cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Approach biases to food cues in eating disordered and healthy control populations: associations with bingeing and restrictive symptomatology.
Creators: name: Peers, R
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2525

description: Introduction: There is mixed evidence regarding the association between eating disorders (EDs) and approach biases to food cues. Aim: To clarify the association between EDs and approach biases on an irrelevant Stimulus Response Compatibility (SRC) Task and investigate the role of bingeing and restraint symptomatology amongst an ED sample (OSFED) relative to healthy controls. Hypotheses: 1) Higher levels of bingeing symptomatology will predict an approach bias for high calorie food; 2) Higher levels of restraint symptomatology will predict ‘reduced’ approach biases for high calorie foods; 3) These associations with be exaggerated in the ED sample, relative to the healthy controls. Method: Participants were recruited from a university (N=69) and two ED clinics (N=13). Participants completed the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire and Binge Eating Scale and then completed the SRC task. Results: Analysis of the healthy controls data only (due to difficulties in recruitment) indicated that bingeing and restricting symptomatology did not predict approach biases for high calorie stimuli. Group differences in task performance were found. Between groups differences indicated that the healthy controls displayed higher approach bias scores, relative to the ED sample and this was not moderated by stimulus type. Within group analyses indicated that healthy controls displayed significant approach biases for high and low calorie food items, but the ED sample did not. Conclusions: The main hypotheses of the study were not supported, however, this study is limited by the small sample size. Future research is required to establish if a link does exist between bingeing/ restraint symptomatology and approach biases.
Antidiarrhoeic effect of Eugenia dysenterica DC (Myrtaceae) leaf essential oil
Creators: name: Galheigo, Maria Raquel Unterkircher
name: Prado, Ligia Carolina Da Silva
name: Mundin, Angélica Martins Moreira
name: Dayane Olímpia Gomes
name: Chang, Roberto
name: Lima, Anna Monteiro Correia
name: Canabrava, Hudson Armando Nunes
name: Luiz Borges Bispo-Da-Silva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Essential oil from Eugenia dysenterica leaves was able to inhibit both the diarrhoea and enteropooling induced by castor oil; however, the distance travelled by charcoal meal in the intestine was not change. These data suggest that the antidiarrhoeic effect of the essential oil from E. dysenterica leaves is related to its ability to inhibit intestinal secretion and/or to increase intestinal absorption.
PECULIAR PROPERTIES OF THE RUSSIAN LABOUR MARKET
Creators: name: Bystritskaya A.Yu., Alekhina A.A.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Unemployment rate
Employment rate
Labor productivity
Employment in agricultural sector
Gender and employment
Unemployment and education level.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 637-649
Antioxidant potential of indigenous cyanobacterial strains in relation with their phenolic and flavonoid contents
Creators: name: Ijaz, Saadia
name: Hasnain, Shahida
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Antioxidant activities of eight indigenous cyanobacterial strains belonging to the genera Oscillatoria, Chroococcidiopsis, Leptolyngbya, Calothrix, Nostoc and Phormidium were studied in relation with their phenolic and flavonoid contents, ranging 3.9–12.6 mg GAE g−1 and 1.7–3.44 mg RE g−1. The highest activities were shown by Leptolyngbya sp. SI-SM (EC50 = 63.45 and 67.49 μg mL−1) and Calothrix sp. SI-SV (EC50 = 65.79 and 69.38 μg mL−1) calculated with ABTS and DPPH assays. Significant negative correlations were seen between total phenolic and flavonoid contents and the antioxidant activities in terms of EC50 values. Furthermore, HPLC detected 15 phenolic compounds with total concentrations ranging from 277.3 to 829.7 μg g−1. The prevalent compounds in most of the strains were rutin, tannic acid, orcinol, phloroglucinol and protocatechuic acid. Cyanobacterial strains showed high potential as a good source of phenolic compounds with potent antioxidative potential which could be beneficial for food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
Using log data to investigate the impact of (a)synchronous learning tools on LMS interaction
Creators: name: Greenland, Steven
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents exploratory examination of LMS log data from ten undergraduate business courses that differ in terms of learning activity design. Data were derived from the Unit Statistics and User Activity functions on Blackboard versions 8 and 9.1, which report the number of student hits across the various LMS applications. The research identifies obstacles encountered when using log data. Findings suggest that the design of learning activities has substantial impact upon levels of student interaction with the LMS. Furthermore the greater the amount of asynchronous learning activities, versus synchronous ones, may generate increased student interaction not just with the interactive applications but with the LMS overall. This outcome is particularly relevant given the correlation between LMS interaction and student results reported in other studies. The research confirms the potential of log data to inform online teaching practice, highlights some of challenges involved and outlines avenues for future research.
