cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Constant Dripping Wears Away the Stone… Including Sovereign Debt: On Incrementalism as a Regulatory Approach for the New Sovereigntist Age
Creators: name: Goldmann, Matthias
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
A search for molecules in damped Lyman-alpha absorbers occulting millimetre-loud quasars
Creators: name: Curran, S. J.
name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Rantakyrö, F.
name: Johansson, L. E B
name: Nikolić, S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have used the SEST 15-metre and Onsala 20-metre telescopes to perform deep (rms ≳ 30 mJy) integrations of various molecular rotational transitions towards damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems (DLAs) known to occult millimetre-loud quasars. We have observed 6 new systems and improved the existing limits for 11 transitions. These limits may be approaching the sensitivities required to detect new systems and we present a small number of candidate systems which we believe warrant further observation.
Designing with the experiential in digitally augmented exhibitions
Creators: name: Kocsis, Anita
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The ways in which audiences interact and make meaning of digitally augmented exhibitions is an important design determinant. In such an interdisciplinary project, the design, the museum and new media encounter the problem of the experiential. It is argued that a creative experimental analysis of audience experience employing aesthetic visualisation semiotics drawn from the principles of information design, computational aesthetics and human centred design would be a relevant adjunct to an exhibition, providing fresh perspectives and new knowledge to interdisciplinary stakeholders. Interactive, experimental artefacts, known as field and body, provide a conceptual map of the exhibition experience relying on the creativity of audience participants in making visible, legible and tangible their personal reception of a work. The data yielded reflect abstract notions of audience experience engendering a discussion about the phenomenological, curatorial and cognitive effects of the digitally augmented exhibition.
Possible evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from QSO absorption lines: Systematic errors
Creators: name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Churchill, C. W.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Comparison of quasar (QSO) absorption spectra with laboratory spectra allows us to probe possible variations in the fundamental constants over cosmological time-scales. In a companion paper we present an analysis of Keck/HIRES spectra and report possible evidence suggesting that the fine-structure constant, α, may have been smaller in the past: Δα/α = (-0.72 ± 0.18) × 10-5 over the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3.5. In this paper we describe a comprehensive investigation into possible systematic effects. Most of these do not significantly influence our results. When we correct for those which do produce a significant systematic effect in the data, the deviation of Δα/α from zero becomes more significant. We are led increasingly to the interpretation that α was slightly smaller in the past.
Further constraints on variation of the fine-structure constant from alkali-doublet QSO absorption lines
Creators: name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
name: Wolfe, A. M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Comparison of quasar (QSO) absorption-line spectra with laboratory spectra provides a precise probe for variability of the fine-structure constant, ?, over cosmological time-scales. We constrain variation in ? in 21 Keck/HIRES Si IV absorption systems using the alkali-doublet (AD) method in which changes in ? are related to changes in the doublet spacing. The precision obtained with the AD method has been increased by a factor of 3: ??/? = (-05 ± 1.3) × 10-5. We also analyse potential systematic errors in this result. Finally we compare the AD method with the many-multiplet method, which has achieved an order of magnitude greater precision, and we discuss the future of the AD method.
X Chromosome Association Testing in Genome-Wide Association Studies
Creators: name: Hickey, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: My Honours thesis as a BSc (Statistics) student at the University of Melbourne. This work led to my first first-author publication (see link or doi: 10.1002/gepi.20616 for the published version.)
Reflecting a diversified country: A content analysis of brand print adverts in Great Britain
Creators: name: Mogaji, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Art
subject: Design
subject: Gender studies
subject: Ethnic Studies

description: The United Kingdom has opened its hand widely to welcome and accommodate different people; it has become one of the most diversified countries in the World. The 2012 Paralympics game has created different perceptions about disabilities in this country; people with disabilities are seen as humans too who have the same right to access sport facilities, shops, buy sports trainers and use best of the smart phones. Apart from disabilities, there is more to diversity in the UK, civil partnership is recognised by law, and people are not discriminated against because of their religious believe, sexual orientation or age. Most people feel that their individuality is respected in this country. However, how well is this diversified market for brands reflected in their adverts?
title: Wer hat Angst vor dem Völkerrecht?: Die Untätigkeit der nationalen Gesetzgeber als Herausforderung (auch) für die Völkerrechtler
Creators: name: Kühler, Anne
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Polyindole-ZnO Nanocomposite: Synthesis, Characterization and Heterogeneous Catalyst for the 3,4-Dihydropyrimidinone Synthesis under Solvent-free Conditions
Creators: name: Handore, Kalpana N.
name: Bhavsar, Sanjay V.
name: Nishigandh Pande
name: Chhattise, Prakash K.
name: Sharma, Sumit B.
name: Dallavalle, Sabrina
name: Vishwas Gaikwad
name: Kakasaheb C. Mohite
name: Vasant V. Chabukswar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A Polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite particle was synthesized by using a chemical oxidative polymerization method. Synthesized nanocomposite was characterized by UV-Visible, FTIR, SEM, XRD, EDAX and electrical conductivity measurements. The band at ∼3400 cm−1 and 735 cm−1 in FTIR spectra confirmed the polyindole formation. XRD spectral studies exhibits major diffraction in between 30–40° (2θ) indicates the partial crystalline nature of the polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite. SEM image reveals agglomerated granular particulate nature with ZnO embedded in the polyindole matrix. The application of Polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite as a polymer-supported catalyst was studied for the synthesis of one pot multicomponent Biginelli condensation.
