cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Collaborative play in a collaborative environment
Creators: name: Coddington, Alicen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Agile, malleable and multi-purpose environments within universities are becoming increasingly more important as “ learning becomes ever more a collaborative process ” (Coulson, Roberts, & Taylor, 2015, p. 11) . These forms of collaborative learning environments blur the boundaries between learning and social spaces. Lave and Wenger ’ s community of practice theorizes the fluidity between learning and socializi ng stating the “ learning is a socially constituted characteristic that involves the person and the social structure ” (Wenger - Trayner, 2013, p. 272) . Swinburne Design Factory (SDF) at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia is an example of a collaborative learning environment that acts as a community of practice. SDF is an environment that encourages and facilitates collaborative learning through the act of collaborative play. This paper argues that the SDF environment is a spatially agile and adaptable environment that invites collaborative learning within a community of practice that is situated within a university environment. Visual ethnographic data collected through photography captured the blending of learning and social activities and interactions within the SDF environment . The activities and interactions captured demonstrate that the SDF playground is in effect a facilitator for shared, collaborative learning.
SOABSE: An approach to realizing business-oriented security requirements with web service security policies
Creators: name: Phan, Tan
name: Han, Jun
name: Mueller, Ingo
name: Kapuruge, Malinda
name: Versteeg, Steve
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A critical issue in developing Web Service-based business applications is the realization of business-level security requirements with system-level security mechanisms using the WS-* standards. Current practice has primarily relied on the engineer's experience and lacks consistency and methodological support. This paper introduces an approach to Web Services security engineering called SOABSE, which systematically models, designs and implements security for a WS-based application from a given set of business-oriented security requirements. It includes 1) a stepwise process that systematically transforms business-level security requirements into system-level WS-* security policies, and relies on 2) a security realization model that maps business-level security objectives to WS-* security realization mechanisms and 3) a security deployment model that sets out the security-oriented Web Service deployment information. A prototype tool supporting the approach is also introduced.
title: Source Bonding, 'Music' and 'Sound in Electroacoustic Composition and The Audiovisual Sound Canvas
Creators: name: Fallon, DJ
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2525

description: Denis Smalley’s theories of Spectromorphology, Source Bonding, and Bonding Play can help us to understand the malleable relationships between sounds and their perceived sources in the context of electroacoustic music, and how these relationships can enrich and be enriched through their application within audiovisual media. (Smalley, D, 1997) These theories interact with the ideas and practices of composers working within fields such as Sonorism and Soundscape Composition in a way that helps to build the concept of an audiovisual sound canvas, adapted from the definition posited by Julio d’Escrivan’s. (d’Escrivan’s, J, 2009) A sound canvas in which sounds generated by musical instruments and all manner of ‘non-musical’ objects and environments may integrate into one aesthetic entity and challenge the conventional distinctions between ‘sound’ or ‘noise’ and ‘music’. A sound canvas, too, in which the expectations and tensions surrounding the abstract, intrinsic properties of sounds, and their extrinsic links to perceived sources may be reinforced, stretched or broken by way of creating, gratifying and undermining a listener’s expectations, thus building and resolving tensions like tonal dissonance and consonance in harmonic music. By weaving such a sound canvas into an audiovisual production one may liberate ‘sound’ beyond naturalistic representation and bring greater depth to the relationships between sounds and sources via the structured, visual representation of sound-making objects. In turn, such a sound canvas may enrich a visual montage and abolish any hierarchy between audiovisual elements, instead fostering aesthetic unity between ‘sound’, ‘music’ and moving image. These ideas are born-out in the portfolio of compositions, which represents the cultivation and realization of this vision in practice.
Beyond two dark energy parameters
Creators: name: Sarkar, D.
name: Sullivan, S.
name: Joudaki, Shahab
name: Amblard, A.
name: Holz, Daniel E.