ФИРИБГАРЛИК ЖИНОЯТИНИНГ ВИКТИМОЛОГИК ПРОФИЛАКТИКАСИ БЎЙИЧА ХОРИЖИЙ ДАВЛАТЛАР ТАЖРИБАСИ ТАҲЛИЛИ
Creators: name: Исамиддинов, Садирдир
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: “Айрим хорижий мамлакатларда фирибгарликка оид ҳуқуқбузарликларнинг виктималогик профилактикасини ташкил этилиши”
Burkholderia pseudomallei survival in lung epithelial cells benefits from miRNA-mediated suppression of ATG10
Creators: name: Li, Qian
name: Fang, Yao
name: Zhu, Pan
name: Ren, Chun-Yan
name: Chen, Hai
name: Gu, Jiang
name: Jia, Yin-Ping
name: Wang, Kun
name: Tong, Wen-De
name: Zhang, Wei-Jun
name: Pan, Jing
name: Dong-Shui Lu
name: Tang, Bin
name: Xu-Hu Mao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a disease with high mortality, which is prevalent in tropical regions of the world. A recent study shows that B. pseudomallei can survive inside mammalian cells because of its ability to actively evade cell autophagy. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, based on microarray screening, we found that ATG10 was downregulated following B. pseudomallei infection in A549 human lung epithelial cells. Forced expression of ATG10 accelerated the elimination of intracellular B. pseudomallei by enhancing the process of autophagy. Moreover, MIR4458, MIR4667-5p, and MIR4668-5p were found, by microarray screening, to be upregulated in response to B. pseudomallei infection. These 3 novel miRNAs, MIR4458, MIR4667-5p, and MIR4668-5p, targeted to the 3′-untranslated region of ATG10 in different time-course and spatial manners. Upregulation of these miRNAs reduced the level of ATG10 and inhibited autophagy, leading to increasing survival rate of intracellular B. pseudomallei. Furthermore, the increase of these miRNAs was correlated with the reduced promoter methylation status in A549 cells in response to B. pseudomallei infection. Our results reveal that 3 novel miRNAs regulate autophagy-mediated elimination of B. pseudomallei by targeting ATG10, and provide potential targets for clinical treatment.
title: The Impact of Vector Control for Malaria on Lymphatic Filariasis in Tanzania
Creators: name: Weaver, AM
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: In Tanzania, lymphatic filariasis (LF) caused by the filarial worm W. bancrofti is co-endemic with malaria and shares common mosquito vectors of the Anopheles species. LF mapping to estimate prevalence in 2004 determined the entire country was LF-endemic. However, by 2009 it was questionable whether LF transmission persisted in some districts that had not yet initiated mass drug administration (MDA) to interrupt transmission. Over the same period, national scale-up in distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and focalised scale-up of indoor residual spraying (IRS) was underway. These interventions aimed at reducing vector populations should plausibly facilitate interruption of LF transmission, however this has not been thoroughly investigated in Tanzania. This research project sought to 1) examine predicted LF risk and trends in vector control coverage on a national scale in Tanzania, 2) investigate vector control coverage on a local scale in the Lake Zone of Tanzania, and 3) assess LF exposure and its predictors in the Lake Zone. First, secondary data analyses confirmed the risk of LF is highly variable throughout Tanzania. Nationally, household ITN ownership increased from 38% in 2007-08 to 92% in 2011-12 but decreased to 65% in 2015-16 based on Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) data. Focalised scale-up of IRS in the Lake Zone followed the same trend (4% to 12% to 5%, respectively). Spatial analysis of ITN ownership and IRS coverage revealed significant hotspots of low and high vector control coverage. Second, in the Lake Zone, three cross-sectional household surveys conducted in six villages found a significant overall decrease in household net ownership from 73% to 50% between 2011-2013. Scale-up of IRS reached 94% of households surveyed in targeted villages by 2013. Notably, IRS was found to be significantly negatively associated with net ownership. Third, children 2-7 years of age in the six villages were sampled for the presence of antibodies to the W. bancrofti antigen Wb123. Baseline Wb123 seroprevalence varied markedly by village, ranging from 7% to 52%. Overall, a significant decrease in Wb123 seroprevalence from 28% in 2011 to 18% in 2013 was observed. Household net ownership was found to be significantly associated with the decline in Wb123 seropositivity. However, trends in net ownership and Wb123 seroprevalence at the village-level were variable. This study documents positive antibody responses to Wb123 in children born during the study, indicating recent LF exposure in a region considered to not have ongoing LF transmission. Notwithstanding the variable coverage and decline in net ownership in some villages, net ownership was found to be significantly associated with LF exposure. These findings underscore the potential for vector control to contribute to reductions in LF transmission and the need for increased coordination between malaria and LF programmes.
