cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Why Darwin Was English
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: A "late developer" argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s scientific backwardness. Measured in terms of institutions, communities, and ideas, the relative retardation of English science was precisely what enabled it to adopt German advances in novel ways.
Manual to measure and model leaf area index and its spatial variability on local and landscape scale
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Marion
name: Alemu Gonsamu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biophysics

description: This is a protocol - the first of its kind - to measure LAI in woody biomes using hemipsherical photograph and the Sunscan delta T instrument (Delta T Devices, Cambridge)
Why Darwin was English
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: A "late developer" argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s scientific backwardness. Measured in terms of institutions, communities, and ideas, the relative retardation of English science was precisely what enabled it to adopt German advances in novel ways.
Emotional processing in humans: a neurophysiological and psychopharmacological investigation
Creators: name: Kemp, Andrew H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Examination of how the brain mediates emotional experience is now an area of significant and intense research interest. This is an important endeavour considering that emotion is a key component in vulnerability factors governing risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Recent neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies are also beginning to explore the effects of antidepressants on the processing of emotional stimuli in healthy participants to help understand the role of neurochemicals in affective behaviour more broadly. Unfortunately the literature is fraught with contradictions and complications resulting from the technique used, task instructions, selection of stimuli and gender differences. The aim of the current thesis therefore, was to investigate emotional processing in healthy participants and to examine the impact of serotonergic augmentation on this processing through the presentation of visual emotional stimuli and examination of self report, peripheral- and neurophysiological measures of emotional responsiveness. Seventy five images low in arousal content, selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) and categorised as pleasant, neutral and unpleasant, were presented to participants in four experimental studies. Findings support previous literature suggesting that there is substantial overlap in frontal neural circuitry when the brain processes emotional images of different valence. Gender differences in the processing of visual emotional stimuli were also observed however suggesting the need for future studies to take such factors into account. In particular, females unlike males displayed right-sided, frontal, neurophysiological activations in response to unpleasant relative to neutral images. Emotional valence was also found to modulate heart rate (HR) thereby confirming the reliability and validity of the task-viewing paradigm. Augmentation of serotonin was found to suppress any differences in HR across the three differently valenced categories of images, while neurophysiological responses were potentiated during pleasant valence but suppressed during unpleasant valence. In summary, the studies included in this thesis provide evidence for neurophysiological modulation by emotional content and gender. In addition, the studies employ a more systems-based approach to the study of antidepressant action, through examination of the neurophysiological responses to visual emotional stimuli. This approach may lead to greater understanding of the functional consequences of neurochemical modulation on cortical networks involved in emotional processing.
Building ontology repositories for e-commerce systems
Creators: name: Yong, Jianming
name: Yang, Yun
name: Yan, Jun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes a new method to integrate and implement e-commerce systems in distributed computing environments, especially the Internet. In this paper, we propose a core part of ontology repositories for e-commerce systems, illustrate the organisational topology of the repositories, and demonstrate how to use XML standards to build the repositories. After all these repositories are distributed on the Internet, the ubiquitous integration platform can be formed so that all the e..commerce systems can interact each other seamlessly.
"Why Darwin was English." Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science 24, no. 2 (June 2000): 76-78.
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: A "late developer" argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s scientific backwardness. Measured in terms of institutions, communities, and ideas, the relative retardation of English science was precisely what enabled it to adopt German advances in novel ways.
"Why Darwin was English."
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: A "late developer" argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s scientific backwardness. Measured in terms of institutions, communities, and ideas, the relative retardation of English science was precisely what enabled it to adopt German advances in novel ways.
The GATE-Spring Theory: a new model of mechanotransduction in auditory hair cells
Creators: name: Gianoli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Sound transduction occurs when mechanical stimuli open mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) ion channels located in specialised organelles in the internal ear, the hair bundles. These clusters of stereocilia are interconnected with molecular springs, the tip links, which stretch in accordance with the bundle’s deflection and project the mechanical force onto each channel. Biophysical measurements reveal that the relationship between the applied force and the bundles’ displacement is nonlinear. The canonical gating-spring model posits that this nonlinearity stems from a MET channel’s conformational change upon gating —the gating swing— which reduces the tension in the tip link. Although this view has been very successful, the inferred values of the gating swing are unrealistically large and experiments indicate that each tip link connects to two MET channels rather than one, raising questions about the interaction between them. Furthermore, the channels are not where they had been anticipated originally. No current model of MET can account for the number and location of MET channels or explain the origin of the large gating swing. In this thesis, I develop and analyse a new model of mechanotransduction in which a tip link connects to two channels that are mobile in the membrane. Their gating and positions are coupled by elastic forces in the lipid bilayer arising from the hydrophobic mismatch between each channel and the bilayer core. A large effective gating swing emerges in this framework from cooperative behaviour between pairs of channels. We reproduce the observed open probability, force and stiffness curves as functions of hair-bundle displacement, using only realistic biophysical parameters. Furthermore, we show how channel reclosure leads to bundle displacements during fast adaptation. We then validated experimentally the order of magnitude of some of the most relevant parameters of our model, such as the stiffness of the tip link, and measured the pivoting stiffness of individual stereocilia. For this task we used a recently developed technique called Hopping Probe Ion Conductance Microscopy that allows contactless mea-surements of stiffness in biological samples. We further explored the implications of our model and applied it to the study of hair bundle development. By doing so we we were able to account for phenomena that so far had lacked or had unsatisfactory explanations.
