cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dutch Rule in Maritime Ceylon 1766-1796.
Creators: name: Kanapathypillai, Vamadeva
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1969

description: This study seeks to trace the fortunes of the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) in maritime Ceylon from 1766 to 1796. With the conclusion of the manifestly advantageous treaty of 1766, the Company may be said to have reached the zenith of its power in Ceylon. But the Dutch achieved this success, at a time, which has been aptly described by Professor Boxer in a recent study as the 'Periwig period' of their history. This was certainly true of the VOC in the second half of the eighteenth century. It had lost its naval power and was financially weak. Exactly at this juncture the British were achieving a position of dominance with the same aggressive show of self confidence that marked the activities of the Dutch in the seventeenth, century. It is with the background of these changing conditions that the Company attempted to reap the fruits of its hard won triumph in the island - but without much success. The refusal of the Kandyan kingdom to accept the treaty as final proved to be a continuing source of frustration. This coupled with suspicions of British intentions, provided an added cause for anxiety. The fourth Anglo-Dutch war confirmed these fears. While the Dutch remained mere spectators, the British quickly overran the former's possessions in the mainland and even took the valuable harbour of Trincomalee. It was left to the French to thwart complete British success. The treaty of Paris of 1784 gave the VOC a rather dubious lease of life in Ceylon for another decade. Amidst these tribulations, the period under survey was not without its positive achievements. A cadastral survey of the Company's territories in the island was successfully completed. Cinnamon was made a plantation crop, bringing to an end the wasteful and impolitic measures that kept vast extents of land idle on the pretext that they were cinnamon growing lands. Cultivation of pepper, coffee and cardomom was renewed. Financial adversity necessitated the promotion of long neglected subsistence agriculture. But the VOC did not survive long to enjoy the fruits of these undertakings. Events in Europe precipitated the demise of its relations with Ceylon. With the establishment of the Batavian republic in the wake of the French revolutionary wars, the British took prompt measures to forestall French attempts to take over the overseas possessions of the Dutch. On l4 February, 1796 - exactly thirty years to the day after the signing of the treaty of 1766 - the Dutch were presented with the British terms of capitulation. The formal surrender followed two days later and John Company took over the territories of Jan Compagnie.
title: The Ideological Differences Between Moderates and Extremists in the Indian National Movement With Special Reference to Surendranath Banerjea and Lajpat Rai 1883-1919.
Creators: name: Argov, Daniel
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1964

description: Surendranath Banerjea was typical of the 'moderates' in the Indian National Congress while Lajpat Rai typified the 'extremists'. This thesis seeks to portray critical political biographies of Surendranath Banerjea and of Lajpat Rai within a general comparative study of the moderates and the extremists, in an analysis of political beliefs and modes of political action in the Indian national movement, 1883-1919. It attempts to mirror the attitude of mind of the two nationalist leaders against their respective backgrounds of thought and experience, hence events in Bengal and the Punjab loom larger than in other parts of India.
MTSCI: A Conditional Diffusion Model for Multivariate Time Series Consistent Imputation
Creators: name: Zhou, Jianping
name: Li, Junhao
name: Zheng, Guanjie
name: Wang, Xinbing
name: Zhou, Chenghu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Missing values are prevalent in multivariate time series, compromising the integrity of analyses and degrading the performance of downstream tasks. Consequently, research has focused on multivariate time series imputation, aiming to accurately impute the missing values based on available observations. A key research question is how to ensure imputation consistency, i.e., intra-consistency between observed and imputed values, and inter-consistency between adjacent windows after imputation. However, previous methods rely solely on the inductive bias of the imputation targets to guide the learning process, ignoring imputation consistency and ultimately resulting in poor performance. Diffusion models, known for their powerful generative abilities, prefer to generate consistent results based on available observations. Therefore, we propose a conditional diffusion model for Multivariate Time Series Consistent Imputation (MTSCI). Specifically, MTSCI employs a contrastive complementary mask to generate dual views during the forward noising process. Then, the intra contrastive loss is calculated to ensure intra-consistency between the imputed and observed values. Meanwhile, MTSCI utilizes a mixup mechanism to incorporate conditional information from adjacent windows during the denoising process, facilitating the inter-consistency between imputed samples. Extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets demonstrate that our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on multivariate time series imputation task under different missing scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/JeremyChou28/MTSCI.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by CIKM2024
title: The African Churches of Yorubaland 1888-1922.