Stenodus leucichthys
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Salmoniformes
Salmonidae
Stenodus
Stenodus leucichthys

description: 228. Stenodus leucichthys (Güldenstädt, 1772)
Common name. Inconnu-Sheefish
Taxonomy. Original description: Salmo leucichthys Güldenstädt, 1772: 533 [Volga and Ural rivers from Caspian Sea, Kamtchatka, Russia; No types known].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. None.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Azad mahi-e Volga.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: EW.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Influences on the development of students' professional identity as an engineer
Creators: name: Mann, Llew
name: Howard, Prue
name: Nouwens, Fons
name: Martin, Fae
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Understanding how an engineering student develops their professional identity as an engineer offers a way of improving engineering education. This paper explores the experiences of some recent graduates and their employers. Initial results presented point to a few major influences on the development of a student's identity as a professional identity including industry experience during their degree (particularly longer term co-op placements), their cohort including the support they received from it, and large contextual projects conducted in their coursework. Further, this research aims to ask different questions, both in terms of what is investigated as well as how.
Assessing the potential of new yam cultivars (Dioscorea alata) in semitraditional cropping system on low fertile ferrallitisols in the savanna zone of Cote d’Ivoire
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Soil Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: To improve yam production in West Africa and stabilize its cropping system on Dystric ferrallitisols, a varietal
test was conducted at Bringakro (6°401’N, 5°091’O, alt. 150 m) in the savanna zone at the Centre of Côte d’Ivoire.
Five improved cultivars of Dioscorea alata (TDa 95-079; TDa 95-226; TDa 95-387; TDa 98-1176; TDa 98-1177)
and two local checks (Florido et Bete-Bete) were used in 2000 and 2001. Yields, multiplication factor and postharvest
losses ratio were collected annually for each variety. Results of statistical analysis showed highest yields
(20.31 t ha-1 – 15.73 t ha-1) for TDa98-1176 while lowest (9.37 and 10.50 t.ha-1) were obtained by local Bete-Bete.
This improved variety has also the highest multiplication factor (5.62% - 7.25%) and its’ post-harvest loss ratio
(19.23% – 41.58%) was among the lowest. The review of these results showed that the assession TDa98-1176 can
insure equivalent yield of Bete bete if soil is well managed without any fertilization under ferrallitisol.
EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AND GREEN KNOWLEDGE ON GREEN PRODUCT CONSUMPTIONS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON MEDIATING ROLE OF PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL, PERCEIVED VALUE, ATTITUDE AND SUBJECTIVE NORM
Creators: name: Salimi, Ahmad Reza
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Green consumption
Path analysis
Green purchase intention
Green purchase attitude
Environmental behavior.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 651-661
Model independent inference of the expansion history and implications for the growth of structure
Creators: name: Joudaki, Shahab
name: Kaplinghat, Manoj
name: Keeley, Ryan
name: Kirkby, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We model the expansion history of the Universe as a Gaussian process and find constraints on the dark energy density and its low-redshift evolution using distances inferred from the Luminous Red Galaxy and Lyman-alpha data sets of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, supernova data from the Joint Light-Curve Analysis sample, cosmic microwave background data from the Planck satellite, and local measurement of the Hubble parameter from the Hubble Space Telescope (HO). Our analysis shows that the cosmic microwave background, Luminous Red Galaxy, Lyman-alpha, and Joint Light-Curve Analysis data are consistent with each other and with a ACDM cosmology, but the HO data are inconsistent at moderate significance. Including the presence of dark radiation does not alleviate the HO tension in our analysis. While some of these results have been noted previously, the strength here lies in that we do not assume a particular cosmological model. We calculate the growth of the gravitational potential in General Relativity corresponding to these general expansion histories and show that they are well approximated by Omega(0.55)(m) given the current precision. We assess the prospects for upcoming surveys to measure deviations from ACDM using this model-independent approach.
