bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Avoidance and overgeneral memory
Authors:   , Ganly Tim
Published: November 2021

Overgeneral memory is a phenomenon that occurs in depression in which people tend to remember temporally non-specific autobiographical memories. Overgeneral memory may be functional; by avoiding specific memories, potentially distressing emotions can avoided. This “functional avoidance” may be part of a repertoire of avoidance strategies people use when they are under stress. The question of the relationship between avoidance, stress, and overgeneral memory has been investigated using only laboratory-based stressors, and no previous research has examined the relationships in both non-clinical and clinical samples. Across four studies, this thesis investigated the relationships between avoidance and overgeneral memory in clinical and non-clinical samples and whether every-day stress moderates this relationship.  Studies 1, 2, and 4 engaged undergraduate samples in which mean depression scores were low (non-clinical samples). Study 3 engaged a sample from a university counselling service in which the mean depression score was high (clinical sample). Participants completed self-report measures of avoidance and stress. They were also asked to remember specific events to a series of emotion cue words on the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT). This thesis also investigated the possibility that avoidance may be associated with a reduction in memory performance on other tests of autobiographical memory besides the AMT, perhaps because other types of memories, not just specific, can be distressing. Thus, in Study 1, participants also completed the Autobiographical Memory Test-Reversed (AMT-R) in which they were asked to retrieve general memories. In addition, across studies, the pleasantness of events remembered to positive and negative cues was examined. In Study 4, the possible moderating role of rating pleasantness on the relationship between avoidance and overgeneral memory was examined.  Results from the non-clinical samples indicated higher avoidance was associated with less overgeneral remembering on the AMT. In the clinical sample, there were no significant relationships between avoidance and overgeneral memory. There were no significant relationships between avoidance and AMT-R performance. Overall, stress did not moderate the relationship between avoidance and overgeneral memory. Mean pleasantness ratings for events remembered to positive and negative cues were congruent with cue valence. However, individual positive and negative cues did not always elicit memories for pleasant and unpleasant events, respectively. Rating (vs. not rating) the pleasantness of remembered events did not moderate the relationship between avoidance and overgeneral memory. Overall, findings suggested that functional avoidance is not part of a repertoire of avoidance strategies. Ironic process theory is discussed as an explanation for why higher avoidance was associated with a lower proportion of overgeneral memories in the non-clinical samples.
Magister Ludi: Hermeneutics in Architectural Representation
Authors:   , Coetzee David
Published: November 2021

Written narrative has the ability to enchant the imagination of a person into a heightened emotional state, all without being directly visual. How, when existing almost entirely within a visual sense, does architecture and interior space so often lack this quality? How can I design spaces that will move me with as much impact as a few words on a page? Spurring from a frustration in attempting to understand my own design motivations as a student of interior architecture, this research grew from two seeds of interest planted throughout my life; an affinity with the visually artistic and the capturing mystery of written narrative.  How can the translation of written narrative help to enhance the visual representation of interior architecture?
Nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers in primary health care: A realist evaluation of the New Zealand experience
Authors:   , Officer Tara
Published: November 2021

Internationally, health workforce redesign provides a means to cope with an increasing demand for health services. The development of advanced practitioner professions provides a major change in health service delivery that challenges traditional practice boundaries. Yet, we know very little about how to introduce such roles into existing health systems successfully. This research investigates how nurse practitioner and pharmacist prescriber roles are developing in New Zealand primary health care, and what is needed to better support the future development of these roles.  A realist methodology guided this research. The study used a qualitative research design involving semi-structured interviews of (1) policy, training, and advocacy stakeholders; (2) primary health care nurse practitioners, pharmacist prescribers, and general practitioners; and (3) patients of advanced practitioners and carers of patients using such services. Documents provided by interviewees relating to practice-specific roles supplemented these interviews. Data analysis facilitated the generation, testing, and refinement of theories on nurse practitioner and pharmacist prescriber role development.  This research provided an account of the complexities of developing new health professional roles in an already established health system. Theories formed in this research considered advanced practitioner role creation, realisation, and subsequent delivery of health services. Mechanisms for their development included: (1) engagement in planning and integrating roles; (2) establishing opportunities as part of a well-defined career pathway; and (3) championing role uptake and work to full scopes of practice. Various health system and workplace contexts, practitioner goals, and patient needs influenced the ability for these mechanisms to trigger and thus have an effect on role development.  Theories arising from this research emphasise the complexity inherent in the development of advanced practitioner roles. In addition, the findings demonstrate that a structured and informed health workforce redesign could improve use of roles, such as those of the nurse practitioner and pharmacist prescriber. In light of these results, this study recommends, implementing a national strategy that aligns policy and practice decisions if we are to succeed in making better use of such practitioner skills and expertise.
The constraints, aesthetic implications, and creative strategies of composing for networked music performance
Authors:   , Wilson Rebekah
Published: November 2021

