cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Synthesis, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, NLO and DFT studies of centrosymmetric 4-amino-3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazolium citrate monohydrate salt
Creators: name: Radhika, B.
name: Prashanth, J.
name: Basavoju, Srinivas
name: Jyothi, S.
name: Reddy, B. Venkatram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: An organic salt compound 4-amino-3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazole (ADMP) has been combined with citric acid and crystallised at room temperature, forming a new molecular salt 4-amino-3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazolium citrate (ADMPCA) as a monohydrate. The compound was then structurally characterised by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD), spectral analysis of FTIR, NMR and UV, and thermal studies. The structural analysis has shown that the ADMP molecules participate in the dominant hydrogen-bonding patterns forming a ladder-like structure via charge-assisted N+–H···O, O–H···O and N–H···O hydrogen bonds. The Hirshfeld surface analysis has been performed to understand the importance of intermolecular interactions in the stability of the salt structure. Theoretical studies were performed employing the DFT/B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory to investigate Non-linear optical (NLO) behaviour, first-order hyperpolarisability, dipole moment and polarisability. The molecular properties, such as natural charge analysis and MESP analysis, were also explored in the present study.
Theoretical prediction of FNgM3–kHk (Ng = Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn; M = Cu, Ag and Au; k = 0–2) molecules
Creators: name: Kuntar, Subrahmanya Prasad
name: Ghosh, Ayan
name: Ghanty, Tapan K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Recent finding on the unprecedented enhancement of noble gas-noble metal bonding strength on hydrogen doping in van der Waals type cationic complexes motivates us to explore the possibility of occurrence of noble gas (Ng) inserted neutral compounds involving prototype noble metal trimeric ions. MP2 and DFT based methods have been employed to investigate the structures, stabilities, energetics, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and charge distribution of the predicted neutral FNgM3, FNgM2H, and FNgMH2 (Ng = Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn; M = Cu, Ag, Au). All the predicted molecules are thermodynamically stable with respect to all plausible 2-body and 3-body dissociation channels, except the global minima products. However, sufficient large barrier heights provide enough kinetic stability to the predicted metastable molecules, which in turn can prevent them to dissociate into their respective global minima products. All the results clearly indicate that Ng–M bond has partial covalent character while an ionic interaction is found between F and Ng atoms in FNgM3−kHk (k = 0−2). Furthermore, the charge distribution and AIM analyses suggest that the predicted metastable FNgM3−kHk molecules should essentially exist in the form of [F]δ−[NgM3−kHk]δ+. All the results emphasise that it might be possible to prepare and characterise these predicted molecules by suitable experimental technique(s). Exploration of noble gas-noble metal bonding strength on neutralisation of prototype NgM3−kHk+ (Ng = Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn; M = Cu, Ag, and Au; k = 0−2) ions by fluoride anions through ab initio quantum chemical calculations.
‘Marriage is more than just a piece of paper' : feminist critiques of same sex marriage
Creators: name: Boyd, Susan B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This article reviews feminist critiques of same sex marriage and analyzes how marriage as a socio-legal institution relates to inequality based on factors such as sex, race and class. The article first identifies how the legalization of same sex marriage can be viewed as a positive step in the quest for equality and recognition of lesbians and gay men. It then describes the legal and statistical trends in relation to marriage in Canada, as one of the first countries to legalize same sex marriage. The heart of the article discusses the key feminist critiques of both marriage and same sex marriage, drawing on an international survey of primarily English language literature. It considers why these critiques have been understated in the debates on same sex marriage and reviews empirical studies on the views of lesbians and gay men on marriage. While acknowledging that legal marriage can offer important rights to some couples, the conclusion suggests alternatives to placing marriage at the center of the lesbian and gay movement for equality and recognition.
