cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Populating the galaxy with pulsars
Creators: name: Kiel, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Prior to this thesis no serious attempt has been made within binary system population synthesis research to model the selection effects of observational surveys. Conversely, many pulsar population models have accounted for radio survey selection effects but not detailed binary evolution. Such modelling becomes especially important when comparing theory directly to observations. In examining the factors that influence pulsar evolution, both in binary systems and as single stellar objects, we have bridged this existing gap between these two research fields. This thesis populates a model Galaxy with binary systems and evolves the population forward in time. A prediction of the Galactic pulsar population characteristics is produced, at the assumed age of the Galaxy, after we have accounted for detailed changes in stellar and binary evolution and Galactic kinematics. Synthetic observational surveys mimicking a variety of radio pulsar surveys are then performed on this population. The population synthesis synthetic survey (PS3) package is comprised of three components: stellar/binary evolution (binpop), Galactic kinematics (binkin), and survey selection effects (binsfx). The resultant pulsar populations, assuming the magnetic-dipole decay and accretion induced magnetic decay models, can compare well to many of the detected pulsar population characteristics. The comparisons between models and observations have lead to the conclusions described below. The models exclude short (~ 5 Myr) timescales for standard pulsar exponential field decay and find that ablation of low-mass millisecond pulsar companions can redress both the lack of synthetic isolated pulsars and their excessive distances in height from the Galactic plane. Coalescing double neutron star and collapsar Galactic populations, evolved owing to standard binary evolutionary assumptions, are too centrally concentrated owing to the typical merger timescale of double neutron stars being a few million years. Dwarf galaxy models of coalescing double neutron stars and collapsars produce equally good agreement with long gamma-ray burst projected distances. Therefore our models cannot provide any distinction between which of these populations (coalescing double neutron stars or collapsars) are the progenitor of long gamma-ray bursts. The Galactic birth rate of double neutron star binaries in our model is 8.2 Myr−1 and the merger rate is 6.8 Myr−1. Scintillation is found to be an important aspect in the detection of low flux density pulsars. The assumed pulsar luminosity law is found to require an inverse trend with spin period and our favoured models suggest that there are one million radio active pulsars within the Galaxy.
How can food retailers enable the adoption of more sustainable consumer diets? Exploring a transition to ‘less and better’ meat in the UK
Creators: name: Trewern, Joanna
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Widespread adoption of sustainable diets is vital if we are to feed a global population of 10 billion by 2050 while addressing climate change and nature loss. In the UK, sustainable diets are those that are lower in meat and dairy, higher in plant-based foods including vegetables, legumes, and pulses, and include foods that have been produced sustainably. ‘Less and better’ is a vision for meat and dairy production and consumption as part of a sustainable diet, but there is little clarity on what it means and how to deliver it. Food retailers hold significant influence over what people eat and how it is farmed. Their role in enabling more sustainable diets has received little attention to date. This thesis adopts an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach to explore what is meant by ‘less and better’ meat and dairy (Part 1) and the role of retailers (Part 2) and policy (Part 3) in delivering it, resulting in six interlinked papers. Findings from Part 1 indicate that ‘less and better’ involves significant reductions in high-income countries accompanied by a transition to extensive production systems, although further research quantifying the impacts and benefits of these systems is needed. Part 2 illustrates that while retailers are implementing ‘better’ meat and dairy strategies, action on ‘less’ is limited. An in-store nudge intervention was successful at increasing sales of plant-based products but did not impact meat sales. Participants in a retail-led behaviour change campaign reported eating less meat and more plant-based foods, changes which were sustained three months after the campaign. To enable more sustainable consumer diets retailers should implement in-store interventions that explicitly target meat products in combination with targeted behaviour change campaigns. Retailers face external barriers that will require policy intervention on both ‘less’ and ‘better’ to drive change at national level.
Additional file 2 of The MYB transcription factor CiMYB42 regulates limonoids biosynthesis in citrus
Creators: name: Zhang, Pan
name: Xiaofeng Liu
name: Xu, Xin
name: Fusheng Wang
name: Junhong Long
name: Wanxia Shen
name: Jiang, Dong