Synthesis and Characterization of 1,2-Dimethyl Imidazolium Ionic Liquids and Their Catalytic Activities
Creators: name: Pandurangan Ganapathi
name: Kilivelu Ganesan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The synthesis of substituted imidazolium-type ionic liquids via a simple method is described. Our synthesized ionic liquids are more useful in the catalytic behavior of the Mannich reaction.
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ РАЗВИТИЯ ДИВЕРГЕНТНОГО МЫШЛЕНИЯ У СТУДЕНТОВ ВУЗОВ МЕДИЦИНСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: Бекжанова, Солиха
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье одной из эффективных технологий обучения в системе образования является проблемное обучение. Его задача – стимулировать процесс активного познания и сформировать научно-исследовательский метод мышления. Проблемное обучение соответствует целям творческого и активного воспитания личности..
title: Facing the Consequences of Political Violence and Terrorism: ‘Resilient’ Subjects?
Creators: name: McGowan, WJ
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: ‘Resilience’ has become something of a 21st century buzzword in both environmental and social policy, attracting widespread usage and yet provoking considerable critique within social science and beyond. This thesis takes resilience as its point of departure and return as a ubiquitous, much used concept but one that is nonetheless poorly understood and rarely subject to critical, empirical scrutiny. Its discursive deployment in relation to counter-terrorism, radicalisation, and security as a more ‘positive’ development to the negative and defensive category of risk encourages the building of robust community structures, preparedness amongst emergency responders, and the capacity to 'bounce back' in the event of terror attacks. Despite this shift, there is very little empirical work underpinning present policy initiatives and a distinct lack of attention to the ways in which people who have survived political violence and terrorist attacks cope with trauma in the short, medium or long term. Addressing this lacuna, this thesis draws on in-depth interview data from a small sample (n=21) of survivors of political violence and terrorism (PVT) from a range of critical incidents. These incidents span a diverse time-place range and include both institutional violence committed ‘from above’ (for example, the shooting of peaceful protestors by the British military in Northern Ireland in 1972), as well as anti-institutional violence ‘from below’ (for example, the 2005 London bombings) (Ruggiero, 2006: 1). Participants share a connection with a non-governmental organisation in Warrington, UK – The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace (FfP) – who work for peace and non-violent conflict resolution and who provide needs assessments and support to survivors of violence through their Survivors Assistance Network (SAN). While the spectacle of ‘terrorism’ feeds into a host of public anxieties, often harnessed by media and state actors to justify the ceaseless ‘war on terror’, survivors with first-hand experience of violence have an intimate vantage point from which to reflect on such issues. Unpacking some of the lived complexity evident in the interview data and prior fieldwork, this thesis offers empirical insight into how individuals have coped in the face of personal injury and devastating loss. Through a close reading of their narratives, the work maps a range of impacts of PVT, details the ‘resilience resources’ (Overland, 2013: 204) survivors draw on in traversing this suffering and loss, and highlights a temporal complexity to survivors’ narratives typically rendered over within counterterrorism and security policy discourses espousing notions of citizen resilience and empowerment.
Deposition of amorphous aluminium powder using cold spray
Creators: name: Koh, P. K.
name: Cheang, P.
name: Loke, K.
name: Yu, S. C M
name: Ang, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401401
subject: Additive manufacturing
classificationCode: 401607
subject: Metals and alloy materials
classificationCode: 401706
subject: Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation

description: Deposition of amorphous aluminium powder using cold spray technology as a corrosion prevention measure was studied. Amorphous aluminium (Al-Ni-Ce) powder was successfully deposited on 7000-series aluminium substrates using cold spray parameters of 1.7 MPa under compressed air and temperature of 450oC. The coatings were subjected to tensile bond strength measurement and comparative studies with cold sprayed pure Al6061 coatings were conducted. The results obtained showed that the amorphous aluminium coatings exhibited better adhesive strength. In addition, salt-water immersion test was conducted. The Al-Ni-Ce coating not only demonstrated better corrosion resistance but also exhibited evidence of passivation of surface imperfections such as scratches in the coatings.
ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES TOWARDS THE USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
Creators: name: Fidan ASLANOVA, Huseyin GOKCEKUS
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Questionnaire
Renewable energy (RE) resources
North Cyprus
Crosstabs analysis.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 663-672
New Statistical Learning Methods for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Creators: name: Zhao, Ying-Qi
name: Donglin Zeng
name: Laber, Eric B.