Performing music together over a public network while being located at a distance from each other necessarily means performing under a particular set of technical and performative constraints. These constraints are antithetical to—and make cumbersome—the performance of tightly synchronised music, which traditionally depends on the conditions of transmission stability, ultra-low latency, and shared presence. These conditions are experienced optimally only when musicians perform at the same time and in the same place. Except for specialized private network services, public networks are inherently latent and unstable, which disrupts musicians’ ability to achieve precise vertical synchronisation and create an environment where approaches to music performance and composition must be reconsidered. It is widely considered that these conditions mean that networked music performance is a future genre for when network latencies and throughput improve, or one that is currently reserved for high-end heavily optimised networks afforded by institutions and not individuals, or one that is primarily reserved for improvisatory or aleatoric composition and performance techniques. I disagree that networked music is dependent on access to advanced Internet technologies and suggest that music compositions for networked music performance can be highly successful over regular broadband conditions when the composer considers the limitations as opportunities for new creative strategies and aesthetic approaches. In this exegesis, I outline the constraints that prove that while networked music performance is latent, asynchronous, multi-located, multi-authorial, and hopelessly, intrinsically, and passionately digitally mediated, these constraints provide rich creative opportunities for the composition and performance of synchronised and resonant music. I introduce four aesthetic approaches, which I determine as being critical towards the development of networked music: 1) postvertical harmony, where the asynchronous arrival of signals ruptures the harmonic experience; 2) new timbral fusions created through multi-located resonant sources; 3) a contribution to performative relationships through the generation and transmission of vital information in the musical score and through the development of new technologies for facilitating performer synchronisation; and 4) the post-digital experience, where all digital means of manipulation are permitted and embraced, leading to new ways of listening to and forming reproduced realities. Each of these four aesthetic approaches are considered individually in relation to the core constraints, through discussion of the present-day technical conditions, and how each of these approaches are applied to my musical portfolio through practical illustration.
Characterising the Biological Activity of a Trichlorovinyl Cysteine-Containing Mycothiol Analogue
Authors:   , Harmos Phoebe
Published: November 2021

Cancer is a disease characterised by the uncontrolled growth of mutated cells, and is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with over a third of people diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Despite extensive investment of both time and money in cancer research, poor patient outcomes and quality of life, and the evolution of treatment resistant cancers indicates that continued research, and more efficacious therapies are required. A recent investigation identified a mycothiol analogue which displayed significant toxicity in the promyelocytic leukemia cell line (HL60). Designed as a negative control, no biological activity was expected from this compound and its cellular target and mode of action are unknown.  This thesis describes the synthesis of a toxic trichlorovinyl cysteine-containing analogue of mycothiol, and the attempted synthesis of a propynylated and fluorescent derivative of this. The research also details immunomodulatory investigations, which were undertaken to probe the mode of action of the lead compound, and to determine whether its precursor, N-Boc-S-trichlorovinyl cysteine, induced toxicity through the same mechanism. The lead compound demonstrated mild immunomodulatory activity in splenocytes isolated from euthanised C57BL/6 mice, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assays revealed a likely Th2 mediated response, induced by the production of IL-4. The precursor however appears to promote a strong pro-inflammatory response, by inducing IL-17a production, which is widely considered a deleterious immune response in cancer. Whilst further work is required to determine the cellular target of the lead compound, the research described demonstrates the potential for this compound as an anti-cancer agent, while the precursor appears inappropriate for further development.
Epistemic guidance of visual attention for robotic agents in dynamic visual scenes
Authors:   , Bhakta Arindam
Published: November 2021

Humans and many animals can selectively sample important parts of their visual surroundings to carry out their daily activities like foraging or finding prey or mates. Selective attention allows them to efficiently use the limited resources of the brain by deploying sensory apparatus to collect data believed to be pertinent to the organism's current task in hand.  Robots or other computational agents operating in dynamic environments are similarly exposed to a wide variety of stimuli, which they must process with limited sensory and computational resources. Developing computational models of visual attention has long been of interest as such models enable artificial systems to select necessary information from complex and cluttered visual environments, hence reducing the data-processing burden.  Biologically inspired computational saliency models have previously been used in selectively sampling a visual scene, but these have limited capacity to deal with dynamic environments and have no capacity to reason about uncertainty when planning their visual scene sampling strategy. These models typically select contrast in colour, shape or orientation as salient and sample locations of a visual scene in descending order of salience. After each observation, the area around the sampled location is blocked using inhibition of return mechanism to keep it from being re-visited.  This thesis generalises the traditional model of saliency by using an adaptive Kalman filter estimator to model an agent's understanding of the world and uses a utility function based approach to describe what the agent cares about in the visual scene. This allows the agents to adopt a richer set of perceptual strategies than is possible with the classical winner-take-all mechanism of the traditional saliency model. In contrast with the traditional approach, inhibition of return is achieved without implementing an extra mechanism on top of the underlying structure.  This thesis demonstrates the use of five utility functions that are used to encapsulate the perceptual state that is valued by the agent. Each utility function thereby produces a distinct perceptual behaviour that is matched to particular scenarios.  The resulting visual attention distribution of the five proposed utility functions is demonstrated on five real-life videos.  In most of the experiments, pixel intensity has been used as the source of the saliency map. As the proposed approach is independent of the saliency map used, it can be used with other existing more complex saliency map building models. Moreover, the underlying structure of the model is sufficiently general and flexible, hence it can be used as the base of a new range of more sophisticated gaze control systems.
Development of an Open PXIe System based on FPGA Modules
Authors:   , Ang Andrew
Published: November 2021