name: Xiaochun Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Schematic diagram of limonoid biosynthesis. The abbreviations of the compounds and enzymes are as follows: IPP, isopentenyl diphosphate; DMAPP, dimethylallyl diphosphate; FPP, farnesyl diphosphate; FPPS, FPP synthase; SQS, squalene synthase; SQE, squalene epoxidase, OSC, oxidosuqlene cyclase; UDPG, UDP-glycosyltransferase; NG, nomilin-glucopyranoside; LG, limonin-glucopyranoside.
Additional file 3 of The MYB transcription factor CiMYB42 regulates limonoids biosynthesis in citrus
Creators: name: Zhang, Pan
name: Xiaofeng Liu
name: Xu, Xin
name: Fusheng Wang
name: Junhong Long
name: Wanxia Shen
name: Jiang, Dong
name: Xiaochun Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Developmental stages of the leaf samples used in this study.
Handlungsspielräume von Frauen in Myanmar: Moralisch unterlegen aber gut genug für Handel, Gewerbe und Geldgeschäfte
Creators: name: Büchel, Caroline
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Regierung schrieb 1999 in ihrem ersten CEDAW-Bericht, dass in Myanmar Frauen die gleichen Rechte wie Männer im politischen, wirtschaftlichen, administrativen, rechtlichen und sozialen Bereich genießen. Myanmar hat die CEDAW-Konvention (Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Diskriminierung der Frau) 1997 ratifiziert. Alle Verfassungen des Landes, einschließlich der aktuellen von 2008, verbriefen die Gleichberechtigung der Frau. Doch wie ist es um die Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in Myanmar tatsächlich bestellt?
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Myanmar im Aufbruch: Die Umsetzung der Roadmap zur Demokratie ist ein Lernprozess für alle Beteiligten
Creators: name: Gärtner, Uta
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Nachwahlen sind vorüber. Wie erwartet, war die von Daw Aung San Suu Kyi geführte National League for Democracy (NLD) die erfolgreichste der 17 Parteien: Sie errang 43 der 45 zuvor von USPD-Mitgliedern besetzten Mandate, die infolge der Übernahme von Ämtern vakant waren, davon 37 im Pyithu Hluttaw (Volkskammer), vier im Amyotha Hluttaw (Nationalitätenkammer), zwei in der Region Ayeyawady.
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Engagement zeigt Erfolge: Frauen kämpfen an vorderster Front gegen Zwangsräumungen
Creators: name: Franzke, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Frauen in Kambodscha sehen sich immer noch Diskriminierung, gewalttätigen Übergriffen und Ungleichbehandlung ausgesetzt. Dennoch kämpfen sie an vorderster Front gegen rechtswidrige Zwangsräumungen, organisieren Demonstrationen, klären andere Betroffene über ihre Rechte auf und riskieren ihre Verhaftung - denn sie leiden am stärksten unter den Folgen einer Zwangsräumung.
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Ties that Bind: The Mobilities of Thai-American Retirees
Creators: name: PUTHO, TASSYA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores the diverse mobilities of Thai-American retirees in both Thailand and the United States, adopting a life-course approach to examining constellations of later-life mobilities, meanings, and experiences. It seeks to make the following original contributions: situating later-life mobilities research at the intersection of ageing, migration, mobilities and tourism; presenting a novel and comprehensive comparison of the fluid later-life mobilities of retired migrants; combining and contrasting the narratives of the retired migrants and their family members in both the countries of origin and settlement; and delving into the lesser known contexts of Thailand and the Thai transnational community. The thesis is empirically grounded on in-depth semi-structured interviews, guided by the epistemological position of constructivism and interpretivism, and accompanied by photographic accounts from the field.
description: Results from 52 interviews conducted in California and across seven provinces in Thailand offer a number of key findings: later-life mobility is fluid, interlinking, and often overlapping, extending beyond the simple binaries of ‘staying’ or ‘returning’; meanings behind later-life mobility revolve around the ties that bind individuals to place and people, particularly their families; and continued every practices and cultural nuances with regards to religion and values contribute to retirees’ transition to the frail elderly stage of ageing and ultimately the end of life. Through compiling the findings, four themes emerge from the mobilities of Thai-American retirees: place attachments and geographies of home and belonging; social meanings and ties that bind; effects of ageing in a transnational social field; and the future trajectories of retired Thai-Americans. These demonstrate the importance of acknowledging the diversity of later-life mobilities and the specific cultural contexts they are embedded in.
Modelling Three-Body Effects in the Adiabatic Distorted Waves Theory of (d,p) Reactions for the Indirect Study of Stellar Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: DINMORE, MICHAEL JAMES
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This work assesses the impact of three-body interactions within the ADWA on (d,p) transfer reaction observables used as an indirect method to study astrophysically relevant