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) are sequential decision rules for individual patients that can adapt over time to an evolving illness. The goal is to accommodate heterogeneity among patients and find the DTR which will produce the best long-term outcome if implemented. We introduce two new statistical learning methods for estimating the optimal DTR, termed backward outcome weighted learning (BOWL), and simultaneous outcome weighted learning (SOWL). These approaches convert individualized treatment selection into an either sequential or simultaneous classification problem, and can thus be applied by modifying existing machine learning techniques. The proposed methods are based on directly maximizing over all DTRs a nonparametric estimator of the expected long-term outcome; this is fundamentally different than regression-based methods, for example, Q-learning, which indirectly attempt such maximization and rely heavily on the correctness of postulated regression models. We prove that the resulting rules are consistent, and provide finite sample bounds for the errors using the estimated rules. Simulation results suggest the proposed methods produce superior DTRs compared with Q-learning especially in small samples. We illustrate the methods using data from a clinical trial for smoking cessation. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Smart charging and discharging of electric vehicles to support grid with high penetration of renewable energy
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hoang
name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Mahmud, Md Apel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: High-efficiency inductive power transfer (IPT) with low misalignment effects is a key issue in the dynamic charging of electric vehicle (EV) systems. In this study, an advanced concept of analysis and design of transmitter and receiver coils with a special coil assembly is proposed for the dynamic charging of EVs. In each transmitter coil, large rectangular section is series connected with two zigzag-shaped small rectangular sections. These small sections are back-to-back series connected and located inside the large rectangular section. An adjacent pair of proposed transmitter coils with back-to-back series connection named extended double D (DD)-shaped transmitter is used throughout this paper. The major contribution in the case of the extended DD transmitter is negligible power transfer fluctuation, regardless of any horizontal misalignment of the receiver coil. Justification of the coil design is performed based on its load independent voltage gain and power transfer fluctuation characteristics. Experimental results prove that the power transfer fluctuation with load independent voltage gain is within ±6%, and the efficiency is approximately 93% under horizontal misalignment of receiver coil with an air gap of 140 mm. Finally, a new coil design set with a special arrangement has been proposed to maintain nearly uniform coupling factor and negligible power transfer fluctuation.
SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELING OF OLIGOPOLY MARKET BASED ON GAME THEORY
Creators: name: Ali Mohammadi, Ehsan Javanmardi
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Game theories
System dynamics
Oligopoly markets
Dynamical system game theories.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 673-687
Synthesis and Characterization of 1,2-Dimethyl Imidazolium Type of Ionic Liquids and Its Catalytic Activities
Creators: name: Pandurangan Ganapathi
name: Kilivelu Ganesan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The synthesis of substituted imidazolium type ionic liquids via a simple method is described. Our synthesized ionic liquids are more useful in the catalytic behavior of Mannich reaction.
Erfassung der SARS-CoV-2-Testzahlen in Deutschland
Creators: name: Koch-Institut, Robert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Diagnostik
subject: Testkapazität
subject: ARS
subject: Surveillance
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Im Rahmen der COVID-19-Pandemie spielt die Labordiagnostik zu SARS-CoV-2 eine entscheidende Rolle. Daten zur Anzahl der durchgeführten Testungen zu SARS-CoV-2 sowie zur Anzahl der Personen mit den jeweiligen Testergebnissen und den Testkapazitäten werden aktuell über verschiedene Netzwerke bzw. Umfragen erhoben. Es erfolgt ein Update gegenüber Ausgabe 15/2020.
title: When Opportunity Moves Off-Shore: Multiculturalism and the French Banlieue
Creators: name: Epstein, Beth
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social and Cultural Anthropology

description: Paper for presentation at EASA meeting, l’Université de Paris-Nanterre, July 2012
description: Since the turn of this new century, problems of "culture" and "difference," diversity and multiculturalism, have made their way into public discourse in France. Across a dizzying array of polemics that includes social unrest in the country's disadvantaged suburbs, the rise of the National Front, post-colonial recriminations, and more, voices are being raised in favor of a more overt form of multiculturalist discourse as a means to think through contemporary social issues in relation to notions of race, identity, and discrimination. The integrationist French republican project, wherein racial or ethnic classifications are eschewed on the grounds that they enclose people into essentialist categories, is being outshined, some proclaim, by a more American-style focus on 'identity,' that shows up the gaps in French universalist claims. In this paper I consider the dualities expressed in this contrast as a means to inquire into the broader implications of multicultural discourse. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in suburbs to the north and west of Paris, I push against tendencies to take these emergent identity claims at face value, to reflect rather on the interests they serve and the tensions they mediate. Situating these phenomena within the context of a globalizing economy, I argue that these trends need to be seen as efforts to grasp at readily comprehensible sources of inequality at a moment when opportunity has moved off-shore, altering the meaning of local life and politics, and diffusing the promise of social integration upon which the French republican contract depends.