name: Cooray, A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Our ignorance of dark energy is generally described by a two-parameter equation of state. In these approaches, a particular ad hoc functional form is assumed, and only two independent parameters are incorporated. We propose a model-independent, multiparameter approach to fitting dark energy and show that next-generation surveys will constrain the equation of state in three or more independent redshift bins to better than 10%. Future knowledge of dark energy will surpass two numbers (e.g., [w
HEAT EXCHANGE MODELING ON THE AIRCRAFT SURFACE UNDER HYPERSONIC SPEED OF THE APPROACH FLOW
Creators: name: A.A. Chernykh, A.I.Sharapov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Heat flow on Aircraft
Aircraft simulation
Hypersonic flight speed
Hypersonic aircraft
Flow temperature
Heat exchange simulation
Navier-Stokes equations.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 689-694
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Repurposing
Creators: name: Minhas, Asim Abid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: drug repurposing
subject: Metformin
subject: research
subject: data sets

description: This poster explores drug repurposing, a strategy for identifying new therapeutic uses for existing medications, and highlights the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in this process. By leveraging vast biomedical datasets, AI accelerates drug repurposing through predictive modeling, natural language processing, chemical similarity analysis, and genomic data evaluation. The advantages of AI, including speed, cost-efficiency, and data-driven insights, are discussed alongside challenges such as data quality, model interpretability, and regulatory concerns. Case studies, including the identification of baricitinib for COVID-19 and metformin for cancer treatment, illustrate AI's practical applications. Overall, AI presents significant opportunities to enhance drug discovery, although key challenges must be addressed to fully realize its potential.
PLANNING AND MANAGING RESTRICTIONS AND BARRIERS TO TOURISM DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND CHINA
Creators: name: Maryam Abili, Yan Zhao
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tourism geopolitics
Tourism destination
Tourism restrictions
Tourism supply and demand
Tourism between Iran and China.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 695-707
title: A Polanyian approach to understanding entrepreneurship in Liverpool
Creators: name: Nowak, V
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This research applies Karl Polanyi’s theoretical framework to explain how entrepreneurship is constructed in the context of place by focusing on north Liverpool. Entrepreneurship research continues to be dominated by an economic tradition that presents a growth-focused, profit-seeking ‘entrepreneurial hero’. Although this has been addressed in approaches that emphasise processes and context, the underpinning thinking often remains rooted in economism. This is particularly problematic for low-income places like north Liverpool, where economic thinking results in market solutions for problems created by market failure. The experience in Liverpool illustrates that policy prescriptions to address social welfare and local economic transformation based on economistic analysis are not working. This research suggests a Polanyian approach to re-socialise entrepreneurship by considering interrelated instituted economic processes of market exchange, reciprocity, redistribution and householding. A two-stage qualitative approach sought to understand the broader context of entrepreneurship through in-depth interviews with stakeholders, followed by case-study research comprising ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with two business support providers and their clients. As key influencers on business start-ups, these support organisations provided a lens through which to view the influences, strengths and weaknesses of the dominant heroic entrepreneurship narrative, and to understand the other instituted processes at play. Analysis revealed the contested nature of entrepreneurship in Liverpool: The mainstream market logic epitomised by the growth-focused entrepreneurial hero, coexisted and intertwined in reciprocal, redistribution and householding processes that were underpinned by supporting social institutions of market, community, state and family. The Polanyian framework applied, challenges mainstream approaches to offer a re-socialisation of entrepreneurship. Consideration of interrelating instituted economic processes offers an enhanced understanding of entrepreneurial context by drawing attention to underpinning structures that influence context creation; and democratise entrepreneurship by opening it up to diverse motivations and influences. Recognising that new business creation relies on markets, government, community and family, has implications for policy and practice. Revealing the level and nature of existing state support justifies its redirection to create inclusive local economic growth that values community businesses, social enterprises, small business and the self-employed. Offering scope for transformation in low-income places like north Liverpool.
Where do 'red and dead' early-type void galaxies come from?
Creators: name: Croton, Darren
name: Farrar, Glennys R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Void regions of the Universe offer a special environment for studying cosmology and galaxy formation, which may expose weaknesses in our understanding of these phenomena. Although galaxies in voids are observed to be predominately gas rich, star forming and blue, a subpopulation of bright-red void galaxies can also be found, whose star formation was shutdown long ago. Are the same processes that quench star formation in denser regions of the Universe also at work in voids? We compare the luminosity function of void galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, to those from a galaxy formation model built on the Millennium simulation. We show that a global star formation suppression mechanism in the form of low-luminosity 'radio-mode' active galactic nuclei (AGN) heating is sufficient to reproduce the observed population of void early types. Radio-mode heating is environment independent other than its dependence on dark matter halo mass, where, above a critical mass threshold of approximately Mvir∼ 10(12.5) Mo, gas cooling on to the galaxy is suppressed and star formation subsequently fades. In the Millennium simulation, the void halo mass function is shifted with respect to denser environments, but still maintains a high-mass tail above this critical threshold. In such void haloes, radio-mode heating remains efficient and red galaxies are found; collectively these galaxies match the observed space density without any modification to the model. Consequently, galaxies living in vastly different large-scale environments but hosted by haloes of similar mass are predicted to have similar properties, consistent with observations.