PXIe is a instrumentation platform that is used as the basis for developing test equipment, modular electronic instruments and automated test systems. A typical PXIe platform comprises of modules that are housed in a 3U Eurocard form factor chassis. The platform utilise the PCIe bus standard to enable high-speed data transfer, suitable for a range of applications. However, the platform is inherently complex, contains proprietary IP and is prohibitively expensive for most researchers and engineers who wish to utilise a modular instrumentation system. To overcome these barriers, the beginnings of an open PXIe platform has been developed. This consists of two open PXIe modules utilising modular FPGA technology. The first module is the System Controller, which introduces an embedded Linux solution and open-source PCIe driver to the platform. To simplify software development, user applications can utilise the drivers API without using kernel-level code. On the System Controller FPGA fabric is a root-port implementation that allows communication with peripheral modules. The second modules is a general purpose Peripheral Module that provides various I/O standards that users can utilise in their FPGA design, and a dedicated PCIe generation 2 x4 link with the System Controller. In the FPGA fabric of the Peripheral Module is a PCIe-DMA engine that facilitates data transfer between the two modules. The open nature and modular design will allow more economical and more flexible solutions, which will be appealing to a wide range of potential users. In addition, an example user application is developed for this system to show case the overall functionality the modules, with transfer speeds of 100 MB/s.
Unfortunate Strangers: Lascars in the British Maritime World c. 1849-1912
Authors:   , Broughton Dean
Published: November 2021

In 1903, there were 36,893 lascar sailors out of the 247,448 seamen working on British merchant ships. Lascars were non-white workers mostly recruited from Asia. As a result of changes to the British maritime industry in the second half of the nineteenth century, notably the shift from sail to steam, lascar numbers increased. Lascars became critical to the success of the British shipping fleet. They filled the gap that had formed because of the lack of British sailors to crew ships. Lascars were characterised as cheap, lazy, and dirty, as well as being regarded as poor sailors. Lascars were essentially perceived as everything the British sailor was not. Although lascars were British subjects, they were paid less than British sailors, ate inferior food, and slept in substandard accommodation. Once in British ports, after their voyages had ended lascars enjoyed fewer settlement rights, access to welfare and resources than their counterparts. As a result, lascars struggled to survive in Britain. Strategies that created a racial division of labour and hierarchy entrenched a low social status for lascars compared to that of their British counterparts.  This thesis discusses how and why some groups of non-white sailors were given the label lascar. It analyses how the label lascar became a term to represent and enforce difference. Being cheap labour, and non-white was the basis for lascar difference, but the strict regulation and control of their conditions put these men in a much more subordinate position than their British counterparts. The strict conditions and tight regulation that lascars experienced became characteristics of the label they were tagged with. Many lascars were abandoned or chose to stay in Britain where the strategies they employed to survive further enforced their difference. This thesis highlights the period 1849-1912 because of the significant increase in lascar numbers during this period. Chapter one discusses who a lascar was and the interchangeable nature of the term lascar with other labels that describe non-white maritime workers. Chapter two draws on newspaper evidence, plus the works of Gopalan Balachandran and Michael Fisher to examine the effects on lascar recruitment and employment practices that reinforced difference. Chapter 3 focuses on lascars in Britain and what strategies they employed to survive and how they reinforced difference. The majority of the discussion will focus on examples from port cities of London, Glasgow, and Dundee because lascars were a visible part of the social diversity of these cities. Between 1849 and 1912 lascars contributed significantly to the economic success of Britain’s maritime industry.
"No better than the Feminazis;" Emancipatory Potential in the Contradictions and Complexities of Young People's Understandings of Politics, Gender and Work
Authors:   , Thompson Victoria
Published: November 2021

