cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New Method for Distance-based Close Following Safety Indicator
Creators: name: A. A. Sharizli
name: R. Rahizar
name: M. R. Karim
name: A. A. Saifizul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Objective: The increase in the number of fatalities caused by road accidents involving heavy vehicles every year has raised the level of concern and awareness on road safety in developing countries like Malaysia. Changes in the vehicle dynamic characteristics such as gross vehicle weight, travel speed, and vehicle classification will affect a heavy vehicle's braking performance and its ability to stop safely in emergency situations. As such, the aim of this study is to establish a more realistic new distance-based safety indicator called the minimum safe distance gap (MSDG), which incorporates vehicle classification (VC), speed, and gross vehicle weight (GVW).Method: Commercial multibody dynamics simulation software was used to generate braking distance data for various heavy vehicle classes under various loads and speeds.Results: By applying nonlinear regression analysis to the simulation results, a mathematical expression of MSDG has been established. The results show that MSDG is dynamically changed according to GVW, VC, and speed.Conclusions: It is envisaged that this new distance-based safety indicator would provide a more realistic depiction of the real traffic situation for safety analysis.
Cooked Soybeans for Feed
Creators: name: Doty, Harry O.
name: Doty, Harry O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the Introduction: Cooked whole soybeans, a feed ingredient useable in making mixed feeds, has recently been developed through research and practical experience of private industry, several State Agricultural Experiment Stations, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This product is also identified as heat-processed soybeans; toasted soybeans; cooked, full-fat soybeans; and cooked, unextracted soybean meal. Information in this report is based on market research on the relative costs and feasibility of using soybeans in this way and on fat-in-feed usage among livestock producers.
description: Reprinted from the Fats and Oils Situation, FOS-227, March 1965, by the Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
title: The Return of the Sovereign: A Look at the Rule of Law in Hungary – and in Europe
Creators: name: Uitz, Rénata
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Hungarian law makers have enacted a law that will make the operation of foreign-funded universities all but impossible, and aim to do the same to foreign-funded NGOs. These measures fail to meet even the most basic features of how legal rules are envisioned in a rule of law framework. The carefully crafted new Hungarian laws use the cloak of national security to stab the rule of law, as understood in Europe, in the heart.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Meinungsfreiheit und Gewalt
Creators: name: Steinbeis, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Das BVerfG setzt seine Serie von Kammerentscheidungen zur Meinungsfreiheit fort: Wenn ein Rechtsextremer einen grünen Bundestagsabgeordneten als "Obergauleiter" bezeichnet, dann ist keine Schmähkritik. Das ist weder ein Skandal noch ein Triumph, sondern ziemlich normal.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
1,3,2,4-Diazadiphosphetidine-Based Phosphazane Oligomers As Source of P(III) Atom Economy Reagents: Conversion Of Epoxides To Vic-Haloalcohols, Vic-Dihalides, And Alkenes In The Presence Of Halogen Sources
Creators: name: Iranpoor, Nasser
name: Firouzabadi, Habib
name: Etemadi-Davan, Elham
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: 1,3,2,4-Diazadiphosphetidines (P1-P3) as easily prepared, stable and heterogeneous P(III) compounds were used for the efficient conversion of epoxides to vic-halohydrins, vic-dihalides or alkenes in the presence of different halogen sources in CH3CN. Among these phosphazanes, P3 is more suitable and contains four phosphorous atoms with the advantage of having more atom economy property and its phosphorus oxide by-product can be easily separated from the reaction mixture by simple filtration.The nitrogen atoms in this molecule can also act as acid scavenger in the reaction.Graphical
Practitioner reflections on engineering students' engagement with e-Learning
Creators: name: Chang, Rosemary L.
name: Richardson, Jennifer C.
name: Banky, George
name: Coller, Brianno D.
name: Jaksa, Mark B.
name: Lindsay, Euan D.
name: Maier, Holger R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on an investigation of student engagement with e-learning, using practitioner reflection as a lens. Five e-learning practitioners each provided a case study from their teaching, which was the focus of practitioners' reflective accounts. Each of the practitioners had used e-learning as a way of promoting both learning and engagement in their classrooms, and while the contexts in which they worked were varied, there were some emergent similarities in their experiences. The practitioners' reflections show that e-learning is used as a tool to promote various types of engagement from engineering students; indeed, students' engagement in some cases evolved beyond that which the practitioners had intended or anticipated. While the intended outcomes were certainly achieved, other emergent changes in student engagement were reported by the practitioners.
