cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of restricting the legal supply of prescription opioids on buying through online illicit marketplaces: Interrupted time series analysis
Creators: name: Martin, James
name: Cunliffe, Jack
name: Décary-Hétu, David
name: Aldridge, Judith
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440201
subject: Causes and prevention of crime
classificationCode: 440205
subject: Criminological theories

description: Objective To examine the effect on the trade in opioids through online illicit markets (“cryptomarkets”) of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s ruling in 2014 to reschedule hydrocodone combination products. Design Interrupted time series analysis. Setting 31 of the world’s largest cryptomarkets operating from October 2013 to July 2016. Main outcome measures The proportion of total transactions, advertised and active listings for prescription opioids, prescription sedatives, prescription steroids, prescription stimulants, and illicit opioids, and the composition of the prescription opioid market between the US and elsewhere. Results The sale of prescription opioids through US cryptomarkets increased after the schedule change, with no statistically significant changes in sales of prescription sedatives, prescription steroids, prescription stimulants, or illicit opioids. In July 2016 sales of opioids through US cryptomarkets represented 13.7% of all drug sales (95% confidence interval 11.5% to 16.0%) compared with a modelled estimate of 6.7% of all sales (3.7% to 9.6%) had the new schedule not been introduced. This corresponds to a 4 percentage point yearly increase in the amount of trade that prescription opioids represent in the US market, set against no corresponding changes for comparable products or for prescription opioids sold outside the US. This change was first observed for sales, and later observed for product availability. There was also a change in the composition of the prescription opioid market: fentanyl was the least purchased product during July to September 2014, then the second most frequently purchased by July 2016. Conclusions The scheduling change in hydrocodone combination products coincided with a statistically significant, sustained increase in illicit trading of opioids through online US cryptomarkets. These changes were not observed for other drug groups or in other countries. A subsequent move was observed towards the purchase of more potent forms of prescription opioids, particularly oxycodone and fentanyl.
Inert Gas Deactivates Protein Activity by Aggregation
Creators: Zhang, Lijuan
Zhang, Yuebin
Cheng, Jie
Wang, Lei
Wang, Xingya
Zhang, Meng
Gao, Yi
Hu, Jun
Zhang, Xuehua
Lü, Junhong
Li, Guohui
Tai, Renzhong
Fang, Haiping
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2017

Biologically inert gases play important roles in the biological functionality of proteins. However, researchers lack a full understanding of the effects of these gases since they are very chemically stable only weakly absorbed by biological tissues. By combining X-ray fluorescence, particle sizing and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, this work shows that the aggregation of these inert gases near the hydrophobic active cavity of pepsin should lead to protein deactivation. Micro X-ray fluorescence spectra show that a pepsin solution can contain a high concentration of Xe or Kr after gassing, and that the gas concentrations decrease quickly with degassing time. Biological activity experiments indicate a reversible deactivation of the protein during this gassing and degassing. Meanwhile, the nanoparticle size measurements reveal a higher number of “nanoparticles” in gas-containing pepsin solution, also supporting the possible interaction between inert gases and the protein. Further, MD simulations indicate that gas molecules can aggregate into a tiny bubble shape near the hydrophobic active cavity of pepsin, suggesting a mechanism for reducing their biological function.
Exochus flavifrons BOHEMAN 1863
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus flavifrons

description: Exochus flavifrons BOHEMAN, 1863
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap7:1♁27.vii.-20.viii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: West Palaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
How Do Propensity Score Methods Measure Up in the Presence of Measurement Error? A Monte Carlo Study
Creators: name: Gil, Patricia Rodríguez De
name: Bellara, Aarti P.
name: Rheta E. Lanehart
name: Lee, Reginald S.
name: Kim, Eun Sook
name: Kromrey, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biotechnology