Creators: name: Webster, James Bertin
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1963

description: The thesis is divided into four parts of equal size plus a concluding epilogue. Part I discusses the events in the Niger Mission prior to 1894. Prominence is given to these events because for West African Christians they signified a dramatic break with the policy pursued in the earlier nineteenth century. The settlement of 1894 in the Anglican mission laid down general mission policy for the following sixty years. Africans who refused to accept the new policy were the founding fathers of the African Church movement. Part II presents the general causes of discontent in the Yoruba mission the comity agreements, policy towards polygamy and autocratic structures of mission government. It also records the events and specific causes of schisms which created the major African churches. Part III is devoted to an observation of where and by what means the African churches expanded from Lagos where they originated. They opposed the "society method" of the missions relying upon what they termed "apostolic modes of expansion". Part IV opens with an analysis of the major factors in African church government. It outlines the prerogatives and limits of their power as prescribed by public opinion. Then follow, illustrations drawn from two major denominations. Part IV further attempts to show how the trend to decentralization of authority was met and arrested by expanded organization within the church and by inter-denominational cooperation and organic unions. A brief epilogue points out that inter-denominational union is today the pressing problem of the African churches especially in relation to church union schemes now being formualted by the missions. The epilogue suggests alternatives for the African churches should the missions exclude them from church union negotiations.
Consequences of cost barriers to prescriptions: cohort study in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: name: Jeffreys, Mona
name: Pledger, Megan
name: McKenzie, Fiona
name: Ellison-Loschmann, Lis
name: Lopez, Maite Irurzun
name: Cumming, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: aims: A NZ$5 co-payment prescription charge was removed in July 2023 but may be reinstated. Here we quantify the health impact and cost of not being able to afford this charge. methods: We linked New Zealand Health Surveys (2013/2014–2018/2019) to hospitalisation data using data available in Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI). Cox proportional-hazards models compared time to hospitalisation between those who had faced a cost barrier to collecting a prescription and those who had not. results: Of the 81,626 total survey respondents, 72,243 were available for analysis in IDI. A further 516 were excluded to give an analysis dataset of 71,502. Of these, 5,889 (8.2%) reported not collecting a prescription due to cost in the previous year. Among people who faced a cost barrier, 60.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] 58.7–61.2%) were admitted to hospital during the study period, compared to 43.9% (95% CI 43.6–44.3%) of those who did not. Having adjusted for socio-demographic variables, people who faced a cost barrier were 34% (hazard ratio 1.34; 95% CI 1.29–1.39) more likely to be admitted to hospital than those who did not. Annual avoidable hospitalisation costs—were prescription co-payments to remain free—are estimated at $32.4 million per year based on the assumption of a causal relationship between unmet need for prescription medicines and subsequent hospitalisation. conclusions: The revenue to the health system from co-payments may be offset by the costs associated with avoidable hospitalisations.
title: The Regulation of Disclosure in Relation to the Public Issue of Securities in the United Kingdom and Taiwan.
Creators: name: Tseng, Wang-Run
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1996

description: Despite the fact that in the United Kingdom (UK) regulators adopt the ideology of "self-regulation within a statutory framework", while the Taiwanese government opts for the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) model, both English and Taiwanese law place heavy reliance nowadays on mandatory disclosure as a tool to regulate the public issue of securities and publicly issuing companies. The objectives of this thesis are to (1) justify the regulation of mandatory disclosure, (2) provide the guidelines for the design of the content of disclosure, and (3) analyse the elements of civil liability for non-disclosure and untrue statements. Chapter One sets out the reasons for taking up this topic for research, its methodology, and the contribution and limits of the work. Chapter Two is devoted to describing briefly the English and Taiwanese legal frameworks in order to identify the research scope and provide readers with some general background. The impact of the European Community (EC) legislation on UK company law and securities regulation is also examined, as well as its implementation history. Accordingly, these two chapters taken together constitute the background for the thesis. The core of the thesis is in Chapters Three to Six. Chapters Three and Four examine thoroughly the defects of the general law and the economic debate on mandatory disclosure with a view to establishing the justification of mandatory disclosure. Chapter Five goes further by analysing the guidelines of disclosure content; through the finding of materiality, it is argued that governmental regulation should only deal with material information. The problem of unsatisfactory accountancy in Taiwan is also not forgotten. Chapter Six discusses civil liability for misrepresentation, criticises the current flaws in English and Taiwanese law, and proposes amendments to them. Finally, conclusions are drawn in Chapter Seven.
