cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of online resilience training for sales managers on wellbeing and work performance
Creators: name: Abbott, Jo-Anne
name: Klein, Britt
name: Hamilton, Catherine
name: Rosenthal, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In a randomised controlled trial, the internet-based ResilienceOnline (ROL) program was evaluated among lubricant sales managers at BP Australia. This program is designed to enhance resilience by teaching seven skills to help improve ability to cope with challenges and setbacks and maximise potential achievements. Sales managers were allocated to complete the ROL program (n = 26) or to be in a waitlist-control condition (n = 27) and were compared on pre- and post-intervention measures of happiness, quality of life, depression, anxiety, stress and work performance. Sales managers found the resilience training very enjoyable and believed it would improve their work performance and life skills. However, a high proportion of sales managers did not complete the ROL program and it was not found to significantly reduce distress or improve quality of life or work performance.
Kinerja Pembangunan Daerah Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Jambi
Creators: name: Damarsari, Raina
name: Junaidi Junaidi
name: Yumardi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Economics

description: This study aims (1) to analyze the performances among regencies/ cities in Jambi Province, and (2) to categorize the regencies/ cities in Jambi Province based on economic, human resources, and infrastructure development performances. Datas used in this study are secondary data of 2009-2012 from Statistics Indonesia, consists of eight component indicators to assess the performance of economic development, the five component indicators to assess the performance of the components of human resources development, and eight component indicators to assess the performance of infrastructure development. The analytical method used to achieve the objectives of the first research purposes is principal component analysis (PCA) which followed by factor analysis and to achieve the third purpose is cluster analysis. The results showed that (1) Jambi City is ranked first in the overall development performance, followed by of Tanjab Barat and Batang Hari Regencies, (2) four clusters of regencies/ cities in Jambi Province are formed based on the performance of development, namely: cluster I (Kerinci, Merangin, and Tebo Regencies) have lower performance of regional development, cluster II (Tanjab Timur Regency) has average to high performance of regional development, cluster III (Sarolangun, Batang Hari, Muaro Jambi, Tanjab Barat, Bungo Regencies, and Sungai Penuh City) have average performance of regional development, and cluster IV (Jambi City) has high performance of regional development.
Determinan Kemiskinan Rumah Tangga di Provinsi Jambi
Creators: name: Nopriansyah
name: Junaidi Junaidi
name: Etik Umiyati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Economics

description: This study aims to: (1) to analyze the development of poverty in Jambi Province (2) to analyze the characteristics of poor households in Jambi Province (3) to analyze the factors that affect household poverty in Jambi Province. The results showed that the poverty rate in the Jambi Province in 2012 was increased compared to the year 2011, but generally in the last five years the poverty rate was decreased in Jambi Province. The characteristics of poor households in Jambi Province were the majority were living in rural areas, the majority of heads of poor households were male, the majority of heads of poor households in Jambi Province had educated under junior high school, the majority of heads of poor household were working in agriculture, the majority of poor households had a member more than four people and the majority of poor households in Jambi Province had never obtained business credit.Based on the results of logistic regression analysis found that the variables that affect household poverty in the province of Jambi was the classification of rural/urban variable, the head of household sex variable, the head of household education variable, the head of household occupation variable, household size and business loan assistance variable.
Philosophical anthropology, ethics and political philosophy in an age of impending catastrophe
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper it is argued that philosophical anthropology is central to ethics and politics. The denial of this has facilitated the triumph of debased notions of humans developed by Hobbes which has facilitated the enslavement of people to the logic of the global market, a logic which is now destroying the ecological conditions for civilization and most life on Earth. Reviving the classical understanding of the central place of philosophical anthropology to ethics and politics, the early work of Hegel and Marx is explicated, defended and further developed by interpreting this through developments in post-mechanistic science. Overcoming the opposition between the sciences and the humanities, it is suggested that the conception of humans developed in this way can orient people in their struggle for the liberty to avert a global ecological catastrophe.
Interaksi Spasial Perekonomian dan Ketenagakerjaan Antar Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Jambi
Creators: name: Yanti Heryanti
name: Junaidi Junaidi
name: Yulmardi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Economics

description: An analysis of the regional development needs to take into account the problems within regions (intraregional) and the balance of development between regions (interregional). Interregional problems such as influence which comes from the outside of the region will create spatial interaction and linkages between regions (spatial dependence). Therefore, it becomes important to know the real effect of spatial interaction toward the development of regional economy in term of GDRP and labor of regencies and municipalities in Jambi Province. Morans’I index that is used to describe the linkages between regions indicates that a regency or municipality can not be independent in establishing its economy, but affected by economic activity in the surrounding areas. By using Moran scatterplot, Jambi Municipality being the only region with high economic surrounded by high economic regions. While most of the regencies and municipality in Jambi Province are on the group areas with low economic which surrounded by low economic regions.