Identification of the trans isomers of abscisic acid and of abscisyl-β-D-glucopyranoside in latent buds of the grapevine and their evolution during the post-dormancy phase
Creators: name: Broquedis, M.
name: Bouard, J.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The trans isomers(t-ABA and t-ABA-GE) of abscisic acid (ABA) and of abscisyl-β-D-glucopyranoside (ABA-GE) have been identified in the latent buds of Vitis vinifera L.. cv. Merlot, during the post-dormancy phase. During this phase, the amounts of the four forms of ABA in the buds became minimal. The quantities of ABA-GE and of t-ABA-GE, normally present in much greater quantities than free ABA, decreased strongly. This diminution appeared to be directly linked to the increase of water content of the buds. Although potential bud burst can be related to these phenomena, the role of the trans isomers remains obscure.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 32 No. 4 (1993): Vitis
Тележурналисттиң информация жеткере алыў қәбилети
Creators: name: Нургалийева, Гүлайым
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Бул мақалада  журналисттиң мақсетли аудиторияға информация жеткериў шеберлиги, тележурналистке қойылатуғын талаплар ҳаққында сөз етилген. Репортёрлық шеберлигиниң, сондай-ақ, ораторлықтың тележурналист искерлигиндеги әҳмийети анализленген.
Citation Frequency and Ethical Issue
Creators: name: Ebrahim, Nader Ale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Dear Editor: I read your publication ethics issue on “bogus impact factors” with great interest (1). I would like to initiate a new trend in manipulating the citation counts. There are several ethical approaches to increase the number of citations for a published paper (2). However, it is apparent that some manipulation of the number of citations is occurring (3, 4). Self - citations, “those in which the authors cite their own works” account for a significant portion of all citations (5). With the advent of information technology, it is easy to identify unusual trends for citations in a paper or a journal. A web application to calculate the single publication h - index based on (6) is available online (7, 8). A tool developed by Francisco Couto (9) can measure authors’ citation impact by excluding the self - citations. Self - citation is ethical when it is a necessity. Nevertheless, there is a threshold for self - citations. Thomson Reuters’ resource, known as the Web of Science (WoS) and currently lists journal impact factors, considers self - citation to be acceptable up to a rate of 20%; anything over that is considered suspect (10). In some journals, even 5% is considered to be a high rate of self - citations. The ‘Journal Citation Report’ is a reliable source for checking the acceptable level of self - citation in any field of study. The Public Policy Group of the London School of Economics (LSE) published a handbook for “Maximizing the Impacts of Your Research” and described self - citation rates across different groups of disciplines, indicating that they vary up to 40% (11). Unfortunately, there is no significant penalty for the most frequent self - citers, and the effect of self - citation remains positive even for very high rates of self - citation (5). However, WoS has dropped some journals from its database because of untrue trends in the citations (4). The same policy also should be applied for the most frequent self - citers. The ethics of publications should be adhered to by those who wish to conduct research and publish their findings.
Star clusters as type Ia supernova factories
Creators: name: Shara, Michael M.
name: Hurley, Jarrod
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We find a remarkably enhanced production rate in star clusters (relative to the field) of very short-period, massive double white dwarf stars and of giant white dwarf binaries. These results are based on N-body simulations performed with the new GRAPE-6 special purpose hardware and are important in identifying and characterizing the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. The high incidence of very close double white dwarf systems is the result of dynamical encounters between (mostly) primordial binaries and other cluster stars. Orbital hardening rapidly drives these degenerate binaries to periods under similar to10 hr. Gravitational radiation emission and mergers producing supra-Chandrasekhar objects follow in less than a Hubble time. If most stars are born in clusters, then estimates of the double white dwarf merger rates in galaxies (due to cluster dynamical interaction) must be increased more than 10-fold. A majority of the Roche lobe overflow giant white dwarf binaries are not primordial; they are produced in exchange reactions. Most cases result in a common envelope and formation of a double white dwarf binary rather than supersoft X-ray sources leading possibly to a Type Ia supernova.
In vitro plant regeneration in seedless grapes (Vitis vinifera L.)
