cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Refuges for birds in fire-prone landscapes
Creators: name: Robinson, Natasha Maree
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Unburnt patches within fire boundaries are considered to act as refuges for birds and other fauna; facilitating survival and persistence within fire-prone landscapes. Various processes (e.g. topography, planned burning) result in unburnt patches of varying habitat quality and value to avifauna. Unburnt patches may be especially important in the case of large, intense wildfire where there is a paucity of unburnt vegetation remaining within the fire boundary and large distances to unburnt habitat beyond the fire’s edge. Despite being regarded as important, the ecological value and nature of unburnt patches have rarely been examined. This study aimed to determine the importance of fire history, fire severity, topography, vegetation structure, floristic richness and landscape properties in predicting the persistence of birds in burnt landscapes. Surveys were conducted at 96 sites in mixed eucalypt foothill forest and gully vegetation of south-east Australia that had experienced a high intensity, landscape-scale wildfire ( greater than200,000 ha) in 2009. The study revealed that two to three years after this mega-fire i) unburnt, and to a lesser extent ground burnt, patches did act as refuges for birds; ii) underlying time-since-fire prior to the mega-fire was less relevant to bird communities than the severity at which a site was burnt; iii) no homogenising effect of the mega-fire upon bird assemblages occupying very different topographical positions in the landscape (i.e. gullies and slopes) was detected; iv) vegetation structure had a greater influence upon avian communities than floristic richness; v) the size, isolation and landscape context of unburnt or ground burnt patches had little to no influence on avian assemblages. This study contributes to a greater understanding of how avian communities persist in fire-affected landscapes and provides insights for the appropriate use of planned fire to achieve ecologically positive outcomes for birds.
Developing an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum to engage students in planning investigations and argumentation
Creators: name: Chang, Pei-Shan
name: Lee, Sheng-Han
name: Wen, Meichun Lydia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Reform efforts in Taiwan have added a mandatory ‘Scientific Inquiry and Practice’ curriculum for all high school students, emphasising ‘inquiry-based learning content’ including observing and questioning, planning and carrying out an investigation, argumentation and modelling, and expression and sharing. The purpose of this study was to develop an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum and to explore students’ performance by emphasising ‘expression and sharing’ during the planning of their investigations and argumentation. This ‘Scientific Inquiry and Practice’ curriculum lasted 60 h with 17 10th graders. We employed Science Writing Heuristics to help students integrate inquiry, argumentation, and writing practice into laboratory contexts. Data collected via a Multimedia-based Assessment of Scientiﬁc Inquiry Abilities, an Achievement Test, students’ writing in their Argumentation Writing Journal, and semi-structured interviews showed that some of the students’ scientiﬁc inquiry abilities, argumentation abilities, and content learning were improved after participating. Moreover, engaging students in the practice of ‘expression and sharing’ provided them with opportunities to develop competency in designing and evaluating the scientific inquiry, and scientifically interpreting data and evidence. Various interpretations of these results are discussed, and the implications of this study can provide a template for the development of an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum in education and research.
Évaluation microbiologique d’un dispositif à rayonnement ultraviolet de courte longueur d’onde pulsé
Creators: name: Neindre, Killian Le
name: Deslandes, Antoine
name: Faury, Hélène
name: Zaidi, Rabab Syed
name: Dufresne, Marie
name: Barbut, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environnement
Bionettoyage
Désinfection
UV-C
Bactérie multirésistante
Clostridioides difficile

description: Contexte et objectif. De nombreux dispositifs de désinfection par ultraviolet (UV) sont récemment apparus sur le marché. Néanmoins, peu d’études sur leur efficacité en milieu hospitalier ont été menées en France. L’objectif était d’évaluer l’activité bactéricide d’un dispositif émettant un rayonnement UV-C pulsé sur des bactéries multirésistantes aux antibiotiques et sur des spores bactériennes. Méthodes. Cette évaluation a été réalisée par exposition directe aux UV-C de géloses ensemencées et par la méthode des porte-germes disposés dans des chambres et bureaux inoccupés. L’activité a été évaluée vis-à-vis de 4 souches : Citrobacter freundii producteur de carbapénémases de type OXA-48 (EPC), Staphylococcus aureus résistant à la méticilline (SARM), Enterococcus fæcium résistant à la vancomycine de génotype vanA (ERV) et Clostridioides difficile (spores). L’activité bactéricide a été exprimée sous forme de réduction bactérienne (log10) de l’inoculum initial. Résultats. Sur les positions les plus exposées, le dispositif UV-C permet d’atteindre une réduction bactérienne de plus de 5 log10 des souches d’EPC, SARM et ERV par la méthode d’exposition directe des géloses. Par la méthode des porte-germes, la réduction n’atteint que 3 log10 en optimisant le positionnement du dispositif lors de la procédure de désinfection. L’effet sporicide sur C. difficile reste limité avec une réduction bactérienne de moins d’1 log10 avec les deux méthodes. Nos résultats ont mis en évidence que l’activité bactéricide dépend de la position du dispositif vis-à-vis des surfaces exposées. Conclusion. L’activité bactéricide du dispositif est satisfaisante sur les bactéries multirésistantes mais plus limitée sur les spores de C. difficile.
Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Albian to Santonian (Cretaceous) of Bornholm, Denmark
Creators: name: Packer, Stephen Ronald
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1991

description: This is a digitised version of a thesis that was deposited in the University Library. If you are the author and you have a query about this item please contact PEARL Admin (pearladmin@plymouth.ac.uk)
description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/720 on 10.04.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The foraminiferal fauna recorded from the Amager Greensand, Amager Limestone and Bavnodde Greensand formations of Bornholm, Denmark are described herein. These formations range in age from Early Albian to Middle Santonian. The succession contains major breaks in deposition. A new foraminiferal biozonal scheme is presented, comprising six local assemblage biozones. These are compared to foraminiferal zonal schemes proposed for other areas of Northwest Europe. This data is then integrated with published data from macrofossil groups. Palaeoecological data is presented utilising foraminiferal group composition through the succession. An event synthesis is proposed for the study interval combining palaeoecology, biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and basin events. Transgressive phases are recognised in the Early Albian, Early Cenomanian and Late Cenomanian-Early Turonian. The Coniacian interval overall shows stable outer shelf water depths, whilst the Late Coniacian-Santonian is probably characterised by an initial phase of increasing water depth followed by a probably tectonically influenced water depth reduction.
title: Quality of Life and Pain after Proximal Humeral Fractures in the Elderly: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Iking, Janette
name: Fischhuber, Karen
name: Stolberg-Stolberg, Josef
name: Raschke, Michael J.
name: Katthagen, J. Christoph
name: Köppe, Jeanette
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: 'Background and Objectives': The proximal humeral fracture (PHF) is one of the most common fractures in elderly patients. A PHF might influence the quality of life (QoL) on several different levels, especially in elderly patients, but it is unclear which treatment option results in a better QoL outcome. Therefore, we aimed to systematically review the current literature for studies that have analyzed the QoL and pain of elderly patients treated either surgically or non-operatively for PHF. 'Materials and Methods': A comprehensive search of the literature was performed in the PubMed database from January to April 2023. Studies describing the QoL or the level of pain of patients older than 60 years with the EuroQoL-5 Dimension (EQ-5D) score or the visual analogue scale (VAS) after the treatment of PHF, either non-operatively (non-OP), with open-reduction and internal fixation using a locking plate (LPF), or with reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) were included. Twelve studies were analyzed descriptively and the individual risk of bias was assessed using the ROB2 and ROBINS-I tools. Results: A total of 12 studies with 712 patients at baseline were included (78% female sex, mean age 75.2 years). The reported VAS scores at 12-month follow-up (FU) ranged from 0.7 to 2.5. The calculated overall mean VAS score across all studies showed a decreasing tendency for all treatments, with an increasing FU time up to 12 months after PHF. None of the studies reported any significant differences of the EQ-5D across the groups. The overall calculated EQ-5D indices showed an increasing trend after 6–8 weeks FU, but did not differ significantly between the three treatments. 'Conclusions': In conclusion, the current literature suggests that there are no clinically important differences between the QoL or pain in elderly patients with PHF after non-operative treatment or surgical treatment with LPF or RTSA. However, the number of studies and level of evidence is rather low and further trials are urgently needed.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universität Münster.
Closed-form REML estimators and sample size determination for mixed effects models for repeated measures under monotone missingness
Creators: name: Tang, Yongqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We derive the closed-form restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimator and Kenward-Roger's variance estimator for fixed effects in the mixed effects model for repeated measures (MMRM) when the missing data pattern is monotone. As an important application of the analytic result, we present the formula for calculating the power of treatment comparison using the Wald t test with the Kenward-Roger adjusted variance estimate in MMRM. It allows adjustment for baseline covariates without the need to specify the covariate distribution in randomized trials. A simple two-step procedure is proposed to determine the sample size needed to achieve the targeted power. The proposed method performs well for both normal and moderately nonnormal data even in small samples (n = 20) in simulations. An anti-depressant trial is analyzed for illustrative purposes.
