hajera Bibi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
classificationCode: 390199
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education

description: As we move further into the 21st Century, the call for education systems to equip students with skills such as communication and collaboration grow louder. Responding to such calls requires education settings to examine and potentially adapt their current pedagogical practices. Classrooms, such as in many Singapore schools, where there are large class sizes and strong teacher-centred practices, find it challenging to address the development of communication and collaboration skills. The opportunity for interactions between teachers and their students and among students, which are believed to foster these skills, can be limited. This small scale research project explored how the recent adoption of a flipped classroom pedagogical practice in one Singapore primary school can potentially contribute to increasing levels of classroom interactions. Through interviews, classroom observations and document analysis, it was evident that the teachers were able to design lessons within the framework of the flipped classroom pedagogical practice that can enhance classroom interactions and foster communication and collaboration skills. Teachers’ engrained practices of didactic teaching have impeded the benefits of this practice to some extent. With time and professional development support from school, teachers and students can overcome the challenges in adopting the flipped classroom pedagogical practice.
Design and Evaluation of a Protective Bra for Use under a Unisex Ballistic Vest for D Cup and Above
Creators: name: Niemczyk, Sara
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330315
subject: Textile and fashion design
classificationCode: 401413
subject: Textile technology

description: The thesis examines the problems that large-breasted female police officers experience when wearing a unisex ballistic vest (UBV) and explores solutions by designing and evaluating an improved bra.
The key problem that the thesis reveals and addresses is the conflicting issues between the design and performance requirements of a bra and a UBV. The bra lifts the breasts, but the UBV flattens the breasts, in turn causing a range of issues. The universal security invested in the fixed UBV design will not change to accommodate the shape of the woman’s body; therefore, other avenues must be pursued to minimise the effects.
The first aim of this study was to explore the problem by analysing the design criteria. The second aim was to design an undergarment to address the criteria. The final aim was to promote awareness, through research, of the issues that large-breasted women are experiencing.
This research is the first to address the interaction of the bra and the UBV when worn by large-breasted women. An undergarment is systematically designed and developed to improve the fit and function of the UBV for this cohort.
The methodology used is the De Jonge seven-stage functional design process for apparel and is user centred.
The result of the research was the design of a bra prototype that adapted the traditional bra concept to that of a hybrid that could be worn over any bra. This prototype was then evaluated against the key findings from the initial investigation that were used to develop three key design criteria: (a) improved coverage protection, (b) reduction of side breast protrusion and (c) comfort.
The prototype hybrid bra was then evaluated through three-dimensional (3D) scanning on a modified mannequin and then on human subjects. The results from the mannequin tests and the human subjects’ evaluations met these three design criteria. The hybrid bra covered the exposed area with a commercial protective slash/stab-proof fabric to minimise side breast protrusion and improve comfort and support.
The broader implications of the results are that considerations need to be made for large-breasted women when designing body armour or utilising a specialty bra that aims to alleviate some of these problems. Further, there is scope to develop the hybrid bra accessory and make this available to other security personnel.
Near and sub-threshold NULL convention logic design for low-power digital signal processing applications
Creators: name: Sovani, Renuka
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400607
subject: Signal processing
classificationCode: 400908
subject: Microelectronics

description: Portable devices such as heart monitors, pacemakers and hearing aids requiring speech frequency filtering, can achieve low power operation if operated with reduced supply voltages near the threshold of their transistor components. However, in this region the effects of Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) variations are much more prominent. As a result, low-voltage clocked systems can often require much greater design effort and additional resources to be applied to avoid PVT-related failures, potentially leading to excessive and undesirable design margins. Asynchronous techniques are generally more tolerant to these variations and have been suggested for use in low power, wearable applications. Out of the range of available asynchronous techniques, Null Convention Logic has been shown to be simple to design and robust in the face of PVT variability. Its main disadvantages are that its basic components are bulky and current implementation tools are not optimized for this type of asynchronous design. Further, NCL standard cell libraries are rarely, if ever, available as part of a vendor-supplied process kit for integrated circuit manufacture. Furthermore, Short word-length (SWL) filter systems that operate, for example, on sin- gle bit Sigma-Delta encoded data have also been suggested for low-power and portable systems. Synchronous short word length filters using oversampling of both data and coefficients and operating in this domain have already been shown to be typically more hardware efficient and give better performance than their equivalent multi-bit counter- parts. However, while Sigma-Delta techniques do serve to reduce the overall complexity of the hardware, their use of oversampling to move the quantization noise out of the region of interest results in many more filter stages than in the conventional case. Thus, it is not immediately clear whether the technique will always result in more efficient filter circuits.
Synaptina Smirnov 1998
Creators: name: O'Loughlin, P. Mark
name: VandenSpiegel, Didier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Synaptina