title: Family, Property and the State in Ghana. Changing Customary Law in an Urban Setting.
Creators: name: Josiah-Aryeh, Nii Armah
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: Judicial customary law, based initially on the works of indigenous scholars, has developed extensively in Ghana to provide the premise on which the country bases its laws of family, property and succession. Social enquiry, however, discloses a growing dichotomy between judicial customary law and the customary law that is actually practised by the people. This is due largely to the flexible nature of customary law and the continual development of new rules to meet changing conditions. Guided by the English doctrines of precedent and stare decisis the state courts have generally not recognised the new rules which regulate the day to day activities of ordinary people. As a result, a considerable gap exists between judicial customary law and social reality. In recent years, the state has sought to ameliorate the social injustices caused by the untrammelled operation of the rules of judicial customary law through the enactment of legislation. The present thesis argues that the mere enactment of legislation is no guarantee of the reform of customary law. It is contended that the key to successful reform of customary law lies in the implementation of programmes aimed at ensuring that norm-addressees actually benefit from legislative enactments. While the main aim of the present work is to assess the impact of recent Ghanaian legislation upon customary law in an urban environment, it also analyses the extent to which the modern law has been able to strengthen the claims of the nuclear family. The thesis concludes by making suggestions for further law reform.
MSJ926955_supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Disability outcomes of early cerebellar and brainstem symptoms in multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Le, Minh
name: Malpas, Charles
name: Sharmin, Sifat
name: Horáková, Dana
name: Havrdova, Eva
name: Trojano, Maria
name: Izquierdo, Guillermo
name: Eichau, Sara
name: Ozakbas, Serkan
name: Lugaresi, Alessandra
name: Prat, Alexandre
name: Girard, Marc
name: Duquette, Pierre
name: Larochelle, Catherine
name: Alroughani, Raed
name: Bergamaschi, Roberto
name: Sola, Patrizia
name: Ferraro, Diana
name: Grammond, Pierre
name: Grand’ Maison, Francois
name: Terzi, Murat
name: Boz, Cavit
name: Hupperts, Raymond
name: Butzkueven, Helmut
name: Pucci, Eugenio
name: Granella, Franco
name: Van Pesch, Vincent
name: Soysal, Aysun
name: Yamout, Bassem I.
name: Lechner-Scott, Jeannette
name: Spitaleri, Daniele LA
name: Ampapa, Radek
name: Turkoglu, Recai
name: Iuliano, Gerardo
name: Ramo-Tello, Cristina
name: Sanchez-Menoyo, Jose Luis
name: Sidhom, Youssef
name: Gouider, Riadh
name: Shaygannejad, Vahid
name: Prevost, Julie
name: Altintas, Ayse
name: Fragoso, Yara Dadalti
name: McCombe, Pamela Ann
name: Petersen, Thor
name: Slee, Mark
name: Barnett, Michael H
name: Vucic, Steve
name: Van Der Walt, Anneke
name: Kalincik, Tomas
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, MSJ926955_supplementary_material for Disability outcomes of early cerebellar and brainstem symptoms in multiple sclerosis by Minh Le, Charles Malpas, Sifat Sharmin, Dana Horáková, Eva Havrdova, Maria Trojano, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Serkan Ozakbas, Alessandra Lugaresi, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Catherine Larochelle, Raed Alroughani, Roberto Bergamaschi, Patrizia Sola, Diana Ferraro, Pierre Grammond, Francois Grand’ Maison, Murat Terzi, Cavit Boz, Raymond Hupperts, Helmut Butzkueven, Eugenio Pucci, Franco Granella, Vincent Van Pesch, Aysun Soysal, Bassem I. Yamout, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Daniele LA Spitaleri, Radek Ampapa, Recai Turkoglu, Gerardo Iuliano, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Youssef Sidhom, Riadh Gouider, Vahid Shaygannejad, Julie Prevost, Ayse Altintas, Yara Dadalti Fragoso, Pamela Ann McCombe, Thor Petersen, Mark Slee, Michael H Barnett, Steve Vucic, Anneke Van Der Walt and Tomas Kalincik in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
title: Inscribing the Mask: Nyau Masks, Ritual and Performance Among the Chewa of Central Malawi.