description: 14 pages, 3 tables
Arabidopsis via
Creators: name: Germain, Alexandre de Saint
name: Retailleau, Pascal
name: Norsikian, Stéphanie
name: Servajean, Vincent
name: Pelissier, Franck
name: Steinmetz, Vincent
name: Pillot, Jean-Paul
name: Rochange, Soizic
name: Pouvreau, Jean-Bernard
name: Boyer, François-Didier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Arabidopsis
Arabidopsis via

description: 2.4. (±)-Contalactone represses hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis via    AtD14 and AtKAI2
 We also tested the bioactivity of (±)-contalactone and (±)-P270 on Arabidopsis hypocotyl elongation with SL biosynthesis (max 3-11) and perception (Atd14-1, htl-3, max 2-1) mutants. In Arabidopsis, (±)- GR 24 inhibits hypocotyl growth via AtD14 and AtKAI2 (AtHTL) (Waters et al., 2012, 2017). Like (±)- GR 24, (±)-contalactone significantly suppressed hypocotyl elongation in wild-type plant and also in max 3-11, Atd14-1 and htl-3 mutants seedlings, but not in the max 2-1 mutant. These results confirm that (±)-contalactone can mimic the GR 24 effect not only on branching but also on hypocotyl elongation. These results show that (±)-contalactone repressed hypocotyl elongation via AtMAX2, and redundantly via AtD14 and AtKAI2, as already demonstrated for GR 24 (Nelson et al., 2011). This suggests that AtKAI2 can perceive (±)-contalactone. However, (±)-P270 does not repress hypocotyl elongation in wild-type, max 3-11 or Atd14-1 mutant seedlings. We observed a slight inhibition of hypocotyl elongation in htl-3 and especially in max 2-1 mutant probably due to a toxic effect (Fig. 5).
description: Published as part of Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Retailleau, Pascal, Norsikian, Stéphanie, Servajean, Vincent, Pelissier, Franck, Steinmetz, Vincent, Pillot, Jean-Paul, Rochange, Soizic, Pouvreau, Jean-Bernard & Boyer, François-Didier, 2019, Contalactone, a contaminant formed during chemical synthesis of the strigolactone reference GR 24 is also a strigolactone mimic, pp. 1-10 in Phytochemistry 168 on page 3, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2019.112112, http://zenodo.org/record/10483629
(201047) Matilda Addis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Negotiating traditional genders and modern sexualities: the emergence of sexual subjectivity among young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand
Creators: name: de Lind van Wijngaarden, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

This study analysed the emergence of sexual subjectivity among 25 young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand, who were interviewed three times over an 18-month period during the time they graduated from high school and moved on to the next phase of their lives. The study was partly inspired by a desire to understand the context of HIV transmission among Thai men who have sex with men. When looking at the men’s first awareness of being different, two patterns were found: the largest group had a sense of gender nonconformity from early childhood, whereas the rest only knew they were different when they fell in love with another man at a much later age. Buddhist beliefs and traditional ideas about masculinity and femininity played important roles in the young men’s initial understandings about homosexuality and same-sex relations. Most conceptually divided same-sex attracted people in feminine ‘bottoms’ and masculine ‘tops’. Sexual experiences with fellow-minded friends gradually weakened these conceptual links between gendered identity and sexual behaviour. Object choice (a man rather than a woman) gradually gained in importance for understanding homosexuality, leading to a greater valuation of masculine demeanours and behaviours. The internet was also important in promoting masculinity as an aesthetic ideal via pornographic imagery and as a platform for increasingly masculine presentations of the self. Despite these processes of masculinisation, many young Thai same-sex attracted men searched for romantic relationships based on complementarity and difference (feminine with masculine, old with young, rich with poor) rather than on same-ness. Most of the more effeminate men saw their sexuality as valuable, and some—especially those coming from poor families—engaged in sex work and used their youth and beauty to find a wealthy long-term partner. Thai characteristics of (good) personhood and forms of culturally appropriate communication determined how they dealt with disclosure of their sexuality and explained the men’s desire to remain part of the mainstream of society. In conclusion, traditional gender-based understandings about homosexuality were gradually destabilised and engaged with modern urban ideas about being gay, leading to a variety of hybrid ideas and fluid expressions, creating both confusion and angst as well as opportunities for exploration of new ways of expressing sexual subjectivity.
Emerging themes on considering water equity (REACH Research Brief)
Creators: name: Korzenevica, M.