Improved constraints on possible variation of physical constants from HI 21-cm and molecular QSO absorption lines
Creators: name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Combes, F.
name: Wiklind, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Quasar (QSO) absorption spectra provide an extremely useful probe of possible cosmological variation in various physical constants. Comparison of HI 21-cm absorption with corresponding molecular (rotational) absorption spectra allows us to constrain variation in y ≡ α2gp, where α is the fine-structure constant and gp is the proton g-factor. We analyse spectra of two QSOs, PKS 1413+135 and TXS 0218+357, and derive values of Δy/y at absorption redshifts of z = 0.2467 and 0.6847 by simultaneous fitting of the HI 21-cm and molecular lines. We find Δy/y = (-0.20 ± 0.44) × 10-5 and Δy/y = (-0.16 ± 0.54) × 10-5 respectively, indicating an insignificantly smaller y in the past. We compare our results with other constraints from the same two QSOs given recently by Drinkwater et al. and Carilli et al., and with our recent optical constraints, which indicated a smaller a at higher redshifts.
Further evidence for cosmological evolution of the fine structure constant
Creators: name: Webb, J. K.
name: Murphy, Michael
name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Dzuba, V. A.
name: Barrow, J. D.
name: Churchill, C. W.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
name: Wolfe, A. M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We describe the results of a search for time variability of the fine structure constant α using absorption systems in the spectra of distant quasars. Three large optical data sets and two 21 cm and mm absorption systems provide four independent samples, spanning ∼23% to 87% of the age of the universe. Each sample yields a smaller α in the past and the optical sample shows a 4σ deviation: Δα/α = -0.72±0.18×10-5 over the redshift range 0.5
Polyindole – ZnO Nano Composite: Synthesis, Characterisation and Heterogeneous Catalyst for the 3, 4 Dihydropyrimidinone Synthesis Under Solvent Free Condition
Creators: name: Handore, Kalpana N.
name: Bhavsar, Sanjay V.
name: Nishigandh Pande
name: Chhattise, Prakash K.
name: Sharma, Sumit B.
name: Dallavalle, Sabrina
name: Vishwas Gaikwad
name: Kakasaheb C. Mohite
name: Vasant V. Chabukswar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A Polyindole-ZnO nano composite particle was synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization method. Synthesized nano composite was characterized by UV visible, FTIR, SEM, XRD, EDAX and electrical conductivity measurement. The band at ∼ 3400 cm−1 and 735 cm−1 in FTIR spectra confirmed the polyindole formation. XRD spectral studies exhibits major diffraction in between 30-40° (2θ) indicates the partial crystalline nature of the polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite. SEM image reveals agglomerated granular particulate nature with ZnO embedded in the polyindole matrix. The application of Polyindole - ZnO nanocomposite as a polymer supported catalyst was studied for the synthesis of one pot multicomponent Biginelli condensation.
Relativistic effects in Ni II and the search for variation of the fine-structure constant
Creators: name: Dzuba, V. A.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Theories unifying gravity and other interactions suggest the possibility of spatial and temporal variation of physical “constants” in the Universe. Detection of high redshift absorption systems intersecting the sight lines toward distant quasars provides a powerful tool for measuring these variations. In the present paper we demonstrate that high sensitivity to variation of the fine-structure constant α can be obtained by comparing cosmic and laboratory spectra of the Ni ii ion. Relativistic effects in Ni ii reveal many interesting features. The Ni ii spectrum exhibits avoided level crossings under variation of α and the intervals between the levels have strong nonlinear dependencies on relativistic corrections. The values of the transition frequency shifts, due to the change of α, vary significantly from state to state including changes of sign. This enhances the sensitivity to the variation of α and reduces possible systematic errors. Calculations of the α dependence of the nickel ion spectral lines that are detectable in quasar absorption spectra have been performed using a relativistic configuration interaction method.
Polyindole-ZnO Nanocomposite: Synthesis, Characterization and Heterogeneous Catalyst for the 3,4-Dihydropyrimidinone Synthesis under Solvent-free Conditions
Creators: name: Handore, Kalpana N.
name: Bhavsar, Sanjay V.
name: Nishigandh Pande
name: Chhattise, Prakash K.
name: Sharma, Sumit B.
name: Dallavalle, Sabrina
name: Vishwas Gaikwad
name: Kakasaheb C. Mohite
name: Vasant V. Chabukswar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A Polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite particle was synthesized by using a chemical oxidative polymerization method. Synthesized nanocomposite was characterized by UV-Visible, FTIR, SEM, XRD, EDAX and electrical conductivity measurements. The band at ∼3400 cm−1 and 735 cm−1 in FTIR spectra confirmed the polyindole formation. XRD spectral studies exhibits major diffraction in between 30–40° (2θ) indicates the partial crystalline nature of the polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite. SEM image reveals agglomerated granular particulate nature with ZnO embedded in the polyindole matrix. The application of Polyindole-ZnO nanocomposite as a polymer-supported catalyst was studied for the synthesis of one pot multicomponent Biginelli condensation.