Creators: name: Singh, Zora
name: Brar, S. J. S.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Young leaves, shoot apices, nodal and internodal segments from mature field-grown grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) cvs Thompson Seedless and Perlette were cultured on MS medium containing different concentrations and combinations of NAA, 2,4-D, Kin and BAP. The genotype, nature of explant and chemical composition of medium affected the callusing frequency and type of callus. The media containing auxins produced friable, soft and creamish white to green calli. Such calli turned brown and died within 4-6 weeks. The medium containing BAP or Kin produced green compact and nodular calli. The subculturing of green nodular calli on MS basal medium induced 20.0 and 12.5 % rooting in cvs Perlette and Thompson Seedless respectively. Subculturing of calli on MS medium containing BAP (2 mg/l) resulted in 12.1 % complete plant regeneration in Thompson Seedless, cv. Perlette failed to regenerate. Adventitious shoots developed in 65.4 and 50.0 % of the cases from the in vitro derived leaves of Thompson Seedless and Perlette when cultured on MS medium containing BAP (2 mg/l). More than 85 % of the adventitious shoots of both the cultivars rooted successfully on MS medium containing IBA (1 mg/l).
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 32 No. 4 (1993): Vitis
A study of leaf and callus antigens in Euro-Asian and American grapevines
Creators: name: Ryff, I.
name: Troshin, L. P.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Immunochemical reactions of absorbed antisera with leaf and callus antigens of American and European grapevine species revealed species-specific antigens. Immunochemical reactions of extracts from grape leaves and callus were identical. The presence of species-specific antigens in the undifferentiated callus indicated that they are not linked to cell specialization. Leaf and callus antigens with molecular weights of approximately 100 kDa are specific for V. vinifera L. Antigens with molecular weights of more than 200 kDa are specific for American species of grapevine.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 32 No. 4 (1993): Vitis
Detection of grapevine fenleaf virus (GFLV) in infected grapevines by non-radioactive nucleic acid hybridisation
Creators: name: Gemmrich, A. R.
name: Link, G.
name: Seidel, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The nucleic acid hybridisation technique was adopted for the detection of grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) in grapevine tissues using a nonradioactive labeled cDNA. In crude plant sap a certain detection was not successful. Thus, a method was developed for the extraction of total RNA from a large number of samples in a microscale. By Northern blot hybridisation and by the more convenient slot blot technique GFLV infections could be detected. Comparing ELISA and slot blot hybridisation assay using identical plant material different results were obtained with some samples. This indicates different detection spectra for both techniques. The hybridisation assay has been found to be a suitable method by which a large number of samples from different grapevine tissues could be efficiently indexed for GFLV.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 32 No. 4 (1993): Vitis
title: Bosnien und die Schwierigkeit, verallgemeinerbare Maßstäbe des Menschenrechtsschutzes zu schaffen
Creators: name: Steinbeis, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Development of a highly sensitive icELISA to detect semicarbazide based on a monoclonal antibody
Creators: name: Yuyun Yin
name: Liqiang Liu
name: Shanshan Song
name: Kuang, Hua
name: Chuanlai Xu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A highly sensitive and specific monoclonal antibody was prepared to detect semicarbazide (SEM). Hapten 4-{[(aminocarbonyl)hydrazono]methyl}benzoic acid (4-CPSEM) was synthesised through the condensation reactions of SEM and 4-carboxybenzaldehyde (4-CBA). The active ester method was employed to couple the hapten to bovine serum albumin, keyhole limpet hemocyanin and ovalbumin (OVA) to obtain conjugates of immunogens and coating antigens. A novel hapten 2-[(aminocarbonyl)hydrazono]acetic acid (SEM-A) was also synthesised from SEM and oxoacetic acid to prepare a heterologous coating antigen (SEM-A-OVA). The linear ranges of inhibition curves in the optimised indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icELISA) method were in the range of 0.0071–0.056 ng mL−1 and 0.018–0.209 ng mL−1 for coating antigens SEM-A-OVA and 4-CPSEM-OVA, respectively. The IC50 was 0.019 ng mL−1 for SEM (SEM in the form of 4-nitrobenzaldehyde semicarbazone) and 0.13 ng mL−1 for 2-nitrobenzaldehyde semicarbazone, both of which were well below the minimum required performance limit of 1 µg·kg−1 set by the European Commission.
Synthesis and Bioactivity of Benzothiazaphosphepines and Relevant Phosphonates as Antioxidant/Antidiabetic Agents
Creators: name: Abdou, Wafaa M.
name: Ganoub, Neven A.
name: Reham F. Barghash
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: An efficient approach to a new series of benzothiazaphosphepines and their derived phosphonates in high yields (64-75%) was reported. The strategy was relied on the reactions of the easily available 2-arylmethylene-aminobenzenethiols with different types of Wadsworth-Horner-Emmons (WHE) reagents in dimethylformamide (DMF)/lithium hydride (LiH) solution. All new compounds were bioscreened and showed, in vitro moderate to good antioxidant and antidiabetic activities.