Creators: name: Aguilar, Laurel Birch de
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis presents an interpretation of nyau masks of the Chewa people in the central region of Malawi. Theoretically, ethnography in the thesis is informed by text interpretation as in the writings of Paul Ricoeur (1979). Texts in the thesis include the inscription of a performance, narratives of ritual events, oral discourse, and the masks themselves. Masks as texts include form, color, imagery, portraiture, construction and materials used, naming, roles, and movement; and the discourse about these. In the thesis masks are inscribed in their various roles as they are performed in funerals, initiations into the nyau society, and funeral remembrance dances. Each Chapter develops one context of masks and masking, ending with an interpretation of that context. Each interpretation builds upon the interpretations of others from one Chapter to the next, culminating in an overall interpretation of Chewa masks and masking in the final conclusion. This methodology is further focused by one recurring theme of masks; life, death and a sense of rebirth, in reference to the work of Bloch and Parry (1982) and others. Seven Chapters elaborate central ideas about the masks and the nyau masking society. These ideas include: performance and the masked event; the mask materials, mask-makers and re-creation of mask identity; the masks in relation to one another and in relation to the community; masks from historical experience; values and hierarchy of masks; ritual roles in masking; and a construction of nyau cosmology which is embodied in masks, particularly Kasivamaliro. The thesis attempts to demonstrate that Chewa masks, with all the inherent conflicting, diverse and differing local understandings presented in each context, also presents a totality; an interpretation which incorporates all of these contexts into a larger text. This wholeness is shown to be construed from the myriad details which make up masking, accounting for change and adaptation while asserting a continuity in the central theme of death and rebirth.
title: Towards Responsible Democratic Government: Executive Powers and Constitutional Practice in Tanzania 1962-1992.
Creators: name: Mwaikusa, Jwani Timothy
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: With independence in 1961, the British system of Parliamentary government, incorporating the principle of responsible government, was formally adopted in Tanzania. But within only one year that system was discarded first, by adopting a Republican Constitution with an executive President in 1962, and then by adopting a one-party state system of government in 1965. The one-party system reached the height of prominence through the concept of "Party Supremacy", and dominated constitutional practice for a whole generation before giving way to demands for greater freedom and democracy through competitive politics in 1992. Throughout this time, however, the preambles to successive constitutions proclaimed that the government in Tanzania was responsible to a freely elected Parliament representative of the people. This thesis traces the constitutional developments in Tanzania during the first three decades after independence so as to assess the extent to which the principle of "Responsible Government" has been maintained. It analyses the adoption of the Republican Constitution with an executive President having enormous powers even to override the Parliament, and tries to show that the one-party system and the concept of Party Supremacy, while appearing to replace Parliament with the Party as the instrument of democratic responsibility, merely served to legitimise the government tendency of holding the people responsible to it, rather than the other way round. While acknowledging the contribution of external influence in reversing that trend and working towards changes for a more responsible and democratic government as signalled by the constitutional amendments of 1992, the thesis highlights some internal factors which have played very important roles in that development. These include the personal contribution of the first President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, who, although very dominant, nevertheless had the foresight to reverse his previous positions and welcome a Bill of Rights in the Constitution in 1984, and encourage competitive politics in 1990. The thesis welcomes these latest changes, but still insists on greater popular participation in making a new Constitution and in all future constitution making.