description: Suborder Synaptina Smirnov, 1998    Diagnosis (Smirnov, 1998). Plates of calcareous ring without prominent anterior projections; excavations for tentacular ampullae lie on outer side of calcareous ring. Madreporite situated far from water ring at end of long stone canal. Ciliated funnels present. One to many polian vesicles. Body wall ossicles may be wheels of chiridotid type with 6 spokes and a complex hub and/or sigmoid hooks, or anchors and anchor plates. Wheels of larvae and juveniles with more spokes and small denticles on inner side of rim.
Families. Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898; Synaptidae Burmeister, 1837.
description: Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2010, A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida), pp. 61-95 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67 on page 73, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2010.67.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12212210
Additional file 2 of Association of prothrombin time, thrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time levels with preeclampsia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Ermiyas
name: Mohammed, Ousman
name: Belete, Melaku Ashagrie
name: Mulatie, Zewudu
name: Debash, Habtu
name: Gedefie, Alemu
name: Weldehanna, Daniel Gebretsadik
name: Eshetu, Bruktawit
name: Shibabaw, Agumas
name: Tekele, Saba Gebremichael
name: Tilahun, Mihret
name: Ebrahim, Hussen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Supplemental Material - Uncovering the Hidden “Where” of Sustainable Service Ecosystems: The Role of Spaces and Places
Creators: name: Anzivino, Alessia
name: Nenonen, Suvi
name: Sebastiani, Roberta
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material for Uncovering the Hidden “Where” of Sustainable Service Ecosystems: The Role of Spaces and Places by Alessia Anzivino, Suvi Nenonen, and Roberta Sebastiani in Journal of Service Research
Tomopaguroides Balss 1912
Creators: name: McLaughlin, P. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Tomopaguroides

description: Tomopaguroides Balss, 1912
 Diagnosis. Gills quadriserial, 13 pairs. Rostrum triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata not described. Chelipeds grossly unequal, right largest. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with small, triangular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1, possibly 2, rows of corneous scales; apparently no preungual process. Male with pleopod 2 paired, modified; pleopods 3–5. Female unknown. Abdomen straight, tergite of somite 5 as thickened, possibly calcified plate; uropods symmetrical. Telson terminal margin not described. Type species: Parapagurus valdiviae Balss, 1911.
description: Published as part of McLaughlin, P. A., 2003, Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae, pp. 111-144 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.16, http://zenodo.org/record/12210056
Continual deep learning via progressive learning
Creators: name: Fayek, Haytham
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400607
subject: Signal processing

description: Machine learning is one of several approaches to artificial intelligence. It allows us to build machines that can learn from experience as opposed to being explicitly programmed. Current machine learning formulations are mostly designed for learning and performing a particular task from a tabula rasa using data available for that task. For machine learning to converge to artificial intelligence, in addition to other desiderata, it must be in a state of continual learning, i.e., have the ability to be in a continuous learning process, such that when a new task is presented, the system can leverage prior knowledge from prior tasks, in learning and performing this new task, and augment the prior knowledge with the newly acquired knowledge without having a significant adverse effect on the prior knowledge. Continual learning is key to advancing machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Deep learning is a powerful general-purpose approach to machine learning that is able to solve numerous and various tasks with minimal modification. Deep learning extends machine learning, and specially neural networks, to learn multiple levels of distributed representations together with the required mapping function into a single composite function. The emergence of deep learning and neural networks as a generic approach to machine learning, coupled with their ability to learn versatile hierarchical representations, has paved the way for continual learning. The main aim of this thesis is the study and development of a structured approach to continual learning, leveraging the success of deep learning and neural networks.

This thesis studies the application of deep learning to a number of supervised learning tasks, and in particular, classification tasks in machine perception, e.g., image recognition, automatic speech recognition, and speech emotion recognition. The relation between the systems developed for these tasks is investigated to illuminate the layer-wise relevance of features in deep networks trained for these tasks via transfer learning, and these independent systems are unified into continual learning systems.