'I just can't see myself doing it': occupational aspirations and identities: young people from family farms, Victoria
Creators: name: Geldens, Paula
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite spirited public discourse around rural decline and the future of family farming relatively little theoretical or empirical work has focused upon the lives of young rural residents: almost none in relation to those living on family farms. The research has focused upon whether these young people intended to stay on their family's farm or leave, and why? This seminar offers insight into the lives these young people at a time when defining post secondary-school goals were of foremost concern.
Components: the past, the present, and the future
Creators: name: Han, Jun
name: Schneider, Jean-Guy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Since the early 1990s, component-based software technology has become an increasingly popular approach to facilitate the development of evolving systems as it promised to address some of the problems of object-oriented development technologies. By reconfiguring components, adapting existing components, or introducing new components it was hoped that applications could be adapted to changing requirements more easily than using traditional approaches. But has component-based software technology succeeded? Have we been able to address the problems identified more than a decade ago? Which problems still need further investigations? In this work, we will review some of the goals component-based development was supposed to achieve, investigate whether these goals have been met, and propose a research agenda of topics for further investigation.
Intuitive real-time network monitoring using visually orthogonal 3D metaphors
Creators: name: Armitage, Grenville
name: Harrop, Warren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With denial of service attacks and self propagating network viruses adding to today's network conditions, managing edge networks with the intention of providing a quality service requires vigilance by highly skilled network administrators. We believe the use of intuitive, interactive 3D representations of real-time network state information will improve the ability of non-specialist operations staff to understand and react to anomalous network behavior. We define a set of visual metaphors that represent dynamic activity metrics unique to IP networks in an easy to interpret manner. Our prototype software, 3VEN, implements many of the IP metrics to visual metaphor mappings suggested, using data collected from a darknet source.
Nelly Mbay (UVSQ)
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 1 fichier (2 pages).
Microhoria schmiedeknechti
Creators: name: Telnov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Microhoria
Microhoria schmiedeknechti

description: Microhoria schmiedeknechti (Pic, 1899)
(Fig. 49)
 Anthicus Schmiedeknechti Pic, 1899a: 74 (description).
 Anthicus Schmiedeknechti – Pic 1901c: 256 (checklist); Reitter 1906: 445 (checklist); Pic 1911: 72 (checklist).
 Anthicus (Aulacoderus) Schmiedeknechti – Winkler 1927: 850 (checklist).
 Anthicus (Bifossicollis) Schmiedeknechti – Koch 1935 a: 258, 264 (supplementary description, key).
 Microhoria schmiedeknechti – Bucciarelli 1976: 140 (supplementary description); Uhmann 1996: 35 (record – Turkey); Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist).
 Type material. Lectotype male [here designated] & 4 paralectotypes MNHN: Rhodes [handwritten] // n sp. pres Leuthneri Pic [handwritten] // type [handwritten] // Schmiedeknechti Pic n sp [handwritten]. There are five specimens mounted on the same card, the second specimen from the left is selected as lectotype.
 New material. 1 male MSNM: Holotypus [handwritten, label red] // Rodi (Trianda) [printed] 2.5.32 [handwritten] A.Schatzmayr [printed] // Prep. microscp. No. [printed] / 383 [handwritten] [label violet] // A. angulapex Koch [handwritten, label blue]; 5 specimens NME & 1 specimen DTC: GR Rhodes, Apolakkia 3 km SW, 20 m, 04.IV.2018 N 36°02’26”, E 27°46’59” leg. A. Kopetz KLS, KF; 3 specimens NME & 1 specimen DTC: GR Rhodes, Kalavarda, 5 km W, 25­60 m, 04.IV.2018 N 36°19’32”, E 27°53’36” leg. A. Kopetz KLS.