The intersecting politics of gender and work influence the changing nature of work itself, and how it is experienced. Unemployment, underemployment, precarity, and overwork, along with issues concerning unpaid care work and housework, impact upon an increasingly significant and disparate group of people. This warrants a critical reflection on assumptions concerning the creation of fixed identities around occupations. The emerging workforce is especially affected by the fact that “good” jobs (full-time, decently paid careers) are increasingly difficult to find, and at the same time, the scarcity of long-term jobs can cause people to be more committed to the workplace to ensure the security of ongoing employment.This further complicates the focus on full employment as a perceived marker of gender equality; not to mention the implications of an increased commitment to formal employment on the dual-wage labour market (such as housekeepers and nannies) and unpaid care work. However, literature concerning the feminist challenging of work and other approaches to the theorisation of work, as well as how perceived changes to work influence the future/emerging workforce, is currently limited. This research will, accordingly, focus on these areas. In this thesis, I am interested in examining the nature of political engagement, and how it is affected by changes to the prioritisation of time, access to material resources, and the dwindling of a fixed occupational identity. Of specific interest is how these wider issues are perceived by young people (secondary school students in New Zealand), rather than the subjective experience of people currently in the workforce. Young people are often characterised as having straightforwardly adopted the norms and values of neoliberalism, as opposed to being politically engaged. This research is made up in equal parts from theoretical and empirical components. Firstly, the theoretical work of Autonomist Marxists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and feminist economic geographers Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham (known as J.K Gibson-Graham) provide a framework that allows young people’s engagement with politics to be recognised and understood as multifaceted, meaningful and agent-driven. Secondly, findings from focus group research conducted with secondary school students highlights the socially-generated nature of knowledge itself, bringing language that young people use to discuss these issues to the forefront. Combining these two modes of analysis highlights the complexities and nuances of young people’s understandings of these issues, advancing theory on how young people engage politically.
Mindful words: How do our stories change when we read about mindfulness? A narrative inquiry
Authors:   , Watkin Julia
Published: November 2021

This narrative inquiry tells the stories of four women who read an online blog about mindfulness for three weeks and shared their reflections of the experience. It investigates the role that reading plays in the development of mindfulness—a process that has not featured previously in the research literature. The women in this study were recruited via social media, and all were motivated to learn more about mindfulness and how it could have a positive effect on their daily lives. Data was collected via questionnaires on their understanding of mindfulness and their state of mind prior to, and following the completion of, the project. The women also submitted written reflections, based on their reading and experience of each blog post. Analysis involved coding the data and forming it into individual narratives, written in their own words. The narratives were then deconstructed to investigate their association to the transformative learning process—perspective, experience, reflection, meaning making, and interpretation. The results showed that the women did, indeed, have transformative learning experiences, although the sustainability of such change needs further investigation. Despite limitations, these stories suggest that reading about mindfulness deserves a higher profile—and that the use of a digital platform to host written mindfulness content has the potential to positively affect a wide audience.
I want to share: Balancing collective and individual needs in New Zealand urban housing architecture
Authors:   , Walshe Genevieve
Published: November 2021

In 2016 I visited Sargfabrik cohousing in Vienna and was intrigued and captivated by the rich, diverse and friendly atmosphere within the semi-public spatial and architectural realm, which I thought would never happen in New Zealand. Sargfabrik led me to realise that the common realm of New Zealand urban housing architecture is impoverished. It can, and should, be better.  In the 1950s and 1960s, the Kiwi dream was focused on the acquisition of a standalone dwelling; New Zealand prided itself on being an egalitarian, property owning-democracy, supported by innovative housing policies. Today the ‘Kiwi dream is changing as home ownership is no longer a rite of passage for all New Zealanders. Despite rising income inequality and decreasing housing affordability, the contemporary Kiwi dream remains focused on ownership, due to the stability and security associated with this tenure type. If New Zealand is to address the housing equality issue it should investigate the potential of international models of tenure and ownership, such as co-operatives or the Baugruppe (building group) and Baugemeinschaft (building community) models, to allow increased accessibility to stable home occupation and ownership for all New Zealanders through diversity and flexibility of tenure type over time.  Today the contemporary Kiwi dream acknowledges the advantages and benefits of higher density housing models, such as increased security, lack of maintenance, centralised management, ability to ‘lock and leave’ allowing travel, and proximity to town centres. A New Zealand collective urban housing model can represent the contemporary Kiwi dream through a balance between collective and individual needs. Solutions to the New Zealand housing crisis must follow a movement towards flexibility, to accommodate demographic change over time and the DIY spirit of New Zealanders, add community connectedness, challenge loneliness and embrace the sharing economy.  This design-led research proposes that the common spatial and architectural realm can facilitate potential formation of community in New Zealand urban housing architecture. It argues that the Sargfabrik cohousing model can be translated and adapted for a New Zealand urban context. The differences in housing context between Vienna and New Zealand, and the architectural implications of these differences for New Zealand urban housing architecture, are extracted from the research. It argues that a new collective urban housing model can achieve the design diversity and flexibility of New Zealand’s preferred suburban housing and the rich atmosphere of Sargfabrik’s common realm. This occurs through questioning and defining the contemporary Kiwi dream. The ways international flexible tenure and ownership models could work in a New Zealand context are also considered.
NYC POPS: Exploring Human Agency of the Public Sphere
Authors:   , Constable Anna
Published: November 2021