France's free broadband innovation
Creators: name: Barr, Trevor
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The debates in Australia about national policy and operational complexities of the Rudd government's bold National Broadband Network (NBN) plan have recently shifted focus towards issues about end users. Many questions arise, such as what services might be offered, by whom and who is likely to have access to the new broadband services at what cost. A continuing examination of different case studies of international broadband experiences to see what best practices might be applied to Australian circumstances could be valuable. This paper offers a case study of one of the most successful broadband companies in Europe: Free in France. Three major factors seem to be behind the success of Free: its remarkable founder and financier, Xavier Niel, its contribution to the implementation of constructive changes to the telecommunications regulatory regime since 2001, and the creation and development of widely accepted consumer services. So might any of its experiences be transferable to Australia's NBN challenges during the next five years?
Climate change and some other implications of vibratory existence
Creators: name: McLaren, Glenn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Modern Process Philosophy began when Alfred North Whitehead realized that existence is primarily vibratory, not points but processes. Vibrations are best understood as sound waves, or through using auditory metaphors rather than visual ones. Our Universe is more like music than matter, but how does this help us better understand it? In this paper I use the example of the large ocean current oscillators that help drive our climate systems to reveal the more effective nature of auditory approaches. Through an auditory approach, we can better understand the ways these oscillations constrain and interact with other levels of oscillations as well as how they might be destroyed by other levels. This can then lead to us extending our ethics to the conservation of these oscillations.
Factors Associated with the Use of Standardized Power Mobility Skills Assessments among Assistive Technology Practitioners
Creators: name: Jenkins, Gavin R.
name: Vogtle, Laura K.
name: Hon K. Yuen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: This study investigated self-reported prevalence of and factors affecting clinicians’ use of standardized assessments when evaluating clients for power mobility devices (PMDs), and explored assessments clinicians typically use when carrying out PMD evaluation. An email survey was sent to Assistive Technology Professionals listed in the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America directory. Three hundred and fifty-four respondents, qualified to conduct formal power mobility skills assessments, completed the online survey. Of those, 122 (34.5%) respondents reported that they were aware of the presence of standardized performance-based power mobility skills assessments, but only 28 (7.9%) used these assessments in their practice. Multivariate analysis revealed that the odds of the respondents who use the standardized assessments were 18 times higher for those who were aware of the presence of these assessments than those who were not [adjusted OR = 17.85, P
Emergent phenomena in human EEG:a bifurcation theory approach
Creators: name: Frascoli, Federico
name: Van Veen, Lennaert
name: Bojak, Ingo
name: Dafilis, Mathew
name: Liley, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A recently proposed mesoscopic mean-field theory of mammalian cortex electro-rhythmogenesis describes the salient features of electrical activity in the cerebral macrocolumn, with the use of inhibitory and excitatory neuronal populations [1]. Numerical solutions to the defining non-linear equations have revealed two interesting emergent phenomena: i) the appearance of large-scale spatial coherent 40 Hz oscillations in the model cortex, which has shown to be experimentally related to cognitive activity [2], and ii) a surge in spectral EEG power – when the brain is subject to general anesthetics – as a function of their concentration [3], a clinically established effect known as the "biphasic" response. Given that quasi-linear approximations have been unable to capture the dynamical mechanism that trigger these phenomena, a bifurcation analysis [4] of physiologically relevant parameter sets was performed. Because of the predicted importance of inhibitory-inhibitory population strength in determining many fundamental dynamical features of the model, bifurcation parameters were chosen that modified inhibitory post-synaptic potential amplitudes and anatomical coupling strengths of the inhibitory neural population (respectively R and k in Figure 1). The analysis revealed the existence of a pattern of recurring bifurcation diagrams and specific "phase" transitions that constitute the dynamical requirements for the genesis and unfolding of 40 Hz and biphasic behaviors. This result also reaffirms the relevance of inhibition for the genesis of global collaborative events in the cortex and sheds light on the organization of the parameter space and the variability of EEG in the model respect to those perturbations and collective responses that are physiologically admissible.