 The lectotype designation is made here to maintain the nomenclatural stability. See also the nomenclatural note and the lectotype designation for M. angulapex above (the specimen erroneously labelled as the “ holotype ” of M. angulapex in fact belongs to M. schmiedeknechti). Microhoria schmiedeknechti was redescribed in detail by Koch (1935 a) and Bucciarelli (1976), no supplementary description is therefore provided but only the images (Fig. 49).
 Distribution. Greece (Dodecanese Islands: Rhodes Island), S Turkey. I had no opportunity to verify identification of any Turkish specimens. Occurrence of this species is Turkey is not impossible but requires further confirmation.
 Chorotype. E­Mediterranean (3.03 EME), restricted to north­eastern part of it.
description: Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, pp. 195-312 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on pages 288-289, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203541
title: Artificial sweeteners are related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Microbiota dysbiosis as a novel potential mechanism
Creators: name: Emamat, Hadi
name: Ghalandari, Hamid
name: Tangestani, Hadith
name: Abdollahi, Afsoun
name: Hekmatdoost, Azita
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
NAFLD
microbiome
microbiota
artificial sweeteners

description: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a systemic and wide-spread disease characterized by accumulation of excess fat in the liver of people who drink little or no alcohol. Artificial sweeteners (ASs) or sugar substitutes are food additives that provide a sweet taste, and are also known as low-calorie or non-calorie sweeteners. Recently people consume increasingly more ASs to reduce their calorie intake. Gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem where 1014 microorganisms play several roles in host nutrition, bone mineralization, immune system regulation, xenobiotics metabolism, proliferation of intestinal cells, and protection against pathogens. A disruption in composition of the normal microbiota is known as ‘gut dysbiosis’ which may adversely affect body metabolism. It has recently been suggested that dysbiosis may contribute to the occurrence of NAFLD. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of ASs on the risk of NAFLD. The focus of this review is on microbiota changes and dysbiosis. Increasing evidence shows that ASs have a potential role in microbiota alteration and dysbiosis. We speculate that increased consumption of ASs can further raise the prevalence of NAFLD. However, further human studies are needed to determine this relationship definitively.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc620; ISSN 1611-2156
Research repository managers symposium
Creators: name: Hayes, Leonie
name: Morgan, Teula
name: Ruthven, Tom
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Leonie Hayes, Teula Morgan and Tom Ruthven gathered a collection of research repository 'case studies' from repository managers in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa outlining the ways that their institutions decided to deliver the requirements for research reporting and assessment exercises like ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) and PBRF (Performance-Based Research Fund) in New Zealand. This collection provides an in depth view of research repository development at each institution. They also invited repository managers to raise issues around measurement and evaluation using, for example metrics and peer evaluation. The symposium session asked authors of the case studies to briefly share a summary of their case study, which was followed by a guided discussion session determined by participants. This was the first widespread gathering of research repositories case studies in the region.
Microhoria sidonia
Creators: name: Telnov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Microhoria
Microhoria sidonia

description: Microhoria sidonia (Truqui, 1855)
 Anthicus sidonius Truqui, 1855: 365 (description).
 Anthicus sidonius – Lacordaire 1859: 597 (checklist); Gemminger & Harold 1870: 2100 (checklist); Baudi di Selve 1877: 132 (supplementary description); Marseul 1879: 191, 218 (key, supplementary description); Marseul 1887: 353 (checklist); Pic 1896b: 180 (key, record – Turkey); Pic 1897a: 390 (checklist); Pic 1911: 73 (checklist, record – Eastern Europe); Lucas 1920: 103 (checklist); Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist); Bodenheimer 1937: 133 (checklist). Anthicus (Bifossicollis) sidonius – Sahlberg 1913b: 193 (records – Israel, Lebanon, Turkey). Anthicus (Immicrohoria) sidonius – Hariri 1968: 207 (checklist, bibliography).
 Microhoria sidonia – Uhmann et al. 2005: 5, 46 (new combination, biogeography, bibliography, distribution); Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (erroneously assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 613 (checklist).
 Type material. Not studied.
 New material. Not available.
 Supplementary description of this species is not yet possible. According to its original description, this is a large species the size of M. gigas, with dark head, pale, dorsally densely punctured pronotum, dark elytra with small pale markings and elytral apex ‘… late rotundata, juxta angulum internum sinuata’ (Truqui 1855: 365). Due to the body length, colouration and peculiar shape of elytral apex this species appears close to or conspecific with Microhoria gigas (also see above).