description: Considering that the absence of measurement error in research is a rare phenomenon and its effects can be dramatic, we examine the impact of measurement error on propensity score (PS) analysis used to minimize selection bias in behavioral and social observational studies. A Monte Carlo study was conducted to explore the effects of measurement error on the treatment effect and balance estimates in PS analysis across seven different PS conditioning methods. In general, the results indicate that even low levels of measurement error in the covariates lead to substantial bias in estimates of treatment effects and concomitant reduction in confidence interval coverage across all methods of conditioning on the PS.
Temperature- and pressure-dependent kinetico-mechanistic studies on the formation of mixed-valence {(tetraamine)CoIIINCFeII(CN)5}– units
Creators: name: Alcázar, Laura
name: Bogdándi, Virág
name: Lente, Gábor
name: Martínez, Manuel
name: Vázquez, Marta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The reduction of CoIII in the tetraammine-encapsulating ligand complex [CoIII{(μ-Et)(Me2)cyclen}(H2O)2]3+ by [FeII(CN)6]4– has been studied kinetico-mechanistically at different pH, temperatures and pressures. The process agrees with the expected outer-sphere redox mechanism, with the value of the encounter-complex equilibrium constant large enough to allow for kinetic determination of the first order electron transfer reaction rate constant. The value of the encounter-complex equilibrium constant, Kpre-eq, is not only dependent on the charge of the redox partners, but also on the establishment of an important network of hydrogen bonds. These can also explain the differences obtained in the activation volumes determined for the diaqua and bis-hydroxo complexes. Neither the leaching of CoII nor the presence of [FeIII(CN)6]3– is observed in the final reaction medium, which indicates that a fast sequence involving substitution on the transient CoII complex followed by a fast inner-sphere electron transfer takes place. This sort of mechanism has already been established for encapsulating pentaamine ligand complexes, but this is the first example of such a sequential reaction occurring on a tetradentate ligand complex. Preliminary UV-Vis and electrochemical characterization experiments have been conducted on the final reaction mixtures, suggesting the formation of a stable cyanide-bridged CoIII/FeII mixed-valence complex of the same type reported in the literature for encapsulating {CoIII(N)5} skeletons.
Exochus flavomarginatus HOLMGREN 1856
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus flavomarginatus

description: Exochus flavomarginatus HOLMGREN, 1856
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 1♀ 21.ix.-5.x.; trap 7: 1♀ 13-27.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (TOLKANITZ 2007).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Benchmarking indonesian local E-government
Creators: name: Nurdin, Nurdin
name: Stockdale, Rosemary
name: Scheepers, Helana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes the status of local e-government in Indonesia using the United Nations e-government benchmarking model. Using data from the Indonesia Ministry of Internal Affairs, we examined 353 local government websites from early March to the end of May 2011. The results show that the majority of local government websites (193) are still at the emergence stage, 98 are at the enhanced stage, 61 are at the interactive stage, and only one local government website has achieved the transaction stage. None of the local e-government websites have moved to the final stage of e-government according to the UN model. Our findings also show that some local government websites are not well managed and maintained and that local government websites do not comply with central government standardization requirements outlined in the e-government blue print.
title: Hubert Hall (1857-1944): Archival endeavour and the promotion of historical enterprise
Creators: name: Procter, Margaret R
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2012

description: This thesis examines the career of Hubert Hall (1857–1944). Hall began work at the Public Record Office in 1879, ending his career there as an Assistant Keeper in 1921. At the same time, and until 1939, he was heavily involved with many organizations and institutions, most notably the Royal Historical Society, the London School of Economics and the Royal Commission on Public Records. His numerous activities as a ‘historical worker’ were aimed at the ‘promotion of historical enterprise(s)’. Before 1900 his writing, on historical topics, and his editorial work were carried out primarily independently. After that date much of his published work derived from his teaching work (most successfully from seminar-based collaborations); this included works which addressed archival science and archival management. The shift in the type of work produced can be attributed to the furore, orchestrated by John Horace Round, surrounding his edition of The Red Book of the Exchequer, a dispute which had a notorious public airing in the late 1890s, but a longer and more private genesis dating back to the previous decade. The context for this examination of Hall’s career is the professionalization of history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period during which he also began and ended his PRO career. The consolidation of the professional infrastructure of history by the early 1920s also signalled the divergence of archival management and academic history as separate disciplines. As a result, archivists in particular lost sight of their professional antecedents, with received opinion now dating the start of British archival thinking to the appearance of Hilary Jenkinson’s Manual of Archive Administration in 1922. These antecedents include a rich seam of archival writing (both theoretical and practical) by Hall and his PRO contemporaries (notably Charles Johnson and Charles Crump) and the work of a generation of women historical workers, many of whom have been identified as benefiting from Hall’s teaching, and his support. The ‘disappearance’ of these women from university-based history after the 1930s has been well documented in the literature; it is anticipated that future research would identify their re-emergence in, or their transfer to, the post-World War 2 archival domain.
Exochus gravis
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus gravis

