99 research outputs found
Co-authoring in Academic Research:From quarter-baked intuition to publication
No full textDr Ciara Hackett (QUB School of Law) and Prof Harry Van Buren (the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Honorary Professor, QUB School of Law) speak with Dr Ciarán O’Kelly about co-authoring in academic research.They ask how accurate and, indeed, how healthy it is to think of academics as solitary actors. They discuss both the merits of and the challenges involved in collaboration and co-authoring. Who ought one co-author with? What workflows work best? What ethical issues emerge
Co-authoring in Academic Research:From quarter-baked intuition to publication
No full textDr Ciara Hackett (QUB School of Law) and Prof Harry Van Buren (the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Honorary Professor, QUB School of Law) speak with Dr Ciarán O’Kelly about co-authoring in academic research.They ask how accurate and, indeed, how healthy it is to think of academics as solitary actors. They discuss both the merits of and the challenges involved in collaboration and co-authoring. Who ought one co-author with? What workflows work best? What ethical issues emerge
Dietary Resource Partitioning in Large Mammal Herbivores: The Intra- and Interspecific Diet Variation in Kafue National Park, Zambia
No full textKafue National Park is the fifth largest protected area within African and is host to a highly biodiverse ecosystem of both herbivores and carnivores. Despite Kafue National Park’s regional importance, relatively little research exists to describe the wildlife community assemblages found within the park especially for large mammal herbivores, and the factors that influence species coexistence and ecosystem stability. We used DNA metabarcoding to quantify the diet composition of 10 of the most abundant large mammal herbivore species within Kafue National Park and to compare the role of intraspecific and interspecific variation of the functional dietary niche partitioning. Puku and impala are the two most abundant species found within the park and occur syntopically. Therefore, both species diets were compared and overlap of their niche’s determined. Food resource use is one of the most important elements of the niche and multiple species characteristics constrain herbivore diets. Thus, the influence of species characteristics, such as body size, muzzle width and population density, was investigated in terms of its effect on the degree of among-individual variation. The large mammal herbivore community distinctly partitioned their niches, with minimal overlap amongst grazers and clear separation of the puku and impala dietary niches. Overall our results suggest that large mammal herbivores within a stable and diverse ecosystem manage coexistence through the partitioning of their niches so as to mitigate interspecific competition, while their diets are constrained by body size, muzzle width and population density. Increased intraspecific diet variation correlated with total niche width indicative of the Niche Variation Hypothesis. These results have substantial implications for conservation effort and management of protected areas
Symbolic planning in belief space
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 32).SASY (Scalable and Adjustable SYmbolic) Planner is a flexible symbolic planner which searches for a satisfying plan to a partially observable Markov decision process, or a POMDP, while benefiting from advantages of classical symbolic planning such as compact belief state expression, domain-independent heuristics, and structural simplicity. Belief space symbolic formalism, an extension of classical symbolic formalism, can be used to transform probabilistic problems into a discretized and deterministic representation such that domain-independent heuristics originally created for classical symbolic planning systems can be applied to them. SASY is optimized to solve POMDPs encoded in belief space symbolic formalism, but can also be used to find a solution to general symbolic planning problems. We compare SASY to two other POMDP solvers, SARSOP and POMDPX_NUS, and define a new benchmark domain called Elevator.by Ciara L. Kamahele-Sanfratello.M. Eng
Field Measurements of Very Oblique Wave Run-up and Overtopping with Laser Scanners
No full textOosterlo et al. (2019) developed a system using two terrestrial laser scanners, which can measure run-up heights, depths and velocities of waves on a dike in field situations. The system has now been placed next to two overtopping tanks on a dike in the Eems-Dollard estuary in the Netherlands to measure during actual severe winter storms. The goal of the present paper is to further validate this innovative system with data obtained during storm Ciara (10 - 12 February 2020), a severe winter storm with very oblique wave attack. Furthermore, the data gathered during storm Ciara will be compared to the current knowledge on wave overtopping, to possibly gain new insights in the influence of very oblique wave attack on wave overtopping.Hydraulic Structures and Flood Ris
Association of interleukin-6 signalling with the muscle stem cell response following muscle-lengthening contractions in humans