A method for detecting gravitational waves coincident with gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Heng, I. S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The mechanism for gamma-ray bursters and the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) are two outstanding problems facing modem physics. Many models of gamma-ray bursters predict copious GW emission, so the assumption of an association between GWs and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be testable with existing bar GW detector data. We consider Weber bar data streams in the vicinity of known GRB times and present calculations of the expected signal after co-addition of 1000 GW/GRBs that have been shifted to a common zero time. Our calculations are based on assumptions concerning the GW spectrum and the redshift distribution of GW/GRB sources that are consistent with current GW/GRB models. We discuss further possibilities of GW detection associated with GRBs in light of future bar detector improvements and suggest that co-addition of data from several improved bar detectors may result in detection of GWs (if the GW/GRB assumption is correct) on a timescale comparable to the LIGO projects.
title: Chiliasmen des Völkerrechts zwischen Verheißung und Verdrängung: Zum Zukunftsdurst einer Disziplin
Creators: name: Vischer, Benedict
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Zircon U-Pb ages, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic compositions of the Pinghe pluton, Southwest China: implications for the evolution of the early Palaeozoic Proto-Tethys in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Zhao, Shao-Wei
name: Shao-Cong Lai
name: Qin, Jiang-Feng
name: Zhu, Ren-Zhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The geological record of the Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic Proto-Tethyan Ocean in Southeast Asia is not clear. To better constrain the evolution of the Proto-Tethys, we present new geochronology, geochemistry, and petrology of the late Cambrian to Ordovician Pinghe pluton monzogranite from the Baoshan block, western Yunnan, southwest China. Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of four zircon samples yield ages of 482–494 and 439–445 Ma for the pluton, interpreted as two episodes within one magmatic event accompanying the whole process of subduction–collision–orogeny between buoyant blocks and oceanic crust of the Proto-Tethys. The monzogranite belongs to the strong peraluminous, high-K, calc-alkaline series and shows characteristics of both I-type and S-type granitic rocks. It is characterized by extremely high Rb/Sr and Rb/Ba but low TiO2, MgO, FeOt, and CaO/Na2O ratios. The monzogranite is also moderately enriched in light rare earth elements (LREEs), depleted in heavy rare earth elements (HREEs), lacks HREE fractionation, and has strongly negative Eu (Eu/Eu* = 0.06–0.49), Ba, Nb, Ta, Sr, and Ti anomalies. Whole-rock εNd(t) and εHf(t) values range from −8.7 to −11.6 and −5.55 to −9.58, respectively. Nd and Hf two-stage model ages range from 1.66 to 2.06 Ga and 2.14 to 3.00 Ga, respectively, with variable radiogenic 206Pb/204Pb(t) (16.547–18.705), 207Pb/204Pb(t) (15.645–15.765), and 208Pb/204Pb(t) (38.273–38.830). These signatures suggest that the monzogranite magma was derived from partial melting of heterogeneous metapelite, which was generated from Neoarchean to Palaeoproterozoic materials mixed with basaltic magma. The monzogranite magma underwent crystallization differentiation of plagioclase, K-feldspar, and ilmenite. Magmatism to form the Pinghe pluton occurred in a post-collisional setting. Based on the comparison of coeval granites throughout adjacent regions (e.g. Himalayan orogen, Lhasa Terrane, and parts of Gondwana supercontinent), we propose that the Baoshan block was derived from the northern Australian Proto-Tethyan Andean-type active continental margin of Gondwana and experienced subduction of the Proto-Tethyan oceanic crust and accretion of an outboard micro-continent. The Pinghe pluton could have formed when a subducting oceanic slab broke off during collision.
Catalogue of candidate emission-line objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Murphy, Michael
name: Bessell, M. S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ha and [O iii] narrow-band, wide-field (7x7 deg2), CCD images of the Small Magellanic Cloud were compared, and a catalogue of candidate planetary nebulae and H? emission-line stars was compiled. The catalogue contains 131 planetary nebulae candidates, 23 of which are already known to be or are probable planetary nebulae or very low excitation objects. Also, 218 emission-line candidates have been identified, with 113 already known. Our catalogue therefore provides a useful supplement to those of Meyssonnier & Azzopardi and Sanduleak, MacConnell & Davis Phillip. Further observations are required to confirm the identity of the unknown objects.