 Distribution. Israel, Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey. Record from “Eastern Europe” by Pic (1911) is erroneous. Uhmann et al. (2005) pointed on that there are no verified records of this species known from Syria.
 Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA).
description: Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, pp. 195-312 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2) on pages 289-290, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13203541
Malthodes sanbernardensis K. M. Fender 1966
Creators: name: Fanti, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Malthodes
Malthodes sanbernardensis

description: Malthodes sanbernardensis K. M. Fender, 1966 emend. (nom. corr.)
 Malthodes sanbernadensis K. M. Fender, 1966: 221 (text and figs. 7-8)-222 incorrect original spelling
 Malthodes sanbernardensis Poole & Gentili, 1996: 77, 757 “incorrect” subsequent spelling (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.3., 33.5.).
 Note. This species in the original description is named Malthodes sanbernadensis Fender, 1966 (nomen imperfectum) with the type locality: “Seven Oaks, San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California ” (Fender 1966). This original name is evidently incorrect, an inadvertent error (lapsus calami), because the second “r” is missing and therefore is emended here in Malthodes sanbernardensis justified emendation (ICZN 1999: Art. 19.2., 32.2.2., 32.5., 33.2.2., 50.4).
 The original name is evidently incorrect also because the same author subsequently described (with the correct name) Pseudoabsidia sanbernardensis from the same locality “San Bernardino Co.” (Fender 1972). “Bernardino” is a diminutive, altered variant of “Bernardo”, a personal name of Germanic origin with the root Bern + hard.
 The incorrect specific name “ sanbernadensis ” has never been amended, therefore there is no first reviewer and we find only the original spelling (Delkeskamp 1977: 423, 1978: 545 index) except a “correct” Malthodes sanbernardensis in Poole & Gentili (1996), which is not in a prevailing usage (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.3.1., Art. 33.3.1.). This name, although correct (in the work the authors Poole & Gentili put the original spelling of the names, in this specific case however, they have a lapsus calami which by a simple combination becomes "right”), cannot be considered a justified emendation as, according to the Code, it is not an intentional emendation (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2., Art. 33.2.1), as the authors (Poole & Gentili 1996) specify (many times) not to make any emendations in their work, and report only the already existing emendations (Poole & Gentili 1996: pages 7-10) and because both the original name and the modified spelling are not mentioned (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.1.) nor in the work there are two or more names treated in a similar way (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.1.).
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description: Published as part of Fanti, Fabrizio, 2023, Some taxonomical notes on North American soldier beetles, pp. 61-64 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 23 (1) on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.59893/bjc.23(1).005, http://zenodo.org/record/13203680
The effect of highly-ordered molecular conformations on the optoelectronic properties of conjugated polymers
Creators: name: Cheetham, Nathan James
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: This thesis examines the effect of well-defined, highly-ordered molecular conformations on conjugated polymer optoelectronic properties. Understanding the links between chemical and physical structure and optoelectronic properties is critical for the continued development of conjugated polymer electronic devices and applications. This is achieved using a variety of spectroscopic techniques, including time-resolved and temperature-dependent absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopies. The first results chapter uses ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy to resolve exciton dissociation dynamics in the polyfluorene poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene), PFO, as the amount of chain segments adopting the highly-ordered β-phase conformation is systematically varied. Increased polaron generation yield when β-phase chains are present is assigned to more efficient exciton dissociation at the interface between disordered glassy and ordered β-phase conformational phases, attributed to significant local energetic offsets, the higher electronic delocalisation of the β-phase and mismatches in charge carrier mobilities. The second results chapter examines a second, recently reported β-phase forming polyfluorene, PODPF. Formation of β-phase is characterised by absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopy following a series of thermal annealing steps. In addition to β-phase, formation of crystalline regions is observed at higher annealing temperatures, from which a second variant of β-phase can also form. Generation of higher-ordered molecular conformations is found to be sensitive to heating rate. The third results chapter compares photophysical and structural properties of PODPF and PFO. The means by which backbone planarisation is achieved, key to β-phase formation, appears to be very different. The β-phase in PODPF is reliant upon interchain interactions and so is inherently 3-dimensional, rather than a solely intrachain phenomenon as for PFO. This leads to lower efficiency energy transfer in PODPF than PFO due to larger PODPF β-phase domains. Finally, the optical properties of the homoconjugated polymer, PPM, and methyl-substituted derivatives, are characterised to probe the conformational origins of homoconjugation. The concentration of the two distinct homoconjugated chromophores in PPM is found to be very low. Chain length-dependent absorption suggests that formation of one homoconjugated species is confined to chain ends, while the second species requires a certain substitution pattern between polymer repeat units.