Steady aerodynamic and aeroacoustic optimization of an eVTOL rotor
Creators: name: Critchfield, Tyler
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: optimization
aerodynamics
aeroacoustics
surrogate modeling
rotor design

description: Urban air mobility is an exciting and impactful technology that has the potential to revolutionize modern transportation. To effectively design such aircraft, aeroacoustic and aerodynamic effects need to be considered together to ensure a robust design that is aerodynamically efficient and quiet. This work models an eVTOL rotor using blade element momentum theory and PSU-WOPWOP, a commercially available acoustics solver. Using these models, the rotor is optimized using surrogate models and a gradient-based optimization with aerodynamic and acoustic constraints. The optimization was able to reduce noise considerably with only a 0.3% decrease in propulsive efficiency.
Generating an architectural brief for a twenty-first-century engineering education working and learning environment
Creators: name: Coddington, Alicen
name: Mann, Llew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Context: This paper reports on the process undertaken by the Engineering Practice Academy at Swinburne University of Technology to broker and construct an architectural brief for a working and learning environment for a new engineering course. An architectural brief is a document that specifies the requirements and frames a project in regard to the project values, visions, and objectives. The construction of an architectural brief that is responsive to a specified espoused culture, values and objectives requires shared appreciation and meaning between the project stakeholders and decision-makers; this can be a complicated process as it entails the brokering of perspectives. In this case, representatives of the Engineering Practice Academy (Academy) who participated in the generation of the architectural brief were conduits of their own and collective desire for how engineering education and learning environments can be and should be delivered now and into the future. Purpose: To generate the conceptual content for an architectural brief that is viewed as a socio-spatial artifact. Approach: Stakeholders of the Academy participated in two participatory design workshops that addressed the built environment of the Academy as a signifier of an espoused culture. The workshops were organised around Schein's (2010) structural model of organizational culture and a reflection-in-action process was used to structure the workshop activities. Results: The workshops became a catalyst for the generation of the textual content for the architectural brief that was co-owned by the project stakeholders of the Academy who are advocates of the future environment and the emerging culture of the Academy. Conclusion: Brokering of shared meaning and practices is paramount to ensure that cohesive understanding of practices, identities and positions amongst project-stakeholders are negotiated, and ownership of a project and the eventual built environment are formed. The case presented in this paper is an example of one process for generating shared meaning and delivering an architectural brief viewed as a socio-spatial artifact for an engineering working and learning environment.
title: Anti-filarial drug discovery: targeting the Wolbachia endosymbiont
Creators: name: Clare, R
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The diseases onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF) are a leading cause of global morbidity affecting over 85.5 million people throughout the tropics. Clinical pathology for these diseases ranges from localised pain to hydrocele, lymphoedema and elephantiasis for LF and skin disease to blindness for onchocerciasis. Both filarial diseases are caused by parasitic filarial worm infections. Treatments for these diseases are limited to just three drugs (ivermectin (IVM), albendazole (ALB) and diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC)), all of which principally kill only the larval stages (microfilaricidal) of these worms leaving adult worms able to re-populate the microfilarial (mf) reservoirs and subsequently continue the transmission cycle. Macrofilaricidal drugs which target the adult stages are urgently needed to aid elimination. The Anti-Wolbachia Consortium (A·WOL) is working on such treatments by targeting the endosymbiotic bacteria which reside within the filarial worms. Clinical field trials have provided proof of concept evidence of targeting Wolbachia with the antibiotic doxycycline. However, doxycycline requires a prolonged treatment course of 4-6 weeks and is contraindicated in pregnancy and children under 8 years old, therefore there is an urgent need for repurposed or novel drugs with a shorter treatment timeframe and utility in excluded populations. This study presents the development of a high content screen which enabled a 25-fold increase in throughput in screening capacity for the A·WOL drug discovery programme, from 1,000 to 25,000 compounds per month. This screen was instrumental in allowing the programme to initiate a medicinal chemistry ‘hit to lead’ and lead optimization development programme. Following this assay development, a collaboration with A·WOL and AstraZeneca allowed for a paradigm shift in the evolution of this screen to an industrial scale high-throughput assay (HTS). This validated assay was used to screen over 1.8 million compounds: 1.3 million from the AstraZeneca collection and 0.5 million from the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). This HTS resulted in ~20,000 ‘hit’ compounds with anti-Wolbachia activity. Triaging of the compounds was carried out through secondary dose response screens of ~6,000 compounds followed by further triaging through both bioinformatic assessment as well as tertiary larval (mf) testing. The resultant hit chemotypes were tested within a newly developed time kill assay validated as part of this study. This assay identified 5 novel chemotypes with faster acting anti-Wolbachia activity than the existing portfolio of A·WOL drugs and lead candidates.