The Evolution of Gender in English: From Proto-Indo-European to Modern English through Old and Middle English
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Saul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: english, gender

description: In this work we will see how gender has changed during the centuries, starting out with the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European animate vs. inanimate opposition (somewhat describable as “masculine+feminine” vs. “neuter”). Then, the emergence of a third gender (namely feminine) led to a rearrangement of the system, switching to a three-gender one: we are talking now of grammatical gender, which was the way Old English chose to use. The subsequent inexorable loss of morphology (together with other factors, as we will see later) led to another resetting of the criterion: already Middle English shows to adopt natural gender, which is what Modern English uses. And the transformations are still ongoing. . .
description: Final paper for the Filologia Germanica 1 course [LM0350] held by Prof. Marina Buzzoni at Ca' Foscari University, Venice (Italy)
Prolegomena to a future robot history: Stiegler, epiphylogenesis and technical evolution
Creators: name: Vaccari, Andres
name: Barnet, Belinda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: How does one tell the story of a machine? Can we say that technical artefacts have their own genealogies, their own evolutionary dynamic? Bernard Stiegler feels this question is an urgent one, and calls for more research into technical evolution in his book, 'Technics and Time'. In the following essay, we will be answering Stiegler's call. Firstly, we will be reviewing the work of several key theorists from different disciplines who have attempted to understand technical evolution, many of whom Stiegler uses in his own work; in order of appearance, paleontologist Niles Eldredge, the philosophers Jacques Derrida and Manuel De Landa, and archeologist Andre Leroi-Gourhan. We will then lift some ideas and problems from each of them in an effort to construct a prolegomena to the history of a technical machine, a history which is not included here and which has yet to be written. We want to build a theory of technical evolution.
Materialities of law: celebrity production and the public domain
Creators: name: Milne, Esther
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Celebrity production and consumption are powerful socio-economic forces. The celebrity functions as a significant economic resource for the commercial sector and plays a fundamental symbolic role within culture by providing a shared 'vocabulary' through which to understand contemporary social relations. A pivotal element of this allure is the process by which the celebrity figure is able to forge an intimate link with its audience, often producing public expressions of profound compassion, respect or revulsion. This process, however, is complicated by emerging participatory media forms whose impact is experienced as new conditions of possibility for celebrity production and consumption. As Marshall argues, video mash-ups of celebrity interviews, such as those of Christian Bale or Tom Cruise, are dramatically changing the relation between celebrity and audience (Marshall, 2006: 640). Meanings produced by these audience remixes challenge the extent to which a celebrity might control her image. So is the celebrity personality, therefore, a public or private commodity? Who owns the celebrity image within remix culture? Although the celebrity figure has been thoroughly researched in relation to its patterns of consumption; semiotic power; and industry construction; less attention has been focused on the forms of celebrity governance enabled by legislative and case law settings. How might the law deal with the significant economic and cultural power exercised within celebrity culture?
UV-assisted degradation of propiconazole in a TiO2 aqueous suspension: identification of transformation products and the reaction pathway using GC/MS
Creators: name: Taranjeet Kaur
name: Toor, Amrit Pal
name: Wanchoo, Ravinder Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Photocatalytic degradation of propiconazole, a triazole pesticide, in the presence of titanium dioxide (TiO2) under ultraviolet (UV) illumination was performed in a batch type photocatalytic reactor. A full factorial experimental design technique was used to study the main effects and the interaction effects between operational parameters in the photocatalytic degradation of propiconazole in a batch photo-reactor using the TiO2 aqueous suspension. The effects of catalyst concentration (0.15–0.4 gL−1), initial pH (3–9), initial concentration (5–35 mg L−1) and light conditions were optimised at a reaction time duration of 90 min by keeping area/volume ratio constant at 0.919 cm2 mL−1. Photocatalytic oxidation of propiconazole showed 85% degradation and 76.57% mineralisation under UV light (365 nm/30 Wm−2) at pH 6.5, initial concentration 25 mg L−1 and constant temperature (25 ± 1 °C). The Langmuir–Hinshelwood kinetic model has successfully elucidated the effects of the initial concentration on the degradation of propiconazole and the data obtained are consistent with the available kinetic parameters. The photocatalytic transformation products of propiconazole were identified by using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The pathway of degradation obtained from mass spectral analysis shows the breakdown of transformation products into smaller hydrocarbons (m/z 28 and 39).