Valuation of contracts with counterparty and funding risk under netting and collateral agreements
Creators: name: Durand, Cyril
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: In this Thesis we try to contribute to the debate on how to evaluate and manage counterparty credit and funding risks. • Chapter 1 examines the issue of taking into account alternative settlement conventions as well as systemic risk in the assessment of Credit Valuation Adjustment. It is essentially a very close version of the article co-wrote with Professor Marek Rutkowski (Sydney University) on the subject, which was published in the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF) in November 2013. • Chapter 2 aims at studying funding costs from an actuarial perspective, i.e. when funding risks cannot be totally hedged. A related article was co-wrote with Professor Damiano Brigo and can be found on line at www.arxiv.com (see [17]). • Chapter 3 examines a problem commonly faced by practitioners when resorting to log-normal instantaneous interest rate models, namely the risk that they take unrealistically high values, which renders difficult their application to CVA and FVA management. Again, the content of this Chapter can be found under a slightly different set-up as a stand alone article at www.ssrn.com. • Chapter 4 details a Heston 2 Factors affine HJM model in the context of CVA and FVA manage- ment, especially volatility wrong way risk, of equity/interest rate hybrid instruments as well as equity instruments with long maturity. • Chapter 5 brings together some considerations on recent ’hot subjects’ from a counterparty valua- tion risk and regulatory point of view, more specifically how to compute collateral cost in a unified setting with CVA and FVA, as well as the challenges imposed by the Non Modellable Risk Factors guidelines on the CVA Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (CVA-FRTB) risk measures as well as XVA valuations such as LVA and KVA.
The reuse factor
Creators: name: Hahnel, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Science Policy

description: Are we witnessing the death of the reference? No, we are seeing the birth of an exponentially larger number of citations, crediting a much wider variety of outputs. The end is nigh for the measuring of impact using only citations to published papers: this is the age of the 'reuse factor'.
Silis (Silis) latestyla Green 1966
Creators: name: Fanti, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Silis
Silis latestyla

description: Silis (Silis) latestyla Green, 1966
 Silis (Silis) latestyla Green, 1966: 464 (key), 497 (plus caption of figs.), (496 Fig. 43) Silis latistylus Delkeskamp, 1977: 277 (emend.) nec latestyla, Delkeskamp, 1978: 524 (latestyla), 525 (latistylus)
 Silis latistyla (Delkeskamp, 1977) Poole & Gentili, 1996: 80 incorrect subsequent spelling
 Note. Silis latistylus is an evident unjustified emendation (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.3.) since the emendation of the letter “i” instead of “e” and the gender agreement are not correct (ICZN 1999: Art. 32.5.1.) and it is not in prevailing usage. In the works of Poole & Gentili (1996) and Delkeskamp (1978) both the names “ latestyla ” and “ latistylus (latistyla sic.! in Poole & Gentili)” are present.
description: Published as part of Fanti, Fabrizio, 2023, Some taxonomical notes on North American soldier beetles, pp. 61-64 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 23 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.59893/bjc.23(1).005, http://zenodo.org/record/13203680
Wikis in scholarly publishing
Creators: name: Mietchen, Daniel
name: Hagedorn, Gregor
name: Förstner, Konrad U.
name: Kubke, M Fabiana
name: Koltzenburg, Claudia
name: Hahnel, Mark
name: Penev, Lyubomir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain knowledge in a coherent and transparent fashion. Here, we examine the potential of wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing. In the hope to stimulate further discussion, the article itself was drafted on Species-ID – a wiki that hosts a prototype for wiki-based scholarly publishing – where it can be updated, expanded or otherwise improved.
The place metaphor in 3D CVEs: a pedagogical case study of the virtual stage
Creators: name: Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina
name: Wyeld, Theodor
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper outlines a pedagogically-oriented case study of the use of a 3D collaborative virtual environment (3D CVE) to break down barriers between partners from different cultural backgrounds whilst performing collaborative activities on a 3D 'virtual stage'. The 3D collaborative laboratory (3DCollab) described in this paper served as a learning exchange platform to address the need for ICT students to practice collaborating remotely. It facilitated cultural exchange in a risk-free, fun, and informative environment where learning was constructed and played out on virtual stages in a 3D CVE, in the performance of a dramatized version of Plato’s 'Allegory of the Cave'. Based on the students’ feedback, we discuss how the design features of the virtual stage place metaphor provide a support for educational role-play and socialization.