One- and two-dimensional spin systems in the regime close to deconfinement of spinons
Creators: name: Byrnes, T. M R
name: Murphy, Michael
name: Sushkov, O. P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Based on the Majumdar-Ghosh chain we construct several spin models which allow us to investigate spinon dynamics in the regime close to deconfinement of spinons. We consider the J1-J2-? model, two coupled J1-J2 chains (ladder), and a two-dimensional array of coupled J1-J2 chains. Using the picture of two spinons interacting with a string confining potential we calculate the singlet-triplet splitting, magnetic structure factor, tunneling amplitude of two spinons, and the excitation spectra for the ladder and the array.
title: Der "Turn to Principles" im Völkerrecht: Theoretische und methodische Perspektiven auf die Zukunft von Völkerrecht und Völkerrechtswissenschaft
Creators: name: Rauber, Jochen
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Zircon U-Pb ages, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic compositions of the Pinghe pluton, Southwest China: implications for the evolution of the early Palaeozoic Proto-Tethys in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Zhao, Shao-Wei
name: Shao-Cong Lai
name: Qin, Jiang-Feng
name: Zhu, Ren-Zhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The geological record of the Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic Proto-Tethyan Ocean in Southeast Asia is not clear. To better constrain the evolution of the Proto-Tethys, we present new geochronology, geochemistry, and petrology of the late Cambrian to Ordovician Pinghe pluton monzogranite from the Baoshan block, western Yunnan, southwest China. Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of four zircon samples yield ages of 482–494 and 439–445 Ma for the pluton, interpreted as two episodes within one magmatic event accompanying the whole process of subduction–collision–orogeny between buoyant blocks and oceanic crust of the Proto-Tethys. The monzogranite belongs to the strong peraluminous, high-K, calc-alkaline series and shows characteristics of both I-type and S-type granitic rocks. It is characterized by extremely high Rb/Sr and Rb/Ba but low TiO2, MgO, FeOt, and CaO/Na2O ratios. The monzogranite is also moderately enriched in light rare earth elements (LREEs), depleted in heavy rare earth elements (HREEs), lacks HREE fractionation, and has strongly negative Eu (Eu/Eu* = 0.06–0.49), Ba, Nb, Ta, Sr, and Ti anomalies. Whole-rock εNd(t) and εHf(t) values range from −8.7 to −11.6 and −5.55 to −9.58, respectively. Nd and Hf two-stage model ages range from 1.66 to 2.06 Ga and 2.14 to 3.00 Ga, respectively, with variable radiogenic 206Pb/204Pb(t) (16.547–18.705), 207Pb/204Pb(t) (15.645–15.765), and 208Pb/204Pb(t) (38.273–38.830). These signatures suggest that the monzogranite magma was derived from partial melting of heterogeneous metapelite, which was generated from Neoarchean to Palaeoproterozoic materials mixed with basaltic magma. The monzogranite magma underwent crystallization differentiation of plagioclase, K-feldspar, and ilmenite. Magmatism to form the Pinghe pluton occurred in a post-collisional setting. Based on the comparison of coeval granites throughout adjacent regions (e.g. Himalayan orogen, Lhasa Terrane, and parts of Gondwana supercontinent), we propose that the Baoshan block was derived from the northern Australian Proto-Tethyan Andean-type active continental margin of Gondwana and experienced subduction of the Proto-Tethyan oceanic crust and accretion of an outboard micro-continent. The Pinghe pluton could have formed when a subducting oceanic slab broke off during collision.
Three parameter Transmuted Rayleigh distribution with application to Reliability data
Creators: name: Khan, Muhammad Shuaib
name: King Robert
name: Hudson, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490509
subject: Statistical theory
classificationCode: 490510
subject: Stochastic analysis and modelling

description: This research introduces the three parameter transmuted Rayleigh distribution with an application to fatigue fracture data. Using the quadratic rank transmutation map method proposed by Shaw et al. [25] we develop the three parameter transmuted Rayleigh distribution. This research also introduces the new class of weighted Rayleigh distribution by using Azzalini [2] method. Some structural properties of the new distribution are derived such as moments, incomplete moments, probability weighted moments, moment generating function, entropies, mean deviation and the kth moment of order statistics. The parameters of the proposed model are estimated using the maximum likelihood estimation and obtain the observed information matrix. The potentiality of the proposed model is illustrated using fatigue fracture data.
Transmuted new generalized inverse Weibull distribution
Creators: name: Khan, Muhammad Shuaib
name: King, Robert
name: Hudson, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490509
subject: Statistical theory

description: This paper introduces the transmuted new generalized inverse Weibull distribution by using the quadratic rank transmutation map (QRTM) scheme studied by Shaw et al. (2007). The proposed model contains the twenty three lifetime distributions as special sub-models. Some mathematical properties of the new distribution are formulated, such as quantile function, Rényi entropy, mean deviations, moments, moment generating function and order statistics. The method of maximum likelihood is used for estimating the model parameters. We illustrate the flexibility and potential usefulness of the new distribution by using reliability data.
