cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
My thoughts on language learning and teaching: Interdisciplinary Project Report for the Scottish Baccalaureate in Languages
Creators: name: SCILT Scotland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This article is an edited report on what I have learned about language teaching methods through researching the subject for the Interdisciplinary Project part of the Scottish Baccalaureate in Languages. I offer my views on why the UK seems to be behind in language learning, why the focus of our curriculum seems inappropriate and present an analysis of my survey results. I also propose some common language learning principles that we could use in everyday teaching.
Cultural capital, habitus and capabilities in modern language learning
Creators: name: SCILT Scotland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This article originates from the findings of an ethnographic research which explored the perceptions and experiences of pupils learning a modern language in a school in England. All pupils in Key Stage 2 (primary, aged 7-11), including those identified with special educational needs, are entitled to study a modern language as part of the school curriculum. Thus, in the classroom, differentiation is a must. This means that learning activities are designed to provide for all abilities and ensure proficiency in the target language. This article draws on a combination of Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and habitus, and Nussbaum’s central human capabilities as theoretical tools to gain insights into the second language classroom, a learning environment where the learners’ abilities and needs are diverse. The findings highlight nuanced distinctions that can be missed as language learning in the classroom is often met with resistance, reluctance or compliance more so than enthusiasm or enjoyment.
Characterization and pathogenicity of Rhizoctonia spp. from field crops in Canada
Creators: name: Melzer, Melody S.
name: Yu, Hai
name: Labun, Ted
name: Dickson, Ashley
name: Boland, Greg J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: A survey for the presence of Rhizoctonia species on barley, bean, canola, corn, pea, soybean and wheat in 170 fields in Canada was completed during 2009–2011. Rhizoctonia solani was recovered from 52 (31%) of the 170 fields surveyed. A total of 191 isolates of R. solani belonging to anastomosis groups (AG) AG 2-1, AG 2-2, AG 4, AG 5, AG 9 and AG 11 were recovered. Fifty-two binucleate isolates of Rhizoctonia spp. were also recovered from 35 (21%) of the crops surveyed. In growth room pathogenicity studies, isolates belonging to AG 2-1 were pathogenic primarily on canola while isolates of other anastomosis groups tended to have wider host ranges. Symptoms included pre- and post-emergence damping off, crown rot and, to a lesser extent, root rot. The majority of binucleate isolates were not pathogenic or only had low aggressiveness on the hosts tested. There was considerable variation in host range among isolates of R. solani within individual AGs, and isolates recovered from asymptomatic seedlings of some hosts were pathogenic to other hosts often used in the same rotation. Collectively, the results are important for documenting the widespread occurrence of R. solani in seedlings of field crops in Canada, for characterizing variation in AGs and host range, and for identifying effective crop sequences used in crop rotations.
Modern languages and inclusion in the context of Scotland's 1+2 language policy
Creators: name: SCILT Scotland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In 2012, the Scottish Government published a policy document entitled ‘Language Learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach’. By 2020, conditions should be in place that will allow all children in Scotland to learn an additional language to their mother tongue from the first year of primary school and a second additional language from Primary 5 at the latest. In conjunction with this, the Scottish Government has expressed its commitment to equality of access to all aspects of education for students with Additional Support Needs. This article discusses equality of access to modern languages education for all students and looks at changes in thinking about who should be included in language lessons. The author argues that policies relating to modern languages education in Scotland need to be refined in order to help all teachers to develop good practice and strategies to ensure that language learning is fully inclusive.
New Modern languages and inclusion in the context of Scotland's 1+2 language policydraft item