Resistance to pathogens in terpene down-regulated orange fruits inversely correlates with the accumulation of D-limonene in peel oil glands
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Ana
name: Shimada, Takehiko
name: Cervera, Magdalena
name: Redondo, Ana
name: Alquézar, Berta
name: Rodrigo, María Jesús
name: Zacarías, Lorenzo
name: Lluís Palou
name: López, María M
name: Peña, Leandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are secondary metabolites acting as a language for the communication of plants with the environment. In orange fruits, the monoterpene D-limonene accumulates at very high levels in oil glands from the peel. Drastic down-regulation of D-limonene synthase gene expression in the peel of transgenic oranges harboring a D-limonene synthase transgene in antisense (AS) configuration altered the monoterpene profile in oil glands, mainly resulting in reduced accumulation of D-limonene. This led to fruit resistance against Penicillium digitatum (Pd), Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) and other specialized pathogens. Here, we analyze resistance to pathogens in independent AS and empty vector (EV) lines, which have low, medium or high D-limonene concentrations and show that the level of resistance is inversely related to the accumulation of D-limonene in orange peels, thus explaining the need of high D-limonene accumulation in mature oranges in nature for the efficient attraction of specialized microorganism frugivores.
HUQUQNI QO'LLASH HUJJATLARI VA ULARNING O'ZIGA XOS XUSUSIYATLARI.
Creators: name: Tog'oyeva, Malikabonu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mazkur tezisda huquqni qo‘llash tushunchasi, huquq normalari qo‘llaniluvchi yuridik hujjatlar, ularning turlari va o‘ziga xos xususiyatlari haqida fikr yuritilgan. Shuningdek, tadqiqot ishida huquqni qo‘llash jarayonining davlat va xo‘jalik boshqaruvi organlari, sud-huquq tizimi hujjatlaridagi ahamiyati o‘rganilgan.
Heteroleptic Pd(II) dithiocarbamates: synthesis, characterization, packing and in vitro anticancer activity against HeLa cell line
Creators: name: Shahan Zeb Khan
name: Amir, Muhammad Kashif
name: Naseer, Muhammad Moazzam
name: Rashda Abbasi
name: Kehkashan Mazhar
name: Tahir, Muhammad Nawaz
name: Iqra Zubair Awan
name: Zia-Ur-Rehman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Biological Sciences
Meta Science
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cell Biology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Two new heteroleptic Pd(II) dithiocarbamates (1 and 2) have been synthesized by reaction of equimolar quantities of palladium(II) chloride, sodium 4-(3-methoxyphenyl)piperazine-1-carbodithioate, and appropriate substituted triphenylphosphines. The synthesized complexes have been characterized by their physical, spectral (IR, 1H, 13C, and 31P NMR), and X-ray crystallographic data. Complexes 1 and 2 showed square-planar geometry both in solution and solid states. The crystal packing of both complexes revealed similar 3-D-supramolecular networks comprised of 1-D chains. However, the nature and strength of various non-covalent interactions of these networks were slightly different. The DNA interaction studies of the complexes have been carried out by UV–visible spectroscopy to evaluate their anticancer potential. The study suggested intercalative interaction with 2.402 × 104 and 2.713 × 103 M−1 binding constants, respectively. The complexes have also been evaluated for their anticancer activity against HeLa cell line. Both complexes showed higher activity with IC50 values much lower (22.176 and 26.166 μM for 1 and 2, respectively) than the standard cisplatin (78.075 μM). Furthermore, the complexes induced stronger DNA fragmentation as investigated by DNA ladder assay for apoptosis. Our findings suggested that the anticancer action of these compounds stems from their interaction with DNA leading to DNA damage and apoptosis. The excellent activity of 1 and 2 deserves to be a focus for further research and in vivo studies.
Seasonal fluctuations in chemical defenses against macrofouling in Fucus vesiculosus and Fucus serratus from the Baltic Sea
Creators: name: Rickert, Esther
name: Karsten, Ulf
name: Pohnert, Georg
name: Wahl, Martin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Macroalgae, especially perennial species, are exposed to a seasonally variable fouling pressure. It was hypothesized that macroalgae regulate their antifouling defense to fouling pressure. Over one year, the macrofouling pressure and the chemical anti-macrofouling defense strength of the brown algae Fucus vesiculosus and Fucus serratus were assessed with monthly evaluation. The anti-macrofouling defense was assessed by means of surface-extracted Fucus metabolites tested at near-natural concentrations in a novel in situ bioassay. Additionally, the mannitol content of both Fucus species was determined to assess resource availability for defense production. The surface chemistry of both Fucus species exhibited seasonal variability in attractiveness to Amphibalanus improvisus and Mytilus edulis. Of this variability, 50–60% is explained by a sinusoidal model. Only F. vesiculosus extracts originating from the spring and summer significantly deterred settlement of A. improvisus. The strength of macroalgal antifouling defense did not correlate either with in situ macrofouling pressure or with measured mannitol content, which, however, were never depleted.
Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, antimicrobial activity and crystal structure of silver and copper complexes of sulfamethazine
Creators: name: Tailor, Sanjay M.
name: Patel, Urmila H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Silver(I) and copper(II) complexes of 4-amino-N-(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidinyl) benzenesulfonamide (smz) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and infrared (IR), 1H NMR, and UV–vis spectroscopy. [Ag(smz)(pyridine)] (1) crystallizes in monoclinic system with space group P21/c and Z = 4, while [Cu(smz)2(pyridine)2]·H2O (2) crystallizes in triclinic system with space group P-1 and Z = 2. X-ray analysis revealed that silver in 1 is four-coordinate exhibiting distorted tetrahedral geometry, while copper in 2 is coordinated to six nitrogens leading to a highly distorted octahedral geometry. The molecular structures of both 1 and 2 are stabilized by N–H⋯O and C–H⋯π intermolecular and C–H⋯O intramolecular interactions. Water plays a significant role in crystal packing by forming strong N–H⋯Owater intramolecular as well as Owater–H⋯N intermolecular interactions in 2. The results of IR, UV–vis, 1H NMR spectral data and thermal analysis for 1 and 2 suggest that the binding of silver and copper to the sulfonamidic nitrogen is in agreement with the crystal structure determination. Antimicrobial activities of silver (1) and copper (2) complexes of sulfamethazine are studied by the dilution method against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli strains.
Resistance to pathogens in terpene down-regulated orange fruits inversely correlates with the accumulation of D-limonene in peel oil glands
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Ana
name: Shimada, Takehiko
name: Cervera, Magdalena
name: Redondo, Ana
name: Alquézar, Berta
name: Rodrigo, María Jesús
name: Zacarías, Lorenzo
name: Lluís Palou
name: López, María M
name: Peña, Leandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology

description: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are secondary metabolites acting as a language for the communication of plants with the environment. In orange fruits, the monoterpene D-limonene accumulates at very high levels in oil glands from the peel. Drastic down-regulation of D-limonene synthase gene expression in the peel of transgenic oranges harboring a D-limonene synthase transgene in antisense (AS) configuration altered the monoterpene profile in oil glands, mainly resulting in reduced accumulation of D-limonene. This led to fruit resistance against Penicillium digitatum (Pd), Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) and other specialized pathogens. Here, we analyze resistance to pathogens in independent AS and empty vector (EV) lines, which have low, medium or high D-limonene concentrations and show that the level of resistance is inversely related to the accumulation of D-limonene in orange peels, thus explaining the need of high D-limonene accumulation in mature oranges in nature for the efficient attraction of specialized microorganism frugivores.
What now? the imprecise and disagreeable aesthetics of remix
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
name: McCrea, Christian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It became a minor phenomenon during 2007. By September 2009 it was a virus out of control. Described in Wired as a 'popular internet meme' (Wortham, 2008), the obsessive serial mash-up of a key sequence from Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 film of the last days of Adolf Hitler, Der Untergang (The Downfall), is suggestive of the cultural logic of the contemporary formation known as remix. Remix culture is comprised of what could loosely be termed amateurs and professionals engaged in the practice of creatively re-using found material. The distinction is useful in identifying the aesthetic and material differences between dedicated intermedia remix artists, artists who incorporate elements of remix into a broader audiovisual practice and the vernacular audio-visual mash-up/remake/dub/scratch aesthetics associated with a broad range of online practices. The domestication of audio-visual literacies in the digital age has meant that the processes of sampling, editing and compositing â- once the province of dedicated adepts â- have become second nature for a generation weaned on computers and digital technology.
YouthWorx Media: Creative media engagement for 'at risk' young people
Creators: name: Podkalicka, Aneta
name: Staley, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper offers a descriptive account of the development, operation and management of the youth media program YouthWorx Media that engages disadvantaged young people in media creation. Through the combined perspectives of the project manager and researcher working on the project, we reflect on the actual, on-the-ground practices. A provision of intermediary pathways for reconnection with education and employment via media training for Melbourne 'youth at risk' is the key objective of the project, against which the project's 'real world' social outcomes are being documented and measured. However, we recognise also the 'messiness' of the program's delivery process, and its uneasy documentation through ethnographic research. The implementation of projects like YouthWorx involves a series of calculated strategic decisions informed by a set of shared values and underlying philosophies (e.g., a pedagogy of working with 'youth at risk' via media presented here), but also-and equally important-numerous ad hoc responses to 'real' situations at hand. This paper emphasises then an inherent process of translation of the project's original conceptions or ideas, constantly tested and re-visited, into on-the-ground educational and media activities. It underscores a value of exploring connections between theory/philosophies and practice, social work and academic research, hoping to contribute to a wider discussion of the role of community media/arts initiatives in stimulating positive social change.