IT's evolving, they're changing, we're listening: Everybody's learning
Creators: name: Robbie, Diane
name: Zeeng, Lynette
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes a case study approach used to identify changes in the millennial student’s educational, institutional, social and economic environment and the impacts these had on teaching practice. Reviewing and reflecting on existing teaching practice, decisions were made in the way teaching photography to first year design students could be delivered in a student-centred blended learning environment. A trial was implemented, employing a new approach to teaching, taking into account all aspects of digital technology and the students’ propensity for social interaction and engagement with Web 2.0 technologies. We created a platform for delivering the successful elements of an existing curriculum that included the important components of critical and analytical reviews of images. This case study embraced the realms of digital age, at the same time, maintaining student motivation and peer learning in a blended pedagogy. The creation of a virtual learning classroom environment allowed students to manage and construct knowledge that empowered their learning. Reflecting on teaching practice facilitated a paradigm shift resulting in an innovative delivery that has more than met teacher and student expectations. The students have responded to the new methodology with enthusiasm. Their increased participation, contribution to peer learning and high satisfaction, is evidenced through student and teacher feedback surveys. This has encouraged exploration of innovative teaching practices, transferability of this approach to other disciplines and extended possibilities within teaching scholarship. Information technologies (IT) are continually evolving and need to be considered when making changes to teaching practice to improve student learning.
title: Tjuntjuntjara remote Aboriginal service-learning immersion: Look back, looking forward
Creators: name: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6626-0073
Publisher: name: https://ror.org/02stey378
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02stey378
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This project aims to explore the perceptions of former preservice teachers with respect to undertaking an eight-day service-learning immersion in a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia.  The focus is on the professional and personal impact such an immersion had participants' initial teacher education.
title: Investigation into infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) spike glycoprotein glycosylation, pathogenicity and tropism
Creators: name: Stevenson-Leggett, P
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is the most economically damaging virus to the poultry industry, presenting a major threat to the health and productivity of both commercial and backyard flocks. Better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in virus infection and the properties that allow it to be such a successful pathogen is required to improve vaccination strategies and control of the disease. The spike (S) protein of IBV is responsible for attachment and entry into host cells. Like other viral attachment proteins, IBV S is highly glycosylated. Using mass spectrometry techniques as well as cellular inhibitors and deglycosylating enzymes, the glycan profile of IBV was further elucidated and a possible role for glycosylation in reducing antibody binding was suggested. The role of the S protein in pathogenicity is somewhat unclear. Previous studies have investigated IBV pathogenicity using recombinant viruses with a non-pathogenic backbone expressing heterologous spikes. In the present study, the S gene has been modified within a pathogenic backbone to assess the potential to alter pathogenicity. Firstly, a pathogenic virus expressing a non-pathogenic S protein was generated and characterised in vitro and in vivo. These studies revealed that the S gene was a factor in IBV pathogenicity. This was confirmed as a gene-specific effect through the generation and characterisation of a second virus, expressing the S protein from a heterologous pathogenic strain of IBV. This virus retained the ability to cause disease despite replacement of the S gene. Defining the cellular factors required by the virus to enter and successfully replicate in a given cell enables propagation of viruses not usually able to replicate in cell culture. Lastly, the cellular conditions necessary for IBV infection were investigated in the context of protease cleavage of the spike glycoprotein and in terms of temperature sensitivity, offering a possible mechanism of attenuation in some strains and a platform for more efficient vaccine production.