Creators: name: SCILT Scotland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In 2012, the Scottish Government published a policy document entitled ‘Language Learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach’. By 2020, conditions should be in place that will allow all children in Scotland to learn an additional language to their mother tongue from the first year of primary school and a second additional language from Primary 5 at the latest. In conjunction with this, the Scottish Government has expressed its commitment to equality of access to all aspects of education for students with Additional Support Needs. This article discusses equality of access to modern languages education for all students and looks at changes in thinking about who should be included in language lessons. The author argues that policies relating to modern languages education in Scotland need to be refined in order to help all teachers to develop good practice and strategies to ensure that language learning is fully inclusive.
Supplementary Material for: Topical Timolol Maleate 0.5% for Infantile Hemangioma: Its Effectiveness Compared to Ultrapotent Topical Corticosteroids - A Single-Center Experience of 278 Cases
Creators: name: Danarti, R.
name: Ariwibowo, L.
name: Radiono, S.
name: Budiyanto, A.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background: Infantile hemangioma (IH) may have implications on parental distress and cosmetic disfigurement. To date, ultrapotent corticosteroids are used as a treatment of choice for superficial IH. However, due to their side effects and sometimes lack of IH regression, it is necessary to find alternative topical therapies. Timolol maleate 0.5% solution and gel are nonselective β-blockers that could inhibit proliferation and trigger regression of IH. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of topical ultrapotent corticosteroids and timolol maleate 0.5% solution and gel for superficial IH. Patients and Methods: The study design was prospective. Two hundred and seventy-eight patients diagnosed as having superficial IH were enrolled from the outpatient clinic of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from January 2009 to December 2014. Patients were divided into three groups: A = treated with topical ultrapotent corticosteroid, B = timolol maleate 0.5% solution and C = timolol maleate 0.5% gel. Patients were followed for 6 months to evaluate the lesion. Lesion size was measured from scaled photodocumentation with the software program ImageJ®. Results: There were significant differences in IH size after treatment with timolol maleate 0.5% solution compared with ultrapotent corticosteroids (p < 0.001) and timolol maleate 0.5% gel compared with ultrapotent corticosteroids (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in IH lesions after treatment with timolol maleate 0.5% solution versus gel (p = 0.744). Conclusion: Timolol maleate 0.5% solution and gel were significantly superior to topical ultrapotent corticosteroids in size reduction of superficial IH.
Supplementary Material for: IL17A and IL17F Gene Polymorphism Association with Psoriasis Risk and Response to Treatment in a Polish Population
Creators: name: Białecka, M.
name: Ostasz, R.
name: Kurzawski, M.
name: Klimowicz, A.
name: Fabiańczyk, H.
name: Bojko, P.
name: Dziedziejko, V.
name: Safranow, K.
name: Machoy-Mokrzyńska, A.
name: Droździk, M.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background: Recent studies have revealed the pivotal role of Th17 cells and interleukin-17 (IL-17) in plaque psoriasis development and treatment outcome. The IL-17 family consists of 6 structurally related cytokines (IL-17A, IL-17B, IL-17C, IL-17D, IL-17E, IL-17F), of which IL-17A and IL-17F mediate similar biological effects. Objectives:The aim of this study was to evaluate an association between the IL17A (-197G>A; rs2275913) and IL17F (rs763780: T>C; rs11465553: G>A; rs2397084: T>C) polymorphisms with psoriasis susceptibility as well as response to topical and combined topical with narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) therapy in a Polish population. Methods: Association study involving 407 psoriasis patients and 205 healthy controls. Treatment efficacy was analyzed in 207 patients with mild psoriasis (Psoriasis Area and Severity Index; PASI 3-12) and moderate psoriasis (PASI 12-18), who were randomly subjected to topical or combined topical and NB-UVB treatment. The polymorphisms were evaluated by RT-PCR. Results: No statistically significant differences between psoriasis patients and controls were found in the frequency of the evaluated IL17A and IL17F genotypes and haplotypes. The IL17A or IL17Fpolymorphisms were not associated with treatment outcome measures: efficacy of treatment at the eighth week of the study and PASI change after topical or combined topical and NB-UVB therapy. However, IL17F rs2397084 variant allele C carriers required a significantly higher number of NB-UVB irradiations in comparison to TT homozygotes (15.5 ± 11.4 vs. 11.1 ± 11.9, p = 0.047) to produce a positive clinical response. Conclusion: It can be stated that the IL17A and IL17F polymorphisms are not markers of susceptibility to psoriasis. However, the IL17F polymorphism may affect the response to NB-UVB therapy.