No accounting for the environment: Robin Boyd, Expo 07, Australian design history and defuturing
Creators: name: Barnes, Carolyn
name: Jackson, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper offers a critical reading of Robin Boyd's narrative of the Australian nation created for Australia's pavilion at Expo'70. The critique offered is from an environmental perspective, using this example to lead into a broader reflection on Australian design history's 'modernity problem'. We argue that although the examination of Australia as a socio-cultural context for the practice of design continues to engage scholars, the will to profess the existence of progressive Australian design has precluded significant examination of design's regressive effects.
Where is our diversity? Questions of visibility and representation in Australian graphic design
Creators: name: Akama, Yoko
name: Barnes, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This polemical discussion explores the lack of diversity of representation in Australian graphic design. It questions what it means that the image and voice of a cultural field is limited to a narrow category of individuals, especially when there is increased awareness across society of the value of opening representation to previously excluded or marginalised groups. The discussion of diversity builds on established analyses of the situation for women in graphic design. This may seem to skew the argument towards issues of gender not diversity, but the matter of women's participation in design is an open, if unresolved, topic of discussion. The nature and extent of other groups' participation in design remains largely unstated and undocumented due to the sensitivity of broaching issues of ethnicity and indigeneity in Australian society. The paper argues that a creative industry that lacks plurality and inclusiveness in its leadership is unlikely to provide the nuanced, receptive and well-informed responses required to communicate to a diverse Australian public. The paper does not seek to provide answers to the questions it raises. Rather, its aim is to prompt discussion about the nature of graphic design as an industry and a cultural institution.
Multiple information failure: a case of different investments in form and content in graphic design
Creators: name: Barnes, Carolyn
name: Taffe, Simone
name: Miceli, Lucy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper considers a sequence of failures in the design of information. It focuses on the Safe and Sustainable Indoor Cleaning study (SASI Clean), a 2007 government-funded study into cleaning practices in Australian childcare centers. Empowerment through participation was integral to the study, childcare workers being seen as collaborators in the investigation, not mere research subjects or informants. They worked with scientists and designers to investigate the nature of childcare as a specific context for cleaning and information delivery and to identify creative responses to its challenges. In respect of design, however, other project dynamics clashed with the frame-changing nature of participatory design. Ultimately, key project stakeholders preferred a failed model of communication, focused on the information to be transmitted over design prototypes oriented to the perspectives and situation of childcare workers, revealing skepticism to claims to knowledge to be both a compelling reason for the use of participatory design and a basic obstacle to the valuing of its results. To explore the complex human and organizational issues associated with the project, the paper uses a case study approach.
Remarks on strange-quark simulations with Wilson fermions
Creators: name: Mohler, Daniel
name: Schaefer, Stefan
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020

description: In the simulation of QCD with 2+1 flavors of Wilson fermions, the positivity of the fermion determinant is generally assumed. We present evidence that this assumption is in general not justified and discuss the consequences of this finding.
Narrative non-fiction research and university ethics practices
Creators: name: Arnold, Josie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the formal University level of the Ethics Committee, there seems to be a confusion about the ethical considerations and implications of 'narrative non-fiction' and 'the literature of self'. This paper will look at that confusion and try to suggest some ways through it, as well as some causes for it. Taking into account the PhD model of artefact and exegesis, this paper looks at the ethical questions inherent in writing one's own story as qualitative research involving creative non-fiction and/or an exegesis about oneself as a writer. It proposes such writing as family and local history, narrative non-fiction, autobiography, biography, poetry, film-scripting, drama and self-as-data has its own ethical dimensions as a research domain. In relationship to forming an understanding of this, it investigates some aspects of the postmodernist views of story-telling as research. It proposes that postmodernist theories about textuality and discourse advance the thinking about (and practice of) the traditional and patriarchal linear analytico-referential knowledge-model being overtaken by lateral postparadigmatic discourse. This conceptual framework involves storytelling and the pastiche of the dispersal of certainties in considering the practice of writing and/or production of an artefact. The aim of this paper is to enable tired research paradigms and debates to be short-circuited by the acceptance of difference. This means the production of new discourse models as well as new content. It also means a new and more open approach to ethics clearances within the university.
