cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Walking away from VR as ‘empathy-machine’: peripatetic animations with 360-photogrammetry
Creators: name: Athanasopoulou, Katerina
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Virtual Reality
subject: Augmented Reality
subject: Documentary
subject: Animation
subject: Animated Documentary
subject: Poetry Film
subject: Photogrammetry
subject: PhD

description: My research partakes in an expanded documentary practice that weaves together walking, immersive technologies, and moving image. Two lines of enquiry motivate the research journey: the first responds to the trope of VR as 'empathy-machine' (Milk, 2015), often accompanied by the expression 'walking in someone else's shoes'. Within a research project that begins on foot, the idiom’s significance demands investigation. The second line of enquiry pursues a collaborative artistic practice informed by dialogue and poetry, where the bipedals of walking and the binaries of the digital are entwined by phenomenology, hauntology, performance, and the in-betweens of animation. My practice-as-research methodology involves desk study, experimentation with VR, AR, digital photogrammetry, and CGI animation. Central to my approach is the multifaceted notion of Peripatos ̶ as a school of philosophy, a stroll-like walk, and the path where the stroll takes place ̶ manifested both corporeally and as 'playful curiosity'. The thread that interweaves practice and theory has my body-moving in the centre; I call it the ‘camera-walk’: a processional shoot that documents a real place and the bodies that make it, while my hand holds high a camera-on-a-stick shooting 360-video. The resulting spherical video feeds into photogrammetric digital processing, and reassembles into digital 3D models that form the starting ground for still images, a site-specific installation, augmented reality (AR) exchanges, and short films. Because 360-video includes the body that carries the camera, the digital meshes produced by the ‘camera-walk’ also reveal the documentarian during the act of documenting. Departing from the pursuit of perfect replicas, my research articulates the iconic lineage of photogrammetry, embracing imperfections as integral. Despite the planned obsolescence of my digital instruments, I treat my 360-camera as a ‘dangerous tool’, uncovering (and inventing) its hidden virtualities, via Vilém Flusser. Against its formative intentions as an accessory for extreme sports, I focus on everyday life, and become inspired by Harun Farocki’s ‘another kind of empathy’. Within the collaborative projects presented within my thesis, I move away from the colonialist-inspired ideal of ‘walking in someone else’s shoes’, and ‘tread softly’ along the footsteps of my co-walkers.
THEORISING THE EMBODIMENT OF MATERIALITY AND EXPERIENCE IN MAN-MADE OBJECTS FROM A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Hapiz, Hana
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Autoethnography
subject: Phenomenology
subject: Designed Objects
subject: Materiality
subject: Experience
subject: PhD

description: This PhD dissertation begins with a gap prompted by design researcher, Boradkar (2010) that objects are under theorized in design research. Objects have become our entourage and companion since we are born. Man and object transaction has formed a salient and unobtrusive relationship and we have become oblivious of, which is the importance of the attachment that we have with objects. This dissertation aims to provide a new horizon in articulating our relationship with designed objects. The precedent literatures suggest that the components of materiality and experience are evident in man-object transaction, thus they act as theoretical background to support the formal findings. In the dissertation, the researcher proposes a new taxonomy of materiality and experience, besides those that available existing literatures have postulated. The dissertation is divided into two parts;(i) theoretical analysis of the role the materiality plays in design and experience components in designed objects and (ii) practice works that embody the notion of materiality and experience in designed objects. The theoretical analysis combines ethnomethodological approaches, autoethnography and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to unravel the components of materiality and experience and the findings postulates the workable design framework that potentially will assist novice designers, especially to better articulate their design outcomes. The framework aims to provide an assistive method to frame design criterion at the earliest stage of design activity in alleviating the uncertainties faced by designers. The creative practice elements comprise the understanding of objects (from the researcher’s own personal resonance/understanding of her own objects) in the form of sculpture, stool series, eating implements and found objects that portray the embodiment of the new topology of materiality and experience. The practice elements are the researcher’s (self) personal reflections, thus, the ideas and thoughts underpinning design thinking that are manifested in tangible form are critically articulated from a reflective practitioner standpoint. These objects are imbued with narrative, physicality of materiality and experience in the newly designed objects. The creative practice is a representation of the new locales of materiality and experience in the designer/researcher’s relationship with the newly designed objects. Contextualisation of the practice, and a critical analysis of what is inherent in the practice of design help to frame the formal characters of the designed object. The knowledge in practice revealed in this research offers a new perspective to understanding the essence of designed objects, and encourage further exploration of the possibilities of design in creating a more engaging and meaningful user-object relationship.
SYNCRETIC PRACTICES BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE: TOWARDS A CRITICAL EPISTEMIC PRACTICE FOR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT.
Creators: name: Quinteros, Alejandro
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Socio-spatial practice
subject: Socially engaged art
subject: Social architecture
subject: Decolonial practice
subject: PhD