sj-pdf-2-cvd-10.1177_2048004020930883 - Supplemental material for Value of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in diagnosing hypotension in hypertensive diabetic patients with medication-controlled BP
Creators: name: Alghalayini, Kamal
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-cvd-10.1177_2048004020930883 for Value of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in diagnosing hypotension in hypertensive diabetic patients with medication-controlled BP by Kamal Alghalayini in JRSM Cardiovascular Disease
An analysis of the operation of differential evolution at high and low crossover rates
Creators: name: Montgomery, James
name: Chen, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A key parameter affecting the operation of differential evolution (DE) is the crossover rate Cr 2 [0; 1]. While very low values are recommended for and used with separable problems, on non-separable problems, which include most realworld problems, Cr = 0:9 has become the de facto standard, working well across a large range of problem domains. Recent work on separable and non-separable problems has shown that lower-dimensional searches can play an important role in the performance of search techniques in higher-dimensional search spaces. However, the standard value of Cr = 0:9 implies a very high-dimensional search, which is not effective for other search techniques. An analysis of Cr across its range [0; 1] provides insight into how its value affects the performance of DE and suggests how low values may be used to improve the performance of DE. This new understanding of the operation of DE at high and low crossover rates is useful for analysing how adaptive parameters affect DE performance and leads to new suggestions for how adaptive DE techniques might be developed.
title: The Impact of International Labour Standards on Freedom of Association in Bangladesh.
Creators: name: Khan, Borhan Uddin
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: This thesis focuses on examination of the impact of international labour standards on freedom of association in Bangladesh. The aim is to trace the influence of the ILO Conventions on freedom of association in the development of legislation and policy on the right to freedom of association in Bangladesh and to determine the effectiveness and relevance of the ILO's effort in this context. The present study undertakes to focus and analyse the impact from three perspectives. First, by outlining the legislative development of the right to freedom of association in Bangladesh, the thesis attempts to ascertain the impact of the ILO Conventions on freedom of association on domestic legislation and policy. Secondly, an assessment is undertaken of the extent to which the Government of Bangladesh has fulfilled its international obligations under the ILO Constitution and evaluate the role of the ILO supervisory machinery in ensuring the right to freedom of association in Bangladesh. Thirdly, an investigation is carried out on the awareness, views and attitudes of the workers, union leaders and employers on the right to freedom of association through an empirical survey carried out in Bangladesh.
Reviewer_2_v.1 – Supplemental material for Lung under attack by COVID-19-induced cytokine storm: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic implications
Creators: name: Pelaia, Corrado
name: Tinello, Caterina
name: Vatrella, Alessandro
name: Giovambattista De Sarro
name: Pelaia, Girolamo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_2_v.1 for Lung under attack by COVID-19-induced cytokine storm: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic implications by Corrado Pelaia, Caterina Tinello, Alessandro Vatrella, Giovambattista De Sarro and Girolamo Pelaia in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: The Contemporary Application of English and French Contract Law in Cameroon.
Creators: name: Edjua, Titus Anurike
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1995

description: As a physical presence, there does exists some form of contract law in Cameroon. This consists mainly of the English common law of contract, the French civil law of contract and to a lesser extent, the customary or indigenous contract laws of Cameroon. One might expect that these three, if put together, will produce what can be termed a Cameroonian contract law. Yet the status of such a Cameroonian contract law, considered in such terms, remains very uncertain for three reasons. Firstly, while contract law in England and France can easily be found in the great mass of relevant reported decisions of their courts, in the great relevant statutes passed by their legislators and in the learned commentary on the subject, the same cannot be said of Cameroon where there is at present no law reporting, very little by way of legislation relating to contract law, and hardly any learned commentary on the subject of contract. Secondly, contract law as applied by the courts is surely disfigured in some way by the persistent deference to English and French authority (some of which is dated), and thus stuck in the habit of derivation from foreign sources of diminishing relevance. Finally, the courts and the legislator, by their continuous neglect of relevant indigenous laws, have failed to sufficiently "Cameroonise" the law of contract. The need to respond to the first problem and to elaborate on the second and third problems combine to form the focus of this thesis. This thesis therefore determines the place of customary contract law and its role, if any, vis-a-vis, the inherited western laws, examines and analyses the operation of English and French contract laws in Cameroon, bearing in mind any important developments in these two countries and provides a detailed overview of contract law in Cameroon.
title: Political and Social Developments in Morocco During the Reign of Mawlay Sulayman 1792-1822.