No full textBackgroundThe regulation of muscle stem cells in humans in response to muscle injury remains largely undefined. Recently, interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been implicated in muscle stem cell (satellite cell)-mediated muscle hypertrophy in animals; however, the role of IL-6 in the satellite cell (SC) response following muscle-lengthening contractions in humans has not been studied.Methodology/principal findingsEight subjects (age 22+/-1 y; 79+/-8 kg) performed 300 maximal unilateral lengthening contractions (3.14 rad.s(-1)) of the knee extensors. Blood and muscle samples were collected before and at 4, 24, 72, and 120 hours post intervention. IL-6, IL-6 receptor, IL-6R(alpha), cyclin D1, suppressor of cytokine signling-3 (SOCS3) mRNA were measured using quantitative RT-PCR and serum IL-6 protein was measured using an ELISA kit. JAK2 and STAT3 phosphorylated and total protein was measured using western blotting techniques. Immunohistochemical analysis of muscle cross-sections was performed for the quantification of SCs (Pax7(+) cells) as well as the expression of phosphorylated STAT3, IL-6, IL-6R(alpha), and PCNA across all time-points. The SC response, as defined by an amplification of Pax7(+) cells, was rapid, increasing by 24 h and peaking 72 h following the intervention. Muscle IL-6 mRNA increased following the intervention, which correlated strongly (R(2) = 0.89, pConclusions/significanceThe increased expression of STAT3 responsive genes and expression of IL-6 within SCs demonstrate that IL-6/STAT3 signaling occurred in SCs, correlating with an increase in SC proliferation, evidenced by increased Pax7(+)/PCNA(+) cell number in the early stages of the time-course. Collectively, these data illustrate that IL-6 is an important signaling molecule associated with the SC response to acute muscle-lengthening contractions in humans
Parent(-ing) at work: how employees navigate parenthood at work
No full textRecent studies indicate that both work and nonwork experiences influence each other, leading to a highly interconnected and blended work-life experience for employees. This insight challenges the traditional assumption that the institutionalized nature of work and home confines roles to specific times and spaces. However, this insight has yet to be sufficiently incorporated into management scholarship, hindering our ability to fully understand how work-nonwork roles overlap and are managed. The parent role constitutes a dominant nonwork role that impacts work in a range of ways. Scholars disproportionately focus on the incompatibility between parent and work roles without addressing the outcomes of this incompatibility for employees’ lives or how it is managed. Our symposium presents five papers that exhibit the consequences of combining parenthood and work for the lives of employees as well as its navigation in both work and nonwork domains. Contributors draw on diverse theoretical perspectives¬—relational exchange, infrastructure shock, gender schema, role theory, boundary work, and identity—and unique contexts—entrepreneurship, a religious community, COVID-19, and fishermen community—to provide a broad vision of the parenthood-work overlap dynamic and its navigation. To foster meaningful discussions between the authors and the audience, our symposium will use a round table format instead of featuring a discussant after the paper presentations. When Motherhood and Entrepreneurship Collide Author: Elinor Flynn; London Business School Author: Vanessa Conzon; Boston College Passing As Stay-At-Home Moms: When Women Work in Patriarchal Societies Author: Elise B. Jones; U.S. Coast Guard Academy Author: Christine Deborah Bataille; Work-Family Infrastructure Shock: Challenging the Status Quo of Ideal Parent and Worker Author: Keimei Sugiyama; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Author: Jamie Jocelyn Ladge; Boston College Hockey Moms and Ballet Dads: On Forming a Parent Social Identity at Work Author: Namrata Sandhu; George Mason University Author: Heather Ciara Vough; George Mason University Fishing (for) Identity: Intergenerational Work Identity among Fathers and Sons Author: Muhammad Aqeel Awan; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Niranjan Srinivasan Janardhanan
Unaccompanied Refugee Children. Improving the Status Quo - Sustainably
No full textCEMSThis paper focuses on the process of building a business case based on our client (Magnus
Lindblom)’s social venture idea of setting up a high quality home for care (HVB) in order to
achieve a better and faster integration of unaccompanied refugee children therefore improving
this reality in Sweden. This included analyzing the context, the industry, competition, the
business model and financial scenarios. With this, one was able to derive strategic options and a
final recommendation for the client. From the team’s perspective, our client should start an HVB
for URC, with a positioning as a focused provider for URC with selected DSM IV diagnosed
psychiatric disorders, and with a maximum of eight spots. By doing this the client would be
addressing a niche market not yet explored in Sweden. Furthermore, the author studies how one
can accurately value social enterprises and what are actually the main drivers influencing it, a
topic that has been highly discussed recently
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