description: This thesis proceeds from an analysis and a critical assessment of socially engaged spatial practices that have arisen from the convergence, intersections and conflicts between public, social art, and architecture’s spatial practices; specifically, those situated within informal settlements of marginalized communities in Latin America. Through a literature review, the thesis identifies the persistence of a number of overarching misconceptions informing the design thinking of art and architecture’s spatial practices. This research is geographically framed in Latin America. The thesis develops within the contextual arena of informality as a vernacular practice in the informal settlements of marginalized communities at the borderlands of the Latin-American city. The thesis is informed by projects and interventions that artist and architects have developed and constructed within communities in these borderlands sites. The thesis contends that public and social art and architecture spatial practices in the site of poor marginalized communities perpetuate the colonizing attitudes and processes of extractivist capitalism. To substantiate this, claim the research has been informed by two case studies of art and architecture spatial practice. The projects this thesis focuses on are located in the informal settlements of La Perla in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and in Ciudad Bolivár, Bogotá, Colombia. These are the sites where the impact and effect of artists’ and architects’ spatial practices were observed. The content of this research results from conversations and observations within these communities, thus weaving a communal narrative of epistemic injustices, resistance, appropriation and place-making. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the decolonization of the working paradigms of art and architecture’s spatial practices. It begins by outlining a methodology for identifying epistemic and hermeneutical injustices in the design thinking of artists and architects; this is followed by the proposal for a critical epistemology to guide the design thinking of art and architecture’s spatial practices away from their epistemic errors. The thesis provides a model for further practical exploration by uncovering the epistemological problems in the design thinking of artist and architects. This research speculates a design-thinking solution of a critical epistemic methodology for artists and architects to develop a socially sensible epistemology of justice and solidarity for a socio-spatial practice that promotes social engagement in marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
Apodemus draco
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus draco

description: 68. Apodemus draco (Barrett-Hamilton, 1900)
Common name: South China Field Mouse
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, India and Northern Myanmar (Proposed Imawbum NP; Nijman 2015) and possibly in Southeastern Chin State.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 159, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Mindfulness and Embodiment in the Design of a Synthetic Experience
Creators: name: Aguilera, Julieta
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Synthetic experience
subject: Scientific visualization
subject: Umwelt
subject: Virtual reality
subject: Space
subject: Time
subject: Embodiment
subject: Mindfulness
subject: PhD

description: How can the design of synthetic experiences and scientific visualizations establish aesthetically coherent spatiotemporal interactions that couple with the embodiment continuum already in place in the structures of the mind, the body, and the planetary environment in which we exist? The thesis addresses synthetic experiences in three areas: research on mind and the senses, designing sensorimotor embodiment, and the relevant notion of mindfulness as enaction practice. In real life we never have firsthand access to the experiences of others, or their feelings about their experiences, or ultimately who they are as people, but instead rely on simulations to explore what we cannot reach. Research points to the structural steps in which a shared synthetic experience takes place as a two way and multidirectional chain of pattern signals that traverse mind, body and environment. These patterns are supported by concepts of literacy and aesthetics which are further revised and specified to accommodate the enabling of the whole body in experiencing immersive real time representations that are coupled to what the human body can perceive and act upon. By understanding the affordances and thresholds of one’s point of sensing in space over time, structured by the body, embodied models or simulations can be externalized and reconfigured into external models, to position the body in worlds assembled from extended senses like telescopes, microscopes, sensors and detectors. Space and time can thus be tailored in terms of scale, resolution and pace, back into the human Umwelt, and explored individually or collectively as shared subjectivities. This is a practice informed thesis, based on work related to conceptual spaces I have developed from looking at how space and time are designed in panoramas, in film, though Virtual Reality (VR) and through scientific visualizations, specifically astronomy related ones, and the immersive interactives I created or contributed to at visualization laboratories and at planetariums. In working along with science, history, education, and culture experts I strived to look into perceptual concerns at extreme scales and what it means for us to go beyond our own sensory motor interactions.
Apodemus latronum Thomas 1911
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus latronum