МЕТОДИКА 12 ШАГОВ: ОСНОВНЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ К ПРОБЛЕМЕ АЛКОГОЛЬНОЙ И НАРКОТИЧЕСКОЙ ЗАВИСИМОСТИ
Creators: name: Дворецкая Анна Павловна
name: Коновалова Ольга Викторовна
Publisher: name: Современная христианская психология и антропология: актуальные вопросы. Материалы Всероссийской конференции
Year: 2020
Subjects: Русская православная церковь
профилактика наркомании
реабилитация алкои наркозависимых
«Программа 12 шагов»

description: Рассматривается позиция Русской православной церкви по проблемам алкои наркозависимости. Выявляются основные подходы Русской православной церкви к «Программе 12 шагов».
The impact of exchange rate variations and university reputation on the choice of destinations of international students in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Abbott, Malcolm
name: Ali, Ershad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this paper is to determine the degree to which changes in exchange rates have an impact of the choices made by students when they travel abroad to undertake higher education. As well as changes in exchange rates other factors are also considered such as changes in the real income of students, and the reputation of universities. The findings were that exchange rate changes do have an influence on the demands of international students, although this is not uniform in nature across countries. This has important implications for policy makers as in a number of countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, government universities are often very reliant on the income generated by selling educations services to overseas students.
Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, antimicrobial activity and crystal structure of silver and copper complexes of sulfamethazine
Creators: name: Tailor, Sanjay M.
name: Patel, Urmila H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Silver(I) and copper(II) complexes of 4-amino-N-(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidinyl)benzenesulfonamide (smz) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and infrared, 1H-NMR and UV-Vis spectroscopy. [Ag(smz)(pyridine)] (1) crystallizes in monoclinic system with space group P21/c and Z = 4 while [Cu(smz)2(pyridine)2]∙H2O (2) crystallizes in triclinic system with space group P-1 and Z = 2. X-ray analysis revealed that silver in 1 is four-coordinate exhibiting distorted tetrahedral geometry while copper in 2 is coordinated to six nitrogens leading to a highly distorted octahedral geometry. The molecular structures of both 1 and 2 are stabilized by N-H…O and C-H…π intermolecular and C-H…O intramolecular interactions. Water plays a significant role in crystal packing by forming strong N-H…Owater intramolecular as well as Owater-H…N intermolecular interactions in 2. The results of IR, UV-Vis, 1H NMR spectral data and thermal analysis for 1 and 2 suggest that the binding of silver and copper to the sulfonamidic nitrogen is in agreement with the crystal structure determination. Antimicrobial activities of silver (1) and copper (2) complexes of sulfamethazine are studied by the dilution method against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli strains.
Resistance to pathogens in terpene down-regulated orange fruits inversely correlates with the accumulation of D-limonene in peel oil glands
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Ana
name: Shimada, Takehiko
name: Cervera, Magdalena
name: Redondo, Ana
name: Alquézar, Berta
name: Rodrigo, María Jesús
name: Zacarías, Lorenzo
name: Lluís Palou
name: López, María M
name: Peña, Leandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology

description: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are secondary metabolites acting as a language for the communication of plants with the environment. In orange fruits, the monoterpene D-limonene accumulates at very high levels in oil glands from the peel. Drastic down-regulation of D-limonene synthase gene expression in the peel of transgenic oranges harboring a D-limonene synthase transgene in antisense (AS) configuration altered the monoterpene profile in oil glands, mainly resulting in reduced accumulation of D-limonene. This led to fruit resistance against Penicillium digitatum (Pd), Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) and other specialized pathogens. Here, we analyze resistance to pathogens in independent AS and empty vector (EV) lines, which have low, medium or high D-limonene concentrations and show that the level of resistance is inversely related to the accumulation of D-limonene in orange peels, thus explaining the need of high D-limonene accumulation in mature oranges in nature for the efficient attraction of specialized microorganism frugivores.