Creators: name: El Mansour, Mohamed
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: Mawlay Sulayman's reign (1792-1822) has so far received little attention from students of Moroccan history. The present work is designed to fill this gap in the modern history of Morocco by investigating the social, economic, political and religious aspects of this period of thirty years. It is intended to provide students of the modern history of Morocco with basic factual knowledge about the period. Initially, the thesis describes the structures of the Moroccan State and of Moroccan society at the turn of the nineteenth century. The economic history of the period is emphasised, particularly Morocco's commercial relations with Europe and the reasons behind the weakening of these relations at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The thesis then reconstructs the political history of Morocco during Mawlay Sulayman's reign. The discussion of political relations with the major European powers is intended to invalidate the long-held view of Morocco's isolation during the period under study. However, the most important - and the least known -aspect of the period from 1792 to 1822 is made up by Mawlay Sulayman's religious ideas and policy. To what extent was he reformist in his ideas? What was the real impact of the Wahhabi doctrine on the religious debate in Morocco, and what made the confrontation between Mawlay Sulayman and religious groups inevitable? These are some of the questions the thesis seeks to answer before moving on to discuss the Fes rebellion (1820-1822) which was really the last serious attempt by traditionalist groups to change the course of history to their advantage.
Supplementary Material 1. - Supplemental material for Comparative Tissue Distribution of 6 Major Polyphenolic Compounds in Normal and Myocardial Ischemia Model Rats After Oral Administration of the Polygonum orientale L. Extract
Creators: name: Li, Na
name: Lv, Ting
name: Pan, Jie
name: Liu, Chunhua
name: Sun, Jia
name: Lan, Yanyu
name: Wang, Aimin
name: Li, Yongjun
name: Wang, Yonglin
name: Lu, Yuan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary Material 1., for Comparative Tissue Distribution of 6 Major Polyphenolic Compounds in Normal and Myocardial Ischemia Model Rats After Oral Administration of the Polygonum orientale L. Extract by Na Li, Ting Lv, Jie Pan, Chunhua Liu, Jia Sun, Yanyu Lan, Aimin Wang, Yongjun Li, Yonglin Wang and Yuan Lu in Natural Product Communications
Supplemental Material, Polyetherketone_powder - Polyetherketone powder/epoxy blends with low viscosity and high mechanical properties
Creators: name: Li, Hong
name: Su, Hang
name: Wang, Letian
name: Sun, Lingyu
name: Yang, Jiping
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, Polyetherketone_powder for Polyetherketone powder/epoxy blends with low viscosity and high mechanical properties by Hong Li, Hang Su, Letian Wang, Lingyu Sun and Jiping Yang in High Performance Polymers
title: Education in Bengal 1912-1937.
Creators: name: Ahmad, Zaheda
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: This thesis deals with the organisation and structure, the policies and objectives of the British educational system in Bengal from 1912 to 1937, At each level, primary, secondary and mainstream higher education, it seeks to judge the contribution, financial, political and educational, of the central and provincial governments, of the professional educators in the Indian Education Service, the Directors of Public Instruction and college principals, and of their Indian counterparts, most notably such Vice-Chancellors as Asutosh Mookerjee, together with the contributions of the politicians and publicists, both Hindu and Muslim, and of their constituents, the consumers of the education so fashioned and provided. The first two chapters deal with change in the structure and organisation of higher education as Calcutta became a teaching university and Dacca, founded in 1921, emerged from its shadow. Chapters three and four examine the problems of administration and control of secondary education and relate these to the financial constraints felt by government and the social and political pressures exerted by Bengali society. Primary education forms the subject of the fifth chapter, where the problems of expansion and improvement, of quantity and quality, within a restricted budget are examined and related to the rapid enlargement in the electorate after 1919 and 1935, The last chapter deals with education, seen again at all three levels, in terms of Muslim needs and aspirations - and of Hindu fears and opposition relating these to problems of employment and of political power.