description: 69. Apodemus latronum Thomas, 1911
Common name: Large-eared Field Mouse
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, India and Northern Myanmar (Kachin State).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 159, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Supplemental Tables 1 and 2 of the original manuscript entitled "Isolation and characterization of a novel bacteriophage as a biological control agent against multidrug resistant Escherichia coli in compost and agricultural irrigation water"
Creators: name: Luis, Amarillas
name: Ruben, León-Chan
name: Enrique, López-Avendaño
name: Antonio, González-Balcázar
name: Jorge, Padilla
name: Luis, Lightbourn-Rojas
name: Mitzi, Estrada-Acosta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplemental Table 1: This table provides a comprehensive summary of the open reading frames (ORFs) identified in the genome of the bacteriophage. It includes detailed information on their genomic positions, predicted coding regions, and the putative functions of the encoded proteins, as inferred from annotation analyses.
description: Supplemental Table 2: This table presents the experimental results of the one-step growth curve analysis of the bacteriophage, as well as its stability under varying pH conditions and during storage. Additionally, it includes data on the phage's efficacy as a biocontrol agent against E. coli in compost and irrigation water samples.
Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene
Creators: name: Hopes, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anthropocene Sublime Vulnerability
subject: PhD

description: This project by the artist and researcher Laura Hopes develops from a methodology built around the idea of the ‘vulnerable practitioner’, open to failure, seeking collaboration and acceptant of unknowns. Her practice has become, through collaboration with others and her own acceptance of vulnerability, a slower, lengthier process, where her assumptions are constantly challenged and obstacles unpicked. The project’s expanded practice encompasses writing, conversations, film, performance, installation and multi-disciplinary exchange. Using these diverse tools, she investigates, through artistic research, what has traditionally been understood by the terms Sublime and Anthropocene and seeks to understand where their meanings may have coincided throughout the geologic and human history of this era, the Anthropocene. This project explores these terms within the philosophical categories of the Sublime namely; aesthetics, rhetoric, and distance, with particular focus upon human use of land; through agriculture, extraction, dispossession, ruination and practices of settlercolonialism. Hopes reviews and argues for a synonymy between these terms through the lens of her collaborative practice within three specific projects; Marginalia, Ruins and Speedwell. During this process of moving through different distances of time and physical distances of engagement, she tentatively uncovers possibilities for a ‘new’ Sublime Anthropocene. It is telling that the artistic projects, forged through collaboration, remain to a degree unfinished, always offering a further possibility. This Sublime Anthropocene is acknowledged through a more evenly distributed precarity among and between species, a rupture of linear models of distant history in favour of a layered and ongoing temporality, and a polyvocality which offers space for multiple ‘tellings’ of these experiences. Hopes offers no easy solutions to this time of environmental and societal crisis but instead suggests that vulnerability and an openness to unknowing may be a more powerful response than false forms of ‘solutionism’, where the solution will suit the solver, or at best be done on behalf of others.
Apodemus peninsulae
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus peninsulae

description: 70. Apodemus peninsulae (Thomas, 1907)
Common name: Korean Field Mouse
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and Northern Myanmar (recorded in Adaung valley; Kaneko 2010). Genus Bandicota Gray, 1873
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 159, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
How progressive was the representation of physical disability within mainstream film in the 1990s, given the increased awareness about disability during the decade?
Creators: name: Ruse, Connor David
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disability
subject: 1990s Film
subject: Disability Representation
subject: ResM