description: processes.
description: We provide a practical framework for the inclusion of induced three-body effects within the n+p+A system and describe their significance for reaction observables for 40Ca(d,p)41Ca and demonstrate that these terms provide a reduction of between 20-30% to differential cross sections when using a non-local dispersive optical model potential. We are able to reproduce these findings for global non-local potentials, and we investigate the significance of these terms for 26Al, 30P, 34Cl and 56Ni, all nuclei that are known to be important in determining destruction rates in the astrophysical rp-process. For these N=Z nuclei, we show that non-local calculations result in reductions of 10-45% in differential and total cross sections, with the magnitude of these reductions dependent on neutron separation energy Sn and the transferred angular momentum l.
description: We also investigate the contribution of three-nucleon forces to (d,p) cross sections with both zero-range and finite-range potentials, demonstrating that three-body interactions result in a consistent, non-negligible, contribution to differential cross sections for 26Al and 56Ni (d,p) reactions, particularly at small angles, before going on to show that the contribution of these three-nucleon potentials to reaction cross sections is reduced once induced three-body effects are included.
Prospects in the Application of Photodynamic Therapy in Oral Cancer and Premalignant Lesions
Creators: name: Saini, Rajan
name: Lee, Nathan V.
name: Liu, Kelly Y. P.
name: Poh, Catherine
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Oral cancer is a global health burden with significantly poor survival, especially when the diagnosis is at its late stage. Despite advances in current treatment modalities, there has been minimal improvement in survival rates over the last five decades. The development of local recurrence, regional failure, and the formation of second primary tumors accounts for this poor outcome. For survivors, cosmetic and functional compromises resulting from treatment are often devastating. These statistics underscore the need for novel approaches in the management of this deadly disease. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment modality that involves administration of a light-sensitive drug, known as a photosensitizer, followed by light irradiation of an appropriate wavelength that corresponds to an absorbance band of the sensitizer. In the presence of tissue oxygen, cytotoxic free radicals that are produced cause direct tumor cell death, damage to the microvasculature, and induction of inflammatory reactions at the target sites. PDT offers a prospective new approach in controlling this disease at its various stages either as a stand-alone therapy for early lesions or as an adjuvant therapy for advanced cases. In this review, we aim to explore the applications of PDT in oral cancer therapy and to present an overview of the recent advances in PDT that can potentially reposition its utility for oral cancer treatment.
Die traditionelle Rolle der Frauen: Weil ich ein Mädchen bin ...
Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Im Jahr 2015 wird die Umsetzung der Millenniumsentwicklungsziele (MDG) gemessen. MDG Nr. 3 zielt auf die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter und die Stärkung der Rechte von Frauen ab. Die Erreichung dieses Ziels bleibt in Laos trotz einiger Erfolge ambitiös.
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Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thuy-Vi
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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Geschlechterhierarchien in Vietnam: Wandel und Persistenz von traditionellen Rollenbildern
Creators: name: Poma, Sara Poma
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Vorstellung, dass Frauen primär ihren häuslichen Pflichten gewissenhaft nachkommen sollten, ist in der vietnamesischen Gesellschaft stark verankert. Trotz zunehmender wirtschaftlicher und politischer Partizipation eröffnen sich nur langsam neue Wege für Frauen.
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The Influence of Past Experience on the Electric Vehicles Purchase Intention: The Case of China
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuting
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: To cope with climate change, the transport sector, as the main sector of current carbon emissions, bears a major responsibility for transforming energy use. Both developed and developing countries have gradually shifted the energy consumption of automobiles to reduce carbon emissions, save energy, and reduce environmental pollution from the functions of quick movement, expanding people's living radius, and giving individuals free space. Electric vehicles (EVs) are recognised as one of the promising measures to achieve sustainable transport goals. As a new technology with electricity as the main power source, EVs are transitioning from policy-driven to market-driven in China, one of the largest carbon-emitting economies. However, the lack of experience and knowledge with EVs and the concept that ""EVs are just an alternative technology"" are the main reasons for the lack of focus on electric vehicles in behaviour research.