From Kant to Schelling to process metaphysics: On the way to ecological civilization
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The post-Kantians were inspired by Kant’s 'Critique of Judgment' to forge a new synthesis of natural philosophy, art and history that would overcome the dualisms and gulfs within Kant’s philosophy. Focusing on biology and showing how Schelling reworked and transformed Kant’s insights, it is argued that Schelling was largely successful in laying the foundations for this synthesis, although he was not always consistent in building on these foundations. To appreciate this achievement, it is argued that Schelling should not be interpreted as an idealist but as a process metaphysician; as he claimed, overcoming the oppositions between idealism and realism, spiritualism and materialism. It is also argued that as a process metaphysician, Schelling not merely defended an organic view of nature but developed a theory of emergence and a new conception of life relevant to current theoretical and philosophical biology. This interpretation provides a defense of process metaphysics as the logical successor to Kant’s critical philosophy and thereby as the most defensible tradition of philosophy up to the present. It provides the foundations for post-reductionist science, reconciling the sciences, the arts and the humanities, and provides the basis for a more satisfactory ethics and political philosophy. Most importantly, it overcomes the nihilism of European civilization, providing the foundations for a global ecological civilization.
IMPROVED COLOR CONSTANCY ALGORITHMS USING FUZZY TECHNIQUE
Creators: name: Parastoo Fathi, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghadam
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fuzzy clustering-based algorithm
Color space
Color constancy algorithm selection
Diagonal mapping
Fuzzification.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 709-719
OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTIVE COSTS ON THE BASIS OF THE MARGINAL UTILITY
Creators: name: G.A. Beznosov, N.V. Ziablitckaia
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Marginal utility
economic mechanism of resource saving
Optimization of production costs
algorithm for allocation of production resources.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 721-731
title: Comparison of bioinformatics tools and transcriptome sequencing methodologies for optimal annotation of fungal genomes
Creators: name: Cowley, GC
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The functionality of a genome is determined by a set of actively transcribed genes and their post-transcriptional regulation. Advances in sequencing technologies allow for the study of genetics at unprecedented resolution: where gene expression was once described on a gene-by-gene basis, it can now be investigated on a more holistic scale. Indeed, next generation sequencing has revolutionised the field of genomics. and its extensive variety of applications permits in-depth analysis of hundreds of species. Couple that development with the evolution of computational tools and sequencing technologies, and the analysis of genomes and species has never been more precise or more powerful. This thesis describes work on the development and comparison of sequencing technologies, along with computation methods for the re-annotation of a fungal genome. The research described in this thesis focuses on Myceliopthora thermophila, with the goal of utilising transcriptome sequencing to characterise gene expression and improve genome annotation for this thermophilic fungus. Having an annotation provides a bridge between genetic sequence, physical biology, and metabolic function. The quality of the annotation gives context to the organism, the better the annotation, the more useful this fungal species is for wider applications. The annotation defined in this thesis advances understanding of genes and gene features and potentially improves the utility of M. thermophila for specific industrial applications. Additionally, this research compares gene expression between fungal strains and within various growth conditions. We have endeavoured to identify genes involved in certain pathways and characterise their regulation. Gene expression can be measured directly using RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq), and as such, can provide an overview of complete transcriptomes and their regulation. Quantification of expressed transcripts and detection of novel genes and isoforms is eminently possible. The expanding field of RNA-sequencing has led to the development of more specialised experimental and computational techniques. Results from our research indicate that the choice of alignment software has a significant impact on the accurate interpretation of RNA-seq data. RNA sequencing can generate enormous amounts of data for interpretation. The need for analysing these large and increasing quantities of sequencing data has in turn increased the demand for efficient and effective computational tools. We present new methods and a specialized analysis technique that can be applied to both novel and existing data for effective characterisation of genomes.