This thesis aims to investigate, through design, spatial agency within the realm of New York City’s Privately Owned Public Spaces. The notion of agency in architecture is directly linked to social and political power. Starting in 1961, New York’s city planners introduced an incentive zoning scheme (POPS) which encouraged private builders to include public spaces in their developments. Many are in active public use, but others are hard to find, under surveillance, or essentially inaccessible. Within the existing POPS sites, tension is current between the ideals of public space - completely open, accessible - and the limitations imposed by those who create and control it. Designed to be singular, contained, and mono-functional, POPS do not yet allow for newer ideas of public space as multi-functional, not contained/bounded but extending and overlapping outward.  As public-private partnerships become the model for catalyzing urban (re)development in the late 20th century, bonus space is an increasingly common land use type in major cities across the world. The quality and nature of bonus spaces created in exchange for floor area bonuses varies greatly. In many cases, tensions in privately owned space produce a severely constricted definition of the public and public life. Incentive zoning programmes continue to serve as a model for numerous urban zoning regulations, so changing ideas of public space and its design need to be tested in such spaces.  These urban plazas offer a test case through which to examine agency, exploring how social space is also political space, charged with the dynamics of power/ empowerment, interaction/ isolation, control/ freedom. This thesis looks at one such site, the connecting plaza sites along Sixth Avenue between West 47th St and West 51st St. This is an extreme example of concentrated POPS sites in New York City. Here one’s perception and occupation of space is profoundly affected by the underlying design of that space which reflects its private ownership. Privately Owned Public Space can be designed that is capable of/ challenging the notion of the public in public space, and modifying the structure of the city and its social life.
Örtmeceli Küfürlerin Görsel-İşitsel Çevirisinde Soru ve Sorunlar: İyi Yer Örneği
Authors: KIRAN Aysun , OĞUZ Derya
Published: November 2021

Mizah ve küfür gibi kültüre özgü ögeler, diller arası aktarımlarında ortaya çıkan zorlayıcı yönler ve bunların sonuçları açısından görsel-işitsel çeviri alanında farklı bağlamlar üzerinden çalışılmıştır (Chen, 2004; Fernández Dobao, 2006; Ávila-Cabrera, 2015). Bu çalışmada, bu iki ögenin önemli yer tuttuğu Netflix yapımı Amerikan dizisi İyi Yer (The Good Place) incelenerek sansürlü küfür kullanımının mizah unsuru olarak işlev görmesine odaklanılmıştır. 2016-2020 yılları arasında yayınlanan dizi, kurmaca dünyasının bir parçası olarak küfür filtresi bulunması ve bunun sonucunda küfürlerin sözcük oyunlarıyla sansüre uğratılması açısından küfür, örtmece ve mizah ögelerini bir araya getirmektedir. Bu açıdan, dizideki küfür filtresi yaratıcı dil kullanımının görsel-işitsel alanda çeviri yoluyla yeniden üretimi üzerinde rol oynayan faktörleri tartışma olanağı sunmaktadır. Çalışmamızın amacı, kaynak metindeki örtmeceli küfürlerin Türkçe çevirisinde ne tür yollar izlendiğini tespit etmek ve bu küfürlerin dizinin kurmaca dünyasındaki anlamlandırmalarının erek metinde ne ölçüde aktarıldığını incelemektir. Bunu yaparken İyi Yer’deki sansürlü küfürlerin görsel-işitsel çevirisinde verilen kararları incelemek adına, dizinin İngilizce orijinali ile altyazı ve dublaj çevirisi karşılaştırılacaktır. Örtmeceli küfürlerin hem kaynak hem de erek metinde yeniden modelleme yoluyla oluşturulduğu ancak Türkçede örtmece oluşturma biçimlerinde dikkat çeken bir tutarsızlık olduğu ve bu tutarsızlıkların küfür filtresinin etkisinin aktarılmasında anlam kaybı ve karakter temsilinde kaymalara neden olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Sözü edilen kaymaların muhtemel nedenleri ve sonuçları yaratım süreçlerindeki farklılıklar, dilsel kısıtlamalar ve bağlamsal faktörler üzerinden tartışılacaktır.
PbTe Quantum Dots and Engineering of the Energy Band Alignment in Photovoltaic Applications
Authors: HACIEFENDİOĞLU Tuğba , ASİL Demet
Published: November 2021

Lead telluride (PbTe) quantum dots, despite being considered as one of the most promising candidates for future photovoltaics owing to their higher multiple exciton generation yields, have received limited attention in solar cell designs due their less explored surface chemistry and high air sensitivity. This study demonstrates the synthesis and characterization of highly crystalline PbTe QDs and their utilization in solution processed solar cells through band alignment engineering. Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy studies showed that the conduction and valence band levels depend strongly on the type of surface ligand utilized for the ligand exchange process. Conduction and valence band levels of tetrabutylammonium iodide (TBAI) and 1,2-ethanedithiol (EDT) treated PbTe QDs with respect to vacuum were measured as -3.73 eV/-4.83 eV and -3.48 eV/-4.45 eV, respectively. The presence of a band offset between the conduction and valence band levels of TBAI and EDT treated layers allowed us to engineer the band alignment in the light absorbing layer. As a result, solar cells where TBAI and EDT ligand treated QDs were utilized in a bilayer cell architecture reached a photo conversion efficiency of 0.65%.
Distribution of Glycoconjugates in the Gills of Oscar Fish (Astronotus ocellatus)
Authors: ÖZTOP Mustafa , ÇINAR Kenan , DEMİRBAĞ Emel
Published: November 2021