title: RiBVerfG Masing: Vorläufige Einschätzung der „Google-Entscheidung“ des EuGH
Creators: name: Masing, Johannes
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Unleashing ethnic entrepreneurship: proactive policy-making in a changing Europe
Creators: name: Singh Thandi, Harchand
name: Dini, Kourosh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Amid mounting concerns in post-2004 Europe about economic growth and competitiveness in global markets, immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurs successfully incorporate and manage new businesses that satisfy ethnic needs, create new jobs, buttress other businesses, stimulate competition and contribute to national coffers. Instituting appropriate immigrant/ethnic entrepreneur-centred policies and initiatives that encourage greater use of co-ethnic, multi-ethnic and host-country business networks could nurture this entrepreneurial activity. This study, incorporating literature and publications within several countries in Europe and elsewhere, reviews entrepreneur interdependence from the networking perspective since, traditionally, immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurs have been self- and mutually reliant. It recommends appropriate policies and initiatives be developed and implemented to promote this mutual reliance to ensure ethnic/immigrant enterprises are (a) increased in number, (b) aided to survive and thrive, (c) accelerated in their growth and (d) facilitated to become more competitive nationally and internationally. Six action areas are proposed.
title: Argentinien in Den Haag: Geburtswehen eines öffentlichen Rechts der pluralistischen Weltgesellschaft?
Creators: name: Goldmann, Matthias
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Modernização de sistemas de refrigeração  industrial: uma abordagem prática.
Creators: name: Banzatto, Marcus Vinicius Matheus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: refrigeração
automação
controle discreto

description: Este artigo aborda a modernização de sistemas de refrigeração industrial, com foco nas vantagens e benefícios da automatização. Com o avanço da tecnologia, a automação tem se tornado cada vez mais presente nas indústrias, com o objetivo de melhorar a eficiência, tanto energética, como operacional, e ainda reduzir custos e aumentar a confiabilidade dos sistemas. No entanto, enfatizamos a importância de considerar os desafios e considerações durante o processo de modernização, como a integração de sistemas existentes, a capacitação da equipe e a seleção adequada de tecnologias de automação.
Educating the responsible engineer: Socially responsible design and sustainability in the curriculum
Creators: name: De Vere, Ian
name: Bissett-Johnson, Katherine
name: Thong, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Engineering should serve the community in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. In order to achieve this, the engineering profession must progress from the role of technical service provider, to a profession that leads change through understanding of the human, environmental, societal and cultural challenges and the consequences of professional activity. Environmental and social considerations need to be integrated early into the product development process; as early as in the education of the next designers and design engineers. Tomorrow's engineering graduates will need not only awareness, but an embedded ethical philosophy that forms the foundation of their engineering learning. Designing for our complex global societies requires cultural understanding and anticipation of future human needs. Product design teams must address the societal needs of those at the base of the pyramid, rather than the material needs of first world consumers. The needs of those in developing nations, the other 90 percent, should be the target of a new engineering conscience, led by pedagogical change within engineering faculties. Sustainability and socially responsible design will be only achieved by a paradigm shift which directs the way business, communities and individuals make decisions that contribute to the realisation of broad social goals. The Product Design Engineering program at Swinburne University of Technology seeks to contribute to this new paradigm by integrating sustainability and socially responsible design throughout the engineering curriculum. As engineering and design educators we have the opportunity to drive a new pedagogy and determine attitudinal change through well considered curricula.
Educating the responsible engineer: socially responsible design and sustainability in the curriculum
Creators: name: de Vere, Ian
name: Bissett-Johnson, Katherine
name: Thong, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Engineering should serve the community in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. In order to achieve this, the engineering profession must progress from the role of technical service provider, to a profession that leads change through understanding of the human, environmental, societal and cultural challenges and the consequences of professional activity. Environmental and social considerations need to be integrated early into the product development process; as early as in the education of the next designers and design engineers. Tomorrow's engineering graduates will need not only awareness, but an embedded ethical philosophy that forms the foundation of their engineering learning. Designing for our complex global societies requires cultural understanding and anticipation of future human needs. Product design teams must address the societal needs of those at the base of the pyramid, rather than the material needs of first world consumers. The needs of those in developing nations, the other 90 percent, should be the target of a new engineering conscience, led by pedagogical change within engineering faculties. Sustainability and socially responsible design will be only achieved by a paradigm shift which directs the way business, communities and individuals make decisions that contribute to the realisation of broad social goals. The Product Design Engineering program at Swinburne University of Technology seeks to contribute to this new paradigm by integrating sustainability and socially responsible design throughout the engineering curriculum. As engineering and design educators we have the opportunity to drive a new pedagogy and determine attitudinal change through well considered curricula.