Plocia notata Newman 1842
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman D.
name: Avergonzado, Eleuterio Jr. C.
name: Loguinsa, Jules T.
name: Macosang, Monsur M.
name: Panangcad, Jenie Ann M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plocia
Plocia notata

description: Plocia notata Newman, 1842
Newman, 1842: 292; Thomsom, 1864: 45; Lacordaire, 1872: 610; Gemmainger & Harold, 1873: 3103; Heyrovsky, 1935: 19, 20; Kano, 1939: 32; Breuning, 1949: 49; Breuning, 1960:139; Breuning, 1964: 79; Hua, 2002: 216; Tavakilian & Jiroux, 2015: 78; Barsevskis, 2017: 185; Weigel & Skale, 2021: 351.
 Type information and deposition: Plocia notata Newman, 1842, Holotype, BMNH; Epaphra albicornis Heyrovsky 1935, Syntypes (4), Prague National Museum.
 Synonym: Plocia notata Newman, 1842; Epaphra albicornis Heyrovsky 1935.
 Distribution: Philippines (Luzon: Manila; Mt. Makiling, Laguna).
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman D., Avergonzado, Eleuterio Jr. C., Loguinsa, Jules T., Macosang, Monsur M. & Panangcad, Jenie Ann M., 2023, Catalog of the genus Plocia Newman, 1842 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Apomecynini) of the Philippines with the description of a new species from Davao De Oro Mindanao Island, pp. 75-83 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology (ISSI) (ISSI) 23 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.59893/bjc.23(1).008, http://zenodo.org/record/13203690
Motivating factors associated with adult participation in distance learning program
Creators: name: Abdullah, Muhammad Madi Bin
name: Parasuraman, Balakrishnan
name: Muniapan, Balakrishnan
name: Koren, Sebastian
name: Jones, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Gaining and understanding of the motivation which drives adults to commit to, and complete, higher education through distance learning is an important requirement for the design and the delivery of adult programs for educational institutions in Malaysia and abroad. Through an in-depth empirical examination, this paper provides the insight of one individual and his commitment to, and motivation to complete a Masters program through distance learning. The paper supports the empirical findings with a theoretical overview, discussing contemporary research in the field of adult education. Various factors that relate to adult participation in distance learning program are discussed in this paper.
Plocia puncticollis
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman D.
name: Avergonzado, Eleuterio Jr. C.
name: Loguinsa, Jules T.
name: Macosang, Monsur M.
name: Panangcad, Jenie Ann M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plocia
Plocia puncticollis

description: Plocia puncticollis (Breuning, 1965)
Breuning, 1965: 182; Weigel & Skale, 2021: 353.
 Type information and deposition: Parepilysta (s. s.) puncticollis Breuning, 1965, Holotype, ZMB.
 Synonym: Parepilysta (s. s.) puncticollis Breuning, 1965.
 Distribution: Philippines (Luzon).
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman D., Avergonzado, Eleuterio Jr. C., Loguinsa, Jules T., Macosang, Monsur M. & Panangcad, Jenie Ann M., 2023, Catalog of the genus Plocia Newman, 1842 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Apomecynini) of the Philippines with the description of a new species from Davao De Oro Mindanao Island, pp. 75-83 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology (ISSI) (ISSI) 23 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.59893/bjc.23(1).008, http://zenodo.org/record/13203690
The parallel between Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
Creators: name: Jafar, Sahar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Literature

description: The concept of the American dream was a topic of interest for many writers in the mid of the twentieth century;Jack Kerouac’s On the Roadis a novel that discusses the idea of the American Dream and how itwas corrupted after the end of World War II and the Cold War. During this time, the economic life in American is flourished and people began to move from the towns to the cities searching for a better life and future and pursing after wealth and money. On the Road seems a perfectexample of embodying the reality of practicingthe American Dream after the two wars. This novel is similar to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in many themes that are related to the corruption of the American Dream such as the American’s ambition of getting married or having a relationship with a blonde girl so he can achieve the social success. Also, there is the concept of representing womenas a marginal part or a sexual object for the men.In addition, the concerns and the racialthere is the racial worries that prevailed the American society and from people of color and their anxiety for becoming competitive for the whites in the cities. There isalso the presence of the jazz music as a reflection of the African-American background for both Jack Kerouac and Jay Gatsby and how they show it by representing for Jazz music. Not only this but alsothe different ways that the writers use to depict the west. This paper will discuss the parallel and the similarity between the two novels’ on the American Dream.