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2019

description: The REACH programme aims to generate improvements in water security for the poor by working at the interface of water security, risk and poverty research and practice, spanning across the themes of resource sustainability, inclusive services and sustainable growth. Recognizing social inequalities forms a critical element of the programme, as it is a vital building block for enhancing and maintaining water security for all.
By early 2019, there were 23 studies within the REACH programme that included exploration of differentiated (particularly gender driven) experiences, practices and needs related to water. While the studies are mostly on-going, this research brief has been developed to spur interest and awareness in four areas that are underexplored in academia and underrepresented within development agencies.
Prospective predictors of young children’s body image, eating behaviour, and weight
Creators: name: Taylor, Lara
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.

The public version of this thesis does not contain all material submitted for examination.
title: Η ιστορική και πολεοδομική εξέλιξη του παραδοσιακού οικισμού των Σπετσών και η επίδραση του τουρισμού σε αυτή
title: The historic and urban development of the traditional settlement of Spetses and the impact of tourism on it
Creators: name: Ντουση Αλεξανδρα
name: Πριφτη Ελενη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Οι Σπέτσες είναι ένα μικρό νησί του Αργοσαρωνικού, το όνομα του οποίου είναι άρρηκτα συνδεδεμένο με την ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821. Η μακραίωνη πορεία του όμως επηρεάζεται από τα κοινωνικά, πολιτικά και οικονομικά δεδομένα της εκάστοτε περιόδου, τα οποία αποτυπώνονται στον διαχρονικά εξελισσόμενο ιστό του ομώνυμου οικισμού, δημιουργώντας ένα πλούσιο παλίμψηστο ιδιαίτερης ιστορικής και αρχιτεκτονικής αξίας. Η γνώση και η αντίληψη των σημαντικών ιστορικών γεγονότων είναι θεμελιώδεις για την κατανόηση του τρόπου με τον οποίο επηρεάζουν την πολεοδομική διάρθρωση του οικισμού. Στόχος της εργασίας είναι  η ιστορικη και πολεοδομική ανάλυση του παραδοσιακού οικισμού των Σπετσών  ξεκινώντας από την πρώτη κατοίκηση του νησιού μέχρι την ανάγκη δημιουργίας οχυρού οικισμού τον 15ο αιώνα. Στη συνέχεια εξετάζεται η εξελιξη του οικισμού έως την Επανάσταση, με τη μετεγκατάστασή του έξω από το οχυρό λόγω της ναυτιλίας μέχρι την αθρόα εισροή τουριστών και την ανεξέλεγκτη οικοδόμηση του 20ου αιώνα, αλλά και την αναγκαιότητα προστασίας του οικισμού. Η ανάλυση περιλαμβανει την πολεοδομική διάρθρωση του οικισμού σε κάθε ιστορική φάση, τις τυπολογίες και τα μορφολογικά χαρακτηριστικά της αρχιτεκτονικής του τόπου.
The Evolution of Trade Governance in the 21st Century
Creators: name: Frank, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: The international trading system has undergone a radical shift over the last twenty years. Multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization have generated only limited results, while preferential trade agreements (PTA) have proliferated and become the primary mechanism for regulating trade and investment flows. This dissertation seeks to identify how the architecture of trade governance has influenced trade agreement formation and design. More specifically, this study is centred on answering three questions. First, how has the architecture of the trade governance system changed since the end of the 20th century? Second, in what ways have relational mechanisms influenced the evolution of the trade governance architecture? Third, how do changes in the trade governance architecture affect governance outcomes? This dissertation employs a complexity-based relational framework in conjunction with tools drawn from network science to make a series of theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions. On the theoretical front, I advance the argument that system architecture needs to be incorporated as a key theoretical component into analyses of strategic interaction and global governance. This dissertation also highlights the importance of relational mechanisms in the design of international trade agreements and shows that the design of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was not a simple function of the distribution of material power of the negotiating parties. Empirically, this dissertation provides a novel two-mode network mapping approach of the trade governance system which allows for differences in the evolution of bilateral and multiparty agreements to be distinguished. Specific relational mechanisms - network closure, popularity, and cross-network effects - were identified as drivers of the trade governance architecture. This dissertation also shows that reference treaties play a key role in institutional design. Finally, for the first time, this dissertation has mapped and formally measured the architecture of the e-commerce governance system and linked architectural properties to potential governance outcomes.