Heteroleptic Pd(II) dithiocarbamates: Synthesis, characterization, packing and in vitro anticancer activity against HeLa cell lines
Creators: name: Shahan Zeb Khan
name: Amir, Muhammad Kashif
name: Naseer, Muhammad Moazzam
name: Rashda Abbasi
name: Kehkashan Mazhar
name: Tahir, Muhammad Nawaz
name: Iqra Zubair Awan
name: Zia-Ur-Rehman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Biological Sciences
Meta Science
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cell Biology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Two new heteroleptic Pd(II) dithiocarbamates (1 and 2) have been synthesized by reaction of equimolar quantities of palladium(II) chloride, sodium 4-(3-methoxyphenyl)piperazine-1-carbodithioate and appropriate substituted triphenylphosphines. The synthesized complexes have been characterized by their physical, spectral (IR, 1H, 13C and 31P NMR) and X-ray crystallographic data. Complexes 1 and 2 showed square-planar geometry both in solution and solid states. The crystal packing of both complexes revealed similar 3D-supramolecular networks comprised of 1D chains. However, the nature and strength of various non-covalent interactions of these networks were slightly different. The DNA interaction studies of the complexes have been carried out by UV-visible spectroscopy to evaluate their anticancer potential. The study suggested intercalative interaction with 2.402×104 M−1 and 2.713×103 M−1 binding constants, respectively. The complexes have also been evaluated for their anticancer activity against HeLa cell line. Both complexes showed higher activity with IC50 values much lower (22.176 and 26.166 μM for 1 and 2, respectively) than the standard cisplatin (78.075 μM). Furthermore, the complexes induced stronger DNA fragmentation as investigated by DNA ladder assay for apoptosis. Our findings suggested that the anticancer action of these compounds stems from their interaction with DNA leading to DNA damage and apoptosis. The excellent activity of 1 and 2 deserves to be a focus for further research and in vivo studies.
Speckled Bush Cricket Data Logger - Project Report
Creators: name: Bennett, Wil
name: Chesmore, David
name: Baker, Edward
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This report summarises work carried out on the Speckled Bush Cricket data logger project by Wil Bennett and Dave Chesmore at the University of York and Ed Baker at the Natural History Museum, who together designed and constructed - at the time of writing - a total of ten data logging devices to monitor the presence of Leptophyes punctatissima and other environmental variables such as temperature and humidity. This document summarises the capabilities and functionality of these devices, and comprehensively documents correct operational procedure for deploying the devices in the field.
Critical properties of the valence-bond-solid transition in lattice quantum electrodynamics
Creators: name: Zerf, Nikolai
name: Boyack, Rufus
name: Marquard, Peter
name: Gracey, John A.
name: Maciejko, Joseph
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: symmetry breaking: chiral
space-time: dimension: 4
fermion: matter
fermion: Dirac
dimension: 3
quantum electrodynamics
lattice
critical phenomena
O(2)
spontaneous symmetry breaking
Jona-Lasinio-Nambu model
lattice field theory
condensed matter
Monte Carlo
confinement
fractional
conformal
flavor

description: Elucidating the phase diagram of lattice gauge theories with fermionic matter in 2+1 dimensions has become a problem of considerable interest in recent years, motivated by physical problems ranging from chiral symmetry breaking in high-energy physics to fractionalized phases of strongly correlated materials in condensed matter physics. For a sufficiently large number $N_f$ of flavors of four-component Dirac fermions, recent sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo studies of lattice quantum electrodynamics (QED$_3$) on the square lattice have found evidence for a continuous quantum phase transition between a power-law correlated conformal QED$_3$ phase and a confining valence-bond-solid phase with spontaneously broken point-group symmetries. The critical continuum theory of this transition was shown to be the $O(2)$ QED$_3$-Gross-Neveu model, equivalent to the gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, and critical exponents were computed to first order in the large-$N_f$ expansion and the $\epsilon$ expansion. We extend these studies by computing critical exponents to second order in the large-$N_f$ expansion and to four-loop order in the $\epsilon$ expansion below four spacetime dimensions. In the latter context, we also explicitly demonstrate that the discrete $\mathbb{Z}_4$ symmetry of the valence-bond-solid order parameter is dynamically enlarged to a continuous $O(2)$ symmetry at criticality for all values of $N_f$.
Novel molecularly imprinted polymer prepared by palygorskite as support for selective adsorption of bisphenol A in aqueous solution
Creators: name: Zilong Zhao
name: Dafang Fu
name: Binsheng Zhang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Novel strategy to synthesize palygorskite-supported surface molecularly imprinted polymer (SMIP) for bisphenol A (BPA) template was presented. Fourier transform infrared, scanning electron microscopy, and elemental analysis were employed for the characterization of the resulting composites. When compared with the molecularly imprinted polymer, the SMIP exhibited more excellent affinity and selectivity towards BPA in aqueous solution, with the affinity constant (b) of 1.929, the Freundlich constants (KF) of 25.758, and the distribution coefficient (Kd) of 128.390. The adsorption behaviors of the SMIP were well described by Freundlich isotherm model and the pseudo-second-order model. Moreover, the sustainable reusability of the SMIP without significant loss in rebinding capacity was affirmed in four repeated cycles. These results demonstrated the potential of the prepared SMIP as an advanced separation materials for the elimination of specific endocrine disruptor in aquatic environment.