title: Computational and experimental study on conversion of biogas into valuable fuels and useful chemicals using non-thermal plasma
Creators: name: Xu, C
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This project has studied reforming of biogas into fuels and valued chemicals using non-thermal plasma through experiments and simulations. CH4, CO2 and H2 are used as the inlet gas. All simulation results have been validated by the experimental results. Different reactions which are relevant to reforming of biogas, including pure CO2 splitting, hydrogenation of CO2, dry reforming of CH4 and steam reforming of CH4, have been investigated and the mechanisms of them have been clearly defined by the simulations. The overall aim of this project is to investigate the effects of the different operating conditions, including discharge power, residence time, compositions of inlet gas, etc., on conversion of biogas and reaction pathways for the desired products in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor. The major challenge to simulate DBD plasma-assisted reactions is the power description. Apart from the existing researches, the project raises a novel method to describe the DBD plasma power using the technique of advanced signal process. All simulations in this project are performed in a Fortran 90 language environment using the ZDPlaskin. Vibrational excitations of CO2 play significant roles in CO2 splitting and their contributions to decompose CO2 are enhanced with an increasing discharge power. In terms of hydrogenation of CO2, a higher H2/CO2 ratio has a positive effect on conversion of CO2. The mechanism to generate CH4 is difficult to be defined by the common method based on sensitivity analysis due to the slow generation of CH4, so a reverse educing method is used to summarise the pathways of the hydrogeneration process. Besides, C2H2 and C2H6 are the major gas-products observed in dry reforming methane. According to the simulations, 60.3% of CH3 radicals are consumed by recombination to produce C2H6, while more than 99% of CH2 radicals are consumed by oxidisation reactions to generate aldehydes. This project also investigates the steam reforming of methane in a high/low steam environment. By doping deuterium, in form of D2O, into the DBD reactor, a compound-specific isotope analysis (CISA) is performed to identify the contributions of methane and steam to produce hydrogen gas and trace the radicals released from steam to define a clearer and more accurate mechanism.
Detecting delamination in a composite structure using an embedded FBG-AE hybrid system
Creators: name: Kahandawa, G. C.
name: Hafizi, Z. M.
name: Epaarachchi, J.
name: Lau, Alan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Distorted spectra of Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBG) sensors have been using in most of research on identifying delaminations in composites which is the most common cause of failures of laminated composite structures. However, it has been shown that there are multiple causes which can produce a similar response spectrum of an FBG sensor. As a consequence an integrated additional monitoring system would enhance the prediction power of FBG based monitoring system. In this research paper we introduce a 'FBG-AE hybrid system' concept for the detection of delaminations in composite structures which uses same FBG sensor network for monitor damage using two independent responses from the sensors. The proposed system use spectral responses from FBG sensors and extract strain and acoustic emission data for monitoring purpose. The proposed concept has experimentally investigated with convincing results.
Detection of Multiple Structural Breaks in Multivariate Time Series
Creators: name: Preuss, Philip
name: Puchstein, Ruprecht
name: Dette, Holger
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: We propose a new nonparametric procedure (referred to as MuBreD) for the detection and estimation of multiple structural breaks in the autocovariance function of a multivariate (second-order) piecewise stationary process, which also identifies the components of the series where the breaks occur. MuBreD is based on a comparison of the estimated spectral distribution on different segments of the observed time series and consists of three steps: it starts with a consistent test, which allows us to prove the existence of structural breaks at a controlled Type I error. Second, it estimates sets containing possible break points and finally these sets are reduced to identify the relevant structural breaks and corresponding components which are responsible for the changes in the autocovariance structure. In contrast to all other methods proposed in the literature, our approach does not make any parametric assumptions, is not especially designed for detecting one single change point, and addresses the problem of multiple structural breaks in the autocovariance function directly with no use of the binary segmentation algorithm. We prove that the new procedure detects all components and the corresponding locations where structural breaks occur with probability converging to one as the sample size increases and provide data-driven rules for the selection of all regularization parameters. The results are illustrated by analyzing financial asset returns, and in a simulation study it is demonstrated that MuBreD outperforms the currently available nonparametric methods for detecting breaks in the dependency structure of multivariate time series. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
title: Political effects on urban landscapes: A case study of ‘urbanix’ in Drama, Greece
Creators: name: Georgiadou, Konstantina