(201049) Timothy Addis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Medicago truncatula
Creators: name: Germain, Alexandre de Saint
name: Retailleau, Pascal
name: Norsikian, Stéphanie
name: Servajean, Vincent
name: Pelissier, Franck
name: Steinmetz, Vincent
name: Pillot, Jean-Paul
name: Rochange, Soizic
name: Pouvreau, Jean-Bernard
name: Boyer, François-Didier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Medicago
Medicago truncatula

description: 2.6. (±)-Contalactone induces the colonization of AM fungi in Medicago truncatula
 SLs are known to increase hyphal branching of AM fungi (Akiyama et al., 2005; Besserer et al., 2006) and this biological response can be measured in vitro to characterize the activity of SLs, SL analogs and mimics (Akiyama et al., 2010; Mori et al., 2016). However, a causal link between this branching response and symbiosis has not been established. Here, we used a different assay in which SL-deficient mutants of M. truncatula are inoculated with the AM fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. The roots of these mutants are hardly colonized, likely due to deficient stimulation of the AM fungus. Treatment with (±)- GR 24 can increase the number of root infection units (Fig. 7), and thus this test can be used as a bioassay to assess the effect of SL mimics on AM symbiotic ability. (±)-Contalactone applied at 100 nM was able to enhance significantly the level of root colonization by R. irregularis, although the activity was slightly lower than that of (±)- GR 24 (Fig. 7). Thus, in addition to the effects on plants reported above, (±)-contalactone also shows significant bioactivity on symbiotic fungi.
description: Published as part of Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Retailleau, Pascal, Norsikian, Stéphanie, Servajean, Vincent, Pelissier, Franck, Steinmetz, Vincent, Pillot, Jean-Paul, Rochange, Soizic, Pouvreau, Jean-Bernard & Boyer, François-Didier, 2019, Contalactone, a contaminant formed during chemical synthesis of the strigolactone reference GR 24 is also a strigolactone mimic, pp. 1-10 in Phytochemistry 168 on page 4, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2019.112112, http://zenodo.org/record/10483629
MODELING OF MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS: FROM PROTEIN-PROTEIN TO HALOGEN BOND
Creators: name: DE GONDA, RICCARDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Part I - Microtubules are polymeric structures formed by the self association of tubulin dimers. They are extremely dinamical structures, that can undergo phases of growing and shrinking, playing a key role during cells proliferation process. Due to its importance for mitosis, tubulin is the target of many anticancer drugs currently in use or under clinical trial. The success of these molecules, however, is limited by the onset of resistant tumor cells during the treatment, so new resistance-proof compounds need to be developed. We analyze the protein-protein interactions between protofilaments, also known lateral as interaction, using free energy calculations. We were able to identify the most important amino acids for tubulin-tubulin binding and to compare this amino acids with experimental results. The main goal of this study is to perform an atomistic description of the interactions. Part II - Halogen bond is an important non-covalent interaction which is receiving a growing attention in the study of protein-ligand complexes. Many drugs are halogenated molecules and it has been recently shown that many halogenated ligand establish halogen bonds with biomolecules. Halogen bond is established between an halogn atom and a nucleophilic group due to the presence of a region of positive electrostatic potential, ?-hole. This nucleophilic group can be an atom with lone pairs, for example N,O or S or it can be a system of $\pi$ electrons of an aromatic ring. This kind of interaction is identified as C-X/$\pi$. We developed and implented a method to properly evaluate the halogen bond interaction during a docking simulation using Autodock software. We also study study the effect of substituents on Ph-X/$\pi$ systems with DFT calculations with two different functional. We identified the best substituent for both rings and compare the results.
Magnetic properties of the honeycomb oxide Na$_2$Co$_2$TeO$_6$
Creators: name: Lefrançois, E.
name: Songvilay, M.
name: Robert, J.
name: Nataf, G.
name: Jordan, E.
name: Chaix, L.
name: Colin, C. V.
name: Lejay, P.
name: Hadj-Azzem, A.
name: Ballou, R.
name: Simonet, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the magnetic properties of Na$_2$Co$_2$TeO$_6$, which features a honeycomb lattice of magnetic Co$^{2+}$ ions, through macroscopic characterization and neutron diffraction on a powder sample. We have shown that this material orders in a zig-zag antiferromagnetic structure. In addition to allowing a linear magnetoelectric coupling, this magnetic arrangement displays very peculiar spatial magnetic correlations, larger in the honeycomb planes than between the planes, which do not evolve with the temperature. We have investigated this behavior by Monte Carlo calculations using the $J_1$-$J_2$-$J_3$ model on a honeycomb lattice with a small interplane interaction. Our model reproduces the experimental neutron structure factor, although its absence of temperature evolution must be due to additional ingredients, such as chemical disorder or quantum fluctuations enhanced by the proximity to a phase boundary.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
title: Vergleich der Mediennutzung einsprachig und mehrsprachig aufwachsender Kinder zwischen drei und sechs Jahren
title: Comparing the media usage of mono- and multilingual preschoolers age 3 to 6
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lüke, Timo
name: Pahnke, Bettina
name: Ritterfeld, Ute
Publisher: name: Georg Thieme Verlag
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Language acquisition facilitation
subject: Media usage
subject: Mediennutzung
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Multilingualism
subject: Sprachförderung
subject: 360
subject: 370
subject: Medienkonsum
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Sprachförderung

description: Das Sprachförderpotential von Medien hängt von den Medieninhalten, aber auch von dem Medienformat ab: Bildlastige Medien (v.a. TV) werden hier als weniger potent eingestuft als sprachlastige Medien (v.a. Buch, Hörspiel). Kinder mit Sprachauffälligkeiten tendieren dazu, sprachlastige Medien zu meiden und dafür verstärkt bildlastige Medien zu nutzen. In dieser Studie wurde untersucht, ob sich ein vergleichbarer Befund für mehrsprachige im Vergleich zu einsprachig aufwachsenden Kindern ergibt. Hierzu wurde eine Fragebogenstudie durchgeführt, für die Eltern von insgesamt 276, davon 181 ein- und 95 mehrsprachigen Kindern im Alter zwischen drei und sechs Jahren gewonnen werden konnten. Alle Familien wurden in denselben Kindergärten und Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen einer mittlelstädtischen Region in NRW rekrutiert. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen die Hypothese, wonach auch mehrsprachige Kinder im Vergleich zu ihren einsprachigen Peers sich verstärkt den bildlastigen Medien zuwenden, aber die sprachlastigen und damit potentiell sprachförderlichen Medien weniger nutzen.
description: Whether media facilitate or inhibit language learning depends on media content as well as on media format: image driven media (e.g., TV) are hereby assumed to have les potential compared to language drive media (e.g., books, audio stories). Children with specific language impairment have earlier been shown to prefer image driven media and avoid language driven media compared to their peers. This study aims to investigate whether a similar pattern can be found for multilingual compared to monolingual preschoolers. A survey was distributed to parents of preschoolers in a midurban region in Germany. Final sample consisted of 276 data sets including 181 mono- and 95 multilingual children age 3 to 6. Findings confirm the hypotheses of multilingual children using less language driven, but more image driven media. They hereby make less use of the facilitating potential of media for language learning.
Seeking place: young people, homelessness and violence
Creators: name: Jordan, Lucinda May
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis draws upon in-depth qualitative interviews with 33 young people in Melbourne, Australia, to examine the impact of homelessness, violence and policing on their sense of self, place and belonging. Specifically, this research highlights the pervasive presence of violence and policing in homeless young people’s lives, and argues that these experiences exclude young people from public and private spaces that are important to them, undermine their sense of belonging as citizens, and violate their own constructions of self and place in the world. By engaging with scholarship from human geography, youth studies, sociology and critical criminology, this thesis builds upon the existing criminological literature on marginalised young people’s experiences of criminalisation and victimisation, and offers a nuanced understanding of the impact of these processes from young people’s perspective. In doing so, it seeks not only to extend the criminological literature, but also to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of youth homelessness that can inform policy and practice responses, and to broader discussions regarding marginalised young people’s place in society.
Island Life: Shellfish exploitation over millennia in the Wallacean archipelago
Creators: name: Piotto, Elena
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis analyses shellfish, both subsistence and artefactual, uncovered from excavations on Timor Island (Timor-Leste) and a neighbouring island - Alor Island (Indonesia). Both islands are located in the Wallacean region of the Indonesian Archipelago and are part of the Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) complex. These islands are well known for their depauperate, indigenous terrestrial fauna. Nevertheless, we know that people colonised these islands, and others in ISEA from at least 46,000 yBP and were able to subsite in these environments for millennia. These early people understood the nature of the seas, coastlines, and the environment around them. They were able to exploit these environments to their ultimate advantage and were technologically advanced enough to make sea journeys from Sunda to Sahul as early as 65,000 yBP. This thesis analyses whole shell assemblages and shell artefacts from three sites: Asitau Kuru and Matja Kuru (Timor-Leste) and Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island). It details the types of shellfish being targeted, the shell habitats, and how and why these environments and foraging strategies changed over time. Analysing people's subsistence patterns and observing the changes to these patterns through time contributes to the understanding of adaptive responses in areas of low terrestrial resources and through environmental changes. Analysis from the subsistence shellfish and shell artefacts also inform the theoretical underpinnings of social and symbolic behaviours of people in the region throughout the time sequence. Shell artefact analysis, in parallel with shell subsistence analysis, further contributes to adaptive response to environmental changes with relation to the social changes seen through the region.