Transmuted generalized Gompertz distribution with application
Creators: name: Khan, Muhammad Shuaib
name: King, Robert
name: Hudson, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490509
subject: Statistical theory
classificationCode: 490599
subject: Statistics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper introduces the four parameter transmuted generalized Gompertz distribution which includes the transmuted Gompertz, transmuted generalized exponential, transmuted exponential, Gompertz, generalized exponential and exponential distributions as special cases and studies its statistical properties. Explicit expressions are derived for the quantile, moments, moment generating function and entropies. Maximum likelihood estimation is used to estimate the model parameters. Finally, two applications of the new distribution is illustrated using reliability data sets.
Sound principles, undesirable outcomes: Justice Scalia's paradoxical eighth amendment
Creators: name: Bagaric, Mirko
name: Gopalan, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Justice Scalia is renowned for his conservative stance on the Eighth Amendment and prisoners’ rights. Justice Scalia held that the Eighth Amendment incorporates no proportionality requirement of any nature regarding the type and duration of punishment which the state can inflict on criminal offenders. Justice Scalia has also been labelled as “one of the Justices least likely to support a prisoner’s legal claim” and as adopting, because of his originalist orientation, “a restrictive view of the existence of prisoners’ rights.” A closer examination of the seminal judgments in these areas and the jurisprudential nature of the principle of proportionality and rights (including prisoners’ rights) arguably put this characterization in a different light. While Justice Scalia may have been a foe of a move to less harsh sentencing and expansive rights to prisoners, there is an underlying coherence to some of his key decisions that is underpinned by the provisions he was applying and, even more so, the logical and normative contents or vagueness of the concepts under consideration.
In relation to the proportionality principle, both philosophy and an underlying coherency in the approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation support the position adopted by Justice Scalia. The contrary is the situation in relation to Justice Scalia’s position on prisoners’ rights. However, the criticism of Justice Scalia regarding his approach to Eighth Amendment issues in the context of prisoners’ rights has been overstated. The views he espoused in this context are shared by the majority of the Supreme Court. From the perspective of interpreting the Eighth Amendment in a manner which would result in a moderate or lenient approach to the punishment of offenders, Justice Scalia was a foe of criminal law and procedure. However, his judgments in this context reveal he was a friend to adopting a rigorously consistent conservative approach (non-outcome driven) to statutory and constitutional interpretation.
MPEC 2024-F105 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 March 30)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Fast and accurate protein substructure searching with simulated annealing and GPUs
Creators: name: Stivala, Alexander
name: Stuckey, Peter J.
name: Wirth, Anthony I.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Searching a database of protein structures for matches to a query structure, or occurrences of a structural motif, is an important task in structural biology and bioinformatics. While there are many existing methods for structural similarity searching, faster and more accurate approaches are still required, and few current methods are capable of substructure (motif) searching.
Results: We developed an improved heuristic for tableau-based protein structure and substructure searching using simulated annealing, that is as fast or faster and comparable in accuracy, with some widely used existing methods. Furthermore, we created a parallel implementation on a modern graphics processing unit (GPU).
Conclusions: The GPU implementation achieves up to 34 times speedup over the CPU implementation of tableau-based structure search with simulated annealing, making it one of the fastest available methods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of a GPU to the protein structural search problem.
Blackness as burden? The lived experience of black Africans in Australia
Creators: name: Mapedzahama, Virginia
name: Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Skin color is broadly accepted as a conspicuous marker of difference and racial belonging. Yet while the body is understood as a given, it is also socially inscribed: heavily sexualized, gendered, and even “colored.” This article is about African bodies that are colored Black. It critically discusses the experiences of black embodiment for African diaspora bodies that are coded “black” and inscribed with blackness in Australia. The article is written from a black African experience perspective to call into question current distorted and problem-centered narratives of African Blackness in Australia. Adopting standpoint theory and critical race theory’s unique voice of color thesis as conceptual framework for making sense of focus group data with black African migrants living in New South Wales and Victoria, the article’s main contention is that black African embodiment is experienced as a (symbolic and material) burden; what we call the “the burden of Blackness.” We discuss four dimensions of this burden: problematic stereotypes and social constructions, the paradox of in/visibility, burden of racial “two-ness,” and burden of minimization.
Catalytic cleavage of HEAT and subsequent covalent binding of the tetralone moiety by the SARS-CoV-2 main protease
Creators: name: Guenther, Sebastian
name: Reinke, Patrick
name: Oberthuer, Dominik
name: Yefanov, Oleksandr
name: Ginn, Helen
name: Meier, Susanne
name: Lane, Thomas
name: Lorenzen, Kristina
name: Gelisio, Luca
name: Brehm, Wolfgang
name: Dunkel, Ilona
name: Domaracky, Martin
name: Saouane, Sofiane
name: Lieske, Julia
name: Ehrt, Christiane
name: Koua, Faisal
name: Tolstikova, Alexandra
name: White, Thomas
name: Groessler, Michael
name: Fleckenstein, Holger
name: Trost, Fabian
name: Galchenkova, Marina
name: Gevorkov, Yaroslav
name: Li, Chufeng
name: Awel, Salah
name: Peck, Ariana
name: Xavier, P. Lourdu
name: Barthelmess, Miriam
name: Schlünzen, Frank
name: Werner, Nadine
name: Andaleeb, Hina
name: Ullah, Najeeb
name: Falke, Sven
name: Franca, Bruno Alves
name: Schwinzer, Martin
name: Brognaro, Hevila
name: Seychell, Brandon
name: Gieseler, Henry
name: Melo, Diogo
name: Zaitsev-Doyle, Jo J.