description: This dissertation will explore the representation of physical disability in mainstream films in the 1990s, determining that this onscreen representation was only slightly progressive in nature. It is based on a qualitative analysis of sixteen characters with disabilities in fifteen mainstream films released between 1987 and 1999. The observations from this analysis were compiled into a database examining: the type of impairment a character had, the character’s screen time, the disability terminology used within the film and common tropes used to tell the character’s narrative within the film. Using the database and supportive sources, like interviews with the films’ casts and film reviews, this thesis will address three areas where disability representation saw change, although the new methods proved to be problematic. The first area of study focuses on the disability terminology used to describe characters with disabilities within the film, particularly as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act highlighted acceptable and inclusive disability terminology that should be used to describe people with disabilities. The second area of study focuses on the popular use of the rehabilitation narrative within film in the 1990s. Whilst rehabilitation narratives positioned people with disabilities in protagonist roles, they ultimately present them as ‘others’ that need to be ‘cured’. Finally, this thesis will discuss the popularity of ‘disability drag’ within the film industry in the 1990s, explaining how able-bodied actors performing ‘disability drag’ were praised for their performances, preventing actors with disabilities from receiving major roles within the mainstream film industry.
Bandicota savilei Thomas 1916
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Bandicota
Bandicota savilei

description: 73. Bandicota savilei Thomas, 1916
Common name: Savile ’ s Bandicoot Rat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Southern Laos and Myanmar (from Central to Southeastern area along the border of Thailand).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Berylmys berdmorei
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Berylmys
Berylmys berdmorei

description: 74. Berylmys berdmorei (Blyth, 1851)
Common name: Berdmore ’ s White-toothed Rat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (from Central to Southern area).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Knowledge Construction and Multiple Realities: Global Health Collaborations, Development Practices, And Face Masks in The Context of Covid-19
Creators: name: Zhang, Linan
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Global Health
subject: Development Studies
subject: Knowledge Sharing
subject: Multiple Realities
subject: Michel Foucault
subject: Bruno Latour
subject: Richard Rorty
subject: Liberal Ironist
subject: Constructivism
subject: Face Mask
subject: COVID-19
subject: PhD

description: This thesis is inspired by a global health collaborative programme named GRASPIT and by my own desire to do something good which can benefit the people in need as well as reduce suffering. The GRASPIT collaboration intended to improve post-operative outcomes, but the programme failed to deliver the expected result. Preliminary analysis by the GRASPIT team identified issues with knowledge sharing as one of the contributory causes of its failure. This prompted the reflection in this thesis upon apparent asymmetries when knowledge is shared. Quite soon after the research began, the global pandemic COVID-19 revealed the issue of having inconsistent knowledge regarding the public use of face masks, which shed new light on the problem of sharing health-related knowledge. The thesis took the position that both of these cases can be usefully situated in ‘development discourse’ and the power struggles that come with it. This suggested that these two vaguely connected concerns were both dealing with paradigm conflict during the process of knowledge sharing (and production), and that there existed multiple versions of health reality. As a way forward the thesis builds a theoretical framework that aims to improve the efficiency of knowledge sharing especially when there is no sufficient clinical solution available, drawing on Foucauldian philosophy, Latour and Woolgar’s Laboratory Life (1979), radical constructivism, and Rorty’s liberal ironism to alleviate roadblocks in knowledge sharing. By applying the theoretical framework to real-world problems, the thesis proposes a mindset for everyone to adopt as a means to improve ways in which knowledge generated in different contexts can be shared more effectively.
Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
Creators: name: Owens, Katheryn
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Performance Writing
subject: Performance Studies
subject: Housing
subject: Millennial
subject: Precarity
subject: Art Making
subject: Work
subject: PhD

description: This PhD is co-authored with Chris Green
description: This practice-as-research project uses performance writing to understand, illustrate and work through aspects of millennial experience, with a specific interest in precarious housing and labour. For us, experiencing precarity means that fundamental aspects of what is required to experience what Lauren Berlant calls ‘a good life’ (including secure working contracts, renters’ rights, access to leisure time) are not being met. This leads to a feeling of ‘living on the edge’ (Ahmed, 2017: 238), which in turn prevents us from being able to imagine alternatives. This performance writing takes the form of scores, instructions, maps, walking, knitting, zines, and audio recordings. We submit four artworks to be examined alongside the written element of the thesis, which is constructed around their analysis: House Box (2017), Desires for Labour (2019), Chapel Street or Wherever you Are (2021) and Recipe Book (2021). Performance writing is here understood as theorised by academics such as Caroline Bergvall and Ric Allsopp whereby a consideration of text includes visual, physical, aural, and performative elements and there are no fixed boundaries between performance and writing. Instead, there is a ‘continuing and transforming relationship between the two terms’ (Allsopp, 1999: 77). This thesis seeks to develop and offers a more refined definition of performance writing. Our approach to performance writing emphasises embodied action, affect and experience in its production and its encounter. As such, we frame Barthes’ literary theories of readerly and writerly text through the lens of performance studies. We demonstrate through our practice how performance writing undergoes a continuous process of rewriting through its encounter. Particular focus is placed upon the production of performance writing objects, and this is demonstrated through the range of ways that performance writing has been produced. Through this, we argue that performance writing can offer hopeful strategies to reimagine the future through the political potential of friendship. Whilst performance writing might not result in the means to plan for the future, its relationship to imagination may lay the groundwork for this and is presented as a potential. Due to the collaborative nature of this research project, this PhD offers insights into co-authored meaning-making in the performing and visual arts, in addition to establishing the value of performance writing objects within the context of millennial precarity
Before there was diving and relays, there was the Poetry Olympics
Creators: name: Grant, Katrina
Publisher: name: The Conversation
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Accademia degli Arcadi