description:

description: Thus, this research establishes an integrated model of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and value-belief-norm theory (VBN), incorporating past behaviour variables. The integrated model fills the weaknesses of the two theories and enhances its explanatory power to explore the influence of past experiences on EV purchase intention. This research obtains 1000 valid examples in China and selects users who have driven electric vehicles as target participants. Using the Partial Least Square - Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique and Smart PLS software to analyse the survey data of participants' stated preferences in different cities in China, it is found that past experience directly or indirectly affects EV purchase intention, attitudes, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, and personal norm play a partial mediating effect. Price value and policy play a negative regulating role in psychological variables and EV purchase intention, and socio-demographic attributes are also moderating factors affecting the path of past experience and EV purchase intention.

description:

description: Finally, the research provides policy and strategy suggestions for the Chinese government and automobile companies to promote the development of EV use. This thesis contributes to methodology by establishing an integrated model to predict behavioural intention; theoretically speaking, it uses the Push-Pull-Mooring framework to combine the analysis results with the actual situation of electric vehicles in China and provides suggestions for the further development of electric vehicles.
Content Teachers’ Perspectives from a CLIL Methodology Training Course
Creators: name: Tommaso, Laura
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The purpose of this study is to explore upper secondary teachers’ perceptions, attitudes, and needs regarding a CLIL methodology teacher training course offered by the Language Centre of the University of Molise in the year 2017-2018. To this end, multiple sources of evidence were gathered from e-questionnaires and observations. The findings point to the need to strengthen training in the areas of micro-teaching and teaching practice and to the importance of practice observation, especially from more experienced CLIL teachers. In this respect, the study suggests to consider a more extensive usage of on-line teaching environments where additional support and valuable resources can be provided throughout the course.

description: EL.LE
Freiwillige Frauen für die Menschlichkeit RPuK (Relawan Perempuan untuk kemanusiaan)
Creators: name: Großmann, Kristina
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Creators: name: Breininger, Lilli
name: Findeisen, Genia
name: Großmann, Kristina
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
What Process-Oriented TS Have to Say to FL Teaching
Creators: name: Gasparini, Silvia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Research on translation processes using think-aloud protocols (TAPs) as the research design has recently received increasing attention in Translation Studies (TS). Such bulk of literature has produced many interesting findings about mental activities during the process of translation. In particular, it has helped uncover lexical search processes thanks to strategy identification through behavioral index-reading. The present paper surveys these studies with a particular eye on their potential use in the foreign language (FL) curriculum. Building on this analysis, an observational study is conducted which attempts to address how lexical failures in translation can be detected and re-directed in the ongoing translation process. The experience is to be considered a preliminary step for a systematic approach to the construction of experimental models in the field of process-oriented translation and reading-comprehension teaching.

description: EL.LE
“We’re all Closer”: Narratives of Family Identity after Acquired Brain Injury
Creators: name: Culley, Siobhan Margaret Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Acquired brain injury (ABI) profoundly impacts the whole family. Typically, research has studied survivor and family member experiences separately, using individualistic and problem-saturated lenses. Recently, there has been a growth in relational research into family experiences and resilience post-ABI. The aim of this study is to explore narratives of family identity within a relational and strengths-focused framework, to better understand how families construct meaning to navigate ABI together.

description:

description: Methods: Four adult families participated, including four survivors of ABI and seven family members, aged 24 to 74. Time since the ABI was between one and eighteen years. Two or three interviews, involving the whole family, were conducted via videocall to collect in-depth stories of family identity. Narrative analysis was used as a framework to explore the data.

description:

description: Findings: An overall narrative (gestalt) was interpreted to be ABI as an ongoing family life transformation, encompassing disconnecting and unifying narratives. Within the overarching narratives, six interconnected, complex and evolving stories of family identity were explored:

description: 1) Disjointedness in response to the trauma of the ABI.
description: 2) Closeness that can remedy disjointedness with continuity and growth.
description: 3) Incomprehension of ABI and stories of disablism in interactions with people.
description: 4) Incomprehension and disablism may be mitigated through understanding, kindness and inclusion.
description: 5) Protectiveness from family members in tension with survivor’s wish for independence.
description: 6) Humour to lighten the seriousness of the ABI.