Glycoconjugates involved in many functions are produced by many cell types. This study aimed to investigate the glycoconjugate expression in the Oscar fish (Astronotus ocellatus) gills using five horseradish peroxidase-conjugated lectins. This study revealed that gill epithelial cells react with Canavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) and Arachis hypogaea agglutinin (PNA). Strong reaction to Con A was seen in the epithelial cells of the gill primary lamellae. Epithelial cells of primary and secondary lamellae and eosinophilic granular cells had varying intensity of PNA binding. Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I(UEA-I) positive eosinophilic granular cells were observed in the connective tissue of primary lamellae. Epithelial cells of the gill primary filament had Con A reaction in varying intensities. Superficial epithelial cells reacted with PNA in various degrees. Epithelial cells of the secondary lamellae had Con A and PNA positive reaction. These results indicate that glycoconjugate distribution may show interspecific variations, suggesting that the high heterogeneity of naturally occurring glycoconjugates in the epithelial cells of Oscar fish gills might be attributed to the various functional roles of glycoconjugates.
Worship and the virus in Hindu India
Authors: Frøystad Kathinka
Published: November 2021

The religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hindu India were manifold and, at times, publicly contested, which raises the question of which societal differences became visible and were augmented as the pandemic unfolded. Based on observations mainly from the first coronavirus wave in 2020, this article argues that the limited religious innovation that ensued gave rise to a lively public debate that revealed marked differences within the Hindu community, that the pandemic offered new possibilities for affirming Hindu identities while othering Muslims, and that it accelerated the transition to online religious services in prominent temples while pausing the activities in others, thus augmenting a marked digital divide that may well outlast the pandemic. Pandemic religious changes notwithstanding, the article concludes that most of the changes were ephemeral and produced minor jolts rather than major transformations.
5 • Lugares historiográficos do exilio
Luís Seoane, compromiso e intervención en ambos os lados do Atlántico
Authors: Casas Arturo
Published: November 2021

Sumario 5.1 Relacións e afinidades. – 5.2 Campo cultural e exilio. – 5.3 A lóxica relacional do campo cultural. – 5.4 Os intelectuais e a renovación dos repertorios culturais. – 5.5 Repertorios e antagonía.
ПРОБЛЕМА СОХРАНЕНИЯ ПСИХИЧЕСКОГО ЗДОРОВЬЯ ПЕДАГОГА
Authors: Мазур Елена
Published: November 2021

В работе рассматривается негативное влияние педагогической деятельности на психическое состояние учителя. Существуют приемы психологической защиты, направленные на снижение значимости психотравмирующей ситуации, конфликта, стресса. Аутогенная тренировка я
ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ОСАЖДЕННОГО ГИДРОКСИДА АЛЮМИНИЯ В НИЗКОТЕМПЕРАТУРНЫЙ ОКСИД
Authors: Артюшин Артем , Косенко Надежда , Филатова Наталья
Published: November 2021

Исследован процесс превращения байерита, полученного осаждением аммиаком из нитрата алюминия, при термической обработке. Методами рентгенофазного и термического анализа показана трансформация осажденного тригидрата по схеме: байерит Al(OH)3 ® бёмит γ-AlOO
СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ МЕТОДЫ ЯЗЫКОВОГО ТЕСТИРОВАНИЯ И ОЦЕНКИ ОВЛАДЕНИЯ АНГЛИЙСКИМ ЯЗЫКОМ КАК ВТОРЫМ ЯЗЫКОМ
Authors: Братанич Оксана
Published: November 2021

Ця стаття має на меті проаналізувати основну різноманітність методів тестування та аналізу рівня володіння англійською мовою, які є необхідними та необхідними елементами навчального процесу. За допомогою історичних та описових методів наведено основні хар
КРИТЕРИИ ДИАГНОСТИКИ ПРЕДИАБЕТА У ДЕТЕЙ И ПОДРОСТКОВ С ОЖИРЕНИЕМ: ОБЗОР ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ
Authors: Толстикова Елена
Published: November 2021

Анотація. Ожиріння в усьому світі продовжує зростання, у тому числі серед дітей та підлітків, набуваючи риси глобальної пандемії та призводячи до розвитку цукрового діабету. Предіабет, що передує діабету, визначають як концентрацію глюкози в крові, що пер
Размножение Iris scariosa Willd. ex Link и Iris humilis Georgi в культуре in vitro
Authors: Ахметова Альбина Шамсуновна
Published: November 2021