MPEC 2024-V08 : 2024 UK11
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 UK11

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Genomic and transcriptomic reference assemblies and analyses with sequencing datasets from multiple non-traditional model species
Creators: name: Johnson, Lisa K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: transcriptomics
genomics
nonmodel species

description: High-throughput nucleic acid “Next-Generation” sequencing (NGS) methods have revolutionized the biological sciences over the past decade by facilitating research and discoveries at the whole-genome level. However, generating high-quality genome and transcriptome references and navigating downstream analyses still remain challenging and computationally-intensive endeavors, especially for non-model species. This dissertation focused on automating bioinformatics methods for two different projects with multiple non-model species: the Marine Microbial Eukaryotic Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP) and differential expression analysis of gill epithelium from Fundulus North American killifish following salinity challenge. With these two projects, I sought to generate high quality de novo transcriptomes and genomes in a uniform and automated way. Three aims were addressed: how the re-analysis of old data with new tools affects the outcome of the reference assemblies, how to generate data and draft de novo assemblies for several high-quality reference genomes from nonmodel species in a cost-efficient manner, and how to generate high quality species-specific de novo transcriptomes and annotations using annotations from a closely-related model species reference. Furthermore, I used these de novo transcriptomes and annotations to examine gene expression responses of multiple species of Fundulus killifish to a common salinity challenge experiment.
description: UC Davis dissertation
Stability and Orientational Order of Gold Nanorods in Nematic Suspensions: A Small Angle X-ray Scattering Study
Creators: name: M. R. Thomas
name: J. E. Hallett
name: S. Klein
name: S. Mann
name: A. W. Perriman
name: R. M. Richardson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Medicine
Physics
Engineering
Biophysics

description: Stable suspensions of gold nanorods in 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) have been prepared by capping the nanoparticles with polyethylene glycol (PEG). Small angle X-ray scattering has been used to characterize the orientational order of the gold nanorods and the properties of any aggregates. It was found that the nanorods had a very high degree of orientational order with respect to the director of the 5CB matrix and this could be redirected by an applied electric field at 2kHz. Two different PEG molecular weights were investigated and it was found that the lower (1.9kDa) gave exceptionally high order parameters, above 0.9.
Developments in conducting polymer fibres: From established spinning methods toward advanced applications
Creators: name: Mirabedini, Azadeh
name: Foroughi, Javad
name: Wallace, Gordon G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Conducting polymers have received increasing attention in both fundamental research and various fields of application in recent decades, ranging in use from biomaterials to renewable energy storage devices. Processing of conducting polymers into fibrillar structures through spinning has provided some unique capabilities to their final applications. Compared with non fibrillar forms, conducting polymer fibres are expected to display improved properties arising mainly from their low dimensions, well-oriented polymer chains, light weight and large surface area to volume ratio. Spinning methods have been employed effectively to produce technological conducting fibres from nanoscale to hundreds of micrometre sizes with controlled properties. This review considers the history, categories, the latest research and development, pristine and composite conducting polymer fibres and current/future applications of them while focus on spinning methods related to conducting polymer fibres.
The connection between globular cluster systems and their host galaxy and environment: A case study of the isolated elliptical NGC 82
Creators: name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Strader, Jay
name: Brodie, Jean
name: Gallagher, Jay S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In an effort to probe the globular cluster (GC) system of an isolated elliptical galaxy, a comprehensive analysis of the NGC 821 GC system was performed. New imaging from the WIYN Mini-Mosaic imager, supplemented with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 images reveals a GC system similar to those found in counterpart ellipticals located in high-density environments. To put these results into the context of galaxy formation, a robustly determined census of GC systems is presented and analysed for galaxies spanning a wide range of masses (> M*), morphologies and environments. Results from this meta-study: (1) confirm previous findings that the number of GCs normalized by host galaxy stellar mass increases with host stellar mass. Spiral galaxies in the sample show smaller relative GC numbers than those of massive ellipticals, suggesting the GC systems of massive ellipticals were not formed from major spiral–spiral mergers; (2) indicate that GC system numbers per unit galaxy baryon mass increases with host baryon mass and that GC formation efficiency may not be universal as previously thought; (3) suggest previously reported trends with environment may be incorrect due to sample bias or the use of galaxy stellar masses to normalize GC numbers. Thus claims for environmentally dependent GC formation efficiencies should be revisited; (4) in combination with weak-lensing halo mass estimates, suggest that GCs formed in direct proportion to the halo mass; (5) are consistent with theoretical predictions whereby the local epoch of reionization did not vary significantly with environment or host galaxy type.