description:

description: Conclusions: Each family’s identity, termed ‘we-dentity’, was unique. While disconnecting narratives spoke to the challenges of responding to the trauma of ABI, unifying narratives could bring the family together, aid meaning-making and facilitate managing the challenges of ABI. Unifying and disconnecting narratives may be integrated into coherent understandings to makes sense of the ABI experience. It is recommended clinical services embed relational and strengths-based understandings into family support post-ABI. Future avenues for research are suggested.
Umweltkonflikte in Südostasien
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchvorstellung von: Helmut Schneider, Rolf Jordan und Michael Waibel (Hrsg.), Umweltkonflikte in Südostasien. Bad Honnef: Horlemann, 2012. ISBN: 9783895023309.
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Eine verloren gehende Welt: »Mythos Goldenes Dreieck« – eine Ausstellung des Ethnologischen Museums in Berlin
Creators: name: Gäßler, Heike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Kurz vor dem zweihundertjährigen Jubiläum der deutsch-thailändischen Beziehungen (2012) wurde im Ethnologischen Museum in Berlin-Dahlem eine neue Dauerausstellung zu Bergvölkern in Südostasien eröffnet. Das Gespräch mit Dr. Roland Platz, dem Kurator der Ausstellung, gibt Einblick in eine verloren gehende Welt südostasiatischer Minderheitenkulturen.
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Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Bartz, Jessica
name: Breininger, Lilli
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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Rohstoffrausch: Die Auswirkungen von Bergbau in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Schmitz, Andreas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Lilli Breininger, Michael Reckordt (Hrsg.), Rohstoffrausch. Die Auswirkungen von Bergbau in den Philippinen. Gestaltung: Klartext Medienwerkstatt. ISBN 9-783933-341556.
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Human Rights in the Philippines: Trends and Challenges under the Aquino Government
Creators: name: Grabowski, Maike
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchvorstellung von: Aktionsbündnis Menschenrechte-Philippinen (Hrsg.), Human Rights in the Philippines. Trends and Challenges under the Aquino Government. Essen: Asienstiftung. ISBN 978-3-933341-57-0.
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Zeit zu handeln: Enact Disappearance Act! Eine neue Gesetzesinitiative zum Verschwindenlassen in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Schlegel, Christoph
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Noch immer finden in den Philippinen politisch motivierte Entführungen statt. Die mögliche Ratifizierung des »Enforced Disappearance Act« birgt die Hoffnung, dass sich die Menschenrechtssituation diesbezüglich verbessert.
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Using website referrals to identify unreliable content rabbit holes
Creators: name: Greene, Kevin T.
name: Pereira, Mayana
name: Pisharody, Nilima
name: Dodhia, Rahul
name: Ferres, Juan Lavista
name: Shapiro, Jacob N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Does the URL referral structure of websites lead users into ‘rabbit holes’ of unreliable content? Past work suggests algorithmic recommender systems on sites like YouTube lead users to view more unreliable content. However, websites without algorithmic recommender systems have financial and political motivations to influence the movement of users, potentially creating browsing rabbit holes. We address this gap using browser telemetry that captures referrals to a large sample of domains rated as reliable or unreliable information sources. Our results suggest the incentives for unreliable sites to retain and monetise users create rabbit holes. After landing on an unreliable site, users are very likely to be referred to another page on the site. Further, unreliable sites are better at retaining users than reliable sites. We find less support for political motivations. While reliable and unreliable sites are largely disconnected from one another, the probability of traveling from one unreliable site to another is relatively low. Our findings indicate the need for additional focus on site-level incentives to shape traffic moving through their sites.
Predicting Weight-loss Using Differential Equations (PRELUDE)
Creators: name: Egan, Aoife Marie
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: Energy Metabolism
Mathematical Modeling (Medical)
Obesity

description: Introduction: Weight-loss results in obligatory reductions in energy expenditure (EE) due to
description: loss of metabolically active fat-free mass (FFM). This is often accompanied by adaptive
description: reductions designed to restore energy balance whilst in energy crisis. Such declines are
description: suggested to be amplified during rapid weight-loss. While the “3500-kcal rule” is used to
description: advise weight-loss in clinical practice, the assumption that EE remains constant during
description: energy restriction results in a large overestimation of weight-loss. Thus, this work proposes a
description: novel method of weight-loss prediction to more accurately account for the dynamic trajectory
description: of EE. Subsequently, obligatory and adaptive REE reductions will be quantified during a
description: total-diet replacement programme (TDR; 600–810 kcal/day).

description:

description: Methods: A mathematical model of weight-loss was developed using ordinary differential
description: equations relying on simple inputs of weight and energy intake to predict weight-loss over a
description: specified time. The proposed model was tested and refined using: (i) retrospective data from
description: a commercial weight management company (ii) secondary data from a randomised controlled
description: trial and (iii) prospective data from a nutrition intervention trial.