New Method for Distance-based Close Following Safety Indicator
Creators: name: A. A. Sharizli
name: R. Rahizar
name: M. R. Karim
name: A. A. Saifizul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Objective: The increase in the number of fatalities caused by road accidents involving heavy vehicles every year has raised the level of concern and awareness on road safety in developing countries like Malaysia. Changes in the vehicle dynamic characteristics such as gross vehicle weight, travel speed, and vehicle classification will affect a heavy vehicle's braking performance and its ability to stop safely in emergency situations. As such, the aim of this study is to establish a more realistic new distance-based safety indicator called the minimum safe distance gap (MSDG), which incorporates vehicle classification (VC), speed, and gross vehicle weight (GVW).Method: Commercial multibody dynamics simulation software was used to generate braking distance data for various heavy vehicle classes under various loads and speeds.Results: By applying nonlinear regression analysis to the simulation results, a mathematical expression of MSDG has been established. The results show that MSDG is dynamically changed according to GVW, VC, and speed.Conclusions: It is envisaged that this new distance-based safety indicator would provide a more realistic depiction of the real traffic situation for safety analysis.
Living and knowing: How nature makes knowledge possible
Creators: name: Dix, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Traditionally, epistemologies have been human-centred, while typically presenting themselves as objective 'views from nowhere' applicable to all knowers. One consequence of this is that the question, 'How is knowledge possible?', has been either implausibly answered or ignored - except by naturalistic epistemologies, and in particular, evolutionary, biosemiotic, and autopoeitic approaches. These approaches, recognizing that humans are not the only knowers, perceivers, cognizers and rememberers in nature, ask instead, 'How does nature make knowledge possible?' thereby reconceiving epistemology as study of the cognition and experience of living, embodied, interacting and inter-signifying natural beings. Nonetheless, their insights into how nature makes knowledge (and other epistemological achievements) possible, while instructive, typically are incomplete - in most cases because key aspects of the peculiar physical/causal dynamics of cognitive processes and their causal/functional roles in the lives of organisms, are insufficiently considered. This paper seeks to redress this situation, to provide a clearer understanding of how nature makes knowledge (and other epistemological processes and achievements) possible. The argument draws upon insights of the approaches mentioned, and upon studies of biological hierarchy, natural emergence, complex causal dynamics and hierarchically structured causal processes, to show that nature's 'inventions' of non-linear causation and cybernetic process-modulation led to the emergence of novel systems whose sensitivity to ultra-low-energy signals (for example, just a few molecules of a chemical compound) radically enhances their viability by producing a non-linear hierarchically ordered cascade of adaptive activity peculiarly associated with the signal type. This is biosemiosis. It is argued that the unique causal character of biosemiotic processes is not only their physical 'signature', but is essential to subsequently emergent cognitive processes and achievements and their functions, and indeed to the biological functions of the organic processes that make life possible. This is a further reason (if further reason were needed) for holding biosemiosis to be, ontologically, a natural kind. Indeed, an understanding of the distinctive causal/functional character of biosemiosis is the key to understanding how nature makes possible not only knowledge (and all other epistemological processes and achievements) but also, by those semiotic means, life itself.
Developing a model of student-centred teaching which enhances active engagement
Creators: name: Gerstman, Julie
name: Salehi, Kay
name: Lobo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study sets out to explore a change in curricula in response to an observed decline in student engagement. It traces the steps of the first author who observed increased diversity of student backgrounds, larger classes and declining engagement in her tertiary classes. The action learning methodology provided a sequence for introducing student-centred learning, assessing the changes based on the feed-back and reflection on ones own practice, refining the intervention and re-trialling it. This paper reviews literature that discusses the rationale for introducing more student-centred classes as an effective strategy for engaging students from a variety of backgrounds. It highlights ways to facilitate student learning and the implication for the role of the teacher and students and provides examples of how this approach might be incorporated into a curriculum and reports on preliminary outcomes.
title: Gibraltar and the "Brexit": New Scenarios within a Historic Dispute. A Proposal.
Creators: name: del Valle Gálvez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: The "Brexit" draws its consequences also on the legal status of Gibraltar within the EU. This leads to new perspectives on a historic dispute between British, Spanish and Gibraltan sovereignty interests. What could be the solution?