title: 02_1394
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Systematic study of cooperative interplay between single-electron pnicogen bond and halogen bond in X3C···PH2Y···ClY (X=H, CH3; Y=CN, NC) complexes in two different minima configuration
Creators: name: Rezaei, Zahra
name: Solimannejad, Mohammad
name: Atashzar, Seyyed Mahdi
name: Esrafili, Mehdi D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: UMP2 calculations with aug-cc-pVTZ basis set used to analyse intermolecular interactions in X3C···PH2Y···ClY (X = H, CH3; Y = CN, NC) complexes constructed via halogen bond and single-electron pnicogen bond in two discovered minima in the potential energy surface. The first minima presents short P−C distances and, in all cases, high interaction energies compared to the second one that shows long P−C distances with a typical weak pnicogen bond interaction. The impacts of the halogen bonds on the single-electron pnicogen interaction in each complex are systematically investigated by the means of cooperative effects. In all cases studied, a favorable cooperativity is observed but these values are much higher for first minima, which ranges from −19.73 to −36.82 kJ mol−1, than second minima with cooperative energy values between −0.75 and −4.69 kJ mol1. In order to unveil the mechanism of the cooperativity, these effects are analysed in terms of geometric, energetic, electrostatic potential analysis, electron charge density analysis performed using (QTAIM), many-body interaction analysis and electron density analysis.
Dietary Intervention in Pregnant Women with Gestational Diabetes; Protocol for the DiGest Randomised Controlled Trial.
Creators: name: Kusinski, Laura C
name: Murphy, Helen R
name: De Lucia Rolfe, Emanuella
name: Rennie, Kirsten L
name: Oude Griep, Linda M
name: Hughes, Deborah
name: Taylor, Roy
name: Meek, Claire L
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pregnancy
Diet
Gestational Diabetes
Neonatal Growth
Maternal Obesity
Neonatal Outcomes
Randomised Controlled Trial
Large-for-gestational Age
Dietary Intervention
Study Protocol
Neonatal Hypoglycaemia
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Cgm)
Maternal Or Gestational Weight Gain

description: Funder: Wellcome Trust
description: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) annually affects 35,000 pregnancies in the United Kingdom, causing suboptimal health outcomes to the mother and child. Obesity and excessive gestational weight gain are risk factors for GDM. The Institute of Medicine recommends weight targets for women that are overweight and obese, however, there are no clear guidelines for women with GDM. Observational data suggest that modest weight loss (0.6-2 kg) after 28 weeks may reduce risk of caesarean section, large-for-gestational-age (LGA), and maternal postnatal glycaemia. This protocol for a multicentre randomised double-blind controlled trial aims to identify if a fully controlled reduced energy diet in GDM pregnancy improves infant birthweight and reduces maternal weight gain (primary outcomes). A total of 500 women with GDM (National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 2015 criteria) and body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m2 will be randomised to receive a standard (2000 kcal/day) or reduced energy (1200 kcal/day) diet box containing all meals and snacks from 28 weeks to delivery. Women and caregivers will be blinded to the allocations. Food diaries, continuous glucose monitoring, and anthropometry will measure dietary compliance, glucose levels, and weight changes. Women will receive standard antenatal GDM management (insulin/metformin) according to NICE guidelines. The secondary endpoints include caesarean section rates, LGA, and maternal postnatal glucose concentrations.
Nanoparticle-based multi-dimensional optical data storage
Creators: name: Li, Xiangping
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The novelty of the research presented in this thesis is to propose and demonstrate a 2P induced multi-dimensional optical data storage in photopolymers sensitised by QDs/QRs for the first time, which has opened the new horizon for high density optical data storage. In particular, the incorporation of QRs can not only enable highly efficient 2P recording but also bring out the polarisation-encoded 4D optical data storage, which can dramatically expand the storage capacity of the current 3D storage system without the efforts to break the diffraction limitation of light. The theoretical density of multi-dimensional optical memory is towards Petebytes/disk. One can anticipate the great impact in this field of high density optical data storage if a compact optical system enabling multi-dimensional data recording and reading can be integrated in the near future.
Motherhood and law : constructing and challenging normativity
Creators: name: Boyd, Susan B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: An extensive feminist literature explores how law interacts with the social institution of motherhood and with the ideological frameworks that contribute to women’s oppression in western, liberal states. This chapter’s main concern is with feminist theories about law’s role in relation to motherhood, which reflects both coercive and ideological aspects. That is, women can be coerced into normative ideals of motherhood and penalized for failure to conform, but women can also ‘consent’ or choose to conform to ideological norms, raising far more complex questions for feminists and for feminist legal strategy. The chapter also explores the degree to which law and feminist legal strategies reinforce and/or challenge dominant ideologies of motherhood, which are rooted in the histories of race, class, gender and sexuality. Another theme of this chapter is the differential impact of legal regulation, depending on whether a mother is working class or middle class, racialized or non-racialized, lesbian or straight, disabled or able-bodied, and so on. All women can be detrimentally affected by dominant legal norms, but women who depart from normative white, middle-class, heterosexual motherhood are likely to be scrutinized more heavily and treated more coercively than those who are able to conform. The question of law’s differential impact on women whose social location differs from this standard also poses important questions about feminist legal strategies, including whether they lapse into essentialist or ‘maternalist’ modes of analysis. This chapter proceeds on the premise that motherhood is socially constructed through the interaction of complex structures and ideologies. The first part explains this process and is then followed by two illustrative case studies on criminal law and family law. The risk of essentialism is taken up in the next part on legal strategy. The last part of the chapter uses examples of ‘transgressive motherhood’ to suggest future directions for feminist legal theory and concludes with questions that continue to challenge feminist legal engagement with motherhood.