description:

description: Results: Mathematical modelling predicted post-intervention weight-loss within 0.80% of
description: that observed in overweight and obese females. Short-term weight-loss was consistently
description: underestimated, due to considerable FFM reductions (60% of total weight-loss), largely
description: explained by fluid losses. The proportion of weight lost as FFM declined thereafter. Of the
description: associated REE reductions, half was explained by metabolic adaptation detected within 2
description: weeks of TDR treatment. The best model agreement was observed in 6–9-week interventions,
description: where predicted end-weight was within 0.6 kg of that observed.

description:

description: Conclusion: These results highlight the metabolic processes determining short-term
description: weight-loss and provide evidence for an immediate adaptive response to energy deficit. The
description: proposed mathematical model simulates weight-loss during a TDR intervention with reasonable
description: accuracy supporting the potential application in clinical weight management.
Echocardiography as a guide for fluid management
Creators: name: Boyd, John H
name: Sirounis, Demetrios
name: Maizel, Julien
name: Slama, Michel
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: In critically ill patients at risk for organ failure, the administration of intravenous fluids has equal chances of resulting in benefit or harm. While the intent of intravenous fluid is to increase cardiac output and oxygen delivery, unwelcome results in those patients who do not increase their cardiac output are tissue edema, hypoxemia, and excess mortality. Here we briefly review bedside methods to assess fluid responsiveness, focusing upon the strengths and pitfalls of echocardiography in spontaneously breathing mechanically ventilated patients as a means to guide fluid management. We also provide new data to help clinicians anticipate bedside echocardiography findings in vasopressor-dependent, volume-resuscitated patients. Objective: To review bedside ultrasound as a method to judge whether additional intravenous fluid will increase cardiac output. Special emphasis is placed on the respiratory effort of the patient. Conclusions: Point-of-care echocardiography has the unique ability to screen for unexpected structural findings while providing a quantifiable probability of a patient’s cardiovascular response to fluids. Measuring changes in stroke volume in response to either passive leg raising or changes in thoracic pressure during controlled mechanical ventilation offer good performance characteristics but may be limited by operator skill, arrhythmia, and open lung ventilation strategies. Measuring changes in vena caval diameter induced by controlled mechanical ventilation demands less training of the operator and performs well during arrythmia. In modern delivery of critical care, however, most patients are nursed awake, even during mechanical ventilation. In patients making respiratory efforts we suggest that ventilator settings must be standardized before assessing this promising technology as a guide for fluid management.
Gekommen, um zu bleiben: Der Kampf um Sitio San Roque, Quezon City
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Einen annehmbaren Lebensraum beziehen zu können ist für die städtische Unterschicht in Manila purer Luxus. Ob die Menschen aus der Oberschicht wissen welchen »Luxus« sie da genießen während sie entspannt durch die Mall schlendern? Wie ein Wohnviertel zur Shoppingmall wird.
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Umweltmanöver zum Nutzen der Großunternehmen: Über die Ölpalmproduktion in Waldgebieten und im Ahnenland der Indigenen Bevölkerung
Creators: name: Alano, Maria Lisa
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Was sind die Funktionen und Grenzen von dem Konzept des ökologischen und gemeindebasierten Ressourcenmanagements (Community-based natural resource management, kurz CBNRM)? Es klingt nachhaltig und fair, aber kann es auch als politisches Instrument zur Förderung von Landgrabbing benutzt werden? Fallbeispiele aus der Provinz Bukidnon zeigen wie es wirklich läuft.
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Additional file 4 of The MYB transcription factor CiMYB42 regulates limonoids biosynthesis in citrus
Creators: name: Zhang, Pan
name: Xiaofeng Liu
name: Xu, Xin
name: Fusheng Wang
name: Junhong Long
name: Wanxia Shen
name: Jiang, Dong
name: Xiaochun Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. The TF-binding cis-elements of the CiSQS and CiOSC promoters.
Steuerzahler als Landgrabber: Ein typischer Landkonflikt auf der Insel Cebu
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: In Aloguinsan bewirtschaftet eine kleine Gemeinde seit Jahrzehnten ein Land und lebt von diesen Erträgen. Nun will sich ein Großgrundbesitzer das Land unter den Nagel reißen, denn schließlich hat er im Jahr 2010 die Steuern dafür gezahlt.
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Mehr schlecht als Recht? Wenn formale Rechte sich nicht in gelebten Realitäten niederschlagen: Fallbeispiel einer Bioethanol-Fabrik in Isabela
Creators: name: De La Cruz, Rosselynn Jaye
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Wie viele südostasiatische Nachbarn wurden auch die Philippinen nicht vom Ansturm des »globalen Grabschens nach Land« verschont: Ein Phänomen, welches das (Ver-)Pachten von Land in großem Rahmen für die Agrarproduktion beschreibt. Im Zuge der innerpolitischen Debatte um die Agrarreform stellt sich die Frage: Inwiefern hilft die Vergabe von Landtiteln dabei lokalen Bauern mehr Macht über ihr Land zu geben?
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From Entropic Encoding to Resonant Memory_ A CODES-Based Architecture for DNA Data Systems
Creators: name: Bostick, Devin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: DNA
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Main paper