description: Exochus gravis (GRAVENHORST, 1829)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 2♀♀ 1♁ 5-20.v., 1♁ 20.v.-1.vi.; trap 7: 1♀ 1♁ 23.iv.-5.v., 1♀ 20.v.-1.vi., 1♁ 29.vi.-13.vi.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Krasnodar region (TOLKANITZ 1987), new record for Georgia.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
The role of metacognitive reading strategies instructions and various types of links in comprehending hypertexts
Creators: name: Verezub, Elena
name: Wang, Hua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The advent of computer and Internet technology enables hypertext, hypermedia and e-learning to be involved in the vocational education and training area. Hyperlinks play a significant role in hypertexts and e-learning systems, since they are connections among different nodes of information. Besides textual links, hypermedia systems provide access to various links that include multimedia applications, such as pictures, and audio clips. Therefore, comprehending information presented in hypertext/hypermedia systems and e-learning systems utilising appropriate reading strategies becomes crucial. This paper adds a new dimension to the existing body of research by investigating the influence of metacognitive strategies training and different types of hyperlinks on reading comprehension of hypertexts. A comparison of comprehension outcomes for hypertexts with text, picture and audio links is presented in order to illustrate the relationship among hypertext comprehension, types of links and learning styles. Also theoretical and practical implications of this research are presented.
Development of a comprehensive model for oxygen steelmaking
Creators: name: Dogan, Neslihan
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One of the main goals in oxygen steelmaking process is to reduce the carbon concentration of the liquid iron effectively. It is understood that the majority of the carbon removal reaction occurs in the emulsion phase via the reaction between metal droplets and the slag phase. An improved understanding of this reaction and the factors controlling the overall rate should provide better control of the process and increase the productivity. In the literature, there is limited knowledge on how to relate the carbon removal rate within the droplets to the overall kinetics of the process under full scale operating conditions. A global model of oxygen steelmaking including the kinetics of scrap melting, flux dissolution, slag chemistry, temperature profile of the system, formation and residence of metal droplets in the emulsion, kinetics of decarburization reaction in different reaction zones has been developed. This paper will focus on the development of one sub-model on the decarburization reaction in the emulsion phase. This paper critically evaluates the current knowledge on the kinetics of decarburization reaction in the emulsion phase and discusses the repercussions of the new model for industrial practices. The model, in conjunction with the industrial data, suggests that approximately 70% of the decarburisation takes place in the emulsion phase during the main blow.
Exochus mitratus GRAVENHORST 1829
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus mitratus

description: Exochus mitratus GRAVENHORST, 1829
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 1♀ 20.iv.-5.v., 3♀♀ 5-20.v.; trap 7: 1♁ 5-20.v., 1♀ 20.v.- 1.vi., 1♀ 13-27.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Holarctic, known from Georgia (MEYER 1936, RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Exochus pictus HOLMGREN 1858
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus pictus