The main contribution of this thesis is the construction and formulation of a deep learning framework, denoted progressive learning, that allows a holistic and systematic approach to continual learning. Progressive learning comprises a number of procedures that address the continual learning desiderata. It is shown that, when tasks are related, progressive learning leads to faster learning that converges to better generalization performance using less amounts of data and a smaller number of dedicated parameters, for the tasks studied in this thesis, by accumulating and leveraging knowledge learned across tasks in a continuous manner. It is envisioned that progressive learning is a step towards a fully general continual learning framework.
Identifying Marine Key Biodiversity Areas in the Greater Caribbean Region
Creators: name: Harvey, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Anthropocene biodiversity extinction rates are increasing, suggesting a possible sixth global mass extinction event. Biological conservation planners are consequently seeking ways to more effectively protect species at national, regional and global scales. In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) issued a number of conservation goals (Aichi Targets), including the establishment of protected areas (PA) in terrestrial, freshwater and marine areas of eminent conservation concern by 2020 to reduce and eventually eliminate species’ extinctions, as well as preserve hotspots of biodiversity and dynamic ecosystems. While well-established, adequately enforced PAs increase the likelihood of preserving species and habitats most at risk of extirpation, traditional methods of choosing where to place PAs are frequently inadequate in targeting biodiversity most in need of conservation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), therefore, formulated a set of criteria and thresholds using quantitative and transparent selection methods to iteratively identify sites where species and habitats are most urgently in need of protection. The identification of these Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) utilizes species-specific spatial occurrence and population data and species’ threat statuses, to locate areas where site-specific protection measures can effectively slow or halt the extinction of species. This study uses species-specific data provided on IUCN’s Red List website and other online data repositories to identify marine KBAs in the Greater Caribbean region using the newly refined, 2016 IUCN KBA criteria and thresholds in order to address the question of if these criteria are effective for marine environments and to understand how this process may improve PA site selection in the greater Caribbean region. Even though previous analyses have identified marine KBAs for threatened species, this study is one of the first attempts to identify KBAs for geographically restricted species in the marine environment. The identified KBAs provide logical starting points for local stakeholders and conservation specialists to verify KBA thresholds and boundaries using localized national and regional datasets. Furthermore, this study will identify significant data gaps in the knowledge of marine species’ occurrences that may prevent the full application of the KBA criteria to all marine species.
Relatório Técnico Conclusivo - Proposta de ações para adequação do perfil de liderança e da maturidade da cultura de segurança
Creators: name: Novaes da Silva, Wellyngton Thiago
name: Cova, Marcia Cristina Rodrigues
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: O presente relatório técnico conclusivo é decorrente do convênio estabelecido pela Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro com o Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas – IFAM para a criação de uma turma de Mestrado do PPGE/UFRRJ em Manaus com o objetivo de titular os servidores do referido instituto. O Relatório foi construído a partir do diagnóstico realizado no IFAM que integrou a Dissertação.

O produto tecnológico é aderente à linha de atuação em estratégias de gestão de pessoas e organizações do PPGE, particularmente com os projetos de pesquisas desenvolvidas pela professora Marcia Cova relacionados com a liderança e consiste em um Relatório Técnico Conclusivo que visa apresentar como as ações de liderança e engenharia de segurança do trabalho podem ser implementadas para construir uma cultura de segurança nos laboratórios pesquisados. Seu objetivo principal é propor ações que permitam que os chefes de departamento identifiquem as medidas necessárias para estabelecer uma cultura de segurança nos respectivos laboratórios. Os resultados obtidos podem ser avaliados pela instituição e utilizados como orientação para a elaboração de outras estratégias, a fim de fortalecer a cultura de segurança nos laboratórios. Ademais, as estratégias propostas são aplicáveis a diferentes campi, podendo ser expandidas para além do campus atual. O plano de ação pode ser inserido no Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional (PDI), mais especificamente na seção de Gestão de Riscos.