В связи с медленным размножением в естественных условиях и высокой антропогенной нагрузкой на природные фитоценозы Iris scariosa Willd. ex Link и Iris humilis Georgi находятся под угрозой исчезновения. Для их сохранения необходимо разработать эффективные биотехнологии, позволяющие массово воспроизводить ценные генотипы без нанесения ущерба природным популяциям. Показана возможность эффективного применения метода культуры тканей для размножения видов рода Касатик Iris L. в культуре in vitro. Разработан эффективный прием стерилизации семян I. scariosa и I. humilis, позволяющий получать высокий процент жизнеспособных эксплантов — 75 и 82 % соответственно — при последовательном выдерживании семян в 70 % растворе этанола в течение 1 мин и 0,1 % растворе диацида в течение 20 мин. Установлена необходимость скарификации семян, способствующая дружному прорастанию в течение 2 недель и повышению всхожести до 80 %. Выявлена наибольшая регенерационная способность I. humilis на среде Мурасиге и Скуга, содержащей индолилмасляную кислоту, 1,0 мг/л, и кинетин, 0,5 мг/л.
PENERAPAN MANAJEMEN PERUBAHAN PADA RESTORAN BARASENJA KOTA MALANG
Authors: fitriya
Published: November 2021

kemajuan globalisasi melibatkan pengembangan berbagai organisasi di berbagai negara, membawa persaingan ketat di setiap organisasi yang didirikan. Persaingan yang serius juga menjadi tolak ukur bagi sebuah organisasi untuk bisa menjadi sebuah organisasi yang baik.
Makalah manajemen sumber daya manusia
Authors: MUKARRAMA RIFQATUL
Published: November 2021

Makalah manajemen sumber daya manusia
Kekuasaan, Tanggung Jawab & Delegasi
Authors: devi sri
Published: November 2021

Bagian-bagian dalam struktur organisasi paling tidak menunjukkan adanya empat faktor penting dalam struktur organisasi, yaitu adanya kekuasaan, kewenangan, tanggung jawab,dan pendelegasian. Namun ketika kekuasaan, kewenangan serta tanggung jawab tidak dapat sepenuhnya dipegang oleh seseorang, serta tanggung jawab tidak dapat sepenuhnya dipegang oleh seseorang, maka dapat dilakukan apa yang dinamakan sebagai pelimpahan kekuasaan dan wewenang sekaligus juga tanggung jawab atau apa yang Mula delegasi.
Differential expression of glycogenin 2 in cancers of the breast.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: November 2021

Breast cancer affects women at relatively high frequency (1). We mined published microarray datasets (2, 3) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the systems level genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer. We report here significant differential expression of the gene encoding glycogenin 2, GYG2, when comparing primary tumors of the breast to the tissue of origin, the normal breast. GYG2 mRNA was present at significantly lower quantities in tumors of the breast as compared to normal breast tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of GYG2 in primary tumors of the breast was correlated with overall survival in patients with luminal B subtype cancer, demonstrating a relationship between primary tumor expression of a differentially expressed gene and patient survival outcomes influenced by PAM50 molecular subtype. GYG2 may be of relevance to initiation, maintenance or progression of cancers of the female breast.
Mengelola Sumber Daya Manusia
Authors: solihin Della citra
Published: November 2021

Manajemen sumber daya manusia (MSDM) adalah suatu ilmu atau cara tentang bagaimana mengatur hubugan dan peranan sumber daya yang dimiliki oleh individu secara efisien dan efektif serta dapat digunakan secara maksimal sehingga tercapai tujuan bersama perusahaan, karyawan, dan masyarakat.Manajemen sumber daya manusia (MSDM) adalah proses dan upaya untuk merekrut, mengembangkan, memotivasi, serta melakukan evaluasi secara menyeluruh terhadap sumber daya manusia yang dibutuhkan perusahaan dalam mencapai tujuan.
Essential Questions and Data Sources for Continuous Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning
Authors: Miller Emily R. , Fairweather James , Slakey Linda , Smith Tobin L.
Published: November 2021

Essential Questions and Data Sources for Continuous Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning helps member campuses track the progress of their reform efforts. This resource complements the Framework and provides a set of key questions designed to engage institutional leaders and faculty members in discussions about teaching and learning. The report also provides data sources and analytical tools available to answer these questions and inform decision-making, as well as provides guidance to address common challenges in evaluating the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate education.
Hidrologi Pertanian. Edy Said Ningkeula
Authors: Ningkeula Edy Said
Published: November 2021

Hirdrogeologi pertanian merupakan pengembangan hidrogeologi atau ilmu teknik air tanah dalam bidang pertanian. Keilmuan ini merupakan interkasi antar beberapa keilmuan sains dan teknik yaitu hidrologi, rekayasa pertanian, sains tanah, hidrogeologi/teknik air tanah, dan teknik sipil air
Pengelolaan sumber daya manusia
Authors: Afni Nurul
Published: November 2021