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
The promiscuous nature of stars in clusters
Creators: name: Hurley, Jarrod
name: Shara, Michael M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The recent availability of special-purpose computers designed for calculating gravitational interactions of N bodies at extremely high speed has provided the means to model globular clusters on a star-by-star basis for the first time. By endeavoring to make the N-body codes that operate on these machines as realistic as possible, the addition of stellar evolution being one example, we are learning much about the interaction between the star cluster itself and the stars it contains. A fascinating aspect of this research is the ability to follow the orbits of individual stars in detail and to document the formation of observed exotic systems. This has revealed that many stars within a star cluster lead wildly promiscuous lives, interacting often intimately and in rapid succession with a variety of neighbors.
title: Das Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz: Im Zweifel gegen die Meinungsfreiheit?
Creators: name: Gerhardinger, Lukas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Eigentlich soll das geplante Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz Hetze und Falschnachrichten aus Facebook, Twitter und Co. vertreiben. Tatsächlich droht es die Meinungsfreiheit in den sozialen Netzwerken zu beschneiden…
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Five Scenarios for Europe: Understanding the EU Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe
Creators: name: Cuyvers, Armin
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 340

description: The European Commission has recently published a White Paper on the Future of Europe. With regards to the many crises the EU is currently facing, a coherent plan seems to be urgently needed. Instead of coming up with one single plan however, the Paper reflects five different scenarios…
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Pedestrian Injuries in the Most Densely Populated City in Nigeria—An Epidemic Calling for Control
Creators: name: Babatunde A. Solagberu
name: Rufai A. Balogun
name: Mustafa, Ibrahim A.
name: Nasiru A. Ibrahim
name: Mobolaji A. Oludara
name: Abdulwahab O. Ajani
name: Olufemi E. Idowu
name: Osuoji, Roland I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Objectives: Since the first pedestrian road fatality of 1896, pedestrians still remain vulnerable, with fatalities in Africa being 55% of global statistics. Many previous reports from Nigeria have emphasized passengers and drivers over pedestrians; this study was done in the most densely populated Nigerian city with no previous publication exclusively dedicated to pedestrians—the megacity has been projected by the World Bank to be the third largest in the world by 2015 (after Tokyo and Mumbai), so the study results would aid injury control and reduce morbidity and mortality.Methods: This is a one-year prospective study on pedestrians attending the surgical emergency room of the busiest referral hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, detailing age, sex, occupation, regions injured, injury mechanism, incident vehicles, highway collisions, and immediate outcomes.Results: Some 702 pedestrians were seen, including 494 (70%) males with overall peak incidence in the third decade, but the peak incidence among females is lower and in the first decade. Common injuries sustained were to the head (40%), lower limbs (35%), upper limbs (9%), multiple regions (6%), pelvis (3%), and others (7%). Gender differences also were noted—the predominant injury location in males was the head, followed by lower limbs; the opposite was true for females, though both regional injuries were fewer in females than in males. Students were 20% of the entire pedestrians, with nearly half of them injured by a motorcycle. The mechanism of injury included crossing a highway (63%), walking along the pavement (17%), standing by a bus stop (12%), at a shop/house (5%), and others (3%). However, 76% injuries occurred on highways, 22% on inner city roads, and 2% elsewhere. Vehicles included motorcycles (33%), cars (27%), buses (22%), trucks (6%), tricycles (2.4%), and other (9%). Overall fatality was 10% and about half were due to being knocked down by buses and cars.Conclusions: This study suggests a high incidence and significant underreporting of pedestrian injuries. A reduction in morbidity and mortality is possible (from head and lower limb injuries) by traffic calming techniques in crossing the highway, especially injuries due to being struck by motorcycles, cars, and buses.
Wollishofen erfindet die Neutralität - Wollishofer Blog
Creators: name: Brändli, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich-Wollishofen
subject: Helvetik
subject: Neutralität

description: Ein Blog zu Geschichte und Quartierleben des Zürcher Stadtquartiers Wollishofen auf wollipedia.ch. Mit Texten von Sebastian Brändli (SB) und Ansichtskarten aus der Sammlung von Markus Zimmermann (MZ).
Synthesis and NMR Characterization of 2,5-Bis(Trimethylsilyl)-3,4-Diphenyl-1-Silacyclopentadienyl Dianion
Creators: name: Fekete, Csaba
name: Nyulászi, László
name: Kovács, Ilona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Two new silyl-substituted silolide dianions (11a, 11b) have been synthesized and characterized spectroscopically. Their 1H, 29Si, and 13C NMR spectra show similarities to the known phenyl- and alkyl-substituted analogues. Reaction with ethyl bromide gave the expected diethylsilol. B3LYP/6-31 + G* geometry optimization revealed equalized CC distances, and also NICS values indicate significant aromaticity.Figures S1—S5 are available online in Supplemental Materials.