ANALYSE DES PRIX ET QUALITE DES ALIMENTS
Creators: name: Makarova, I.O.
name: Popov, V.I.
name: Efimova, T.V.
Publisher: name: Международный журнал гуманитарных и естественных наук
Year: 2022
Subjects: NUTRITION DE LA POPULATION
PRODUITS
QUALITé
PRIX

description: Cet article est consacré au sujet de la nutrition de la population. L'article révèle les aspects de la formation des prix et leur dépendance à l’égard de la qualité des aliments, qui constituent la base du panier de consommation. Les principaux objectifs de la politique alimentaire ont été mis en évidence. La liste de principales caractéristiques des produits qui affectent l'état de santé a également été établie.
Empowerment and water among pastoralist women in Northern Kenya (CHC Policy brief)
Creators: name: Change, Centre For Humanitarian
Publisher: name: Centre for Humanitarian Change
Year: 2018

description: This study explores questions around women, water and gendered power relations in Maasai and Samburu counties of Nothern Kenya. It looks at both water-secure and water-insecure communities. The study is based on the premise that one way that women in patriarchal pastoralist communities are disempowered in relation to men in through the gendered dynamics of domestic and livestock water security. It anticipated that the poor performance of local water security initiatives would be shown to be a factor in women’s relative disempowerment.
The study looks specifically at gender roles and responsibilities in relation to domestic water sources and domestic water security. It tries to discern any significant differences between the experiences of women who are members of organised groups (for example, income-generating and savings groups) and those who are not.
Lie applicable surfaces
Creators: name: Pember, Mason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A40 (primary), 53B25, 53C42 (secondary)

description: We give a detailed account of the gauge-theoretic approach to Lie applicable surfaces and the resulting transformation theory. In particular, we show that this approach coincides with the classical notion of $Ω$- and $Ω_{0}$-surfaces of Demoulin.
Are we smart enough to remember how smart animals are?
Creators: name: Leach, Stefan
name: Sutton, Robbie
name: Dhont, Kristof
name: Douglas, Karen
name: Bergstrom, Zara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Directed forgetting with pigs and funnel debrief.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 6/2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Anforderungensprofil zur Erstellung des Gleichstellungskonzepts im Sinne des LGG für die Fakultät Statistik (2011 bis 2013)
description: Anforderungsprofil zur Erstellung des Gleichstellungskonzepts im Sinne des LGG für dei Fakultät Erziehungswissenschaften und Soziologie (2011 bis 2013)
description: Frauenförderplan des ITMC
description: Gleichstellungskonzept der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät (2011 bis 2013)
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 6, 2013
Macroevolution of sexually selected weapons: weapon evolution in chameleons
Creators: name: Wiens, John
name: Van Kleeck-Hann, Melissa
name: Wiens, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: lizard
subject: Macroevolution
subject: male-male competition
subject: phylogeny
subject: Sexual dimorphism
subject: Sexual selection
subject: weapon
subject: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

description: Abstract The evolution of sexually selected traits is a major topic in evolutionary biology. However, large-scale evolutionary patterns in these traits remain understudied, especially those traits used in male–male competition (weapons sensu lato). Here, we analyze weapon evolution in chamaeleonid lizards, both within and between the sexes. Chameleons are an outstanding model system because of their morphological diversity (including 11 weapon types among ~220 species) and a large-scale time-calibrated phylogeny. We analyze these 11 traits among 165 species using phylogenetic methods, addressing many questions for the first time in any group. We find that all 11 weapons have each evolved multiple times and that weapon origins are generally more frequent than their losses. We find that almost all weapons have each persisted for >30 million years (and some for >65 million years). Across chameleon phylogeny, we identify both hotspots for weapon evolution (up to 10 types present per species) and coldspots (all weapons absent, many through loss). These hotspots are significantly associated with larger male body size, but are only weakly related to sexual-size dimorphism. We also find that weapon evolution is strongly correlated between males and females. Overall, these results provide a baseline for understanding large-scale patterns of weapon evolution within clades.
description: Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Award Number: DEB 1655690
Empowerment in WASH Index (SEI Discussion brief)
Creators: name: Dickin, S.
name: Bisung, E.