Pengelolaan Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM), merupakan salah satu hal yang sangat penting bagi setiap perusahaan, karena karyawan merupakan kunci sukses dari sistem yang berjalan di dalam perusahaan / organisasi. Oleh karena itu, maka diperlukan suatu sistem dari perusahaan yang berfungsi untuk monitoring, terutama dari segi efektivitas waktu dan juga efisiensi kerja dari karyawannya. Tujuan dari Sistem Absensi ini adalah menyediakan fasilitas bagi pihak manajemen maupun owner untuk dapat melakukan pengawasan terhadap jam kerja daripada karyawan di dalam perusahaan. Selain itu, manajemen akan dapat secara periodik menganalisa kedisiplinan dari karyawan. Kehadiran aplikasi absensi pada PT. Grand Komputer Surabaya ini merupakan titik awal manajemen dari perusahaan tersebut untuk dapat melakukan pengaturan terhadap karyawannya dan secara tidak langsung akan mengubah budaya dari karyawan yang semula tidak teratur, terutama dalam jam kerja kantor, kepada sistem keteraturan yang diawali dengan penepatan jam kerja di dalam keseharian mereka bekerja. Tidak hanya itu, sistem perizinan juga akan mengawasi tentang kedisiplinan dari karyawan di perusahaan.
MANAJEMEN REDAKSI PROGRAM BERITA KOMPAS TV MAKASSAR
Authors: AR Muhammad Yusuf
Published: November 2021

Rumusan permasalahan dalam penelitian ini adalah "Bagaimana manajemen redaksi program berita Kompas TV Makassar, ditinjau dari fungsi manajemen." Dengan demikian, tujuan penelitian ini, untuk mengetahui bagaimana manajemen redaksi program berita di Kompas TV Makassar, dalam kaitannya dengan penerapan fungsi-fungsi manajemen, yakni: planning, organizing, actuating, controlling (POAC). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Objek penelitiannya adalah Divisi Pemberitaan Kompas Tv Makassar. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tidak ada fungsi manajemen lebih menonjol di antara yang lainnya. Namun komitmen pada lembaga rapat redaksi sebagai forum pengambilan keputusan tertinggi atas isu liputan, pembentukan tim liputan, rencana eksekusi di lapangan, dan seluruh perencanaan serta hasil evaluasi, merupakan sebuah keharusan bagi seluruh kru divisi pemberitaan Kompas Tv Makassar.
Fixed points fix estimates: The accuracy of an effect size estimate is described by its sample’s conditional algorithmic information, as computed across rank permutations
Authors: Nelson Michael Cader
Published: November 2021

Every statistical estimate is equal to the sum of a nonrandom component, due to parameter values and bias, and a random component, due to sampling error. Estimation theory suggests that the two components are hopelessly confounded in the estimate. We would like to estimate the sign and magnitude of a statistic’s random deviation from its parameter--its accuracy--in the same way we quantify a statistic’s random variability around its parameter--its precision--by estimating the standard error. However, because the random component is an attribute of the sample data, it be described with parametric or Fisher information. In information theory, on the other hand, every information type--entropy, complexity--is understood as describing the extent of randomness in manifest data. This suggests that integrating the two conceptions of information could allow us to describe the two components of a statistical estimate, if only we could identify a common link between the two paradigms.The matching statistic, m, is such a link. For paired, ranked vectors X and Y of length n, m is the total number of paired observations in X and Y with matching ranks, m = Σ R(Xi) = R(Yi). That is, m is the number of fixed points between vectors. m has a long history in statistics, having served as the test statistic of a little-known null hypothesis statistical test (NHST) for the correlation coefficient, dating to around the turn of the twentieth century, called the matching method. Subtracting m from n yields a metric with a long history in information theory, the Hamming distance, a classic metric of the conditional complexity K(Y|X). Thus, m simultaneously contains both the Fisher information in a bivariate sample about the latent correlation and the conditional complexity or algorithmic information about the manifest observations.This paper shows that the presence of these two conflicting information types in m manifests a peculiar attribute in the statistic: m has an asymptotic efficiency less than or equal to zero relative to conventional correlation estimators computed on the same data. This means its Fisher information content decreases with increasing sample size, so that m’s random component is disproportionately large. Furthermore, when m and Pearson’s r are computed on the same sample, the two share a random component, and the value of m is indicative of the accuracy of r with respect to that component. Having proven this utility of m, by means theoretical and empirical (Monte Carlo simulations), additional matching statistics are constructed, including one composite statistic that is even more informative of the accuracy of r, and another that is indicative of the accuracy of Cohen’s d. Potential applications for computing accuracy-adjusted r are described, and implications are discussed.
Knismesis: the aversive facet of tickle
Authors: Varlamov Anton , Skorokhodov Ivan V.
Published: November 2021

There are two different kinds of tickle, knismesis (feather-light tickle) and gargalesis (more intense tickle eliciting involuntary laughter). In this article we review earlier and recent advances in tickle psychophysics and in neurophysiology of touch afferents and hypothesize that knismesis is signaled by populations of rapidly adapted hair follicle afferents, can stimulate itch neurons via dorsal horn projections, and is heavily moderated by afferent inputs from other touch neurons. Finally, we suggest that pathological light touch intolerance observed in autism spectrum disorder may reflect knismesis hyper-responsiveness and attenuated knismesis inhibition stemming from impaired integration of sensory inputs from other touch submodalities.