A method for determining AGN accretion phase in field galaxies
Creators: name: Micic, Miroslav
name: Martinović, Nemanja
name: Sinha, Manodeep
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences

description: Recent observations of active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in massive galaxies (log M*/M⊙ > 10.4) show the following: (1) at z < 1, AGN-hosting galaxies do not show enhanced merger signatures compared with normal galaxies, (2) also at z < 1, most AGNs are hosted by quiescent galaxies and (3) at z > 1, the percentage of AGNs in star-forming galaxies increases and becomes comparable to the AGN percentage in quiescent galaxies at z∼2. How can major mergers explain AGN activity in massive quiescent galaxies that have no merger features and no star formation to indicate a recent galaxy merger? By matching merger events in a cosmological N-body simulation to the observed AGN incidence probability in the COSMOS survey, we show that major merger-triggered AGN activity is consistent with the observations. By distinguishing between 'peak' AGNs (recently merger-triggered and hosted by star-forming galaxies) and 'faded' AGNs (merger-triggered a long time ago and now residing in quiescent galaxies), we show that the AGN occupation fraction in star-forming and quiescent galaxies simply follows the evolution of the galaxy merger rate. Since the galaxy merger rate drops dramatically at z < 1, the only AGNs left to be observed are the ones triggered by old mergers that are now in the declining phase of their nuclear activity, hosted by quiescent galaxies. As we go towards higher redshifts, the galaxy merger rate increases and the percentages of 'peak' AGNs and 'faded' AGNs become comparable.
title: So fern und doch so nah: Drohneneinsätze im Jemen im Visier der Grundrechte
Creators: name: Starski, Paulina
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Reform of the EU’s Court System: Why a more accountable – not a larger – Court is the way forward
Creators: name: Alemanno, Alberto
name: Pech, Laurent
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Prevalencia de Cáncer de Cuello Uterino en Napo y Orellana
Creators: name: Alcocer Ortega, Iván Mauricio
name: Ochoa Andrade, Miguel Jacob
name: Castillo Muñoz, María Esther
name: Urgilés Cadme, Saúl Darío
name: Andi Grefa, Luci Gricelda
Publisher: name: Zenodo-HGOIA
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cáncer de Cuello Uterino
Papilomavirus Humano 16
Papilomavirus Humano 18
Región Amazónica

description: El Cáncer de Cuello de Uterino es una patología prevenible, que afecta a las mujeres en edad fértil, actualmente continúa siendo un problema de salud pública latente en países de bajos ingresos a nivel de la región de las Américas(2). Esta problemática, no es ajena al territorio ecuatoriano donde habitan grupos nativos históricamente desfavorecidos para la atención sanitaria debido a determinantes sociodemográficas y culturales.

OBJETIVO: Determinar la prevalencia de Cáncer de Cuello Uterino, las características sociodemográficas y clínicas en mujeres de las provincias de Napo y Orellana, durante el año 2023, con la finalidad de reforzar estrategias de prevención y control de esta patología.
Compost-Sewage Effluent Integration for Ryegrass Production
Creators: name: Grivin Chipula
name: Sakrabani, Ruben
name: Hess, Tim
name: Tyrrel, Sean
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study evaluated effects of integrated application of compost and secondary treated sewage effluent (STSE) on net N mineralization (NMnet) and ryegrass production. Soil incubation and pot (glasshouse) trials were carried out on two soil types, sandy loam and clay loam. NMnet was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in clay loam than in sandy loam soil. Increasing contribution of compost in integrated compost and STSE resulted in N immobilization. Experimental data on ryegrass dry matter (DM) obtained in pot trial was consistent with NMnet trend observed in soil incubation. In pot trial, ryegrass DM yield and N use efficiency reduced with increasing contribution of N from compost. For every unit addition of compost (25%), DM yield of ryegrass declined by 573 and 462 kg DM−1 in sandy loam and clay loam, respectively.
title: Willkommenshaft oder freie Ausreisemöglichkeit?: Zur Freiheitsentziehung in Transitzonen
Creators: name: Birkenkötter, Hannah
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Evolution of binary stars and the effect of tides on binary populations
Creators: name: Hurley, Jarrod
name: Tout, Christopher A.