title: Convenient Constructs: How Chief Police Officers in England and Wales Understand the Right of Police to Exercise Power
Creators: name: Shannon, ICN
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: Chief police officers are an elite group whose beliefs and actions may contribute to reproducing, developing or transforming police legitimacy. This research answers the question, ‘how do chief police officers in England and Wales understand the right of police to exercise power?’ The chief officers who participated in this research all invoked duties to protect the public (particularly the most vulnerable), policing by consent and explanations based in law and associated checks and balances. However, the significant and original academic contribution that this thesis makes is the finding that these legitimating constructs are confused, conflicted and, above all, convenient. Confusion was evident in vague accounts of vulnerability and hazy notions of consensual policing. When discussing law, operational independence was described as ‘grey’, which may have implications for the ability or will of chief officers to resist the imposition of priorities that infringe on civil liberties. Conflict was found between a rhetoric of consent and the practice of coercion. Narratives of vulnerability and policing by consent also clashed, as hunting threats to the vulnerable may not compensate for failures to tackle issues that are more immediate for many people. Participants’ claims that law and associated checks and balances are important in ensuring police power is used properly sat uncomfortably with their distaste for the process of scrutiny. These tensions and conflicts contributed to participants’ perceptions that they were pressured and that their positions were precarious. Narratives of complexity and change can be convenient in helping chief officers assert a privileged position when making decisions about the use of power. The vagueness of vulnerability and hazy conceptualisations of consent may also be convenient legitimating narratives, which cloak coercion and control. A leitmotif was a convenient construction of a broadly consensual ‘now’ contrasted with a more coercive ‘then’, which could camouflage contemporary concerns about police legitimacy. Together these stories conveniently help chief officers, and potentially politicians, to set priorities for the use of police power that are difficult for citizens to challenge, particularly when ‘folk devil[s]’ (Wells, 2016: 278) and policing myths (Emsley, 2014) are called on in attempts to legitimate such agendas.
Final purchase and trade-in decisions in response to a component phase-out announcement: a deterministic analysis
Creators: name: Cole, Dwayne
name: Kazaz, Burak
name: Webster, Scott
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: We investigate a problem faced by a durable goods manufacturer of a product that is no longer manufactured but still under warranty. A supplier announces that a component of the product will be phased out and specifies a deadline for the final order. A common response in traditional practice is to place a final order sufficient to cover future warranty claims. We analyse and compare this policy with two policies that use trade-in programmes to supplement the final order quantity: (i) A full trade-in policy where the firm issues a one-time offer to the entire population that has the product under warranty, and (ii) a matching trade-in policy where the firm issues a trade-in offer to a fraction of the warranty population in each period. Our analysis of a deterministic model leads to two main conclusions. First, we find that the savings from the use of a trade-in programme can be significant, and we identify easy-to-estimate measures that drive the magnitude of savings. Second, we find that a full trade-in policy is likely to be preferred over a matching trade-in policy. The policy is also easier and more practical to implement. However, if uncertainty in warranty demand is introduced, then a firm may benefit by combining elements of both policies – an initial offer to a sizable fraction of the warranty population followed by periodic offers to remaining segments over time.
Keck spectroscopy of globular clusters in the spiral galaxy NGC 2683
Creators: name: Proctor, Robert N.
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Brodie, Jean
name: Strader, Jay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We analyse Keck spectra of 24 candidate globular clusters (GCs) associated with the spiral galaxy NGC 2683. We identify 19 bona fide GCs based on their recession velocities, of which 15 were suitable for stellar population analysis. Age and metallicity determinations reveal old ages in 14 out of 15 GCs. These old GCs exhibit age and metallicity distributions similar to that of the Milky Way GC system. One GC in NGC 2683 was found to exhibit an age of ~3 Gyr. The age, metallicity and α-element abundance of this centrally located GC are remarkably similar to the values found for the Galactic Centre itself, providing further evidence for a recent star formation event in NGC 2683.