description: Ever wondered whether you'd have a better chance at winning an Olympic gold if you could fling words rather than a javelin? Or maybe you could beat down your opponents with comedic wit? If so, you may have been a strong contender at the Poetry Olympics, held in Rome around 1700.

Some 200 years before the modern revival of the Olympics as we now know it, a group of poets met in a garden in Rome to revive the ancient games in their own way. Their Giuochi Olimpici ("Olympic games" in Italian) was based not on speed or strength, but on one's ability to string together a poem or win a debate.
Berylmys bowersi
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Berylmys
Berylmys bowersi

description: 75. Berylmys bowersi (Anderson, 1879)
Common name: Bower ’ s White-toothed Rat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (widely distributed).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Ludwigia adscendens H. Hara
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Ludwigia
Ludwigia adscendens

description: Jussiaea repens Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 388. 1753.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 3058.
 Lectotype (Raven in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 58. 1993): [icon] “Nir-carambu” in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 2: 99, t. 51. 1679.
 Generitype of Jussiaea Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 153. 1929).
 Current name:  Ludwigia adscendens  (L.) H. Hara (Onagraceae).
 Note: Brenan (in Turrill & Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Onagraceae: 14. 1953) indicated 552.1 (LINN) as lectotype but this was a post-1753 addition to the herbarium and not original material for the name.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 606, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Increasing engagement: a case study of the By Endurance We Conquer – the Shackleton Project
Creators: name: Lund, Peter
name: Boneham, Naomi
name: Hammant, Henrietta
name: Galloway, Corinne
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2024

description: The Scott Polar Research Institute recently completed By Endurance We Conquer: the Shackleton Project. This five year project aimed to unite the Scott Polar Research Institute's Archive, Library Museum and Picture Library in a targeted purchasing strategy designed to develop its’ collection of material relating to Sir Ernest Shackleton. Acquisitions made through the project are now displayed in the Scott Polar Research Institute’s Polar Museum and Polar Library whilst a temporary exhibition has also toured the Falkland Islands, Chile and Ireland. The project examined in detail the heritage aspects of the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery) of which Shackleton was a member and the three expeditions which Shackleton led to the Antarctic: the British Antarctic (Nimrod) Expedition (1907-09), The Imperial Trans-Antarctic (Endurance) Expedition (1914-17) and the Shackleton-Rowett (Quest) Expedition (1921-22), during which Shackleton died. Sir Ernest Shackleton’s name is associated with exemplary leadership, courage in the face of adversity and the refusal to give up. The Shackleton project has strengthened the Polar Library, Archive, Picture Library and Museum through knowledge-sharing and collaborative planning, and dramatically enhanced the public engagement through new acquisitions and interpretation. This oral presentation will focus on the wide range of education and outreach events, online films and the use of social media which were deployed to increase engagement by both researchers and the general public. The presentation will also demonstrate how the Library, Archive, Picture Library and Museum, in undertaking this project on Shackleton, have fostered the practice of interdisciplinary research.
Gonadal hormone deprivation regulates response to tibolone in neurodegenerative pathways
Creators: name: McGovern, Andrew
name: Angeles Arevalo, Maria
name: Ciordia, Sergio
name: Garcia-Segura, Luis Miguel
name: BARRETO, GEORGE
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gonadal hormone deprivation (GHD) and decline such as menopause and bilateral oophorectomy are associated with an increased risk of neurodegeneration. Yet, hormone therapies (HTs) show varying efficacy, influenced by factors such as sex, drug type, and timing of treatment relative to hormone decline. We hypothesize that the molecular environment of the brain undergoes a transition following GHD, impacting the effectiveness of HTs. Using a GHD model in mice treated with Tibolone, we conducted proteomic analysis and identified a reprogrammed response to Tibolone, a compound that stimulates estrogenic, progestogenic, and androgenic pathways. Through a comprehensive network pharmacological workflow, we identified a reprogrammed response to Tibolone, particularly within "Pathways of Neurodegeneration", as well as interconnected pathways including "cellular respiration", "carbon metabolism", and "cellular homeostasis". Analysis revealed 23 proteins whose Tibolone response depended on GHD and/or sex, implicating critical processes like oxidative phosphorylation and calcium signalling. Our findings suggest the therapeutic efficacy of HTs may depend on these variables, suggesting a need for greater precision medicine considerations whilst highlighting the need to uncover underlying mechanisms.
Berylmys mackenziei
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Berylmys
Berylmys mackenziei