Plocia splendens
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman D.
name: Avergonzado, Eleuterio Jr. C.
name: Loguinsa, Jules T.
name: Macosang, Monsur M.
name: Panangcad, Jenie Ann M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plocia
Plocia splendens

description: Plocia splendens (Hüdepohl, 1995)
Hudephol, 1995: 285; Tavakilan & Jiroux, 2015: 78; Weigel & Skale, 2021: 353.
 Type Information and deposition: Mimoplocia splendens Hudephol 1995, Holotype, ZSM.
 Synonym: Mimoplocia splendens Hudephol 1965.
 Distribution: Philippines (Luzon: Sibuyan; Romblon Province)
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman D., Avergonzado, Eleuterio Jr. C., Loguinsa, Jules T., Macosang, Monsur M. & Panangcad, Jenie Ann M., 2023, Catalog of the genus Plocia Newman, 1842 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Apomecynini) of the Philippines with the description of a new species from Davao De Oro Mindanao Island, pp. 75-83 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology (ISSI) (ISSI) 23 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.59893/bjc.23(1).008, http://zenodo.org/record/13203690
title: LawRules #8: We Need to Talk About the Penal System
Creators: name: Kokott, Lennart
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 342

description: We need to talk about the Penal System. In European Criminal Law, there is consensus that criminal law should be ultima ratio, that is, the last resort when the law is applied and executed. However, criminal law and the penal system at large have also proven to be an efficient way to silence political opponents and citizens turning against the government by literally barring them from raising their voice in public. We have seen examples for this in Europe, and we’ll have to talk about that today. But there are more aspects to this topic: How are prison systems being used as a tool by autocratic-leaning governments? And how is the relationship between the penal system and the rule of law in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice that the European Union aspires to be?
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Beyond efficiency ratings: is the domestic fridge sustainable?
Creators: name: Lowe, Kate
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Collins Dictionary describes the fridge as a 'chamber in which food, drink etc. are kept cool' but such a simple description belies the complex realities of the fridge and its impact on and relationship to sustainability. Sustainability itself is difficult to define, as it remains an aspirational rather than particular reality, nonetheless it is important to outline a definition so the rest of this paper is conceptualised within it and the reader and myself are 'on the same page'. David Orr describes 'sustainable design [as] the careful nesting of human purposes with the larger patterns and flows of the natural world'. While he is referring to 'design', the metaphor of 'careful nesting' can be expanded to convey a sense of what sustainability means. The fridge's impact on sustainability, that is on ourselves and the rest of nature, is not simply about energy efficiency or even its material realities. The fridge is not only a 'cool box', something seemingly so ordinary it is largely invisible to us, but as an enabler of apparent human transcendence beyond the 'natural world' by arresting death and decay and allowing us to eat outside of geographical or seasonal food limitations. By opening the doors of the fridge we can explore gender roles, social history and industrial capitalism, all of which intersect to tell the story of the fridge and its relationship to sustainability. It is important to clarify here though that home ownership of a fridge-freezer is not universal so this paper is situating itself within economically privileged communities within countries such as Australia.
Performance Assessment of Horizontal Subsurface Constructed wetland for the treatment of Winery wastewater
Creators: name: Sunamawit, Aweke
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Wastewater from human dwellings and activities has been a primary target of many treatment technologies, including constructed wetlands. Constructed wetland technologies for wastewater treatment is characterized by specific conditions enabling simultaneous various physical and biochemical processes that are responsible for the removal and retention of pollutants. Thanks to its advantages such as simple construction, easy operation and cost effective maintenance, there is growing interest in the use of this technology for the treatment of wastewater from different sources including industries. The specific characteristic of industrial wastewater (new pollutants, extreme concentration, low biodegradability, high toxicity) is a challenge for the application of constructed wetlands, and therefore research is necessary to assess their viability and optimize their design and operation. This study was undertaken to establish the efficacy of horizontal subsurface constructed wetlands in purifying winery wastewater, and to examine the effect of water depth and vegetation on the treatment efficiency. The study used four pilot scale cells with water depth of 40 cm and 80 cm that were operated at the same hydraulic residence time of ten days. Two cells were planted with local macrophyte (bossarus aethopium) and the other two were left unplanted to be used as control. The constructed wetlands exhibited good removal efficiency with respect to all the major pollutants monitored i.e. COD, BOD, TSS, TDS, TKN, NH4 + . The data analysis indicated that the shallow wetland cells with a water depth of 40 cm had significantly higher performance for the removal of COD, BOD, TKN and NH4 + - 3- , NO3 , TP and PO4 than the 80 cm deep cells. Also, the planted wetland cells showed better removal efficiency for the organic matter and nutrient than the unplanted cells. The findings of this study showed positive results towards the use of HSSFCWs for the treatment of winery wastewater. The 40cm deep planted cell had better overall performance compared to the other cells and hence was used to design a large scale constructed wetland for Awash winery. STELLA modeling tool was used to simulate the hydrologic dynamics of the large scale constructed wetland.