Could contamination of data with misclassified individuals increase the probability of false positive results of statistical tests?
Creators: name: Flegr, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60502 Infectious Agents
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Short paper showing that stochastic noise could cause false negative but not false positive results of statistical tests. The R script for the model, as well as the results of analyses are published.Appendix of Flegr & Horáček, Toxoplasma-infected subjects report an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder diagnosis more often and score higher in Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory. European Psychiatry, 2016 40: 83-87.
A scoping review of research into mathematics classroom practices and affect
Creators: name: Murphy, Steven
name: Ingram, Naomi
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: Despite much research exploring affect within a mathematics context, poor student engagement in mathematics persists internationally. There is limited research examining mathematics classroom practice and students' affect, with the potential to inform teachers' practice. This scoping review analysed this limited literature. Of 250 papers analysed, only 26 papers adequately described classroom practices, considered students’ affective state in response to the practice, and considered mathematics learning outcomes. Collectively, these explore very few of the practices used in mathematics classrooms, highlighting the need for more and improved practice-focussed research to better inform efforts to improve student engagement in mathematics.
Supplementary Material for: Prognostic Utility of a Self-Reported Depression Questionnaire versus Clinician-Based Assessment on Renal Outcomes
Creators: name: Jain, N.
name: Carmody, T.
name: Minhajuddin, A.T.
name: Toups, M.
name: Trivedi, M.H.
name: Rush, A.J.
name: Hedayati, S.S.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background: The prognostic utility of self-administered depression scales in chronic kidney disease (CKD) independent of a clinician-based major depressive disorder (MDD) diagnosis is neither clearly established nor are the optimal cutoff scores for predicting outcomes. The overlap between symptoms of depression and chronic disease raises the question of whether a cutoff score on a depression scale can be substituted for a time-consuming diagnostic interview to prognosticate risk.Methods: The 16-item Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology-Self Report scale (QIDS-SR16) was administered to 266 consecutive outpatients with non-dialysis CKD, followed prospectively for 12 months for an apriori composite outcome of death or dialysis or hospitalization. Association of QIDS-SR16 best cutoff score, determined by receiver/responder operating characteristics curves, with outcomes was investigated using survival analysis. The effect modification of an interview-based clinician MDD diagnosis on this association was ascertained. Results: There were 126 composite events. A QIDS-SR16 cutoff ≥8 had the best prognostic accuracy, hazards ratio (HR) = 1.77, 95% CI 1.24-2.53, p = 0.002. This cutoff remained significantly associated with outcomes even after controlling for comorbidities, estimated glomerular filtration rate, hemoglobin and serum albumin, adjusted HR (aHR) = 1.80, 95% CI 1.23-2.62, p = 0.002, and performed similarly to a clinician-based MDD diagnosis (aHR = 1.72, 95% CI 1.14-2.68). Adjustment for MDD conferred the association of QIDS-SR16 with outcomes no longer significant. Conclusions: QIDS-SR16cutoff ≥8 adds to the prognostic information available to practicing nephrologists during routine clinic visits from comorbidities and laboratory data. This cutoff score performs similar to a clinician diagnosis of MDD and provides a feasible and time-saving alternative to an interview-based MDD diagnosis for determining prognosis in CKD patients.
Supplementary Material for: 2015 Milan Declaration: A Call to Action on Obesity - an EASO Position Statement on the Occasion of the 2015 EXPO
Creators: name: Frühbeck, G.
name: Sbraccia, P.
name: Nisoli, E.
name: Woodward, E.
name: Yumuk, V.
name: Farpour-Lambert, N.J.
name: Halford J.G.C.
name: Toplak, H.
name: Carruba, M.O.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine

description: No Abstract
title: Zur Sicherstellung der "Verträglichkeit" innerstädtischer Einkaufszentren - Raumbezogene Diskurs- und Kalkulationsordnungen am Beispiel der Mainzer Innenstadt
Creators: name: Guth, Denis
Publisher: name: Würzburg University Press
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel

description: Geographische Handelsforschung; 29
Experiment series in environmental engineering: Experiment 9 (NUS ChBE, AY 2004/2005, Semester 1)
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 40101 Atmospheric Aerosols
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110899 Medical Microbiology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: 111705 Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety

description: Concern about indoor air quality (IAQ) has increased over recent years due to the relative decrease in the severity of outdoor air quality problems and the increasing amount of time that people spend indoors. The phenomenon of “sick building syndrome” has gained widespread notice and is a subject of intense research now. The main determinants of IAQ are physical, chemical and microbiological factors. Physical factors would include temperature, relative humidity and ventilation rate. Major chemical factors would include carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone and formaldehyde. Fungi and bacteria caused most of the IAQ problems from the microbiological standpoint. The objective of this experiment is to determine the number and particle size distribution of airborne microbiological contaminant in indoor and outdoor air. The Anderson Six Stage Sampler would be used in the air sampling as it is able to differentiate the various bacteria and fungi in the air into different particle size range. The results show that indoor air has a higher concentration of bacteria and fungi than outdoor air. This indicates that indoor air may be more contaminated due to restricted ventilation. The indoor air bacteria CFUs per m3 of air sample is 750 which is higher than the standard of 500 CFUs per m3 of air sample. There are no fungi detected in the indoor air. For the outdoor air, the bacteria CFUs per m3 of air sample is 350 and that of fungi is 64 which are both smaller than the standard. In addition, very few bacteria CFUs and no fungi CFUs are in the size range of 0.65 to 1.1 microns which can penetrate deep into the alveoli region of the lungs. Done by: Luo Jinjing, Lian Juan, and Ng Wenfa
Experiment series in environmental engineering: Experiment 8 (NUS ChBE, AY 2004/2005, Semester 1)
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: 90508 Water Quality Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Potential contamination of natural water samples by microorganism is always a problem that must be properly controlled due to its potential consequences on public health. The microbiological testing of water to determine the presence of microorganism in water is expensive and tedious. Thus the concept of indicator organism is introduced. For the case of detecting fecal contamination of water, the indicator organism is total coliform. The objective of this experiment is to undertake a microbiological examination of 3 water samples (tap water, drain water and Escherichia. coli contaminated water control) by the Most Probable Number method and the IMViC test procedure. The tap water has no coliform bacteria present and is safe. The drain water MPN index is 1.100 per 100 ml at 95% confidence level and that of E.coli contaminated water is 75 per 100ml at 95% confidence level. The standard for drinking water (US EPA) is zero coliform CFU in 100 ml of water sample at 95% confidence level so the tap water meets the criteria. Only E. coli is detected in the E.coli contaminated water in the IMViC test but E.coli together with Enterobacter aerogenes is detected in the drain water thus indicating that the drain water may be contaminated by fecal pollution. Further studies can be conducted to verify this result and to investigate the likely sources of this fecal contamination. Done by: Luo Jinjing, Lian Juan, and Ng Wenfa
title: Underground / photographies de Léonore Baud
title: acte 1, scène 2 : dossier de presse
titleType: Subtitle
title: Underground / photographies de Léonore Baud
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Baud, Léonore
Publisher: name: Musée historique de Lausanne
Year: 2009

description: 11 septembre 2009-17 janvier 2010
International Women's Day 2020
Creators: name: Dias, Maria Frani Ayu Andari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: International Women's Day 2020
Women's Day

description: Presentasi ini adalah catatan singkat yang diambil sebagai bentuk kampanye kecil untuk merayakan International Women's Day pada tahun 2020. Presentasi ini digunakan sebagai alat untuk belajar dan kampanye untuk tujuan meningkatkan partisipasi perempuan dalam berbagai bidang pelayanan dan kerja.
Experiment series in environmental engineering: Experiment 7 (NUS ChBE, AY 2004/2005, Semester 1)
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: 50304 Soil Chemistry (excl. Carbon Sequestration Science)
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60101 Analytical Biochemistry
subject: Toxicology
subject: 100301 Biocatalysis and Enzyme Technology
subject: FOS: Industrial biotechnology

description: Dehydrogenase enzyme assay (DHA) has been widely used in the bioremediation field to assess the condition of the soil before the soil decontamination work is started. DHA is a general measure of the microbial activity of the soil of all microorganisms. Thus the value obtained can be used as a general indicator of the general soil quality. This initial assessment is important in determining the amount of nutrients that need to be added to the soil in order to allow microbiological degradation of the contaminant compounds to proceed smoothly. DHA is actually a measure of the electron transport chain (ETC) activity. It makes use of the competitive NAD+ inhibitor, 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) to measure the ETC activity. The DHA method accomplishes this by conversion of the pale yellow, slightly soluble TTC to a deep red insoluble precipitate, triphenylformazan (TPF). The concentration of TPF can then be assessed by the use of the UV-Visible Spectrophotometry. The objectives of this experiment is to determine the effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and glucose addition to the soil microbiological activity using the DHA. From the results of the experiment, 0.5% glucose is determined to have the greatest positive impact on the soil microbial activity. The other conclusions that can be drawn from this experiment are on weaker grounds as they do not agree with theoretical predictions. In this experiment, 2.5% glucose + 4% ammonium nitrate together with 2.5% glucose + 4% potassium hydrogen phosphate would produce a microbial activity that is lower than that of 0.5% glucose. This result may be due to 0.5% glucose. This result may be due to experimental errors. Further studies should be conducted to investigate the effect of nitrogen and phosphorus addition to the soil microbial activity of this soil. Done by: Luo Jinjing, Lian Juan and Ng Wenfa
title: Shaping caustics into propagation-invariant light
Creators: name: Zannotti, Alessandro
name: Denz, Cornelia
name: Alonso, Miguel A.
name: Dennis, Mark R.
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physics