Special Measures for Quality and Challenged Providers: Study Protocol for Evaluating the Impact of Improvement Interventions in NHS Trusts.
Creators: name: Fulop, Naomi
name: Barbosa, Estela Capelas
name: Hill, Melissa
name: Ledger, Jean
name: Sherlaw-Johnson, Christopher
name: Spencer, Jonathan
name: Vindrola-Padros, Cecilia
name: Morris, Steve
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mixed Methods Research
National Health Service (Nhs)
Organisational Failure
Special Measures For Quality

description: BACKGROUND:Healthcare organisations in England rated as inadequate in terms of leadership and one other domain enter the Special Measures for Quality (SMQ) regime to receive increased support and oversight. There is also a 'watch list' of challenged National Health Service (NHS) providers at risk of going into SMQ that receive support. There is limited knowledge about whether the interventions used to deliver this support drive improvements in quality, their costs, and whether they strike the right balance between support and scrutiny. The study will seek to determine how provider organisations respond to these interventions, and whether and how these interventions impact organisations' capacity to achieve and sustain quality improvements over time. METHODS:This is a multi-site, mixed methods study. We will carry out interviews at national level to understand the programme theory underpinning the interventions. We will conduct 8 NHS case studies to explore the impact and implementation of the interventions that form part of the SMQ and challenged providers programme. We will use a conceptual framework based on models of organisational readiness for change and draw on board maturity research for implementing quality improvement. We will also review the use of quantitative metrics and data for tracking the progress of improvements in quality of care and sustainability upon leaving SMQ, as well as the costs and benefits of the interventions through a cost-consequence analysis (CCA). DISCUSSION:High-quality interventions that successfully support struggling healthcare organisations are essential and an issue that is an international concern. Our study will allow a greater understanding of the programme theory, impact, and staff views and experiences of the SMQ and challenged providers regime. Formative feedback will be reported to key stakeholders.
Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements.
Creators: name: Corburn, Jason
name: Vlahov, David
name: Mberu, Blessing
name: Riley, Lee
name: Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira
name: Rashid, Sabina Faiz
name: Ko, Albert
name: Patel, Sheela
name: Jukur, Smurti
name: Martínez-Herrera, Eliana
name: Jayasinghe, Saroj
name: Agarwal, Siddharth
name: Nguendo-Yongsi, Blaise
name: Weru, Jane
name: Ouma, Smith
name: Edmundo, Katia
name: Oni, Tolu
name: Ayad, Hany
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Coronavirus
Slums
Community Health
Global Health
Equity
Informal Settlements

description: The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcrowding in slums make physical distancing and self-quarantine impractical, and the rapid spread of an infection highly likely. Residents of informal settlements are also economically vulnerable during any COVID-19 responses. Any responses to COVID-19 that do not recognize these realities will further jeopardize the survival of large segments of the urban population globally. Most top-down strategies to arrest an infectious disease will likely ignore the often-robust social groups and knowledge that already exist in many slums. Here, we offer a set of practice and policy suggestions that aim to (1) dampen the spread of COVID-19 based on the latest available science, (2) improve the likelihood of medical care for the urban poor whether or not they get infected, and (3) provide economic, social, and physical improvements and protections to the urban poor, including migrants, slum communities, and their residents, that can improve their long-term well-being. Immediate measures to protect residents of urban informal settlements, the homeless, those living in precarious settlements, and the entire population from COVID-19 include the following: (1) institute informal settlements/slum emergency planning committees in every urban informal settlement; (2) apply an immediate moratorium on evictions; (3) provide an immediate guarantee of payments to the poor; (4) immediately train and deploy community health workers; (5) immediately meet Sphere Humanitarian standards for water, sanitation, and hygiene; (6) provide immediate food assistance; (7) develop and implement a solid waste collection strategy; and (8) implement immediately a plan for mobility and health care. Lessons have been learned from earlier pandemics such as HIV and epidemics such as Ebola. They can be applied here. At the same time, the opportunity exists for public health, public administration, international aid, NGOs, and community groups to innovate beyond disaster response and move toward long-term plans.