Mapping the location, design and decline of London's psychiatric asylums (1831–2012)
Creators: name: R. Daniel Jacobson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: This research analyses the location of psychiatric hospitals, previously known as ‘mental asylums’ built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in London, UK. Twenty of the largest facilities are geo-referenced using a mixed-methods approach including the use of archival documents, historical Ordnance Survey mapping, and a variety of recent digital datasets. The hospital locations are plotted on Ordnance Survey© [2013. Retrieved July 26, 2013, from http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/viewer/] Meridian™2 vector data. Inset maps provide comparative mapping of historic and current hospital sites using historic Ordnance Survey©, and recent Google™ Satellite data. Two of the largest former asylums of the ‘Epsom Cluster’ are explored in detail, Long Grove Hospital and West Park Hospital. Architectural design details and on-site photographs from 2007 and 2011 are used to demonstrate changes to luxury housing and of hospital decay. Of the 20 hospital sites mapped, 14 were converted into luxury housing, while only 2 remain as mental health facilities.
MODELING THE PROCESS OF MECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS OF HELICAL SPRINGS
Creators: name: Rodin, Vyacheslav V.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Kirchhoff equilibrium equations
Clebsch equations
modeling for springs, elasticity, force condition.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 5, 733-741
Final purchase and trade-in decisions in response to a component phase-out announcement: a deterministic analysis
Creators: name: Cole, Dwayne
name: Kazaz, Burak
name: Webster, Scott
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: We investigate a problem faced by a durable goods manufacturer of a product that is no longer manufactured but still under warranty. A supplier announces that a component of the product will be phased out and specifies a deadline for the final order. A common response in traditional practice is to place a final order sufficient to cover future warranty claims. We analyse and compare this policy with two policies that use trade-in programmes to supplement the final order quantity: (i) A full trade-in policy where the firm issues a one-time offer to the entire population that has the product under warranty, and (ii) a matching trade-in policy where the firm issues a trade-in offer to a fraction of the warranty population in each period. Our analysis of a deterministic model leads to two main conclusions. First, we find that the savings from the use of a trade-in programme can be significant, and we identify easy-to-estimate measures that drive the magnitude of savings. Second, we find that a full trade-in policy is likely to be preferred over a matching trade-in policy. The policy is also easier and more practical to implement. However, if uncertainty in warranty demand is introduced, then a firm may benefit by combining elements of both policies – an initial offer to a sizable fraction of the warranty population followed by periodic offers to remaining segments over time.
LA-ICP-MS-based apatite fission track dating of the Todos Santos Formation sandstones from the Sierra de Chiapas (SE Mexico) and its tectonic significance
Creators: name: Fanis Abdullin
name: Solé, Jesús
name: Meneses-Rocha, Javier De Jesús
name: Solari, Luigi
name: Shchepetilnikova, Valentina
name: Ortega-Obregón, Carlos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: This study reports the first LA-ICP-MS-based apatite fission track age data from the Toarcian–Oxfordian Todos Santos Formation sandstones exposed in the Sierra de Chiapas (SCH), SE Mexico. Single-grain fission track ages obtained from four rock samples vary between 232 ± 31 (1σ) and 40 ± 3 (1σ) Ma, indicating partial resetting of detrital apatite populations by post-depositional heating during diagenesis. Decomposed data were interpreted as follows: (a) cooling of the sediment source area at 203 ± 7 (1σ) and 163 ± 3 (1σ) Ma, which are respectively coincident with the late Permian–Triassic thermo-tectonic event and Early–Middle Jurassic arc volcanism that affected the Chiapas Massif Complex; and (b) a post-burial cooling period (with variable cooling rates of <3°C Ma–1) in the range of ~83–51 Ma controlled by a Late Cretaceous–early Eocene tectonic activity, which can be correlated with the Laramide orogeny that occurred along central and northern Mexico during the same period of time (i.e. from 85–80 to 50–40 Ma). The results obtained in the present study, as well as previously published data, indicate that the SCH has experienced a multi-episodic thermo-tectonic evolution with at least four main stages.