A possibilidade de replicação das ações delineadas no plano de ação é viável e indicada para ser implementada em todos os demais campi do Instituto Federal de Educação, desde que sejam considerados os ajustes ou adaptações requeridas. Adicionalmente, a metodologia descrita na pesquisa oferece um protocolo explícito para a coleta e análise dos dados, o que possibilita a sua utilização em outros Institutos Federais de Educação.
sj-pdf-1-pec-10.1177_03010066231175014 - Supplemental material for Effects of cortical distance on the Ebbinghaus and Delboeuf illusions
Creators: name: Urale, Poutasi W. B.
name: Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Samuel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pec-10.1177_03010066231175014 for Effects of cortical distance on the Ebbinghaus and Delboeuf illusions by Poutasi W. B. Urale and Dietrich Samuel Schwarzkopf in Perception
Tomopaguropsis Alcock 1905
Creators: name: McLaughlin, P. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Tomopaguropsis

description: Tomopaguropsis Alcock, 1905
 Diagnosis. Gills quadriserial, 13 pairs. Rostrum triangular. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds subequal; right usually somewhat more robust. Subquadrate anterior lobe of sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopod 3) with convex median, marginally setose, elevation. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with several rows of corneous scales; no preungual process. Male with or without pleopod 1 paired, modified; pleopods 2–5. Female with pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins rounded. Type species: Tomopaguropsis lantana Alcock, 1905.
description: Published as part of McLaughlin, P. A., 2003, Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae, pp. 111-144 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.16, http://zenodo.org/record/12210056
Additional file 3 of Association of prothrombin time, thrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time levels with preeclampsia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Ermiyas
name: Mohammed, Ousman
name: Belete, Melaku Ashagrie
name: Mulatie, Zewudu
name: Debash, Habtu
name: Gedefie, Alemu
name: Weldehanna, Daniel Gebretsadik
name: Eshetu, Bruktawit
name: Shibabaw, Agumas
name: Tekele, Saba Gebremichael
name: Tilahun, Mihret
name: Ebrahim, Hussen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3
Tomopagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier 1893
Creators: name: McLaughlin, P. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Paguridae
Tomopagurus

description: Tomopagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1893
 Diagnosis. Gills biserial, 11 pairs. Rostrum triangular or sometimes only broadly rounded lobe. Ocular acicles simple. Crista dentata with 1 accessory tooth. Chelipeds unequal, right appreciably larger. Sternite of somite XII (thoracomere 6, pereopods 3) with subovate to subsemicircular anterior lobe. Pereopod 4 semichelate; propodal rasp with 1 row of corneous scales; preungual process prominent. Male usually without, rarely with pleopod 1 paired but reduced or vestigial; pleopods 3–5. Female usually with pleopod 1 paired, modified, rarely without pleopod 1; pleopods 2–5. Telson with terminal margins oblique. Type species: Tomopagurus rubropunctatus A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1893.
description: Published as part of McLaughlin, P. A., 2003, Illustrated keys to families and genera of the superfamily Paguroidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with diagnoses of genera of Paguridae, pp. 111-144 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.16, http://zenodo.org/record/12210056
Investigating tax compliance risks of large businesses in Indonesia
Creators: name: Pratomo, Mochammad
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350108
subject: Taxation accounting
classificationCode: 380115
subject: Public economics - taxation and revenue
classificationCode: 480106
subject: Taxation law

description: The tax compliance behaviour of large businesses is one of the crucial challenges to nation-building in a developing country. However, studies in this area and knowledge of how the respective tax authorities manage the issue are somewhat limited. Hence, this study addresses a gap identified in the body of knowledge and answers research questions pertaining to the factors that influence large business compliance, how they affect it, and how the relevant authority manages compliance risks.

Employing four fundamental research concepts to determine research design, this qualitative study used semi-structured, in-depth interviews to collect data. A total of 48 key informants participated in this study. They were grouped according to their specific tax functions: tax officials, tax managers and tax advisors. The collected interview data was encoded and analysed using thematic analysis. Subsequently, data triangulation, member checking, and disconfirming evidence techniques were used to check the validity and reliability.

Four main findings were derived from the study. First, it was found that four major factors simultaneously affect large business tax compliance in Indonesia. These are: (i) economic (cost-benefit driven decisions, compensation of manager, probability of detection and penalty, risk appetite and uncertainty), (ii) socio-psychological (personal and social norms, fairness and trust), (iii) corporate characteristics (tax risk management, ownership structure and business size, business profitability and the use of tax advisors) and (iv) regulation (complexity, ambiguity, unfairness and regulatory overlap). Secondly, in principle, the Indonesian tax authority (DGT) manages non-compliance by means of two sequential steps: persuasion and enforcement. Thirdly, it was found that the issues of inadequate human resources, poor data management and lack of coordination have impeded the DGT’s capacity to respond effectively to compliance risks. Finally, the introduction of the responsive regulatory approach might have benefits for both the tax authority and taxpayers.
FOOD INSECURITY AND CSU SYSTEM RESPONSES DURING COVID-19
Creators: name: Cantoran, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: literature review
food insecurity
CSU
COVID-19