description: Exochus pictus HOLMGREN, 1858
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 2: 1♀ 5-20.v.; trap 15: 3♀♀ 1♁ 30.vi.-14.vii., 1♁ 14-28.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Holarctic, known from Georgia (MEYER 1936, RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Distribution of impurities in magnesium production via silicothermic reduction
Creators: name: Wulandari, W.
name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Monaghan, B. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The desire for light weight materials, particularly in the automotive field, is fuelling greater magnesium production. The Pidgeon process is currently the most widely used process for the production of magnesium. This batch process involves reduction of dolomite by ferro-silicon, carried out at temperature between 1100-1200oC under vacuum in a retort, producing magnesium vapour which is then cooled and collected as a condensate. The major attractions of the process are its simplicity and low capital cost; however, the process is also labour and energy intensive. The Magnetherm process is also a vacuum batch process based on similar chemistry but operates at higher temperatures with magnesia dissolved in a slag. Various operational issues relating to the batch and vacuum nature of the process have limited its development. Higher temperatures will improve the kinetics of the silicothermic reduction but will also promote greater impurities into the vapour. Thermodynamic analysis of the distribution of impurities during condensation of magnesium vapour has been carried using FactSage thermodynamic package. The results from the multi-stage equilibrium model show that at equilibrium it should be possible to condense solid impurities before the majority of the magnesium vapour is condensed below 750oC, depending on the operating pressure of the system and the particular chemistry of the process. The model predicts that purities above 99.8wt% can be achieved for the Pidgeon process and 99.4wt% for the Mintek process. Without multi-stage condensation, the impurities in the metal are predicted to be significantly higher for the Mintek process (2.14wt% compared to 0.6 wt%). These results are broadly consistent with existing industrial data.
Modelling of an alternative pi-phase-shifted fibre Bragg grating operating at twice the Bragg wavelength
Creators: name: Yam, Sui P.
name: Baxter, Greg W.
name: Wade, Scott
name: Collins, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The spectrum of an alternative type of pi-phase-shifted Bragg grating that operates at twice the Bragg wavelength, has been analysed according to a model developed for a conventional pi-phase-shifted Bragg grating.
Measuring baryon acoustic oscillations with future SKA surveys
Creators: name: Bull, P.
name: Camera, Stefano
name: Raccanelli, A.
name: Blake, Chris
name: Ferreira, Pedro G.
name: Santos, Mario G.
name: Schwarz, D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in large-scale structure can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history, and hence for testing cosmological models. In this chapter we briefly describe the scientific background to the BAO technique, and forecast the potential of the Phase 1 and 2 SKA telescopes to perform BAO surveys using both galaxy catalogues and intensity mapping, assessing their competitiveness with current and future optical galaxy surveys. We find that a 25,000 deg2 intensity mapping survey on a Phase 1 array will preferentially constrain the radial BAO, providing a highly competitive 2% constraint on the expansion rate at z ≃ 2. A 30,000 deg2 galaxy redshift survey on SKA2 will outperform all other planned experiments for z < ∼ 1:4.
Nonlinear imaging by an endoscope probe incorporating a tip-tilt-piston microelectromechanical system mirror
Creators: name: Morrish, Dru
name: Wu, Lei
name: Xie, Huikai
name: Reynolds, Jeremy
name: Boussioutas, Alex
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present multiphoton nonlinear imaging from an endoscope probe. Femtosecond pulses are delivered via double-clad photonic crystal fibre. Imaging is performed by the three-dimensional scanning of the tip-tilt-piston microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror.
Use of a radially polarized beam for ultra-low energy threshold for cancer photothermal therapy with gold nanorods
Creators: name: Kang, Hong
name: Li, Jingliang
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Morrish, Dru
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We demonstrate that the use of a radially polarized beam is more efficient for both imaging and therapy for cancer cells labelled with gold nanorods, compared with that of a linearly polarized beam.
title: Berlin in English-language fiction, 1989-2008, spatial representation and the dynamics of memory
Creators: name: O'Hanrahan, Paul