name: Norton-Baker, Brenna
name: Knoska, Juraj
name: Pena Murillo, Gisel Esperanza
name: Mashhour, Aida Rahmani
name: Guicking, Filip
name: Hennicke, Vincent
name: Fischer, Pontus
name: Rogers, Cromarte
name: Monteiro, Diana C. F.
name: Hakanpää, Johanna
name: Meyer, Jan
name: Noei, Heshmat
name: Gribbon, Phil
name: Ellinger, Bernhard
name: Kuzikov, Maria
name: Wolf, Markus
name: Zhang, Linlin
name: Sun, Xinyuanyuan
name: Pletzer-Zelgert, Jonathan
name: Wollenhaupt, Jan
name: Feiler, Christian
name: Weiss, Manfred
name: Schulz, Eike-Christian
name: Mehrabi, Pedram
name: Schmidt, Christina
name: Schubert, Robin
name: Han, Huijong
name: Krichel, Boris
name: Fernández-García, Yaiza
name: Escudero-Pérez, Beatriz
name: Günther, Stephan
name: Turk, Dusan
name: Uetrecht, Charlotte
name: Beck, Tobias
name: Tidow, Henning
name: Chari, Aschwin
name: Zaliani, Andrea
name: Rarey, Matthias
name: Cox, Russel
name: Hilgenfeld, Rolf
name: Chapman, Henry N
name: Pearson, Arwen R.
name: Betzel, Christian
name: Meents, Alke
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020

description: Here we present the crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) covalently bound to 2-methyl-1-tetralone. This complex was obtained by co-crystallization of Mpro with HEAT (2-(((4-hydroxyphenethyl)amino)methyl)-3,4-dihydronaphthalen-1(2H)-one) in the framework of a large X-ray crystallographic screening project of Mpro against a drug repurposing library, consisting of 5632 approved drugs or compounds in clinical phase trials. Further investigations showed that HEAT is cleaved by Mpro in an E1cB-like reaction mechanism into 2-methylene-1-tetralone and tyramine. The catalytic Cys145 subsequently binds covalently in a Michael addition to the methylene carbon atom of 2-methylene-1-tetralone. According to this postulated model HEAT is acting in a pro-drug-like fashion. It is metabolized by Mpro, followed by covalent binding of one metabolite to the active site. The structure of the covalent adduct elucidated in this study opens up a new path for developing non-peptidic inhibitors.
title: Gunneflo Book Symposium - Part 3: Targeted Killing, Revisiting Hobbes: No Protection, No Obedience
Creators: name: Samour, Nahed
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Palladium-Catalyzed Selective α-Arylation of ortho-Bromoacetophenones
Creators: name: Jonnada Krishna
name: Alavala Gopi Krishna Reddy
name: Gedu Satyanarayana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Synthesis of 1-(2-bromophenyl)-2-phenylethanones via an intermolecular Pd-catalyzed α-arylation of 1-(2-bromophenyl)ethanones is presented. The method relies on selective C-H activation (α-arylation) of relatively more reactive external iodo-arenes as coupling partners without affecting the bromo-substituent. Moreover, the scope and generality of the method has been well studied by employing the reaction with iodo-arenes as coupling partners bearing electron-withdrawing, simple, and electron-donating groups on the aromatic ring.
Simple, Copper(I)-Catalyzed Oxidation of Benzylic/Allylic Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds: Synthesis of Functionalized Cinnamates in One Pot
Creators: name: Alavala Gopi Krishna Reddy
name: Gedu Satyanarayana
name: Lodi Mahendar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: An environmentally benign [Cu(I)]-catalyzed oxidation of activated (benzylic/allylic) alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds is presented. Interestingly, the reaction was also compatible with benzylic alcohols containing ortho-bromo substituents on the aromatic ring without competing with the expected intermolecular Buchwald coupling. Significantly, the catalytic system enables the synthesis of cinnamate-esters in a sequential domino one-pot fashion via oxidation followed by Wittig–Horner protocol.
Unified Approach to the Asymmetric Synthesis of Higher Homologues of (3-Quinolyl)-alanine
Creators: name: Shital K. Chattopadhyay
name: Indranil Kundu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A new protocol based on a palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction of an amino acid–derived vinyl unit with 3-bromoquinoline has been developed to access the title compounds in good yield and optical purity.