Interrelationships between Natural Killer cells and neutrophils in the pulmonary vasculature
Creators: name: Secklehner, Judith
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The lung comprises a vast surface area where the blood and intravascular immune cells are in direct contact with the outside environment and the air that we breathe. Immune cells in the lungs defend against invading pathogens and help to maintain physiological conditions. Innate immune cells can respond quickly to inflammatory stimuli, however, excessive pulmonary inflammation must be limited to preserve the thin barrier between the air and blood, required for oxygen diffusion. Neutrophils are the most abundant leukocyte within the pulmonary vasculature, and they react rapidly to infectious or inflammatory agents. This response can lead to tissue damage and must therefore be finely regulated. The early control of neutrophil influx may be pivotal for patient outcome during acute lung inflammation. Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate, granular lymphocytes, best described for their capacity to directly kill virus-infected or malignant cells. NK cells are enriched in the lungs compared to other tissues and they could play a role in fine tuning neutrophil responses. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the role of immune cell crosstalk between NK cells and neutrophils within the pulmonary vasculature. To study innate immune cell behaviour in the lungs, I used intravital microscopy to directly examine cells in their natural environment. Direct visualization of unperturbed, intravascular immune cells revealed unexpected functions and behaviours that would not have been recapitulated in more reductionist approaches. This work addresses a variety of cellular functions in the complex setting of the pulmonary capillary network. The introduction of this thesis provides a broad overview of the current understanding of innate immune cell communication in the context of the lungs. A special a focus is put on the influence modern lifestyles, particularly pollution and obesity, can impose on the physiologic function of innate immune cells in human and animal health. My results show that neutrophils and NK cells form close interactions within the pulmonary capillaries. In-depth tracking analysis revealed that neutrophil dynamic behaviour was altered when they interacted with an NK cell and cell surface material could be transferred from neutrophils to NK cells after interactions. Importantly, I show that NK cells limit the neutrophil accumulation in the lungs during acute lung inflammation. Better understanding of the regulatory role of NK cells could open new avenues for the treatment of acute lung inflammation.
title: Healing urban tissue damages using artificial morphogenesis
Creators: name: Bereczki, Zoltán
name: Lovra, Éva
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The events of the 20th century – wars, totalitarian regimes, utopian ideas – caused severe damages in the cities of Europe. The historical, organic urban tissues were erased in large areas, sometimes right next to or directly in the city centre. The majority of these areas – especially in the eastern part of Central Europe – is either urban void even today, or a slum with rundown prefab housing. Usually, even the original plots are eliminated. Reconstructing the entire original tissue is impossible and undesirable at the same time. But with the use of the method of integrated urban morphology together with Space Syntax the characteristics of the original tissue can be described, evaluated, and quantified. These data can be used as input for generative algorithms to simulate the organic morphogenesis of the original historical tissues, and with the deliberate definitions of constants, parameters, and variables – incorporating randomness – these damages can be healed. The resulting urban areas will share the characteristics of the original, erased ones, but the new street networks, plot structures, and building formations will fulfil the present needs as well. The current study will discuss the case of the former Gordon neighbourhood in Miskolc, Hungary. This area used to have notably dense urban tissue going back to the 18th century, but now is a prefab housing estate with low density, large parking lots, neglected green areas, four-track roads, and bad reputation.
Formalization and institutional trust: the role of institutional trust in formalizing Morocco's informal economy
Creators: name: EL HAMIDI Nabil
name: AIT HBIBI Amina
name: MAKHROUT Samir
name: CHOUKAR Elhoussain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The informal economy represents a major component of economic activities in many developing countries, including Morocco. Formalizing this economy is important for improving social protection, broadening the tax base, and increasing productivity. However, this transition is often hindered by distrust towards formal institutions. This study examines the impact of trust in institutions on the intention to formalize informal economic activities, based on a sample of 389 informal economic actors from the Morocco. Relying on transaction theory, the study proposes that trust in institutions, perception of their quality, favorable regulations, and social norms positively influence the intention to formalize. Data were collected through interviews and analyzed using an Ordered Probit Model. The results show that trust in institutions and a positive perception of their quality significantly increase the intention to formalize. Favorable regulations also have a positive impact, although to a lesser extent. In contrast, social norms have no significant effect. Education and age also play a role, with younger and more educated individuals showing a greater inclination to formalize. These findings suggest that policies aimed at strengthening trust in institutions, improving the quality of regulations, and investing in education can encourage the formalization of informal economic activities, thereby contributing to sustainable and inclusive economic development.