description: 76. Berylmys mackenziei (Thomas, 1916)
Common name: Mackenzie ’ s White-toothed Rat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, India, Vietnam and Western Myanmar (recorded in Chin Hills (West of Kindat) and distributed in Sagaing Region and Chin State along the border of India).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Ludwigia octovalvis subsp. sessiliflora P. H. Raven
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Ludwigia
Ludwigia octovalvis
Ludwigia octovalvis (jacq.) p.h. raven subsp. sessiliflora (micheli) p.h. raven

description: Jussiaea suffruticosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 388. 1753.
"Habitat in India." RCN: 3062.
Type not designated.
Original material: [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 2: 95, t. 49. 1679.
 Current name:  Ludwigia octovalvis  (Jacq.) P.H. Raven subsp.  sessiliflora  (Micheli) P.H. Raven (Onagraceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), pp. 599-607 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 606, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Bandicota bengalensis
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Bandicota
Bandicota bengalensis

description: 71. Bandicota bengalensis (Gray, 1835)
Common name: Lesser Bandicoot Rat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar (widely distributed).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Bandicota indica
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Bandicota
Bandicota indica

description: 72. Bandicota indica (Bechstein, 1800)
Common name: Greater Bandicoot Rat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (widely distributed).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
КОМПЛЕКСНЫЙ ПОДХОД К ЛЕЧЕНИЮ И ПРОФИЛАКТИКЕ НЕАЛКОГОЛЬНОЙ ЖИРОВОЙ БОЛЕЗНИ ПЕЧЕНИ
Creators: name: Бабаджанов, Абдумурад
name: Каледа, Светлана
name: Мирзакаримова, Фарида
name: Поликарпова, Наталия
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Неалкогольная жировая болезнь печени (НАЖБП) - одна из наиболее распространенных и актуальных проблем современной медицины, тесно связанная с ростом заболеваемости ожирением и метаболическим синдромом. В данной статье описан комплексный подход к лечению и профилактике НАБЖП, включающий различные стратегии, направленные на коррекцию метаболических нарушений и улучшение качества жизни пациентов.
Paraffin embedding of the whole human cerebral hemisphere to assess arterial distribution territories
Creators: name: Smirnov, Mykyta
name: Andersson, Frédéric
name: Barantin, Laurent
name: Maldonado, Igor Lima
name: Destrieux, Christophe
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: tissue processing
whole hemisphere
volume reconstruction
paraffin embedding
brain vascularization
arterial distribution