Synthesis of Oxadiazolo-, Pyrimido-, Imidazolo-, and Benzimidazolo-Containing Derivatives of 1,4-Benzodiazepin-5-(4′-methylpiperazinyl)-carboxamide Through Phenylamino Spacer
Creators: name: Navjeet Kaur
name: Dharma Kishore
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Versatility of amidine and imidate derivatives of 5-carboxamido-1,4-benzodiazepin-5-(4′-methylpiperazinyl)-carboxamide (8 and 9) was explored to provide easy access to its 2-(oxadiazolo, pyrimido, imidazolo, and benzimidazolo)-substituted analogs 10, 11, 13, and 14, respectively, through the phenylamino spacer.
Palladium-Catalyzed Selective α-Arylation of ortho-Bromoacetophenones
Creators: name: Jonnada Krishna
name: Alavala Gopi Krishna Reddy
name: Gedu Satyanarayana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Synthesis of 1-(2-bromophenyl)-2-phenylethanones via an intermolecular Pd-catalyzed α-arylation of 1-(2-bromophenyl)ethanones is presented. The method relies on selective C-H activation (α-arylation) of relatively more reactive external iodo-arenes as coupling partners without affecting the bromo-substituent. Moreover, the scope and generality of the method has been well studied by employing the reaction with iodo-arenes as coupling partners bearing electron-withdrawing, simple, and electron-donating groups on the aromatic ring.
Assistant Professor / Data Management Specialist Example Cover Letter
Creators: name: Whitmire, Amanda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: I submitted this cover letter when I applied for an Assistant Professor / Data Management Specialist position with Oregon State University Libraries in May 2012. I was hired in July 2012, and started in the position in September 2012.

In the same vein as Konkiel (2014). I am sharing this letter in the hope that it will be helpful to others who may be seeking a similar position. I had never applied for a job like this before, and I certainly didn't come from a library background. I encourage more researchers to consider transitioning into the data stewardship field, and this letter shows how you can highlight how your skills are indeed transferrable. Inspired by: Konkiel, Stacy (2014): Data Management / E-Science Librarian Example Cover Letter. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.967998
Simple, Copper(I)-Catalyzed Oxidation of Benzylic/Allylic Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds: Synthesis of Functionalized Cinnamates in One Pot
Creators: name: Alavala Gopi Krishna Reddy
name: Gedu Satyanarayana
name: Lodi Mahendar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: An environmentally benign [Cu(I)]-catalyzed oxidation of activated (benzylic/allylic) alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds is presented. Interestingly, the reaction was also compatible with benzylic alcohols containing ortho-bromo substituents on the aromatic ring without competing with the expected intermolecular Buchwald coupling. Significantly, the catalytic system enables the synthesis of cinnamate-esters in a sequential domino one-pot fashion via oxidation followed by Wittig–Horner protocol.
Palladium-Catalyzed Selective α-arylation of ortho-bromoacetophenones
Creators: name: Jonnada Krishna
name: Alavala Gopi Krishna Reddy
name: Gedu Satyanarayana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Synthesis of 1-(2-bromophenyl)-2-phenylethanones via an intermolecular Pd-catalyzed α-arylation of 1-(2-bromophenyl)ethanones is presented. The method relies on selective C-H activation (α-arylation) of relatively more reactive external iodo-arenes as coupling partners without affecting the bromo-substituent. Moreover, the scope and generality of the method has been well studied by employing the reaction with iodo-arenes as coupling partners bearing electron withdrawing, simple and electron donating groups on the aromatic ring.
Quality of Life of HIV Infected and AIDS Patients in UbonRatchathani
Creators: name: Nonglek Kunawaradisai
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2016
Subjects: HIV, AIDS, quality of life, WHOQOL-HIV-BREF

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 12, 2, 21-32
REVMATOID ARTRIT KASALLIGINI DAVOLAS SAMARADORLIGINI BAHOLASH
Creators: name: ABDUSHUKUROVA, K.R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Aholi orasida tarqalishi sezilarli va barqaror o'sish bilan tavsiflangan kasalliklar orasida etakchi o'rinlardan birini revmatoid artrit (RA) egallaydi. RA ning ijtimoiy ahamiyati nogironlik darajasining ortib borishi va kasallikning yuqori “narxi” bilan ham belgilanadi [1;4;10;11;12;16]. RA bilan og'rigan bemorlarning ishlash qobiliyatini tiklash va ishga qaytish imkoniyati juda kam va hayot sifatini uning barcha parametrlari bo'yicha juda past baholaydi [3;9]. Vaqt o'tishi bilan bemorlar o'zlariga va his-tuyg'ulariga ko'proq e'tibor berishadi. Antirevmatik usullarning ta'siriga salbiy nuqtai nazar shakllanadi, tibbiy tavsiyalarga ishonchsizlik paydo bo'ladi, nevrotik va psixotik kasalliklar doirasi shakllanadi, bu RA davolash standartlariga bemorlarni davolash va reabilitatsiya qilishning psixologik usullarini kiritishni talab qiladi. 5;6].