Publisher: name: Stockholm Environment Institute
Year: 2019

description: This brief presents a new Empowerment in WASH Index (EWI) that is designed to measure empowerment in the WASH sector. The Empowerment in WASH Index (EWI) is a new survey-based tool to measure women’s empowerment and gender outcomes in the WASH sector. EWI can help to fill key gender data gaps in the sector. EWI can be used to inform better design of WASH interventions, and to monitor and evaluate WASH-related gender outcomes. We describe how the EWI tool is constructed using a series of indicators, and a case study applying the EWI in Burkina Faso.
Genes rapidly up- or down-regulated following cold treatment of Arabidopsis suspension cells
Creators: name: Seyit, Redjeb
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Botany, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
(201050) Ann Knight
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Propagation and recovery of singularities in the inverse conductivity problem
Creators: name: Greenleaf, Allan
name: Lassas, Matti
name: Santacesaria, Matteo
name: Siltanen, Samuli
name: Uhlmann, Gunther
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R30, 35S30

description: The ill-posedness of Calderón's inverse conductivity problem, responsible for the poor spatial resolution of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), has been an impetus for the development of hybrid imaging techniques, which compensate for this lack of resolution by coupling with a second type of physical wave, typically modeled by a hyperbolic PDE. Here we show how, using EIT data alone, to efficiently detect interior jumps and other singularities of the conductivity. Analysis of the complex geometrical optics solutions of Astala and Päivärinta [\emph{Ann. Math.}, {\bf 163} (2006)] in 2D makes it possible to exploit an underlying complex principal type structure of the problem. We show that the leading term in a Neumann series is an invertible nonlinear generalized Radon transform of the conductivity. The wave front set of all higher-order terms can be characterized, and, under a prior, some are smoother than the leading term. Numerics indicate that this approach effectively detects inclusions within inclusions via EIT.
description: Revised with additional commentary and references. 54 pages, 10 figures
Escape and Trapping of Low-Frequency Gravitationally Lensed Rays by Compact Objects within Plasma
Creators: name: Rogers, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the gravitational lensing of rays emitted by a compact object (CO) within a distribution of plasma with power-law density $\propto r^{-h}$. For the simplest case of a cloud of spherically symmetric cold non-magnetized plasma, the diverging effect of the plasma and the converging effect of gravitational lensing compete with one another. When $h<2$, the plasma effect dominates over the vacuum Schwarzschild curvature, potentially shifting the radius of the unstable circular photon orbit outside the surface of the CO. When this occurs, we define two relatively narrow radio-frequency bands in which plasma effects are particularly significant. Rays in the escape window have $ω_{0} < ω\leq ω_{+}$ and are free to propagate to infinity from the CO surface. To a distant observer, the visible portion of the CO surface appears to shrink as the observed frequency is reduced, and vanishes entirely at $ω_{0}$, in excess of the plasma frequency at the CO surface. We define the anomalous propagation window for frequencies $ω_{-}< ω\leq ω_{0}$. Rays emitted from the CO surface within this frequency range are dominated by optical effects from the plasma and curve back to the surface of the CO, effectively cloaking the star from distant observers. We conclude with a study of neutron star (NS) compactness ratios for a variety of nuclear matter equations of state (EoS). For $h=1$, NSs generated from stiff EoS should display significant frequency dependence in the EW, and lower values of $h$ with softer EoS can also show these effects.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Updated to match published version
title: An appraisal of the legitimacy of extraterrestrial jurisdiction in criminal law and economic sanctions
Creators: name: Lavers, Jacqueline Troy
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is concerned with aspects of the problem of extraterritorial jurisdiction in international law. A claim of extraterritorial jurisdiction gives rise to problems both of sovereignty and the principle of non-interference. The argument is that the justification of such jurisdiction is often unclear and requires analysis. By focussing upon (and comparing and contrasting) the two examples of extraterritorial economic sanctions and extraterritorial criminal law the thesis proposes tests which may appropriately distinguish acceptable extraterritorial measures from those which arguably should have no place in international law. Through a theoretical discussion of the concept of legitimacy a reasonably clear distinction is suggested in the overall appraisal of extraterritorial jurisdiction. This is concerned with the so-called “substantial connection” test, which provides a means of reconciling problems of sovereignty with claims of extraterritorial jurisdiction. The discussion leads to the conclusion that some assertions of extraterritorial jurisdiction, particularly some of those concerned with economic sanctions, cannot be justified in international law and should be abandoned. Other assertions adhere to the normative framework of international law and are thus legitimate. The purpose of this study is to promote the use of the substantial connection test to re-engage jurisdictional assertions with the legitimate norms presented by international law.