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Abstract This thesis sets out to define the field of Berlin English-language fiction since 1989 by identifying its distinctive forms of representation of space and memory. The post-Wall Berlin thriller can be characterised as a literary category based on genre combinations and a turn to the past. Distinct spatial iconographies emerge in thrillers representing Nazi Berlin, post-war ‘rubble Berlin’ and the divided Cold War period; even the twenty-first-century city is related to 1920s cabarets. Applying Huyssen’s observations on Berlin as a palimpsest of dynamic relations between past and present, I show that the Berlin thriller’s concern with memory is responsive to contemporary uncertainties in the decades following the fall of the Wall. I proceed to compare British perspectives on divided Berlin in novels with thriller associations by Ian McEwan, John le Carré and James Lasdun. I posit that British involvement in the shared governance of divided Berlin during the Cold War era has fostered a special nostalgia for the city which has influenced the intimacy with which these authors represent the city. Through analysis of spatial relations with both parts of the divided city, I reveal unexpected British affinities with East Berlin, ambivalent memories of the Wall and regret at its fall. McEwan’s detailed psychological mapping of topography illustrates how ruins and abandoned space can preserve memory and challenge Nora’s definition of the memory site as a compensatory form. The contemporary, post-unification city is represented in a sample of novels from a wider Anglophone context. The transitory nature of the visitor narrative is challenged by the growing awareness of the city’s memory which informs Berlin novels by American author, Anna Winger, Mexican novelist, Chloe Ardijis and Irish-German author, Hugo Hamilton. Contrasts between insider and outsider relationships with the city are explored and related to representations of peripheral space. A new emphasis on the greening of Berlin is related to eco-critical perspectives: the prospect of emergence from a traumatic past, as signalled by Hamilton is countered by the premonitions of its return as a haunting presence in Aridjis. The diversity of representations of the past in English-language Berlin fiction since 1989 has been driven by the dynamics of the end-of-era perspective created by the fall of the Wall. I show how a seeming tendency towards detachment from post-unification Berlin contrasts with continuing engagement with memory sites in the contemporary city.
Investigation of metallic structure with negative thermal expansion: A review
Creators: name: Soodi, Mehdi
name: Brandt, Milan
name: Masood, Syed
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Materials with negative thermal expansion (NTE) properties have numerous applications that interest design engineers and scientists in aerospace, electronics, dentistry and other industries and fields that at some stage experience unwanted thermal expansion in parts. This paper reviews research done on developing metal alloys or solid structures from combination of metal alloys that demonstrate negative thermal expansion properties. The review shows that a variety of alloys, composites and structures have been used to develop NTE metallic structures some of which have achieved significant successes in doing so. In order to fabricate parts from a mix of alloys or a structure comprising a series of layers from various alloys, a technology with high flexibility was needed. Traditional welding or casting methods could not offer such capabilities. Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) is a technology that uses laser energy to melt metal powder injected coaxially with the laser beam on substrates and create shapes and structures directly from CAD models with none or minimal metallurgical defects. The technology will be used to explore the manufacture of complex structures with NTE properties using a range of alloying powders.
Book review: 'Corporate governance: New challenges and opportunities'
Creators: name: Pacces, Alessio M.
name: Germain, Laurent
name: Perenyi, Aron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Alessio Pacces, Laurent Germain and Aron Perenyi review Corporate governance: New challenges and opportunities, by Alexander N. Kostyuk, Udo Braendle and Vincenzo Capizzi (Virtus Interpress, 2017, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-617-7309-00-9).
Influence of process parameters in the direct metal deposition of H13 tool steel on copper alloy substrate
Creators: name: Khalid Imran, M.
name: Masood, Syed
name: Brandt, Milan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Bi-metallic die of steel coated on high thermal conductive copper alloy is of great interest as mould material for the aluminium high pressure die casting industries. Direct Metal Deposition technique is widely used for laser cladding of steel on copper substrate. The characteristics of the deposited layer are strongly dependant on the DMD process parameters. Precise selection of the process parameters for a sound deposited layer is a great challenge in this stream. This paper investigates the influence of various process parameters such as laser power, feed rate, powder mass flow rate and focus size on the deposition process. Reflectivity, a common phenomenon associated with laser metal deposition on copper was the major obstructing factor considered in the experimental procedure. Based on these parametric investigations a suitable set of parameters are suggested for laser cladding of steel on copper substrate without high reflection that can potentially harm the machine.
Exochus prosopius GRAVENHORST 1829
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus prosopius