title: Urban architectures : a design inquiry
Creators: name: Berlingieri, Fabrizia
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The contribution reformulates the field of Urban Design within the Architectural discourse, longing to enlighten almost hidden or forgotten narratives concerning the development of specific researches and works focusing on Urban Architectures. The design inquiry revolves around the related theoretical positions, basically entrusted to the architect's biographies, design experiences, and interlaced trajectories belonging to the cultural panorama of another Modern tradition. The selection of specific themes around urban architectures aims to engage a broader reflection and partially reconstruct a tree of references for a particular way of understanding and doing Architecture, which implies a critical continuity with the history of forms in constructing the built environment
Open Knowledge with Wikipedia and Wikidata
Creators: name: Lee, Yoo Young
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Open knowledge
Wikipedia
Wikidata

description: It is a hands-on session to cover how to use Wikipedia and Wikidata to contribute to the open knowledge movement. The first part of the session is designed to learn how to use OABot to add an open access publication link to Wikipedia citations. The second part focuses on Wikidata to create entries about women/organizations in STEM and their archival fonds from Canadian Archive of Women in STEM.
title: Towards diversified street life : the social-spatial research of central inner city's mixed district, Nanjing c.1900s-2018
Creators: name: Sun, Yichang
name: Bao, Li
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper explores the transition of street pattern in the mixed district of central inner-city, Nanjing, with a focus on the transitional mechanism and the local streets that provide high potentials for natural pedestrian movement, triggering diversified activities in urban dwellers' quotidian life. Based on a series of historical maps, the streets formed and developed in different periods have been analysed to reveal the mechanism. Space Syntax theory and method are then employed to examine the changing configuration of street network in the case study area over five historical periods. The analysis emphasizes the higher potential of local streets, compared with the main street, in advocating pedestrian movement, which is widely connected with citizens' domestic and commercial activities. The paper extends understandings of how street pattern, as one of the most important urban form elements, has interacted with citizens' socio-economic life over time.
title: Computable and incomputable patterns : the dialectics of urban form and urban life in Keszthely, Hungary
Creators: name: Bognár, Melinda
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Urban morphology formed over the years is challenged by current social needs. City scale resilience is not only the question of the present, but it should also operate between the given boundaries of the past. The tensions between the static physical built environment and the dynamic flux of users called for the research of the dialectics of urban form and urban life. This paper will inspect the Hungarian city, Keszthely by the method of space syntax in line with questionaries. The twofold methodology shows meaningful correlations of the changing measurable and intangible urban patterns. The mental map of the users and the structural analysis of the street network do not necessarily overlap, differences may indicate points of intervention.
An exploration of the psychological experiences of commissioning gestational surrogate couples
Creators: name: Tracey, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It is estimated by the World Health Organisation (2007) that approximately one in ten couples world wide is affected by infertility, experiencing either primary or secondary infertility difficulties. Established research indicates that as many as one in six Australian couples are unable to conceive, and therefore seek out available infertility treatments in order to have children. Medical technology has advanced at a rapid rate in the area of assisted conception, but for some couples Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is not enough to help them to conceive. A growing number of Australian couples are now looking to altruistic, non commercial, gestational surrogacy arrangements, where medical technology allows surrogate mothers to gestate other people’s children until full term, giving couples and individuals access to family life that had previously seemed impossible. This qualitative study explores the psychological experiences and emotional responses of eighteen commissioning couples in the State of Victoria in their quest to have families through the process of altruistic gestational surrogacy. All were in heterosexual relationships and were unable to either conceive naturally or to carry to term due to medical problems or multiple medical conditions. Couples were interviewed at length and their responses were tape recorded and then transcribed ready for analysis. An established process of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used in analysing the data, and themes and concepts were broken down into Units of Psychological Meaning and Interpretative Labels. The major findings of the study indicated that all the couples, regardless of what stage they were at in the process of altruistic gestational surrogacy, were positive, determined, and resilient in the face of many legal and procedural obstacles. The main frustrations and negative experiences appeared to centre on a lack of consistent information, the prohibiting of access to treatment for surrogates, and the subsequent need for interstate travel, and the extensive cost of the whole process. Findings showed a consistency in those aspects of the current processes and laws that couples wanted to change in order to improve the process and make it safer for others. Several psychological themes are discussed and recommendations are made for clinical application.