description: Commonly used to decode the human brain's structural complexity, ex vivo dissection focuses on a given structure or region but cannot depict the whole brain organization (for example, its arterial distribution territories). Where dissection reaches its limit, the combination of tissue sectioning and 3D reconstruction may provide a volume for the assessment of structures from any view angle, following them dynamically to understand their spatial relationships. However, to produce sections, standard histological tissue processing protocols for paraffin embedding cannot be applied to a cerebral hemisphere as the latter is extensively larger than the conventional specimens. This paper presents a protocol for paraffin embedding of the whole human cerebral hemisphere and a method to reconstruct 3D volumes from serially sectioned and photographed paraffin blocks containing embedded hemispheres. Seven ex vivo whole human cerebral hemispheres were included, two were serially sectioned. Main cerebral arteries were injected with colored media to label arterial territories. A detailed description of every step, from tissue processing to image acquisition of cut blockfaces and volume reconstruction, is provided. Tissue processing and section cutting were reproducible, and the former provided complete and homogeneous paraffin wax impregnation. 3D visualization of the reconstructed whole human cerebral hemisphere successfully showed the distribution territories of the main cerebral arteries. In addition, we discuss the challenges we faced and overcame while developing the presented method and highlight its originality.
description: EXCLI Journal; 23:Doc612; ISSN 1611-2156
title: Συνομιλώντας με τα στοιχεία του τόπου, προστασία και ανάδειξη υδροβιότοπου Αναβύσσου
title: Conversation with the elements of the landscape protection and enhancement of the wetland of Anavissos
Creators: name: Νομικου-Ριισερ Αννα
name: Σταματακη Δαφνη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία χωροθετείται στις αλυκές Αναβύσσου, νοτιοανατολικά του νομού  Αττικής, όπου τα τελευταία 50 χρόνια δημιουργήθηκε σταδιακά, με την εγκατάλειψη των εγκαταστάσεων των αλυκών, ένας ευάλωτος μεσογειακός υδροβιότοπος. Σκοπός αυτής της εργασίας είναι η  τοπιακή ανάδειξή του με οικολογικούς όρους, η προστασία του και η δημιουργία μίας περιαστικής χωρικής συνθήκης- πόλου έλξης για την κοινωνία. Με σκοπό την  αναγνώριση και επανερμηνεία του υφιστάμενου τοπίου, επιδιώκεται η δημιουργία ενός συνόλου επεμβάσεων που θα ευνοήσουν την επαναφορά της οικολογικής ισορροπίας και θα σεβαστούν τα περιβαλλοντικά χαρακτηριστικά και την λειτουργία του υδροβιότοπου. Η πρόταση περιλαμβάνει μια ενιαία στρατηγική με σημειακές προσθήκες πρασίνου, θύλακες τρίτου χώρου, τοπόσημα-κατασκευές με φυσικά υλικά και ήπιες χρήσεις για τους επισκέπτες, δίκτυο κίνησης και υποπεριοχές δραστηριοτήτων. Όλα τα παραπάνω αποτελούν την συνθετική εργαλειοθήκη για την επίτευξη μίας νέας συνθήκης, όπου το φυσικό και το ανθρωπογενές τοπίο παύουν να συγκρούονται αλλά συνυπάρχουν ισότιμα.
Chiropodomys gliroides
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Chiropodomys
Chiropodomys gliroides

description: 78. Chiropodomys gliroides (Blyth, 1856)
Common name: Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (widely distributed).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Chiromyscus chiropus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Chiromyscus
Chiromyscus chiropus

description: 79. Chiromyscus chiropus (Thomas, 1891)
Common name: Burmese Tree Rat, Indochinese Chiromyscus
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Southeastern Myanmar (recorded in Karen Hills and possibly distributed in the eastern area along the border of China, Laos and Thailand).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Chiromyscus langbianis
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Chiromyscus
Chiromyscus langbianis

description: 80. Chiromyscus langbianis (H.C. Robinson and Kloss, 1922)
Common name: Langbian Tree Rat Indochinese Arboreal Niviventer
Myanmar name:
Distribution: China, Cambodia, India, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (from Northwestern area along the border of India to Tanintharyi Region).
Remarks: This species is sometimes known as Niviventer langbianis.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 160, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Introduction to Digital Mapping
Creators: name: Grant, Katrina
Publisher: name: Centre for Digital Humanities Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital mapping

description: Digital Mapping is a cross disciplinary methodology with strong relevance to anyone whose research includes a study of place and place-based data. Digital maps can be used a research method to investigate data and to answer research questions or as a publication output, or both! Many of the software, tools and methods of digital mapping come from geography and related disciplines, but they are now used across many different disciplines in both HASS and STEM. Map making has been part of HASS research from well before the advent of computational methods. They have been pretty common as research and visualisation tools in disciplines like archaeology, but in recent years new tools and software have made it easier for more researchers to try their hand at it.
Lodz University of Technology (TUL) Action Plan  for 2024-2028 in the context of the CoARA Agreement
Creators: name: Dybala-Defratyka, Agnieszka
name: Albrecht, Łukasz
name: Jóźwik, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CoARA
responsible research assessment
action plan