description: Structured light has revolutionized optical particle manipulation, nano-scaled material processing, and high-resolution imaging. In particular, propagation-invariant light fields such as Bessel, Airy, or Mathieu beams show high robustness and have a self-healing nature. To generalize such beneficial features, these light fields can be understood in terms of caustics. However, only simple caustics have found applications in material processing, optical trapping, or cell microscopy. Thus, these technologies would greatly benefit from methods to engineer arbitrary intensity shapes well beyond the standard families of caustics. We introduce a general approach to arbitrarily shape propagation-invariant beams by smart beam design based on caustics. We develop two complementary methods, and demonstrate various propagation-invariant beams experimentally, ranging from simple geometric shapes to complex image configurations such as words. Our approach generalizes caustic light from the currently known small subset to a complete set of tailored propagation-invariant caustics with intensities concentrated around any desired curve.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Experiment series in environmental engineering: Experiment 6 (NUS ChBE, AY 2004/2005 Semester 1)
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 30605 Solution Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 90403 Chemical Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90410 Water Treatment Processes
subject: 90508 Water Quality Engineering

description: Coagulation and flocculation are important processes in the removal of turbidity, suspended particles and natural organic material in water and wastewater treatment. Coagulation is an inexact science and requires an empirical approach to estimate the various important parameters that are important to the treatment process. In this study, jar tests are performed on a synthetic raw surface water consisting of 1 g/l of bentonite clay suspended in normal tap water (simulated reservoir water). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the optimum coagulant (alum) dosage, initial pH and flocculation time to remove turbidity from the synthetic water. The main mechanisms of coagulation between bentonite clay and alum are adsorption and charge neutralization and enmeshment of the colloidal particles in the Al(OH)3 floc while that of flocculation are micro- flocculation, macro- flocculation and differential settling. The optimum alum dose and initial pH were determined to be 50 mg/l as Al2(SO4)3.16H2O and 5 respectively. The optimum initial pH determined was not in agreement with values reported in the literature. However, no optimum flocculation time could be determined due to inconclusive data. Further studies could focus on this area to investigate the optimum flocculation time to result in effective removal of turbidity from a bentonite clay synthetic water. Done by: Luo Jinjing, Lian Juan and Ng Wenfa
title: Mon carnet citoyen
title: pistes pédagogiques pour l’éducation à la citoyenneté dans les structures parascolaires
titleType: Subtitle
title: Mon carnet citoyen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schaeren, Lucie
Publisher: name: Editions LEP
Year: 2015

description: Ce document accompagne l’affiche tirée de l’ouvrage "Mon carnet citoyen", disponible aux Editions Loisirs et Pédagogie.
American Strategic Considerations Drive Compact Negotiations in Micronesia: Part 1
Creators: name: Firth, Stewart
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: In a flurry of activity over the last nine months, the United States has rediscovered the strategic value of the freely associated states in Micronesia. This In Brief is in two parts: in the first Stewart Firth examines the geopolitical context of the United States’ relations with the freely associated states, including China’s interest in the region; in the second he describes how the United States is updating its Pacific Islands policy, both in the freely associated states and in the region more generally.
Experiment series in environmental engineering: Experiment 5 (NUS ChBE, AY 2004/2005, Semester 1)
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 30605 Solution Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 90403 Chemical Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90410 Water Treatment Processes
subject: 90508 Water Quality Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering

description: High hardness concentration in areas where groundwater is extensively used is a significant problem due to its tendency to form scale on the heating elements of industrial boilers and the clogging of pipes due to the deposition of calcium carbonate. It is also a major problem in the water that is to be used by the semi-conductor industry. Ion exchange has been extensively used in the water treatment industry to soften the hard water. Ion exchange works by using a polystyrene-divinylbenzene sulphonated strong acid cation resin presaturated with sodium as the counter ion to remove the calcium ions from the hard water by exchanging it with the sodium counter ion at the sulphonic (-SO3-) acid exchange sites. Most ion exchange resins in the industry are operated in the downflow packed mode. As the treatment process progresses, the number of available ion exchange sites decreases. Thus there will be a point where the number of ion exchange sites available is unable to ensure that the treated water meets a predetermined water quality and this is the breakthrough point. The resin would then be regenerated, rinsed and backwashed and then re-entered into service. Due to cost and time considerations, there is a compromise between regeneration efficiency and column utilization where 50% is the target set for both processes. A critical parameter in the determination of regeneration efficiency is the theoretical exchange capacity. This experiment is designed to illustrate the major parts of the industrial ion exchange service cycle and to introduce the EDTA-Hardness titration method to determine hardness. The objective of the experiment is to determine the exchange capacity of the cationic exchange resin used. The theoretical exchange capacity of the resin is 74176.08 mg as CaCO3 / l resin which concurs with that reported in the literature for polystyrene-divinylbenzene resin. The regeneration efficiency is determined to be 53.6% which also agrees with that in the literature. In conclusion, the objective of the experiment is successfully accomplished. Done by: Luo Jinjing, Lian Juan, and Ng Wenfa
American Strategic Considerations Drive Compact Negotiations in Micronesia: Part 2
Creators: name: Firth, Stewart
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: In a flurry of activity over the last nine months, the United States has rediscovered the strategic value of the freely associated states in Micronesia. This In Brief is in two parts: in the first Stewart Firth examines the geopolitical context of the United States’ relations with the freely associated states, including China’s interest in the region; in the second he describes how the United States is updating its Pacific Islands policy, both in the freely associated states and in the region more generally.
title: 01_0262
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Présentation de recherche: Pocessus d'apprentissages et de développement de compétences en situation informelle via l'utilisation des TIC
Creators: name: Valérie, Payen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Informal Learning process

description: Ce document présente de manière détaillée le projet de thèse de Valérie Payen Jean Baptiste. Projet intitulé: Processus d'apprentissages et de développement de compétences en situation informelle via l'utilisation des TIC
SPARQLの基礎
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Yasunori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: 2016-08-31 開催の第10回 AIツールセミナー入門にて利用した発表資料です。
Elektronenmikroskopische Untersuchung und Optimierung der strukturellen und nanochemischen Eigenschaften von Al/AlOx/Al-Schichtsystemen
Creators: name: Fritz, Stefan
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020

description: Al/AlOx/All-Schichtsysteme sind in Bauelementen auf Basis von supraleitenden Josephson Kontakten von großer Bedeutung. Die elektronischen Eigenschaften solcher Bauelemente werden stark durch die strukturellen und nanochemischen Eigenschaften der Al/AlOx/Al-Schichtsysteme beeinflusst. Mit Hilfe von transmissionselektronenmikroskopischen Untersuchungen wurden in dieser Arbeit die Zusammenhänge zwischen Herstellungsparametern der Schichtsysteme und ihren strukturellen und nanochemischen Eigenschaften auf atomarer Skala analysiert. Das daraus resultierende Verständnis der Wachstumsprozesse wird genutzt, um Eigenschaften der Al/AlOx/Al-Schichtsysteme gezielt zu optimieren und die Voraussetzungen für verbesserte supraleitende Eigenschaften zu schaffen.
Adaptación de Prosopografía de Ulemas de al-Andalus al modelo STAR
Creators: name: Baratech, Covadonga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CLARIAH-ES
CLARIN-ERIC
DARIAH-EU
PUA
R
RStudio
Structured Assertion Records Model

description: Conversión de la base de datos Prosopografía de Ulemas de al-Andalus (PUA) alojada en https://www.eea.csic.es/pua/ al modelo Structured AssertionRecords (STAR). Esta conversión se ha realizado a través del lenguaje de programación R y ha buscado tres objetivos principales:

Que no se pierda ningún dato que estuviera en la base de datos Prosopografía de Ulemas de al-Andalus.

Que se pueda indicar tanto la fuente exacta de donde se ha tomado la información como el investigador encargado de hacerlo.

Que encaje fácilmente con el estándar de Linked Open Data.
description: Conversión de la base de datos Prosopografía de Ulemas de al-Andalus (PUA) alojada en https://www.eea.csic.es/pua/ al modelo Structured Assertion Records (STAR). Esta conversión se ha realizado a través del lenguaje de programación R y ha buscado tres objetivos principales:

Que no se pierda ningún dato que estuviera en la base de datos Prosopografía de Ulemas de al-Andalus.