description: Exochus prosopius GRAVENHORST, 1829
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 7: 2♀♀ 13-27.vii., 1♀ 27.vii.-20.viii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Exochus suborbitalis SCHMIEDEKNECHT 1924
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus suborbitalis

description: Exochus suborbitalis SCHMIEDEKNECHT, 1924
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 7: 2♀♀ 13-27.vii., 1♁ 27.vii.-10.viii., 2♀♀ 1♁ 10-24.viii., 1♀ 24.viii.-7.ix., 2♀♀ 21.ix.-5.x.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
title: “At large”: women’s lives and offending in Victorian Liverpool and London
Creators: name: Williams, Lucy
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: This thesis focuses on serious female offenders living in Liverpool and London during the Victorian period. In contrast to much existing historical research on women and crime, the interest here is not solely on the offences women committed, nor their offending patterns; but instead on their lives, experiences, and identities. One of the key objectives of this research is to add new information on women and offending to a historiography which continues to be dominated by the male offender and the male experience or crime. Similarly, this research moves away from histories of female offenders as shoplifters, prostitutes, and child-killers, and considers the wider involvement of women in crimes of theft and violence in Victorian cities. The findings demonstrate that female offences were diverse, and patterns of offending were heavily influenced by local, environmental, and personal factors. Analysis of women’s experiences shows that limited opportunities for employment, difficult living conditions, and poor prospects for social mobility and stability all impacted upon the probability of offending. The research also shows that women who were part of the lowest sections of the working class, members of an ethnic minority, the oldest female child in their families, and unmarried, were most likely to become serious female offenders. Local differences in employment opportunities, housing patterns, and policing practices could impact upon the kind of crimes undertaken by women, the period of the life-cycle in which offending was most likely to begin, the length of offending careers, and the number of convictions women gained. Yet the biggest contribution to serious female offending was made by experiences which transcended both location and environment, namely the issues of poverty, and social and economic exclusion.
State space reduction techniques for component interfaces
Creators: name: Lumpe, Markus
name: Grunske, Lars
name: Schneider, Jean-Guy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Automata-based interface and protocol specifications provide an elegant framework to capture and automatically verify the interactive behavior of component-based software systems. Unfortunately, the underlying formalisms suffer from combinatorial state explosion when constructing new specifications for composite components or systems and may therefore render the application of these techniques impractical for real-world applications. In this paper, we explore the bisimulation technique as a means for a mechanical state space reduction of component-based systems. In particular, we apply both strong and weak bisimulation to Component Interaction Automata in order to obtain a minimal automata that can serve as a behavioral equivalent abstraction for a given component specification and illustrate that the proposed approach can significantly reduce the complexity of an interface specification after composition.
Voicing the Unvoiced: Silence and Self-expression in Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums
Creators: name: Nanthinii, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature

description: The present paper aims to trace the harsh realities of life in Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu with its primary focus set on Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums (1996). Herta Müller, a Romanian born German writer, is an eminent poet, renowned novelist, short story writer, distinguished essayist, and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. Herta Müller is a writer who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under totalitarianism be forgotten. Her fictional spaces, much like herself have thus acquired independence from the restricted surroundings in which she lived through. The present paper aims to explore the theme of silence and self-expression in the novel The Land of Green Plums, and limns on the imposed fear in the strangling regime through which Müller offers the twin path: living in hope or dying in fear.
Multicultural Perspectives in Amulya Malladi’s The Sound of Language
Creators: name: Nanthinii, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature

description: Divergent cultures can coexist successfully only if the existing cultural values are kept unblemished. Making oneself supportive and compatible to new cultures, rather than ignoring them, paves way for a beautiful harmony in their life. Amulya Malladi reinstates this ubiquitous conception of multiculturalism in her novel, The Sound of Language (2007). The present paper argues that the novel not just inflates the notion of coexistence in multiculturalism, but also exemplifies the binding between cultural and gender divides.
ЭРКИНЛИК ВА УНГА БЎЛГАН ЁНДАШУВЛАР ТАРИХИГА БИР НАЗАР
Creators: name: Nizomov, Fazliddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Инсоният  эркинлик деганда ижтимоий-аҳлоқий тамойилларига мос ва инсон ҳуқуқларини таъминлаш даражасини англатувчи ҳодиса тушунилади. Сабаб шахс эркинлигига ўз ҳaёти ва фаолиятини амалга ошириши, озод шахс сифатида меҳнат қилиши, билим олиш, ўзи истаган касб, ҳунарни, диний эьтиқод ва бошқаларни ихтиёрий танлаши хос бўлади. Ўз навбатида шахс эркинлигининг таркибий қисмлари  унинг дахлсизлиги, қадр-қиммати, диний эътиқод, виждон, сўз, ижод эркинлиги, хусусий мулкка эгалик ҳуқуқи ва бошқаларни келтириш мумкин.
title: ‘I, me, mine?’: an initial consideration of (popular music record) collecting aesthetics, identities & practices
Creators: name: Skrimsjö, Veronica AM
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Current there is very little academic literature dealing with the topic of record collecting, and when the topic is broached it appears to be done so with some level of suspicion towards the record collector. Thus, the only depictions of record collectors in the public domain tend to be very stereotypical and demeaning. This work aims to serve as a new starting point in how the record collector and the practices involved are viewed and understood by considering the roots of these stereotypes, which mainly stem from the work of the Frankfurt School theorists who lived during a time of great insecurity both in regards to new methods of production for cultural artefacts and art, but also their physical lives. Once this has been achieved, a consideration of more realistic record collecting practices will take place through discussions with collectors themselves, an examination of a collectible record label (Vertigo Records) and a diachronic analysis of the theories that have contributed to a fallacious view of the record collector. The record collector consumes his/her records on an individual basis – both in terms of person to person, but also – and, crucially – even record to record. Ultimately, it will be argued that one cannot define consumption through (the artefact’s) production, which mistakenly most considerations of the record collector have done.
Exochus tibialis HOLMGREN 1858
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Exochus
Exochus tibialis