Bulimia Online: a randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of an online automated self-help and therapist-assisted treatment program for bulimia nervosa
Creators: name: Baulch, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis reports on a randomised controlled trial of 'Bulimia Online': a 12-week online cognitive behavioural treatment program for bulimia nervosa. Fifty-nine participants meeting diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa were randomly allocated to either Bulimia Online with therapist-assistance (n = 20), Bulimia Online without therapist-assistance (i.e. automated self-help) (n = 21) or a wait-list control condition (n = 19). Participants were assessed at pre-treatment, post-treatment and 3-month follow-up. Intention to treat analyses revealed that the Bulimia Online program was not superior to a WLC condition for any measures. Participants felt that Bulimia Online was a credible treatment option and reported high levels of satisfaction with the intervention, in addition to high levels of working alliance with their eTherapist. The results of this study suggest that while BO is a potentially useful way of disseminating treatment, a larger research trial is needed.
A closed form unwrapping method for a spherical omnidirectional view sensor
Creators: name: Chong, Nguan Soon
name: Kho, Yau Hee
name: Wong, Mou Ling Dennis
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article proposes a novel method of image unwrapping for spherical omnidirectional images acquired through a non-single viewpoint (NSVP) omnidirectional sensor. It has three key steps i.e. (1) calibrate the camera to obtain parameters describing the spherical omnidirectional sensor, (2) map world points onto mirror points and, subsequently, onto image points, and (3) set up the projection plane for the final image unwrapping. Based on the projection plane selected, the algorithm is able to produce three common forms of unwrapping, namely cylindrical panoramic, cuboid panoramic, and ground plane view using closed form mapping equations. The motivation for developing this technique is to address the complexity in using a NSVP omnidirectional sensor and ultimately encouraging its application in robotics field. One of the main advantages of a NSVP omnidirectional sensor is that the mirror can often be obtained at a lower price as compared to the single viewpoint counterpart.
The role of TRF2 in regulating neural progenitor cells proliferation and surivival
Creators: name: Muhammad Imran, Siti Aminah
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The telomere repeat binding factor 2 (TRF2) plays an important role in protecting the telomere from any unwanted recombination and DNA fusion, which could cause DNA instability and cell death through t-loop formation and inhibition of the DNA Damage Response, such as the ATM. TRF2 protein has been previously identified as being highly expressed in the hESC-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs). In the current study, we have reduced TRF2 expression in these NPCs by RNA knockdown and investigated the role of TRF2 in cell growth under various culture conditions. We have also overexpressed TRF2 in HEK293T cells to determine whether the effects of TRF2 are cell-specific or not. Under the routine culture condition (N2B27 + bFGF/EGF, 37°C, 5% CO2), high TRF2 expressing NPCs showed significantly higher growth and less apoptosis (p<0.01). However, under the various stress conditions (B27 withdrawal, oxidative stress and hypoxia), high TRF2 expressing cells seemed to exhibit more cell death than low TRF2 expressing cells within 1 hour of the treatment, indicating the involvement of TRF2 in the DNA damage response. Under the standard culture conditions, the expressions of ATM-dependant DDR factors were significantly lower in the high TRF2 expressing NPCs. However, the comet assay analysis showed that the high TRF2 expressing cells has a higher DNA Double Strand Breaks (DDSB), which is contradictory to the protein expressions of the DNA damage markers. The difference in proliferation and apoptosis were also observed in the TRF2 over-expressing 293T cells as compared to the control, which shows the function of TRF2 is not cell specific. Our results indicate that TRF2 might also be involved in cellular survival and/or cell death in addition to its regulation on telomeres. Under standard culture conditions, the higher TRF2 expression seems to help in terms of proliferation or protecting the cells against apoptosis, which suggest that TRF2 may have a protective function in cells. However, in the stress conditions, TRF2 seems to have an adverse effect on the cells, which could be due to the involvement of TRF2 with the DNA damage response pathway. These results might contribute to further understand the function of TRF2 in the DDR and in cell survival.