A low-cost probe changer for robotic ultrasonography
Creators: name: Roshan, Mariadas Capsran
name: Hidalgo, Edgar
name: Isaksson, Mats
name: Wright, Leah
name: Pranata, Adrian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research into robotic ultrasonography is attracting an increasing number of researchers every year. Various mounting interfaces are used to attach different types of ultrasound probes to the end of a robot arm. Changing probes typically requires a manual intervention, which limits the application and effectiveness of the entire system. This paper presents a lowcost probe mounting interface that allows the robot to change the ultrasound probe automatically. The proposed probe changer includes three sections: wrist adaptor, probe holder, and probe holder stand. The performance of the developed probe changer was evaluated using repeatability and force interaction analyses. These analyses showed that the proposed probe changer can be effectively used to change the probe during ultrasonography without human intervention and is sufficiently rigid for typical ultrasound motions.
Simple and Convenient Method for the Synthesis of Aryltellurophosphates Catalyzed by Cesium Hydroxide
Creators: name: Wang, Ling Xiao
name: Su, Liu
name: Li, Jian Hua
name: Li, Ning Bo
name: Li, Yuan Yuan
name: Xu, Xin Hua
name: Peng, Zhi Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the presence of a catalytic amount cesium hydroxide, the corresponding aryltellurophosphates can be obtained by the reactions of dialkyl phosphites with diaryl ditellurides in excellent yield at room temperature, using dimethylsulfoxide as solvent. The possible reaction mechanism was discussed. The method could provide a new and expedient path for the preparation of aryltellurophosphates.
title: Grenzenloses Recht: Dem Völkerrechtshistoriker Jörg Fisch zum 70. Geburtstag
Creators: name: Kemmerer, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Rice Research, University of Dschang, Cameroon, Africa
Creators: name: Wariba Albert Mutambi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Rice research carried out in 2005-2006 at UNVDA, Ndop to investigate the effect of water management practices on growth, yield and water-use of three rice varieties. Supervised by: Prof. FONTEH Mathias Cameroon
Unified Approach to the Asymmetric Synthesis of Higher Homologues of (3-Quinolyl)-alanine
Creators: name: Shital K. Chattopadhyay
name: Indranil Kundu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A new protocol based on a palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction of an amino acid–derived vinyl unit with 3-bromoquinoline has been developed to access the title compounds in good yield and optical purity.
Synthesis of Oxadiazolo, Pyrimido, Imidazolo and Benzimidazolo Containing Derivatives of 1,4-Benzodiazepin-5-(4′-Methylpiperazinyl)-Carboxamide through Phenylamino Spacer
Creators: name: Navjeet Kaur
name: Dharma Kishore
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Versatility of amidine and imidate derivative of 5-carboxamido-1,4-benzodiazepin-5-(4′-methylpiperazinyl)-carboxamide (8 and9) was explored to provide an easy access to its 2-(oxadiazolo, pyrimido, imidazolo, and benzimidazolo) substituted analogues 10, 11, 13, and 14 respectively through phenylamino spacer.
Pre-Registration for Racial Stereotyping in Multimodal LLMs
Creators: name: Lee, Messi H.J.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Engineering

description: In this project, we investigate whether GPT-4, a multimodal Large Language Model (LLM), reproduces racial stereotypes when asked to write about images depicting racial/ethnic groups. We focus on multiple facets of racial stereotyping including, and not limited to, the tendency to associate groups with specific traits, such as names or place of residence (e.g., urban v. rural), and to depict the socially subordinate racial/ethnic group (i.e. African Americans) as less diverse (i.e., homogeneity bias) than its socially dominant counterpart (i.e. White Americans).
Pre-Registration for The Effect of Group Status on the Variability of Group Representations in LLM-generated Text
Creators: name: Lee, Messi H.J.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) are machine language models trained on large collections of text to generate human-like text. These models have been shown to reproduce human-like biases embedded in the text in which they are trained. Our primary goal in the research presented in the article is to investigate whether LLMs show evidence of something akin to the out-group homogeneity effect, the human tendency to perceive members of out-groups as more similar to each other than they actually are. To accomplish this, we will test whether LLMs represent minority groups as more homogeneous compared to the majority groups in hundreds of one-sentence texts generated for eight groups at the intersection of two gender group identities and four racial / ethnic group identities in the US.
Study 2 of Racial Stereotyping in Multimodal LLMs
Creators: name: Lee, Messi H.J.
name: Montgomery, Jacob
name: Lai, Calvin K.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Engineering

description: Pre-Registration document for Study 2 of Racial Stereotyping in Multimodal LLMs
A Simple, Copper(I) Catalyzed Oxidation of Benzylic/Allylic Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds: Synthesis of Functionalized Cinnamates in One-pot
Creators: name: Alavala Gopi Krishna Reddy
name: Gedu Satyanarayana
name: Lodi Mahendar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: An environmentally benign [Cu(I)]-catalyzed oxidation of activated (benzylic/allylic) alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds is presented. Interestingly, the reaction was also compatible to benzylic alcohols containing ortho-bromo substituent on aromatic ring without competing with the expected intermolecular Buchwald coupling. Significantly, the catalytic system enables the synthesis of cinnamate-esters in a sequential domino one-pot fashion via oxidation followed by Wittig-Horner protocol.