Abstract

This paper introduces a structured resonance-based alternative to traditional entropy-driven DNA data storage. By replacing probabilistic base encoding with CODES-guided coherence architecture, we demonstrate how the Resonance Intelligence Core (RIC) drastically improves information density, fidelity, and long-term retrieval. Our system maps prime-phase logic directly into base-pair harmonics using PAS (Phase Alignment Score), enabling coherent memory encoding in DNA with error rates and costs significantly lower than stochastic methods. We present side-by-side simulations, coherence-anchored Verilog/Python code, and a path to microfluidic hardware integration.
Umstrittenes Land – Quelle neuen Unfriedens: Großflächige Landinvestitionen in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Kruckow, Caroline
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: »It is totally revolting that our land s are being devoted for the food security needs of other nations while the Filipino farmers suffer increasing landlessness, hunger and poverty«, sagt Danilo Ramos, Generalsekretär der philippinischen Bauernbewegung Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) (09.02.2012). Es geht dabei um die Vergabe von mehreren 10.000 Hektar Land auf Mindanao an eine Holding-Gesellschaft aus Bahrain für die Produktion von Bananen, Reis und anderen Exportfrüchten.
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Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Groß, Stefanie
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Grubauer, Ariane
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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Caregivers’ treatment-seeking behaviors and predictors of whether a child received an appropriate antimalarial treatment: a household survey in rural Uganda
Creators: name: Kassam, Rosemin
name: Sekiwunga, Richard
name: Collins, John B.
name: Tembe, Juliet
name: Liow, Eric
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: This study responds to a rural community’s concern that, despite national initiatives, malaria management in young children falls short of national guidelines in their district. This study aimed to: (1) describe caregivers’ treatment-seeking behaviors in the rural district of Butaleja, (2) estimate the percentage of children who received an appropriate antimalarial, and (3) determine factors that maximized the likelihood of receiving an appropriate antimalarial. Appropriate antimalarial in this study is defined as having received only the Uganda’s age-specific first-line malaria treatment for uncomplicated and severe malaria during the course of the febrile illness. Methods A household survey design was used in 2011 to interview 424 caregivers with a child aged five and under who had fever within the two weeks preceding the survey. The survey evaluated factors that included: knowledge about malaria and its treatment, management practices, decision-making, and access to artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) and information sources. Bivariate analysis, followed by logistic regression, was used to determine predictors of the likelihood of receiving an appropriate antimalarial. Results Home management was the most common first action, with most children requiring a subsequent action to manage their fever. Overall, 20.9 % of children received a blood test, 68.4 % received an antimalarial, and 41.0 % received an ACT. But closer inspection showed that only 31.6 % received an appropriate antimalarial. These results confirm that ACT usage and receipt of an appropriate antimalarial in Butaleja remain well below the 2010/2015 target of 85 %. While nine survey items differentiated significantly whether a child had or had not received an appropriate antimalarial, our logistic regression model identified four items as independent predictors of likelihood that a child would receive an appropriate antimalarial: obtaining antimalarials from regulated outlets (OR = 14.99); keeping ACT in the home for future use (OR = 6.36); reporting they would select ACT given the choice (OR = 2.31); and child’s age older than four months (OR = 5.67). Conclusions Few children in Butaleja received malaria treatment in accordance with national guidelines. This study highlighted the importance of engaging the full spectrum of stakeholders in the management of malaria in young children - including licensed and unlicensed providers, caregivers, and family members.
Supplementary Materials and Supplementary Videos
Creators: name: Slowinska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Supplementary Materials: Figure S1: Impedance Measurement for ES Reactor; Figure S2: Calibration of Collagen Concentration (Sircol Assay); Figure S3: HDF cell morphology before and after ES; Video S1: Time laps videos for Figure 7 A-C; Video S2: Time laps videos for Figure 8 A-C.
So you want to be a professional astronomer!
Creators: name: Forbes, Duncan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Wanted: Astronomer. Must be willing to work occasional nights on the top of a mountain in an exotic location. A sense of adventure and nomadic lifestyle is a plus. Flexible hours and casual dress code compensate for uncertain long-term career prospects and average pay. The opportunity for real scientific discovery awaits the right candidate. Apply now.