The spring phytoplankton bloom and vertical velocities in the stratified and deep convecting Labrador Sea, as observed by Seagliders
Creators: name: Frajka-Williams, Eleanor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: PhD thesis, Eleanor Frajka-Williams in 2009
Electron transfer with myoglobin in free and strongly confined regimes: disclosing diverse mechanistic role of the Fe-coordinated water by temperature- and pressure-assisted voltammetric studies
Creators: name: Dolidze, Tinatin D.
name: Shushanyan, Mikhael
name: Khoshtariya, Dimitri E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The naturally occurring electron-transfer (ET) event for myoglobin (Mb) can be mimicked through its functionalization at diversely modified metal platforms to allow for the electron exchange either in freely diffusing or immobilized regimes. In this work, horse muscle Mb was involved in the electron exchange with Au electrodes modified by dissimilar, thin or thick alkanethiol SAMs, terminated either by unicomponent (–OH) or 1 : 1 mixed (–OH/–COOH) functional (externally exposed) entities, respectively. The systematic, temperature- and pressure-supported cyclic voltammetry studies perfectly confirmed certainty of two kinds of ET patterns for Mb, embodying: (a) different operational kinetic regimes (including protein’s freely diffusing and strongly confined motifs) and (b) different intrinsic physical mechanisms (including dynamically controlled and non-adiabatic modes). Our analysis of obtained and published data for Mb and the reference redox-active protein, cytochrome c, specified further the central mechanistic role of the Fe-(heme-)coordinated water whose displacement is directly coupled to ET, and can be, in turn, controlled by the conformational organization and intrinsic fluctuational mobility of the Mb macromolecule.
An Overview Of Silk Sericin A Versatile Biopolymer From Bombyx Mori Silk Cocoon
Creators: name: Vidyashree s,1 Ashoka K. S,2* Godavari,3 Manju Prem S4 and Sushmitha C5
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Bombyx mori, the domesticated mulberry silkworm, lepidopteran molecular model and the most significant economic insect. It is emerging as a great molecular genetic resource for tackling biological challenges. During the final stage of larval development, the silkworm B. mori produces massive quantities of silk proteins. These proteins are stored in the middle silk gland and expelled through the spinneret at the end of the fifth instar. Silk fibroin and sericin are the two prime silk proteins in the silk cocoons. Silk fibroin is a fibrous protein composed up of heavy chain (H), light chain (L), and glycoprotein linked by disulfide bonds, as well as sericin, a macromolecular protein that acts as an adhesive substance to combine fibroin for the production of cocoons of silkworm B. mori. A brief synopsis of sericin is given in this review. The structure, content, solubility, genetics, and characteristics of silk sericin are the main topics of this review. Large amounts of sericin, a silk protein, are often discarded by the textile and sericulture industries during the degumming process of production silk from silk cocoons. Because sericin is highly hydrophilic and confers useful biological and biocompatible properties like antibacterial, antioxidant, anticancer, and anti-tyrosinase properties, it can be investigated for its application. Aspartic acid, glycine, and serine are among the beneficial amino acids found in sericin, which is derived from silk cocoons. The creation of films, coatings, and packaging materials has shown the effectiveness of using sericin in combination with other biomaterials.
LA-ICP-MS-based apatite fission track dating of the Todos Santos Formation sandstones from the Sierra de Chiapas (SE Mexico) and its tectonic significance
Creators: name: Fanis Abdullin
name: Solé, Jesús
name: Meneses-Rocha, Javier De Jesús
name: Solari, Luigi
name: Shchepetilnikova, Valentina
name: Ortega-Obregón, Carlos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: ABSTRACTThis study reports the first LA-ICP-MS-based apatite fission track age data from the Toarcian–Oxfordian Todos Santos Formation sandstones exposed in the Sierra de Chiapas (SCH), SE Mexico. Single-grain fission track ages obtained from four rock samples vary between 232 ± 31 (1σ) and 40 ± 3 (1σ) Ma, indicating partial resetting of detrital apatite populations by post-depositional heating during diagenesis. Decomposed data were interpreted as follows: (a) cooling of the sediment source area at 203 ± 7 (1σ) and 163 ± 3 (1σ) Ma, which are respectively coincident with the late Permian–Triassic thermo-tectonic event and Early–Middle Jurassic arc volcanism that affected the Chiapas Massif Complex; and (b) a post-burial cooling period (with variable cooling rates of <3°C Ma–1) in the range of ~83–51 Ma controlled by a Late Cretaceous–early Eocene tectonic activity, which can be correlated with the Laramide orogeny that occurred along central and northern Mexico during the same period of time (i.e. from 85–80 to 50–40 Ma). The results obtained in the present study, as well as previously published data, indicate that the SCH has experienced a multi-episodic thermo-tectonic evolution with at least four main stages.