description: Exochus tibialis HOLMGREN, 1858
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4; 1♀ 5-20.v.; trap 7: 1♀ 1♁ 5-20.v.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: West Palaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Waiting to Begin: An Analysis of Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Creators: name: Nanthinii, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature

description: Thomas Pynchon is one of the most acclaimed American postmodern of the twentieth century. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) is one of Pynchon’s most critically acclaimed novel which is well appreciated for its ambitious subject matter, narrative constructs, historical reality, word plays, convoluted plot structure, and so on. The Crying of Lot 49 is an intellectual thriller, where in we are acquainted with Pynchon’s detective Mrs. Oedipa Maas and her journey to nowhere. Pynchon with an over richness of clues parodies the conventional patterns of a detective fiction, a postmodern demeanor, and provides no single solution in the end. The inconclusiveness of the novel thus marks a possibility for another beginning. The present paper marks the text as an exemplary postmodern detective fiction.
Certification + FAIR Support Workshop for Data Repositories
Creators: name: Stein, Ilona Von
name: Huigen, Frans
name: Mokrane, Mustapha
name: L'Hours, Hervé
name: Herterich, Patricia
name: Devaraju, Anusuriya
name: Rouchon, Olivier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: CoreTrustSeal
Repository Certification
Trusted Digital Repositories
FAIR Data
Maturity Modeling

description: This workshop was provided within Task 4.3 concerning certification support for digital repositories. Through this first certification support workshop, FAIRsFAIR provides support and capacity building including materials, training and advice for repository managers to improve their knowledge of activities related to the preparations for CoreTrustSeal self-assessments. Participants to this workshop were representatives of the ten repositories that have been selected for the Certification Support initiative, part of FAIRsFAIR Work Package 4 on FAIR Certification.
title: Design, development and initiation of the Liverpool Respiratory Birth Cohort Study
Creators: name: Pickles, Rosanna
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Objective: To design, develop and initiate the Liverpool Respiratory Birth Cohort Study (LRBCS). This longitudinal birth cohort study aims to describe the respiratory symptoms of preschool children using the Liverpool Respiratory Symptom Questionnaire (LRSQ) from birth until the age of 5 years in Liverpool, by bi-annual assessment. Introduction: Respiratory symptoms in preschool children are difficult to assess using objective measures; indirect measures such as parental completed respiratory symptom questionnaires offer a valuable alternative. The LRSQ is one of few respiratory questionnaires validated for preschool populations. Using the LRSQ, this unique birth cohort study not only maps respiratory symptoms of Liverpool preschool children, but also explores the impact of these symptoms upon the child and their parents. Method: The LRBCS protocol was developed in collaboration with experienced paediatricians. Ethical approval was obtained by proportionate review in May 2012. As questionnaire deployment would be primarily conducted online, web-based survey software and an email-scheduling system were imperative for development and deployment of the questionnaire. Viable options for survey software were ascertained by feasibility testing at the LWH while providing an opportunity to tailor the design, appearance and accessibility of the questionnaire to appeal to the target population, while maintaining usability. MailChimp® was identified as the most efficient automated email scheduling service. Recruitment was piloted to determine the most effective strategy. Analysis: Recruitment has been successful to date, with Mothers of 1330 infants expressing interest (53% of eligible births) by 31st May 2013. Furthermore 80 Mothers (27% of those expressing interest) consented and returned data regarding their infant’s respiratory symptoms four months after birth. Preliminary analysis has shown that the group of Mothers expressing interest are representative of Liverpool’s new mothers and the local population in terms of demographics. Demographic, exposure and LRSQ data was collected online by Adobe Forms Central and by post questionnaires, and then collated using SPSS V19 for analysis. Conclusion: The LRBCS has been initiated successfully. It is an ongoing birth cohort study that will proceed for a further 6 years minimum, producing a large variety of invaluable data detailing the respiratory health and characteristics of the preschool Liverpool population. Future analysis will enable the exploration of demographic and exposure factors affecting the respiratory health of the Liverpool preschool population.
Voicing the Unvoiced: Silence and Self-expression in Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums
Creators: name: Nanthinii, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Literature