Improving the Practice of Family Mediation in England and Wales
Creators: name: KETANI, AMEL
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: Over the past forty years, the approach to legal disputes in England and Wales has
description: experienced some important changes.
description: In many instances, mediation, with its
description: objective of resolving disputes, is favoured over the traditional and adversarial
description: procedure of litigation.
description: However, mediation as a concept is not startlingly new. It traces its origins back to
description: ancient times as a process used in many countries to settle a dispute by the
description: consensus of the parties. Therefore, a dispute is resolved by the parties reaching
description: agreement to the terms of settlement. This is an advantage over court litigation
description: where the parties do not determine the outcome of their dispute. Compared to other
description: forms of dispute resolution, this advantage stands out in mediation.
description: Intriguingly, the perspectives of mediators on the practice of family mediation are
description: relatively unexplored territory. This gap in mediation research contrasts with a wellstocked cross-disciplinary body of literature, mostly from North America which has researched and studied the development and the nature of dispute resolution and
description: mediation. Such literature includes a range of viewpoints and conclusions on power,
description: neutrality, coercion, styles and regulation in mediation.
description: Accordingly, this thesis with its focus on family mediation, seeks to reduce this gap
description: by supplementing the existing literature. There is now an abundance of knowledge
description: and practice experience in family mediation. This thesis will put forward the family
description: mediators’ opinions and my recommendations on how family mediation can be
description: improved. The family mediators’ views are based on their knowledge and years of
description: experience as qualified family mediators in England and Wales. This thesis aims to
description: contribute, through the practitioners’ lens, to some of the important theoretical
description: issues, discussions and difficulties surrounding family mediation. The further aim of
description: this thesis is to set out the understanding of family mediators and draw on this to
description: explore important themes such as: mediation models, child-inclusive mediation,
description: family mediation training, family mediation regulation, its principles and the nature
description: of the task. The analysis of these themes will reveal many things, from the
description: difficulties and demanding tasks in family mediation, through to the satisfaction and
description: reward that can be felt by family mediators who achieve the parties’ objective of
description: amicably resolving a family dispute.
Generationswechsel: Die Reformaktivisten erheben ihren Anspruch in der Politik
Creators: name: Ellwein, Warsito
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die demokratische und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Indonesien haben Anerkennung und eine hohe Wertschätzung seitens der internationalen Gemeinschaft gewonnen.
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Optimising ICT initiatives through content creation
Creators: name: Watkins, Jerry
name: Nair, Seema B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Through this book, we have attempted to address a research gap in literature dealing with the circumstances and consequences of creative ICT engagement with underserved communities. Some of the most interesting work on creative engagement with new technologies deals with Western contexts; generally speaking, low-infrastructure areas are only dealt with in terms of digital divide or access issues. On the other hand, research concerned with developing country contexts are firmly located within---and build upon---work in the field of development studies and development communications, with a strong focus on poverty reduction. Our aim has been to combine these two areas of interest.
Wenn die Nachfrage steigt: Kriminell wegen Widerstand gegen Ölpalmen
Creators: name: Meyer, Viviane
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Ostkotawaringen. Die Holztür, die mir nur bis auf Augenhöhe reichte, wurde mir von einem Türsteher geöffnet. In geduckter Körperhaltung betrat ich den Innenhof des staatlichen Gefängnisses in Sampit, einer Großstadt in Zentralkalimantan, Indonesien. Zusammen mit meinem Kollegen Fandy von WALHI Kalimantan Tengah und Fatilda Hasibuan von Sawit Watch huschte ich durch das kurze Stück brennender Mittagssonne, hin zum überfüllten Besucherbereich.
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Klare Worte: Interkulturelle Kommunikation als wichtige Basis für die Verteidigung der Landkonfliktfrage
Creators: name: Kurniawan, Yan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: In Indonesien wird die Landkonfliktfrage seit der Kolonialzeit häufig mit Gewalt gelöst.
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Kurz notiert
Creators: name: Willner, Nadine
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten.
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