name: Pols, Onno R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a rapid binary-evolution algorithm that enables modelling of even the most complex binary systems. In addition to all aspects of single-star evolution, features such as mass transfer, mass accretion, common-envelope evolution, collisions, supernova kicks and angular momentum loss mechanisms are included. In particular, circularization and synchronization of the orbit by tidal interactions are calculated for convective, radiative and degenerate damping mechanisms. We use this algorithm to study the formation and evolution of various binary systems. We also investigate the effect that tidal friction has on the outcome of binary evolution. Using the rapid binary code, we generate a series of large binary populations and evaluate the formation rate of interesting individual species and events. By comparing the results for populations with and without tidal friction, we quantify the hitherto ignored systematic effect of tides and show that modelling of tidal evolution in binary systems is necessary in order to draw accurate conclusions from population synthesis work. Tidal synchronism is important but, because orbits generally circularize before Roche lobe overflow, the outcome of the interactions of systems with the same semilatus rectum is almost independent of eccentricity. It is not necessary to include a distribution of eccentricities in population synthesis of interacting binaries; however, the initial separations should be distributed according to the observed distribution of semilatera recta rather than periods or semimajor axes.
title: Staatliche Gewährleistung der Informationsfreiheit zwischen #netneutrality und #notneutrality
Creators: name: Müller, Lukas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Synthesis and NMR characterization of 2,5-bis(trimethylsilyl)-3,4-diphenyl-1-silacyclopentadienyl dianion
Creators: name: Fekete, Csaba
name: Nyulászi, László
name: Kovács, Ilona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Two new silyl-substituted silolide dianions (11a, 11b) have been synthesized and characterized spectroscopically. Their 1H, 29Si and 13C NMR spectra show similarities to the known phenyl- and alkyl-substituted analogues. Reaction with ethyl bromide gave the expected diethylsilol. B3LYP/6–31+G* geometry optimization revealed equalized CC distances, and also NICS values indicate significant aromaticity.
title: Verteilung unbegleiteter minderjähriger Geflüchteter auf die Bundesländer: eine Sache des Kindeswohls?
Creators: name: Lehrian, Melina
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Compost-Sewage Effluent Integration for Ryegrass Production
Creators: name: Grivin Chipula
name: Sakrabani, Ruben
name: Hess, Tim
name: Tyrrel, Sean
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: This study evaluated effects of integrated application of compost and secondary treated sewage effluent (STSE) on net N mineralization (NMnet) and ryegrass production. Soil incubation and pot (glasshouse) trials were carried out on two soil types, sandy loam and clay loam. NMnet was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in clay loam than in sandy loam soil. Increasing contribution of compost in integrated compost and STSE resulted in N immobilization. Experimental data on ryegrass dry matter (DM) obtained in pot trial was consistent with NMnet trend observed in soil incubation. In pot trial, ryegrass DM yield and N use efficiency reduced with increasing contribution of N from compost. For every unit addition of compost (25%), DM yield of ryegrass declined by 573 and 462 kg DM−1 in sandy loam and clay loam, respectively.
Ultrasound-Promoted Synthesis of Biologically Active α-Hydroxyphosphonates/ Hydroxyphosphinates Using 1,4-Dimethylpiperazine as a Catalyst
Creators: name: S. Rasheed
name: K. Venkata Ramana
name: G. Madhava
name: D. Subba Rao
name: C. Naga Raju
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Meta Science
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biochemistry

description: A series of new α-hydroxyphosphonates/phosphinates was prepared using 1,4-dimethylpiperazine as a base catalyst under conventional as well as ultrasonic irradiation conditions by the reaction of 5-bromoindole-3-carboxaldehyde/2-nitrocinnamaldehyde with various phosphonates/phosphinates. The high yields of α-hydroxyphosphonates/hydroxyphosphinates were obtained in less reaction time under the ultrasonic irradiation method as compared with the conventional method. The synthesized compounds were screened for their in vitro and in vivo antioxidant activities, and the bio-screening data revealed that all the tested compounds exhibited good antioxidant activities. The bio-screening data revealed that compound 8e exhibited potent antioxidant activity in both in vitro and in vivo studies while the other compounds exhibited good antioxidant activity.[Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements for the following free supplemental files: Additional text, tables and figures.]
title: ‘Girls belong in school, and not in front of the altar’: Is the German Bill on child marriages violating international law?
Creators: name: Witting, Sabine
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 342

description: As much as international law categorizes child marriage as harmful practice due to its potential wide ranging negative effects on education, health, increased risk of violence and sexually transmitted diseases, and poverty, the regulation of already existing marriages should not aim to be aligned with the age of marriage. Already existing child marriages have to be treated differently, as they already created a lived reality for the partners and cannot just be reversed, as this might end up in unwanted legal and practical consequences for the child. Therefore, with regards to already existing marriages, it is a misconception that the only possible way to end child marriage is to actually ‘end’ child marriage.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional