cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The influence of Japanese popular culture on Russian youth communities
Creators: name: Khalymonchik, Natalia
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Russia, Japan, youth, gender, collectivity, post-socialism, popular culture, communities of practice, shared learning, online communities, ethnography.

description: This research provides valuable insights into the lives of Russian youth in the context of political and economic realms of the modern world. This project started as an attempt to explore how Russian young people become interested in Japanese culture, what they find attractive in it, what they take from it into their everyday life. The conversation about interactions between cultures engages with the discussion on the multi-centred nature of globalisation. When the current political discourse in Russia emphasises its uniqueness and fundamental disagreements with western cultural values, do Russian young people indeed feel themselves in opposition to the outside world? What strategies do they use to cope with the growing social pressure in the constantly changing social and cultural environment? Drawing upon the ethnographic data collected in five Russian cities, this research explores the decentralised network of Russian anime fans engaged in the dissemination of Japanese-inspired cultural practice. Analysing the impact of Japanese culture on individual biographies, this research makes a connection between them and the activity of youth groups and youth collectives bound by this culture and operating in the realities of modern Russia. This research examines how such factors as economic disparities between centre and periphery affect young lives in different geographic locations, how youth groups interact with official power structures and post-Soviet cultural institutions. The thesis explores how forming “communities of practice” young people engaged with anime and especially with cosplay communities foster meaningful social connections, learn useful skills, gain the life changing experience of solidarity and collective actions.
MOESM1 of Relationship between the binding free energy and PCBsâ migration, persistence, toxicity and bioaccumulation using a combination of the molecular docking method and 3D-QSAR
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiao-Hui
name: Wang, Xiao-Lei
name: Li, Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Molecular Biology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The binding free energies between nine types of BphA and 209 PCBs.
Institutional food literacy in Japan's Children's Canteens
Creators: name: Nomura, Ayaka
name: Feuer, Hart Nadav
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022

description: One third of world food production is not consumed, and yet food insecurity is pervasive. Food waste is an issue whose resolution can contribute to more economically efficient and environmentally sustainable food systems. Previous studies on food waste reduction suggest that higher domestic competencies are associated with reduced food waste at the individual and household level. Based on a study of the nascent kodomo shokudō or Children’s Canteen (CC) movement in Japan, this paper more broadly conceptualizes these competencies under the framework of food literacy, and demonstrates the mechanisms whereby food literacy can be engaged to reduce food waste. The paper furthermore shows how food literacy can combine synergistically in groups or organizations to form ‘institutional food literacy’ that is better suited to tackle broader problems of food insecurity, waste, and social alienation. Although the CC movement emerged primarily in response to the recognition of child food poverty in Japan, its popularity and rapid diffusion across the country since 2014 have made it a significant player in the food waste sector. Unlike food banks and other professionalized welfare supports, the CCs derive their expertise and orientation from the distinctive values and lay skills associated with food literacy. Through participant observation in a CC in Okinawa, we demonstrate how the value of these lay skills, particularly when combined in institutional settings, can play a significant role in food waste reduction. In particular, institutional food literacy can contribute to reducing food waste through: (1) efficient management and leveraging of localized food (re)distribution networks, (2) increased capacity for absorbing and utilizing erratic food donations, and (3) rendering food literacy, and its associated benefits, more visible and transmissible to children and other adults.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 27 No. 2 (2021): Regular Issue
title: The Govan stones revealed: digital imaging in the analysis of early medieval sculpture
Creators: name: Kasten, Megan Nichole
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 3-D, photogrammetry, RTI, early medieval sculpture, Govan, research.

description: This work explores the utility of digital imaging techniques as research tools in the study of early medieval carved stones. Often three-dimensional imaging is seen primarily as a means of recording an object for preservation, illustration or outreach. The approaches developed here use these digital resources to gain a new perspective on the carving of the stones to address questions relating to the presence or absence of a ‘Govan school’. The terms ‘Strathclyde Style’ or ‘Govan School of Carving’ are used as a convenient shorthand to describe the 9th-11th century carved stones in the Strathclyde area; however, it has also been suggested that the traits shared by these monuments indicate that the carvers were either trained in or worked in a centralised location. The thesis presented here provides a new perspective on these questions through a digital lens. The thirty-one carved stones housed at Govan Old have experienced varying degrees of wear. Three-dimensional imaging and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) were instrumental in recovering worn patterns on many of the stones. This has led to the recognition of several trends in the Govan collection that had been previously overlooked. These digital techniques were also used to determine whether templates had been employed in the replication of figures, which could indicate that tools were shared by members of a single workshop. Finally, Kitzler Åhfeldt’s Groove Analysis was applied to the 3D models to identify the carving ‘signatures’ of individual carvers. These strands of research were then considered together to determine whether a centralised school or workshop is likely to have been connected to Govan. This research demonstrates that digital imaging techniques are invaluable research tools; their flexible and infinitely replicable nature offer new insights into carved stone that would be otherwise untenable. While these applications are by no means restricted to stone in the early medieval period, the digital corpus of the Govan collection presented here demonstrates that these new avenues of investigation facilitate new analyses from which all early medieval sculpture in Scotland would benefit.
AEGEUS - A Novel EEG Ultrasound Device for Functional Brain Imaging and Neurostimulation
Creators: name: Jenne, Jürgen
name: Rothlübbers, Sven
name: Toschi, Nicola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentation of the AEGEUS project for the European Researcher’s Night 2023, Rome, 29-30. September 2023. The presentation was adapted to the current project partners.
title: Perti/enencia and public space: a politics of relevance, ownership and belonging in the historic/traditional center of Bogotá, Colombia
Creators: name: Hellmer, Erich Frank
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: public space, public sphere, Bogotá, Colombia, pertinencia, pertenencia.

description: This thesis explores how ‘public space’ has become both a site in which, and a process through which, new forms of democracy are being negotiated in Bogotá, Colombia. This city has been cited as a ‘global best practice’ example of urban governance and planning for the way that it combined decentralization processes with a public space development paradigm in order to democratize the city institutionally and spatially. Public space was used as both an actual, physical site for democratizing the city and its citizens, and as a symbol for a new, more democratic urban order at the same time as new participatory mechanisms were being employed by the municipal government. Yet research on the public space miracle has tended to focus on how physical public space projects have had the effect of democratizing the city, while failing to fully explore the ways in which the emphasis on public space and participation in Bogotá’s new planning paradigm created more democratic planning and governance processes. This is the gap that this thesis seeks to address, drawing on long-term ethnographic research into participatory public space planning processes to add a procedural dimension to the topographical understanding of the role ‘public space’ has played in Bogotá’s ongoing transformation. Through four case studies that explore how different citizen groups and state entities are involved in public space planning and recovery efforts entailed in a new Revitalization Plan for the Historic/Traditional Center of Bogotá, I show how discourses of public space and participation combine to produce competing understandings of ownership, relevance and belonging – a complex politics that I call perti/enencia. Perti/enencia acts as a grounded theoretical framework for a dual relational analysis: exploring the relationship between physical public space and political public spheres within local contexts (i.e. at the neighborhood scale), and exploring how this relationship is affected by broader negotiations between these and broader local and extralocal contexts. By demonstrating the simultaneously democratizing and disempowering ways in which public space and participation are being used to renegotiate the parameters of collective relevance, ownership, and belonging in the Historic/Traditional Center of Bogotá, I develop an empirically informed framework that contributes to our broader understanding of how local histories and necessities interact with outside interests and knowledge to dynamically alter identities and power relations in ways that offer key insights into the pluralistic nature of contemporary democracy.
title: A novel “in-situ” processed gate region on GaN MOS capacitors
Creators: name: Hemakumara, Dilini Tania
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: GaN, power, capacitors, pretreatment, MOSCAP, gallium nitride.

description: This work reports a route to the realisation of GaN metal oxide semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) where the GaN surface has not been exposed to atmosphere. This has been achieved by the deposition of a 5nm SiNx “capping” layer as the final part of the GaN on Si MOSCAP wafer growth to encapsulate the GaN surface, followed by its removal in a “cluster” plasma processing tool, which enables both etching of samples and subsequent dielectric and metal deposition without atmospheric exposure between process steps. Capacitance-voltage hysteresis, A Hysteresis, of 90mV and frequency dispersion, A dispersion, of 150mV were achieved from samples where the SiNx capping layer was etched and then transferred under vacuum prior to atomic layer deposition (ALD) of a 20 nm Al2O3 gate dielectric. These were lower than the previously reported values of 250mV and 350mV respectively for GaN-Al2O3 MOS capacitors where the GaN surface had been exposed to atmosphere. The effects of N2 and H2 plasma treatments after SiNx etch and prior to Al2O3 deposition were examined. Exposure to a 150W N2 plasma for 5 minutes produced a Hysteresis and a Dispersion of 200mV and 250mV respectively, both of which reduced to 60mVafter forming gas annealing (FGA) in 10% H2/90% N2 for 30 minutes at 430oC. The insertion of an ALD grown AlN interlayer between an air exposed GaN surface and the Al2O3 gate dielectric resulted in 50mV a Hysteresis and a Dispersion. However, when the process was transferred to samples that went through the SiNx etch and optimised N2 plasma pretreatment, both a Hysteresis and a Dispersion increased to 500mV. The effect of ALD deposition of a TiN gate metal after Al2O3 gate dielectric was also examined. SiNx capped samples were first etched in the cluster tool before transfer to the ALD chamber in which a 20nm Al2O3 gate dielectric was deposited. This was followed by atomic layer deposition of 20nm TiN gate metal. a Hysteresis and a Dispersion of 550mV and 400mV respectively were obtained. These samples had a capacitance-voltage slope which was 155% higher than otherwise comparable structures with Pt/Au gate metal. In conclusion the reductions in a Hysteresis and a Dispersion achieved in this work during in-situ etching and ALD are encouraging for the realisation of high power GaN devices.
Methods of integrating elements of classical Arabic music and Arabic-influenced Jewish music with contemporary western classical music Original compositions and critical commentary
Creators: name: Yedid, Yitzhak
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This folio contains scores and audio recordings of six original compositions together with a critical commentary. In the six compositions I explore new forms of integrating classical Arabic music, Arabic-influenced Jewish music and contemporary Western classical music. I offer various approaches to this exploration and introduce aspects of classical Arabic music and Arabic-influenced Jewish music in a range of different ways and contexts. In some cases the forms of Arabic genres directly influenced my compositions, and in other cases I have combined musical elements of Arabic genres with Western approaches. My compositions are divided into two groups. Group A has been composed for performers with a Western background, without an expectation that these players know how to perform Arabic music and Arabic-influenced Jewish music. Group B has been composed for performers who have proficiency in the performance of Arabic genres as well as having experience in improvisation of other genres (i.e., jazz and Jewish styles). This group division allows for a degree of flexibility in the integration of diverse materials, and provides a way to examine the challenges of the integration by the association with the performers’ proficiency. Group A compositions include two substantial chamber works: (1) Visions, Fantasies and Dances for string quartet (48 minutes, in seven parts) and (2) Sensations for piano trio (14 minutes), and two shorter compositions: (1) In Memory for piano and flute (12 minutes) and (2) Out to Infinity for solo harp (7 minutes). Group B compositions include one substantial chamber work - Arabic Violin Bass Piano Trio (60 minutes in four movements) and one shorter composition - The Prayer of Honny Ha’me’agel for piano and tenor saxophone (7 minutes). The six compositions are accompanied by a critical commentary, which discusses the compositional process, and outlines musical resources and ideas that provide the basis of my research. The commentary describes the compositional approaches, methods, and techniques that have been employed in each of the works. It also provides background information and references of works of other composers that have been associated with this kind of integration.
Food Utopias, (Mature) Care, and Hope
Creators: name: Stock, Paul V
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022

description: The current period is one of worry and concern over collapse. While many still go hungry, we anticipate a future of food without farmers. Yet in the wake of multiple disasters, the new can emerge. With a focus on food systems centred on care, utopias provide us with tools for dialogue that communicate problems, but also point to possible pathways forward. Following a theory of (mature) care focused on agri-food, food utopias offers a trialectic of critique, experimentation, and process to shape agri-food scholarship of the hopeful, care-centred stories of food and transformation. In combination with ideas about agri-food systems futures, this paper offers examples of care and food utopias from the US Midwest. This is an invitation to combine feminist ideas of care theory and food utopias scholarship that can help broaden our understanding of justice and scholarship around food, farmers, community, and feeding the world. chrome
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 27 No. 2 (2021): Regular Issue
MOESM1 of Optimization of cellulolytic enzyme components through engineering Trichoderma reesei and on-site fermentation using the soluble inducer for cellulosic ethanol production from corn stover
Creators: name: Li, Yong-Hao
name: Zhang, Xiao-Yue
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Peng, Liang-Cai
name: Zhang, Da-Bing
name: Kondo, Akihiko
name: Bai, Feng-Wu
name: Zhao, Xin-Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used for vector construction, qPCR and determination of copy numbers.
title: 01_1041
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Application of counter-ion condensation in calculating the ion activity coefficients for interpreting the membrane selectivity
Creators: name: Wessling, Matthias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90404 Membrane and Separation Technologies
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The transport selectivity of different cations through cation exchange membranes (CEMs) could be estimated with the partition coefficient (K_j^i) and the cation mobility ratio in the membrane ((u_m^i)⁄(u_m^j )), which in turn can be related to corresponding membrane conductivity and dimensional swelling degree data [Journal of Membrane Science, 2020, 597, 117645]. This method has been validated in two hydrocarbon-based CEMs, and the obtained K+/Na+ selectivity equals to the one obtained with conventional electrodialysis (ED) method. However, the K+/Na+ selectivity of perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) membranes, and the bi-/monovalent cation (Mg2+/Na+) selectivity of all three types of CEMs estimated with this ionic conductivity experimental approach deviate noticeably from corresponding values obtained with ED. In this work, it is proved that this deviation is mostly due to the simplification of cation activity coefficients in the membrane. Here, the cation activity coefficients in three types of CEMs are calculated according to Manning`s counter-ion condensation model. In this model, the Manning parameter (ξ) characterizing the dimensionless linear charge density is determined by the average distance between two adjacent fixed sulfonate groups (b) and the permittivity of hydrated membranes (ε). In hydrocarbon-based CEMs, the average distance between fixed sulfonate groups can be estimated by assuming homogeneous distribution of the fixed groups, while in PFSA membranes three representative structure models are employed to estimate this average distance. After accounting for the cation activity coefficients in the membrane, the cation transport selectivity obtained with the ionic conductivity experimental approach agrees well with the selectivity obtained with the ED method. This work shows the importance of cation activity coefficients in the membrane phase in interpreting the membrane transport properties, and complements the proposed conductivity approach to characterize the counter-ion selectivity of ion exchange membranes.
MOESM3 of Optimization of cellulolytic enzyme components through engineering Trichoderma reesei and on-site fermentation using the soluble inducer for cellulosic ethanol production from corn stover
Creators: name: Li, Yong-Hao
name: Zhang, Xiao-Yue
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Peng, Liang-Cai
name: Zhang, Da-Bing
name: Kondo, Akihiko
name: Bai, Feng-Wu
name: Zhao, Xin-Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Construction of the aabgl1 overexpression T. reesei strains. A: Map of aabgl1 expression vector pCBHYGB-PB; B: Comparison of Î˛-glucosidase production of the recombinant transformants and the host strain T. reesei Rut-C30; C: Detection of aabgl1 copy numbers in the transformants by qPCR analysis. Tef1Îą gene was used as a single copy control.
Wireless sensor and event localization
Creators: name: Iqbal, Anindya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Localization, in the form of pin-pointing a randomly deployed sensor using location-aware anchors beaming beacon signals or confining a random event to a small boundary using sensors having overlapped sensing areas, is a challenging research problem. Different signal processing and estimation techniques are available that vary in terms of localization accuracy and resource efficiency. Accessibility of the region of interest (ROI) and requirement of localization quality govern the choice of techniques applicable in a specific scenario. Considering these factors, this thesis proposes different localization techniques for different scenarios. For impassable ROIs, where mobile anchors cannot be deployed and thus localization is vulnerable to malicious attacks, an attack-resistant decentralized sensor localization scheme is developed. Range-based techniques, where absolute distances are computed from anchors, have to be favoured despite their susceptibility to environmental noises as the alternative range-free techniques cannot achieve acceptable localization accuracy with only static anchors. The potential malicious attacks disguised in unavoidable wireless signal attenuation have been successfully mitigated by exploiting planer geometry and the law of large numbers. For passable ROIs, range-free techniques are preferred for their higher tolerance against environmental/measurement noises and lower hardware cost. In addition, terrain accessibility allows mobile anchors to enjoy the opportunities of using additional spatial information in localization and controlling mobility and beacon transmission pattern to optimize the costs while satisfying user/application demand of localization quality. To avail these opportunities, a computationally-efficient arc-coding based technique is developed to accurately calculate the boundaries of all non-overlapping sectors of a system of overlapping disks to effectively minimize the expected worst-case localization error for uniformly distributed random sensor deployment. For event localization, which is becoming a highly significant problem due to hardware advancement of long sensing range, this thesis proposes the first range-free technique, to the best of our knowledge, using our arc-coding based accurate sectoring technique. This has been possible by developing a novel probabilistic sensing range model that guarantees a user defined event detection probability and efficiently using a small number of mobile sensors in collaboration with static ones to also effectively guarantee user defined event localization quality. Superiority of all the proposed localization techniques against the respective state-of-the-art has been established with analytical models, whenever possible, and comprehensive simulation results in realistic environments.
Judicious agent theory
Creators: name: Pinchin, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is about moral facts and their relation to moral agents. It denies that moral facts are ‘independent’ of moral agents or explained by ‘ideal’ versions of those agents because the implications of these views are: (1) justifiably counter-intuitive; and (2) sufficiently implausible for independent reasons. Instead it is maintained that moral facts are explained by facts about what the particular moral agent in question could actually recognize and be motivated to do when reasoning as well as they could in the circumstances. Moreover, it is contended that this fact/ agent relation does not merely arise relative to specific moral agents in the sense in which relativity matters for moral facts in metaethics. Moral facts apply neutrally among moral agents to which they should apply.
MOESM4 of Optimization of cellulolytic enzyme components through engineering Trichoderma reesei and on-site fermentation using the soluble inducer for cellulosic ethanol production from corn stover
Creators: name: Li, Yong-Hao
name: Zhang, Xiao-Yue
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Peng, Liang-Cai
name: Zhang, Da-Bing
name: Kondo, Akihiko
name: Bai, Feng-Wu
name: Zhao, Xin-Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. Detection of aabgl1 copy numbers in the transformants by qPCR analysis. Tef1Îą gene was used as a single copy control.
Negotiating institutional identity: ‘international’ doctoral students in an Australian university
Creators: name: Fotovatian, Sepideh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study investigates the informal second language interactions of eight doctoral students in an Australian university. The students were from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The study seeks to understand the ties between language, identity and social representations through an analysis of recorded informal conversations and focus groups. Negotiation of identity, legitimacy and membership is discursively mediated in institutional interactions (Gee, 2005; Lave &Wenger, 1991; Norton, 2006). For many international doctoral students in Australia, this happens in an additional language and culture, in English. Construction of new social and academic identities for these students intersects with negotiations of language, power, culture and ‘social capital.’ As newcomers to Australia, the students in this study experienced multiple identity transitions, as well as serious challenges in interaction in informal multicultural cultural contexts. The study showed that institutional practices impose certain institutional identities on members which may be negotiated in and through interactions. Like ‘migrant’ and ‘refugee’, the label ‘international student’ imposes a social identity on the newcomer student. The students used an array of communication strategies to resist the label and the stereotypical features attached to it. They sought to renegotiate legitimacy and membership, and to reposition themselves in and through institutional interactions. The findings thus reflect the role of agency and intentionality in student participation and learning. The main contribution of the study is an illumination of the processes of negotiating legitimate institutional identities that occurred for each participant in a different way according to their varied goals, sources of sponsorship, and agendas for PhD education. The study also offers a new lens for the analysis of communication xiii strategies as indexes of agency, participation and intentionality. Finally, the study’s findings serve as evidence for universities and the scholarly community regarding the quality of the graduate student experience, and elements that enhance it.
Additional file 1: of Whole transcriptome analysis reveals differential gene expression profile reflecting macrophage polarization in response to influenza A H5N1 virus infection
Creators: name: Zhang, Na
name: Bao, Yun-Juan
name: Tong, Amy
name: Zuyderduyn, Scott
name: Bader, Gary
name: Malik Peiris, J.
name: Lok, Si
name: Lee, Suki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. Sequencing statistics of mRNA transcriptomes. Table S2. Significantly enriched Gene Ontology terms in response to H5N1 virus infection. Table S3. Sequencing statistics of miRNA transcriptomes. Table S4. MiRNAs and their target mRNAs in RIG-I like receptor signaling pathway. (DOCX 41 kb)
Infrared spectroscopy of cold molecules
Creators: name: Medcraft, Christopher Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A long path collisional cooling cell has been installed at the Far-Infrared beamline at the Australian Synchrotron to study the infrared spectrum of molecules at cryogenic temperatures. New transfer optics and vacuum chambers were designed in order to allow study in the far infrared region where the synchrotron source provides the most advantage. Experiments using this cooling cell can be divided into two themes: rotationally resolved high resolution spectroscopy and low resolution spectroscopy of aerosols (solid or liquid particles suspended in a gas). Chapter 1 contains the background information and theory important to high resolution spectroscopy. This chapter also contains details of the instrumentation used and the modifications to the optics of the cooling cell. Chapter 2.1 is the first publication, a report on the performance of the Far-IR beamline and the optical modifications to the cooling cell. This paper also contains examples of the data obtained with the new arrangement. The far-IR spectrum of carbon dioxide aerosols and the high resolution spectrum of 1,1-difluoroethane recorded at room temperature and at 154 K, showing the advantages of cooling for high resolution FTIR spectroscopy. Prior to the completion of the optical modifications the mid-IR spectrum of carbon-13 enriched C2F4 was measured in the cooling cell at 150 K. Chapter 2.2 contains the structural, vibrational and rovibrational analysis of this molecule. The ground state rotational constants for 12C13CF4 and 13C2F4 were determined and used to compute a semi-experimental equilibrium geometry. Upper state rotational constants were also determined. Chapter 2.3 contains a publication where the pure rotational spectrum of the important interstellar molecule oxirane (cyclic-C2H4O) was measured between 15 and 73 cm-1 (0.4-2.2 THz).
SSHOC practical prompts for data and research
Creators: name: Negoita, Daniela
name: Bidargaddi, Archana
name: Franzese, Fabio
name: Reyes, Rodrigo
name: Lidun Hareide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
European Open Science Cloud
EOSC
survey data
ESS
surveycodings.org
MCSQ
ESS data repository
Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires

description: Moderator: Daniela Negoita (Tilburg University) The new ESS data repository: Recommendations for a FAIR complient integrated data and metadata repository - Archana Bidargaddi (Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research) Adding biomedical data to the SHARE repository - Fabio Franzese (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, SHARE) surveycodings.org - Rodrigo Reyes (European Values Study, Tilburg University) The Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires - Lidun Hareide (Møreforsking)
Indonesian pre-service English teachers’ learning and using classroom language
Creators: name: Munir, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study investigates how seven pre-service English teachers (PSETs) learned classroom language in a Classroom Discourse (CD) unit at Pahlawan University, Indonesia, and used it in sixteen microteaching and seven practicum lessons. Specifically, the research investigates the nature of classroom language taught in the CD unit, how the PSETs learned it and how they implemented it. The data for this case study research were collected in two phases, at the university and in regional schools. The data include a questionnaire, learning and teaching journals, videotaped and audiotaped lessons, interviews, and classroom observation. Seven PSETs, two university staff, and five supervising teachers took part in this research. The analysis of data is both quantitative and qualitative. A review of the literature links the nature of classroom language to theoretical perspectives on learning, which show the importance of language as a tool for mediating learning. It was found that the CD unit curriculum goals refer to scaffolding, yet classroom language taught in the unit focuses on eight Basic Teaching Skills (BTSs) and includes limited content on classroom interaction, including scaffolding. It was further found that PSETs learned classroom language taught in the unit in the form of expressions used for the eight BTSs. They learned to use these by observing other PSETs, and English teachers during the CD unit. They also used these expressions in microteaching at university and in lessons which they taught in the school-based practicum. In their lessons, the PSETs focussed particularly on the use of five of the eight BTSs, including three kinds of lesson management skills, explaining the lesson and asking comprehension check questions. Although the PSETs tended to use English in microteaching, there was a noticeable change to trilingual code switching in the practicum. Three kinds of scaffolding, prompting, extension and modelling were attempted. However, these were used unsystematically.
A studio research project investigating the recovery of 'contemplation' as a reflection of slowness
Creators: name: Lin, Chia-Ching
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research investigates how mankind’s obsession with speed can be addressed in a new environmental art paradigm that fosters more of a sense of reflection, thoughtfulness and awareness towards the notion of slow as compared to fast. The studio productions bring together a more heightened awareness of the role of environmental art and its relationship to the improvement of societies in a global framework addressing ‘speed’ as stress factoring affecting our senses. With these in mind and inspired by a Taiwanese Buddhism ritual, this studio investigation then brought the practice of folding paper lotuses into secular contemporary art context by signifying the sensibilities of continuity, mindfulness and being as a reaction to the existing speed driven status quo. As a result, the feature of continuity is realised via the works constructed by the persisting resolve and repeated execution of the semiotic monomer. The notion of mindfulness is signified by the meticulously processed fabrication and digital visualisation throughout the entire body of studio interventions. The concept of being is embodied by uninterrupted crafting of the compositions to capture an essence of contemplation as a holistic reflection on slowness. On the whole, the studio research outcome distinguished itself from the production of environmental artists and such social/environmental issues by challenging the existing speed-driven conditions of mindless, fragmented attention, and perpetual ‘doing’ mode mindset, and consoling those modern souls overwhelmed by their hectic pace of contemporary life.
The role of circulating ceramide in insulin resistance & inflammation
Creators: name: Boon, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dysregulated lipid metabolism and inflammation are linked to the development of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. Plasma ceramide levels are associated with insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, although their exact role and function have not been elucidated. This thesis has defined the role of circulating ceramide on the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and inflammation using a multi-level approach consisting of several components, namely a human study examining patients with type 2 diabetes, construction of reconstituted LDL-ceramide for use in mechanistic studies, and investigation of the insulin desensitizing and inflammatory effects of LDL-ceramide in in vitro and in vivo models. This thesis found that ceramide transported in low density lipoproteins (LDL) is elevated in the plasma of obese, type 2 diabetes patients and correlated with insulin resistance, but not body mass index (BMI). Treating cultured myotubes with LDL containing ceramide promoted ceramide uptake by cells in association with reduced insulin stimulated glucose uptake, Akt phosphorylation and GLUT4 translocation compared with LDL deficient in ceramide. LDL-ceramide induced a pro-inflammatory response in cultured macrophages via toll-like receptor-dependent and independent mechanisms. Finally, infusing LDL-ceramide into lean mice reduced insulin stimulated glucose uptake and this was due to impaired insulin action, specifically in skeletal muscle. What this thesis achieved is to serve as a prospectus that clarifies the poorly investigated role of circulating ceramide in the development of insulin resistance and to show that circulating ceramides is part of the constellation of provocateurs that contribute to the pathophysiology of the disorder which is a feature in type 2 diabetes.
Commonwealth Aboriginal policy in the Northern Territory: 1911-1939
Creators: name: McGinn, Ian Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates the outcomes of Australian Commonwealth Aboriginal policy in the Northern Territory between 1911 and 1939. In 1911 the Australian Commonwealth acquired control over the Northern Territory, which to that point had been a jurisdiction of South Australia. It was the first time since Australia’s Federation in 1901 that the Australian Commonwealth had had control over a large Aboriginal population. Due to this, the Commonwealth aimed to set the example for other Australian States and Territories in relation to the governance of Aboriginal Australians. The way in which the Australian Commonwealth governed Aboriginal Australians between 1911 and 1939 has not been replicated. After the outbreak of World War Two in 1939 and the subsequent Nazi atrocities that occurred, the international community began to reject colonial political systems and governance methods. Many of these systems had been founded upon 19th century race paradigms and these too began to be deconstructed and rejected internationally. Prior to these political and ideological shifts, Australian Commonwealth legislation and policy was influenced by such colonial paradigms and ideologies. This made the 1911 to 1939 period a unique era of Commonwealth governance of Aboriginal people. There were various outcomes for the Aboriginal people who were subjected to these policies and practices. This was especially evident in the areas of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal relations, Aboriginal child welfare and Aboriginal employment, as these three key areas were focused on within legislation and policy. This thesis will investigate the outcomes of Commonwealth Aboriginal policy in these three areas. Multiple research methods will be adopted to conduct this critical analysis. These include archival research, primary source analysis and secondary source analysis. By adopting such methods this thesis will analyse outcomes within the three key policy areas focused on by the Australian Commonwealth between 1911 and 1939 in the Northern Territory. Much of the literature that has investigated this period has focused on specific outcomes in the areas of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal relations, child welfare or employment. This thesis has been more extensive in that it provides a thorough and extensive analysis of all these areas of Commonwealth policy. This provides a holistic investigation of the outcomes of Commonwealth Aboriginal policy between 1911 and 1939 in the Northern Territory and demonstrates how these policies affected the lives of Aboriginal people in a number of areas.