Que se pueda indicar tanto la fuente exacta de donde se ha tomado la información como el investigador encargado de hacerlo.

Que encaje fácilmente con el estándar de Linked Open Data.
Effects of short-term supplementation with bovine lactoferrin and/or immunoglobulins on body mass and metabolic measures: a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Cox, Amanda J.
name: Watts, Annabelle M.
name: Zhang, Ping
name: Williams, Lauren T.
name: Cripps, Allan W.
name: West, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Given the role of the intestinal microbiota in obesity and related disease, strategies to modulate the composition of the intestinal microbiota may augment traditional weight-management approaches. Here, we examined the safety and tolerability of 28 days of supplementation with bovine whey-derived lactoferrin and immunoglobulin supplements in a cross-sectional cohort of free-living adults. Participants (n = 20 each group) received enteric-coated whey-derived bovine lactoferrin (200 mg), immunoglobulin (200 mg or 800 mg), combination lactoferrin/immunoglobuiln supplements (200 mg/200 mg, 200 mg/800 mg) or placebo in a double-blind design. Supplement use was generally well tolerated and routine haematology, and clinical chemistry measures were largely unchanged following supplementation. Measures of body composition remained stable and indices of glycaemic control and blood lipids revealed fluctuations of <5% but were not significantly different between groups. Overall, short-term lactoferrin/immunoglobulin supplementation was well tolerated in this cohort; use of these types of supplements to enhance other weight management strategies should be investigated over extended periods.
Relationships between different nutritional anthropometric statuses and health-related fitness of South African primary school children
Creators: name: M. E. G. Armstrong
name: M. I. Lambert
name: E. V. Lambert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: A double burden of both under- and over-nutrition exists among South African children. Aim: To describe associations between nutritional statuses and health-related fitness test performances. Subjects and methods: Height and weight of 10 285 children (6–13 years; n = 5604 boys and 4681 girls) were measured and used to calculate body mass index (BMI) and prevalence of overweight and obesity, stunting, wasting and underweight. Physical fitness scores for standing long jump, shuttle run, sit-and-reach, sit-up (EUROFIT) and cricket ball throw were assessed. Age- and gender-specific z-scores were calculated for these variables. Physical fitness for each nutritional status group was compared to children of normal weight. Results: Compared to normal weight children, overweight and obese children scored lower on all fitness tests (p p = .235) and sit-and-reach (p = .015). Stunted and underweight children performed poorer than normal weight children on most fitness tests (p p = .829; underweight: p = .538) and shuttle run (underweight: p = .017). Performance of wasted children was not as highly compromised as other under-nourished groups, but they performed poorer on the cricket ball throw (p Conclusions: When compared to normal weight children, both under- and over-nourished children performed poorer on some, but not all, health-related fitness tests.
Acute photosensitisation and mortality in a herd of dairy cattle in Tasmania
Creators: name: HM Golder
name: N Moss
name: G Rogers
name: B Jackson
name: N Gannon
name: PTW Wong
name: IJ Lean
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: CASE HISTORY: A herd of Holstein, Jersey, or Holstein-Jersey cross lactating cattle of mixed ages presented with a sudden drop in milk yield in 94/678 cows on 3 October 2014 (Day 0). The herd was located in Gretna in the Derwent Valley (Tasmania, Australia) and had been grazing dryland pasture. CLINICAL FINDINGS: On Day 0 the cows variably showed recumbency, peracute photosensitisation, inflamed coronary bands, conjunctival erythema, periauricular oedema, distress indicated by kicking at the flank, bruxism, discomfort, weight shifting, vocalisation indicating pain and depression. Blood samples collected on Day 4 from five clinically affected cows showed high activities of aspartate aminotransferase, glutamate dehydrogenase and gamma-glutamyl transferase. Morbidity, based on the number of treated cases within 72 hours of clinical onset, was estimated at 165/678 cows (24.3%). Mortality over the first 30 days was 19/678 cows (2.8%). PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS: Necropsies of two cows on Day 4 showed marked distension of the gall bladder and extensive icterus. Necropsies of another two cows on Day 5 showed enlarged livers with severe damage and oedema of the distal abomasum. Severe ulcerative abomasal gastritis was present in both cows. Hepatic histopathology was consistent with chronic cholangiohepatitis. MYCOTOXICOLOGY: Fifty-five different mycotoxins were detected from a barley grass (Hordeum murinum) sample from the presumably contaminated pasture. Concentrations of B-trichothecenes, fumonisins, and zearalenone metabolites from this sample were remarkably high. The leaf smut, Jamesdicksonia dactylidis, that has not been previously reported in Tasmania, was identified from the sample of barley grass, but it is not known whether the smut can produce toxins. DIAGNOSIS: Probably an undescribed peracute mycotoxicosis associated with the ingestion of contaminated dryland pasture. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: A definitive diagnosis could not be reached in this case of acute photosensitisation and mortality in dairy cattle grazing possibly contaminated dryland pasture. The findings differed from both facial eczema and acute bovine liver disease, suggesting an undescribed mycotoxicosis.
Development of a 4 MW Full-Size Wind Turbine Test Bench
Creators: name: Averous, Nurhan Rizqy
name: Stieneker, Marco
name: Kock, Stefan
name: Andrei, Teofil-Cristian
name: Helmedag, Alexander Sebastian
name: De Doncker, Rik W.
name: Hameyer, Kay
name: Jacobs, Georg
name: Monti, Antonello
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2015