description: For my project, I decided to do a systematic literature review where I analyze current literatures of student experiences and needs related to food insecurity and CSU system’s responses during COVID-19. The California State University System reported 41.6% in food insecurity, over three times the amount of the national household food insecurity rate. Since the pandemic started, the numbers of food insecure students have augmented like never before. This resulted in COVID-19 shining a light on the disparities that many of these students were already facing. Students of color are more likely to be food insecure and are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19.With this project, I want to bring awareness into the severity of food insecurity in the CSU System and share what the CSU’s are doing to alleviate this issue.
Sub/mission
Creators: name: Brunt, Abigail Naomi
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The poems included in this manuscript look at the ways in which women have been silenced and forced to submit, with emphasis on, though not limited to, a patriarchal fundamentalist Christian subculture called Quiverfull.  Part autobiography, part documentary and part myth, the manuscript explores the various ways such damage becomes interwoven into women’s identities and stories, but also the ways in which women find resilience and strength.
Chiridotidae Ostergren 1898
Creators: name: O'Loughlin, P. Mark
name: VandenSpiegel, Didier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Holothuroidea
Apodida
Chiridotidae

description: Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898    Diagnosis (Smirnov 1998). Synaptina with 10, 12 or 18 peltato-digitate, pinnate or bifurcate tentacles. Juveniles with bifurcate tentacles. Body wall ossicles wheels of chiridotid type and/or sigmoid hooks. Chiridotid type wheels with 6 spokes, numerous small denticles on inner side of rim and a complex hub; on lower side of each spoke a branch leans against the lower end of the hub forming a star structure. Ossicles in tentacles usually rods with branched ends.
Subfamilies. Taeniogyrinae Smirnov, 1998; Chiridotinae Östergren, 1898 (sensu Smirnov 1998).
description: Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2010, A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida), pp. 61-95 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67 on page 73, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2010.67.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12212210
sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076231182807 - Supplemental material for Cocreation of a conversational agent to help patients adhere to their varenicline treatment: A study protocol
Creators: name: Minian, Nadia
name: Mehra, Kamna
name: Rose, Jonathan
name: Veldhuizen, Scott
name: Zawertailo, Laurie
name: Ratto, Matt
name: Lecce, Julia
name: Selby, Peter
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076231182807 for Cocreation of a conversational agent to help patients adhere to their varenicline treatment: A study protocol by Nadia Minian, Kamna Mehra, Jonathan Rose, Scott Veldhuizen, Laurie Zawertailo, Matt Ratto, Julia Lecce and Peter Selby in DIGITAL HEALTH
Evaluation of SLAM algorithms in realistic sensor test conditions
Creators: name: Fang, Lance
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400199
subject: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 400702
subject: Automation engineering
classificationCode: 400909
subject: Photonic and electro-optical devices, sensors and systems (excl. communications)

description: Autonomous robotic systems rely on Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms that use ranging or other sensory data as input to create a map of the environment. Numerous algorithms have been developed and demonstrated, many of which utilise data from high precision ranging instruments. Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have significant restrictions on the size and weight of sensors they can carry, and light-weight ranging sensors tend to be subject to greater error than their larger counterparts. The effect of these errors on the mapping capabilities of SLAM algorithms will depend on the combination of algorithm and sensor. To quantitatively determine the quality of the map, a map quality metric is needed. This thesis presents an evaluation of the mapping performance of a variety of SLAM algorithms that are freely available in the Robot Operating System (ROS), in conjunction with ranging data from various ranging sensors suitable for use onboard small UAS. To compare the quality of the generated maps, an existing metric was initially employed, however deficiencies noted in this metric led to the development of two new metrics. A discussion of both the existing and new map quality metrics, and the advantages and disadvantages of each, is presented as part of this thesis. To evaluate the performance of algorithm/sensor combinations, ranging data was collected from various sensors in a known environment. Both sensor poses and the ground truth map were obtained using a highly-accurate motion capture system. The measured sensor poses were then corrupted with noise and drift to simulate odometry measurements required for the SLAM algorithms. Of the SLAM algorithms tested, Gmapping was found to produce high quality maps with wide-field-of-regard range sensors in the presence of odometry noise and drift. KartoSLAM produced similar maps to Gmapping (with wide field of regard sensors), though it did not cope as well with odometry errors. Hector Mapping tends to excel at creating maps with wide field of regard ranging sensors.