title: Effects of the modern railways construction on the change of area and urban function in Wuhan
Creators: name: Zhao, Jiaqi
name: Lee, Kyungchan
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: As the capital of the Hubei Province and a megacity in China, Wuhan has always been at the center of attention. Wuhan was one of the first Chinese cities to break the traditional urban structure and move towards modernization. This is typical in the development of modern cities. This paper starts from the topographical environment of Wuhan and analyzes the influence of railways on the change of Wuhan city area and functions. This is done by analyzing the land use, traffic routes, urban fringe belts and nodes before and after railway construction in modern Wuhan. This paper draws out the types and characteristics of the three urban area expansions. As well as the effects of railways on the changes in urban areas, functions and relationships between cities, fundamentally look for the influence of railways on urban development.
title: Cyclical inversion of limits and centres : the formation process of the Regio quartadecima, Constantinople
Creators: name: Camiz, Alessandro
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The paper reconstructs the topography of Constantinople’s fourteenth region (regio XIV) applying the urban morphology analysis methods (Caniggia and Maffei, 1979) and the attractors’ theory (Camiz, 2018) to the fragmentary documental sources and scarce archaeological data. The pontem sublicium sive ligneum’s location was determined as part of a street network, in analogy with the pons sublicius in Rome, according to the formation process of the territorial organism. This was the starting point for the reconstruction of the topographic mosaic. By redefining the path of the Constantinian walls upon quantitative sources it was possible to localise the monumental buildings of the XIV region, as listed in the Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae, with reference to the morphology of the territory described by Dionysius of Byzantium and the Patria Konstantinopoleos. The form of the territory is a permanent element within urban contexts of continuous changes, demolitions and reconstructions. The analysis of the urban tissues, the road network’s diachronic attraction and the reconstruction of the territorial organism provided the general methodological framework for the placement of the topographical urban fragments mentioned by historical sources upon a GIS.
title: Forma Quadrata Britanniae : the case of Londinium
Creators: name: Cataldi, Giancarlo
name: Cataldi, Giulia
name: Visentin, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: In a previous research on the urban form of Alnwick, in Northumberland, we set out to integrate the well-known urban analysis of M. R. G. Conzen with the method of 'reading' of the Muratorian school (Cataldi, 2013). In particular, we had tried to apply the theory of the Forma Quadrata (Cataldi, 2014) to the entire territory of Great Britain, assuming that the origin of the 'square' geographical system, oriented secundum coelum, had been placed by the Romans in Dover (Portus Dubris), from where in 43 A.D. the occupation of the Island had begun. The verification of this hypothesis , with particular reference to the territory of Roman London, was carried out on the Map Ordnance Survey of Roman Britain at a scale of 1: 625,000, which topographically documents the location of the Roman centers and military fortresses within the entire roman road network, still largely functioning. We are pleased to present a preview of this work, which we are submitting in particular to the attention of the British colleagues, who are more interested in the knowledge of the permanent substrate structures, which have conditioned, and still condition, the territorial structure of Great Britain.
Fun and games in the library
Creators: name: Revert, Matthew
name: Carlsson, Clare
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A brief note on the Swinburne University of Technology's Croydon campus library, which opened a recreational space with a Wii and the demolition art produced by the youth on the library walls, is presented. The campus offers award winning programs to students from as young as 15 and who come from a diverse range of cultures and backgrounds.