description: 2015 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems, PEDG 2015, Aachen, Germany, 22 Jun 2015 - 25 Jun 2015; 23 Folien (2015).
The role of psychology in enhancing public policy: Studies on political apathy and attachment to the city in Indonesia
Creators: name: Juneman Abraham
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applied Psychology
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 160404 Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning)
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 160514 Urban Policy
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: 160602 Citizenship

description: The author conducted two studies with predictive correlational designs aiming to contribute understanding on socio-psychological dynamics related to public participation in public activities. This study applied purposive sampling and multiple linear regression data analyses. The first study with participants of 214 University of Indonesia students found that the sense of citizenship as well as indecision dimension of decision fatigue in taking political decision played a role in predicting public political participation in students. The second study with participants of 230 participants from urban music communities in Jakarta and its surroundings as well as in Bali, Indonesia, found that trust in municipal government has a negative correlation with attachment towards city and that participation in urban music communities does not contribute to such attachment. These results provided insights that we need to study the society psychosocial reality further, as one of the fields of the battle ground of interpretations of public policy, in order to increase the efficacy of public policy.
title: Bioengineered osteoinductive systems for surgical applications
Creators: name: Shields, David
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Bioengineering, osteoinductive, scaffolds, growth factors, fibronectin, BMP-2, ethylene oxide.

description: Despite significant improvements in surgical implant manufacturing there remains a clinically unmet need for implantable bone regenerating scaffolds. Current clinical solutions such as the use of pelvic autologous bone graft give rise to additional symptoms and are unpredictable. An engineered customisable osteoinductive coating has been developed within this research group, however the translatable aspects have not yet been explored. As an orthopaedic surgeon with a clinical interest in complex trauma and limb reconstruction, an invested interest in the practical aspects in the application of this technology is maintained. In this work, an engineered osteoinductive coating consisting of poly (ethyl acrylate) with fibronectin and bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) is evaluated as a potential coating for surgical implantation. Firstly, it was found that the use of ethylene oxide to sterilise the system (on a variety of base materials) could be employed without significant detriment to the fibronectin network, however BMP-2 was not resilient enough to the process to warrant addition prior to sterilisation. The use of decellularised bone chips commercially available as a transport medium for the osteoinductive coating was explored using an in vivo critical defect model which demonstrated evidence of mature bone formation with BMP-2. In vivo experiments were carried out in the University of Glasgow Veterinary Research Facility and performed under personal (n°I44130F69) and project license (n°70/8638) issued by the Home Office under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) ACT 1986. A fully synthetic transport medium by way of a polymer (poly caprolactone) scaffold was investigated with mechanical compression testing and in vitro cell biocompatibility. Scaffold materials were found to accommodate cell adhesion and differentiation. Despite changes in scaffold pore size, density and addition of hydroxy apatite as a composite filler, mechanical properties did not reach those of current commercial products, specifically poly (methyl methacrylate) bone cement. The findings of this work demonstrate potential translatable aspects of this osteoinductive scaffold. However further rigorous in vivo assessment of retained osteoinductive function following sterilisation is required, followed by analysis of safety and efficacy. Further work on the improvement on mechanical properties of a bioresorbable polymer scaffold are warranted.