description: The present paper aims to trace the harsh realities of life in Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu with its primary focus set on Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums (1996). Herta Müller, a Romanian born German writer, is an eminent poet, renowned novelist, short story writer, distinguished essayist, and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. Herta Müller is a writer who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under totalitarianism be forgotten. Her fictional spaces, much like herself have thus acquired independence from the restricted surroundings in which she lived through. The present paper aims to explore the theme of silence and self-expression in the novel The Land of Green Plums, and limns on the imposed fear in the strangling regime through which Müller offers the twin path: living in hope or dying in fear.
Women Empowerment Through Social Networks
Creators: name: Nanthinii, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Language
subject: Literature

description: The pervasiveness of inequality, child marriage, honor killing, and sexual harassment tend to pose continuous threats to the womankind since ages. Yet, women are constantly fighting and finding a way to voice their views, and to break the traditional barriers. Social media plays a prominent role in enhancing women’s participation in both economical and political life. One such medium is the use of online social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc., which provide an opportunity to enhance their entrepreneurship, leadership qualities, self-expression, and identity. The present paper affirms the role of social networks in women empowerment. It also highlights the use of social networking services which not only offer women a chance to change, but also a chance to grow and empower themselves.
title: Selective ablation of thin films using ultra-short laser pulses
Creators: name: Fitzsimons, P
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: The micro processing of materials using ultra short pulse (USP) lasers with durations in the low picosecond (ps) and femtosecond (fs) range allows for the possibility of precision material removal on both nanometre and micron scales. Precision material removal can be achieved due to the near diffraction limited focus spot size and ultra-short pulse durations, which provide extremely high peak intensities with minimal thermal impact on the surrounding area. The work presented in this thesis is primarily concerned with the selective ablation of thin films deposited on various surfaces, using lasers with picosecond temporal pulse lengths at 1064 nm. As a result, damage to the substrate is negated through exploitation of the difference in linear absorption coefficients between the thin film and substrate. To elucidate the mechanism of selective processing with USP lasers; absorption, single and multi-pulse ablation effects were investigated in both fixed and variable beam positions. A sample of white float glass vacuum coated with indium tin oxide (ITO) was chosen as the material for this study. Experimental results demonstrate that linear absorption (α (λ)) of the ITO and substrate plays a key role in achieving selective thin film ablation. As a direct consequence of the difference in absorption coefficients at 1064 nm, the single (ϕ_th^1 ) and multi (ϕ_th^n ) pulse ablation thresholds of both materials are altered during the high peak intensity exposure. Selective processing was achieved by exploiting the difference between the ablation thresholds of ITO and glass. When irradiated with multiple pulses the ablation threshold of the substrate was observed to decrease with increasing pulse number. This change in threshold fundamentally limits the selective processing window; therefore incubation (S) effects must be considered when determining the viability of selective processing. For the purpose of practical applications, a series of case studies are also presented which attempt to utilise selective materials processing. These investigations were split into industrial and conservation. Industrial case studies focused on successfully micro processing a small thin film ITO circuit using a Spatial Light Modulator and a new low cost solar cell (F doped SnO2); whilst in conservation, the restoration of a pair of Royal gloves and the removal of unwanted bronze gilding is presented. The application of USP lasers in conservation represents a relatively new field of study where little previous research has been carried out. These case studies not only showcase the wide range of USP applications in which selective processing can be applied but also highlight the limitations of this method.
Database of coded articles on empirical cases of institutional entrepreneurship
Publisher: name: Utrecht University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social Sciences - Other social sciences (5.9)
subject: Institutional entrepreneurship
subject: Transition theory

description: This database contains coded information on 153 empirical cases stemming from 141 articles using the theory of institutional entrepreneurship. The database contains the article titles, authors and years of publication. Additionally, all cases are coded in a binary fashion using 15 codes. The accompanying text file contains the coding protocol that led to the coding in this database.  Further information on the selection and inclusion process of articles can be found in the article "The study of institutional entrepreneurship and its implications for transition studies" by Hoogstraaten et al., (2020) published in the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. This article also describes the motivations that led to the formulation of the used codes.