title: Research on the micro-renewal of urban residential communities in the post-epidemic era
Creators: name: Chen, Liujun
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The rapid development of modern cities, the continuous expansion of the area, and the scale effect brought by the agglomeration of the population also bring the risk of rapid spread of diseases. As a unit of urban organization, the community became the main isolation unit during major public health incidents and played an important role in delaying the spread of the epidemic. Especially in the residential community, from the ecological circle that undertakes residential functions to meet the needs of prevention and control, medical care, commerce, and convenient services. At the same time, it exposes disadvantages such as insufficient public space and insufficient supporting facilities. During the emergency period, different types of residential communities have adopted similar management methods and changes in local spatial morphology, some of which will gradually become public consciousness and be integrated into future community renewal and design. In the post-epidemic era, the resilient cities and healthy cities theories have promoted changes in residential community space. The idea of urban micro-renewal comes from the reflection on large-scale urbanization and over-rational urban planning to improve the quality of residential areas and achieve sustainable development. It has the characteristics of strong restoration, strong continuity, and gradual renewal. This article first sorts out existing urban residential micro-renewal cases and research directions from the morphological changes of urban areas, residential clusters, and building units. Then explores and innovates the methods and content of micro-renewal from the perspective of epidemic prevention. In response to the top-down prevention and control measures of city managers and the bottom-up spatial transformation of residents, it promotes the evolution of formal and informal urban forms. This paper is subsidized by NSFC project which is named as NO.51978468.
title: Urban coding in transition. A morphological perspective on contemporary Italian city : the case of Rimini
Creators: name: Crapolicchio, Martina
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The significance of urban codes has recently come to the fore, both for their use in reforming the built environment and their value as new tools for shaping the future. This article explores the disciplinary convergence between urban morphology and urban planning, focusing on the contemporary Italian historical city. The discussion concerns the formulation of new operational guidelines as a derogation to the current urban planning instruments and, based on the transitional morphology study, to trigger mechanisms of urban regeneration in the historic centre of the city of Rimini (Italy). In particular, the cases of two sample areas in which the presence of special buildings (such as the Malatesta Temple by Leon Battista Alberti) and buildings that are extraneous to the surrounding urban fabric are analysed. Questions discussed include: preserving the city's character, a morpho-typological approach to the historic building fabric, and designing detail within the planning process.
АЛКОГОЛЬ-ОБУСЛОВЛЕННЫЕ ДОРОЖНО-ТРАНСПОРТНЫЕ ПРОИСШЕСТВИЯ НА ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЙ АВТОДОРОГЕ М-8 «ХОЛМОГОРЫ» В АРХАНГЕЛЬСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ
Creators: name: Баранов А. В.
Publisher: name: Политравма
Year: 2020
Subjects: дорожно-транспортное происшествие; алкоголь-обусловленные дорожно-транспортные происшествия; ФАД М-8 «Холмогоры»; Архангельская область; тяжесть сочетанной травмы по шкале тяжести ISS.

description: Цель – провести анализ алкоголь-обусловленных дорожно-транспортных происшествий на федеральной автодороге (ФАД) М-8 «Холмогоры» в Архангельской области. Материалы и методы. Материалом исследования явилась выборка 906 медицинских карт пациентов, получивших медицинскую помощь в стационарных условиях (ф. 003/у), поступивших по срочным показаниям после дорожно-транспортных происшествий (ДТП) на лечение в стационары Архангельской области в период с 01.01.2012 г. по 31.12.2018 г. Учетные формы отбирались по критериям ретроспективного сплошного документального наблюдения. Различия между группами наблюдений считали статистически значимыми при p ˂ 0,05 с применением поправки на множественные сравнения (поправка Бонферрони). Результаты. Наиболее часто травмы в алкоголь-ассоциированных ДТП получают водители мототранспорта. С повышением тяжести состояния по шкале тяжести сочетанных повреждений ISS увеличивается доля пострадавших в ДТП в состоянии алкогольного опьянения. Выводы. Отмечено, что в состоянии алкогольного опьянения фиксируется до 20 % всех пострадавших в ДТП на ФАД М-8 «Холмогоры», среди травмированных преобладают мужчины (p < 0,001), а алкоголизированные пострадавшие (р = 0,013) моложе трезвых. Наибольший удельный вес алкоголь-обусловленные ДТП имеют в Архангельском медицинском округе, а наименьшее их количество выявлено в Вельском округе (p < 0,001). Отмечена положительная динамика по снижению удельного веса травмированных в состоянии алкогольного опьянения к 2018 году (p = 0,002).