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: This research investigates the urban development of the city of Drama, Greece, as a result of the political changes that took place in the first decades of the twentieth century. Specifically, it follows the urban transformation caused by its annexation from the Ottoman Empire to Greece and the vast-scale population transfer formalised through the Lausanne Treaty in 1923. The aim of this study is to explore the effects of political and ideological shifts - wars, regime changes, formation of new states or division of countries/empires - on the built environment. These inflict changes to urban continuity, architecture and cultural topographies. The study builds upon the concept of urbicide, which describes violent urban destructions and cultural cleansing, and aims to extend it to non-conflict urban scenarios. For this purpose, the concept of urbanix is introduced and its cultural manifestations are explored in the case study of Drama. The city and its components are treated as depositories of urban memory and, so, a palimpsestic reading is employed, in an attempt to investigate the traces of the contested past of Drama in its urban form. Population exchange will be examined as producing disrupted topographies for the departing populations, associated with cultural cleansing. The research interrogates: a. how the urban environment is affected by political conditions; b. how is urbanix manifested in contested countries in relation to religious, ethnic and cultural cleansing; and finally, c. which mechanisms of urban manipulation are employed as a means of nation-building and history rewriting by the ruling regime. During this period, the Greek urban environments were used as tools of nation building and cultural identity formation. The creation of the country and the establishment of its national borders sparked a venture of Hellenisation of its territories. The arrival of Christian refugees and the expulsion of Muslims reinforced the ethnic homogeneity, while the need for rehabilitation triggered drastic urbanisation processes. The Ottoman architectural and urban tradition all over Greece suffered change, neglect, abandonment and destruction, as they embodied a pluralistic cultural identity that needed to be disassociated from the present and future of the country. The case study of Drama is looked at both from the urban and building scale, the analysis of which highlights typological approaches as expressions of rejection or re-appropriation urbanix categories. The former is clearly evident in the disruption of the urban form and development, through the imposition of a new urban plan in 1930. Finally, the Ottoman buildings were either demolished, abandoned or majorly intervened upon to serve the new national identity and reflect the re-established urban homogeneity of this region.
title: An appraisal of health datasets to enhance the surveillance of Lyme disease in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Tulloch, JS
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease of increasing global public health interest. Clinical presentation is varied, posing challenges for case definition. Currently national incidence figures for the United Kingdom (UK) are derived from two-tier confirmatory laboratory diagnostic results. These figures have the potential to underestimate incidence as clinical cases managed without diagnostic investigation are unrecorded. This thesis aimed to identify and evaluate a variety of datasets for their ability to describe the incidence and sociodemographics of Lyme disease cases in the UK, and to assess whether they could be utilised in future national surveillance programmes. The datasets analysed were: Public Health England (PHE)’s Lyme disease diagnostic laboratory, PHE’s laboratory surveillance system, hospital episode statistics data for England and Wales, an electronic health records database of primary care in the UK, Twitter, and the Small Animals Veterinary Surveillance Network (SAVSNET). A generalised Lyme disease population could be described from these data. This population had a bimodal age distribution, was predominately white, was from rural areas, and increasingly from areas with lower societal deprivation. Geographic distribution of cases could be described for England and Wales and showed the highest incidence of disease in southern central to south western England. These data showed an increasing incidence of Lyme disease. The relative incidence of Lyme disease cases varied between datasets, with the primary care data having the largest incidence of 4.42 per 100,000 person-years (95% CI 4.23-4.67). Multiplication factors were described between the three datasets of routinely collected health care data. The most important being a multiplication factor of 2.35 (95% CI 1.81-2.88) between laboratory-confirmed incidence and primary care incidence in England and Wales. The results from this thesis start to describe the epidemiological picture of Lyme disease in the UK; specifically identified as a research gap by the NICE guidelines. They will provide a platform for the many unanswered questions about the changing landscape of Lyme disease in the UK. It was concluded that a combination of health datasets could be used for future Lyme disease surveillance systems in the UK. Ideally this would include laboratory and primary care data. Until this is in place, the multiplication factor can be used to estimate the national incidence of Lyme disease and the potential burden it places on the National Health Service and the patients it afflicts.
A Two-Sample Test for Equality of Means in High Dimension
Creators: name: Gregory, Karl Bruce
name: Carroll, Raymond J.
name: Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani
name: Soumendra N. Lahiri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We develop a test statistic for testing the equality of two population mean vectors in the “large-p-small-n” setting. Such a test must surmount the rank-deficiency of the sample covariance matrix, which breaks down the classic Hotelling T2 test. The proposed procedure, called the generalized component test, avoids full estimation of the covariance matrix by assuming that the p components admit a logical ordering such that the dependence between components is related to their displacement. The test is shown to be competitive with other recently developed methods under ARMA and long-range dependence structures and to achieve superior power for heavy-tailed data. The test does not assume equality of covariance matrices between the two populations, is robust to heteroscedasticity in the component variances, and requires very little computation time, which allows its use in settings with very large p. An analysis of mitochondrial calcium concentration in mouse cardiac muscles over time and of copy number variations in a glioblastoma multiforme dataset from The Cancer Genome Atlas are carried out to illustrate the test. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.