description: As a signatory to the CoARA Agreement, Lodz University of Technology (TUL), Poland, has made its Action Plan available. This plan outlines how the university intends to fulfill the core commitments of the agreement from 2024 to 2028.
IMAGES OF ENGINEERING: AN INVESTIGATION OF GENDER AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENGINEERING
Creators: name: HODGKINSON, ELIZABETH ANNE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2003

description: The research presented in this thesis used a mixed method approach to investigate the attitudes of sixth-form students in two British cities, towards engineering as a career, with the aim of finding out which factors encourage or discourage young people from becoming engineers, and whether these differ for males and females. The study can be set in the context of the declining popularity of engineering as a career choice for males and the continuing under-representation of females, for whom engineering is a non-traditional career choice. The principal research hypothesis was that negative images of engineering discourage girls and many boys from considering it as a career, with a particular focus on whether engineering and the school subjects closely related to it, are considered to be more appropriate for males than for females. The study was informed by a social science realist framework, in which 'attitudes' were not accorded the status of fixed attributes of individuals, but were understood as indicators of the underiying social construction of meanings and ideologies. It was found that the students in this study had made subject and career choices that conform to traditional gender patterns. The intention to pursue engineering as a career was highly dependent upon sex, with males being almost seven times as likely to consider it as a career than females. Although the students did not consciously subscribe to sexstereotyped views of subjects and occupations, these were inadvertently reproduced through the students' constructions of meaning. Initiatives to increase female participation in engineering have been based on overly voluntaristic conceptions of choice, whereby women are seen to straightforwardly reject the masculine image of engineering. However, this research suggests that understandings of both gender and engineering can be better understood as less intentionally constituted in 'discourses', which reinforce the association between engineering and specific forms of masculine identity, to exclude most women and many men.
MY AUSCHWITZ STATE OF MIND: A study of the nature of emergence of a text in relation to Auschwitz
Creators: name: Pope, Ivan Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: psychogeography, Holocaust, Auschwitz-Birkenau, landscape, fragments, landmarks, spatial area, creative writing, non-fiction
subject: PhD

description: While this thesis is presented as divided into two parts (a creative, Knowing Auschwitz, and a critical, The Other Auschwitz), I ask the reader to read it as two movements that intersect in one hybrid-inclined text, a text that can only exist when the two parts are interpenetrated. Both parts are equally a documentation of my research by practice and the outcome of my research by practice. They are not so much de Certeau’s crossword decoding stencil, but a puzzle filled out in response to the question that I set myself at the start.
description: This thesis uses practice-based research to ask how I can write a textual deep map from an investigation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As a key part of the research, I made repeated visits to the environs of Auschwitz-Birkenau, walking and cycling extensively around the area in a search for contemporary fragments in the landscape, for example buildings, routes, sites, landmarks, place names, signposts and found objects. I used my own collection of guides, documents, textual, cartographic and photographic fragments and other ephemera related to the town and the Auschwitz museum in addition to support from the Auschwitz Museum itself and external archives such as the Arolsen Archives (“International Center on the Nazi Era - Arolsen Archives,” n.d.) and the Weiner Holocaust Library (“Home - The Wiener Holocaust Library” n.d.) in London. These all acted as points of departure as I embarked on making my deep map. The research translates into a complex textual map of my subject combining autoethnographic stories with tales from psychogeographical drift, non-fiction examinations of place and semi-fictionalised histories. The research is presented as two conjoined texts, one a form of creative non-fiction and the other a critical reflexion, which between them constitute an examination of how a place as imbued with meaning as Auschwitz can be written about in a new way. I refer to the writings of a variety of writers, philosophers and theorists, including Giorgio Agamben’s spatial grey area, or soglia , Walter Benjamin’s ‘alternative model for organising things in the field of knowledge’ and Charlotte Delbo‘s entrances, exits, boundaries and markers that delineate Birkenau. My process is deeply personal and predicated on a form of personal exposure to the landscape with few specific notions or processes of exploration. A process of constant sorting is fundamental to my production as I examine place as a series of complex, palimpsestic texts.