Machine learning for magnetic resonance image reconstruction and analysis
Creators: name: Qin, Chen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Machine learning has great potentials to improve the entire medical imaging pipeline, providing support for clinical decision making and computer-aided diagnosis. This thesis mainly focuses on developing machine learning methods for the improvement of magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction and analysis, specifically on dynamic MR image reconstruction, image registration and segmentation. Firstly, we propose to tackle the white matter hyperintensity (WMH) segmentation problem present in elderly subjects or patients with vascular diseases. A two-step framework consisting of (semi-)supervised large margin based algorithms is proposed, where both common features shared across subjects and individual-specific information from target subject are considered and utilised. To further improve the segmentation and differentiate WMHs and stroke lesions, a deep learning based model, uResNet, is proposed. It combines the effective U-net architecture with residual elements, and considers a sampling strategy for imbalanced data. Experiments demonstrate its better performance than other competing methods. Secondly, we propose to address the problem of dynamic MRI reconstruction from highly undersampled $k$-space data. A convolutional recurrent neural network architecture (CRNN-MRI) is developed, where it embeds the iterative optimisation process in a learning setting and exploits the temporal redundancies of cardiac sequences. As a complement, a $k$-$t$ NEXT network is presented to recover the signals in both $x$-$f$ and image domains alternatingly. We show that our proposed models can effectively reconstruct high quality cardiac MRI at high acceleration factors. Finally, deep learning approaches for image registration and its applications are investigated. A joint learning framework for cardiac segmentation and motion estimation is proposed, which can provide multi-task predictions simultaneously. This motion estimation method is further extended for multi-modal deformable registration, in which it proposes to embed multi-modal images onto a common latent shape domain via disentangled representations. Experimental results indicate their competing performance and faster registration speed compared to other conventional methods.
Evaluating adverse drug event reporting in administrative data from emergency departments: a validation study
Creators: name: Hohl, Corinne M
name: Kuramoto, Lisa
name: Yu, Eugenia
name: Rogula, Basia
name: Stausberg, Jürgen
name: Sobolev, Boris
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug events for post-market surveillance, and to conduct research in patient safety and in drug safety and effectiveness. However, such data sources have not been evaluated for their completeness with regard to adverse drug event reporting. Our objective was to determine the proportion of adverse drug events to outpatient medications diagnosed at the point-of-care in emergency departments that were documented in administrative data. Methods We linked the records of patients enrolled in a prospective observational cohort study on adverse drug events conducted in two Canadian tertiary care emergency departments to their administrative data. We compared the number of adverse drug events diagnosed and recorded at the point-of-care in the prospective study with the number of adverse drug events recorded in the administrative data. Results Among 1574 emergency department visits, 221 were identified as adverse drug event-related in the prospective database. We found 15 adverse drug events documented in administrative records with ICD-10 codes clearly indicating an adverse drug event, indicating a sensitivity of 6.8% (95% CI 4.0–11.2%) of this code set. When the ICD-10 code categories were broadened to include codes indicating a very likely, likely or possible adverse event to a medication, 62 of 221 events were identifiable in administrative data, corresponding to a sensitivity of 28.1% (95% CI 22.3-34.6%). Conclusions Adverse drug events to outpatient medications were underreported in emergency department administrative data compared to the number of adverse drug events diagnosed and recorded at the point-of-care.
Escaping into the hands of the enemy
Creators: name: Wilken, Rowan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The release of media theorist McKenzie Wark's new book 'Gamer theory' is many things at once. If you're interested in the growth of a new medium, it's a media academic's major guide to the key issues. If you're games-savvy, you are just as likely to recoil in horror at Wark's analyses. To proclaim that he has simply expanded on his previous work, 'A hacker manifesto', ignores what gamer theory is—a study in the catastrophe of reading culture. It's an intensely difficult-to-navigate work but ultimately rewarding for those up to the challenge of the game before them.
Financial inclusion of the informal sector through FinTech: what perspective does the Diffusion of Innovation offer?
Creators: name: AIT HBIBI Amina
name: MAKHROUT Samir
name: CHOUKAR Elhoussain
name: EL HAMIDI Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This study explores the determinants of FinTech services adoption among informal workers using the Diffusion of Innovation theory as an analytical framework. The objective is to understand how the perceived characteristics of innovation – relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability – influence the intention to adopt these innovative financial services. A sample of 367 unbanked individuals working in the informal sector was studied to assess their perceptions and intention to adopt FinTech services. The results show that relative advantage, compatibility, perceived complexity, and observability play a significant role in the intention to adopt, while trialability does not have a significant impact. The conclusions of this study suggest recommendations to promote financial inclusion through FinTech, including awareness campaigns, simplifying the use of services, improving digital literacy, and specific educational initiatives. These efforts can facilitate the economic integration of informal workers into the formal financial system, thereby contributing to broader and more equitable financial inclusion.