The influence of individuals in the shaping of Australian Antarctic policy 1900-1991
Creators: name: Manning, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the nineteenth century knowledge of Antarctica was gained through the reports of whalers and scientific expeditions. Their reports of a hostile environment and limited economic potential did nothing to attract the involvement of colonial governments. At the start of the twentieth century a connection was fostered by British sponsored expeditions which called at Australian ports en route to Antarctica and sought personnel and financial support. Several Australian scientific adventurers joined these expeditions, but although greater awareness of Antarctica was gained, especially through the deeds of Douglas Mawson, Phillip Law and Richard Casey, Antarctica remained a territory of minor interest to Australian governments. This thesis seeks to explain how Antarctica, generally accorded very low priority in the estimation of government, could at times occupy the attention of Ministers, occasionally of the Prime Minister. It is argued that in the absence of economic interest explanation requires recognition of the role of highly motivated individuals for whom Antarctica became a ruling obsession in their lives. This study, while not downplaying the occasional role of international political concerns, focuses on the role of eight individuals, from diverse backgrounds, who it is argued played key roles in the development of Australian Antarctic policy in the twentieth century. It presents a fresh contribution to understanding the factors behind Antarctic policy from 1900 to 1991.
title: Training in a highly regulated industry: an examination of a certified nuclear power operator training programme in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Hastie, Louise
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: competency based training, constructivist approach, behaviourist learning theory.

description: An examination of the trainee experience in a competency based training programme. In a high-risk industry, having highly trained personnel is taken very seriously. This four year training programme produces highly qualified and skilled individuals and this research examined the experience of progressing through the training programme through the trainees' lens. Learnings include two consistent elements contribute to a negative trainee experience: Evaluation Methods that produced a tension between memorisation and learning and Trainer Practices that lacked student-centred, research informed methods that would likely improve the trainee success rate as well as the overall trainee experience.
An exploration of possible functional redundancy between APP and APLP2 in neuronal development.
Creators: name: Allen-Graham, Judith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: AD is a multifaceted disease with contributions from several genetic and environmental factors. One fundamental pathway involves the clearace of a normal neuronal protein, amyloid precursor protein (APP), to produce toxic fragments called ß-amyloid (Aß). It is therefore reasonable to suggest that treatments aimed at disrupting the production or increasing the turnover of APP could be of use in the treatment of AD. However, before these potential therapies are developed it is necessary to ascertain what effect this proposed disruption of APP would have on the normal function of neurons, especially as it has previously been shown that APP appears to have a role in stabilising neuronal processes (neurites) by attaching them to the surrounding cell scaffolding (extracellular matrix). We postulate that a related protein, amyloid precursor-like protein 2 (APLP2), which is not cleaved to form Aß, can substitute for APP in this role. Both proteins are believed to be similarly involved in the (re)modelling of the brain, but as APLP2 does not give rise to the toxic Aß fragments which lead to AD, if there is redundancy between the normal function(s) of these proteins then the therapeutic disruption of APP would not be expected to result in major unintended side-effects on normal brain structure and function. The project involves the measurement of the APP and APLP2 proteins in the brains of knock-out mice (lacking APP or APLP2) and identifying whether there is any up-regulation in the knockouts a compensatory response. This was not seen in the APLP2 KO. However at a time point (2 day post natal) in APP KO’s there was an increase in the APLP2 protein. Subsequent studies in vitro measured neurite outgrowth and synaptic maintenance in both knockout neurons (APP, APLP2 and double APP and APLP2) and using an siRNA to inhibit protein production in WT neurons. Results showed that without APP, neurites do not grow at the same rate as WT neurites in either the KO or the siRNA knockdown model. Double KO are also shorter compared with WT, but APLP2 KO are not affected. It can be said on the basis of these results that APP is necessary for proper neurite outgrowth, but that APLP2 is not. Synaptic integrity is preserved in the APP and APLP2 single KOs, however it appears to be impaired in the double KO, suggesting APP and APLP2could overlap in function with regard to synaptogenesis. For APP knockdown to be a viable treatment option the level to which it can be knocked down, if at all, without disruption of neurite outgrowth would have to be determined.