sj-pdf-1-jrt-10.1177_2055668320926046 - Supplemental material for Beginning power mobility: An exploration of factors associated with child use of early power mobility devices and parent device preference
Creators: name: Livingstone, Roslyn W
name: Bone, Jeffrey
name: Field, Debra A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jrt-10.1177_2055668320926046 for Beginning power mobility: An exploration of factors associated with child use of early power mobility devices and parent device preference by Roslyn W Livingstone, Jeffrey Bone and Debra A Field: the IMCRISES Project Working Group in Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
Democratic education in superdiverse schools in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: name: Wood, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5002
subject: History and philosophy of specific fields
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy

description: No description supplied
Non-thermal air plasma technology for efficient post-consumer bioplastics waste recycling
Creators: name: Argeiti, Chrysanthi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Plasma technology
subject: Recycling
subject: Recycling/history
subject: Recycling potential
subject: Waste recycling
subject: Recycling/methods
subject: Recycling/standards
subject: PHB
subject: Bioplastics

description: Talk presented at the EUBP Talk series, 18 March 2025 (online).

This talk is in PowerPoint because it contains videos and animations.
Prototype Learning Guided Hybrid Network for Breast Tumor Segmentation in DCE-MRI
Creators: name: Zhou, Lei
name: Zhang, Yuzhong
name: Zhang, Jiadong
name: Qian, Xuejun
name: Gong, Chen
name: Sun, Kun
name: Ding, Zhongxiang
name: Wang, Xing
name: Li, Zhenhui
name: Liu, Zaiyi
name: Shen, Dinggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated breast tumor segmentation on the basis of dynamic contrast-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) has shown great promise in clinical practice, particularly for identifying the presence of breast disease. However, accurate segmentation of breast tumor is a challenging task, often necessitating the development of complex networks. To strike an optimal trade-off between computational costs and segmentation performance, we propose a hybrid network via the combination of convolution neural network (CNN) and transformer layers. Specifically, the hybrid network consists of a encoder-decoder architecture by stacking convolution and decovolution layers. Effective 3D transformer layers are then implemented after the encoder subnetworks, to capture global dependencies between the bottleneck features. To improve the efficiency of hybrid network, two parallel encoder subnetworks are designed for the decoder and the transformer layers, respectively. To further enhance the discriminative capability of hybrid network, a prototype learning guided prediction module is proposed, where the category-specified prototypical features are calculated through on-line clustering. All learned prototypical features are finally combined with the features from decoder for tumor mask prediction. The experimental results on private and public DCE-MRI datasets demonstrate that the proposed hybrid network achieves superior performance than the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, while maintaining balance between segmentation accuracy and computation cost. Moreover, we demonstrate that automatically generated tumor masks can be effectively applied to identify HER2-positive subtype from HER2-negative subtype with the similar accuracy to the analysis based on manual tumor segmentation. The source code is available at https://github.com/ZhouL-lab/PLHN.
title: The Role of Solomon T. Plaatje (1876-1932) in South African Society.
Creators: name: Willan, Brian Peel
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1979

description: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born to Tswana, Christian, parents in 1876, and grew up on a mission station near Kimberley, After first working as a post office messenger, in 1898 he moved to Mafeking to become a court interpreter, and served in this capacity during the famous siege. In 1902 he became editor of an English/Tswana newspaper, Koranta ea Becoana, and established his reputation as a journalist and spokesman for his people. Shortly after Union in 1910 he moved to Kimberley and became editor of another newspaper, Tsala ea Becoana, and was then prominently involved in the founding of the South African Native National Congress, becoming its first Secretary. He took a leading role in the campaign against the Natives' Land Act of 1913, and in 1914 travelled to England as a member of a Congress deputation to the imperial government. Here, he wrote and published Native Life in South Africa, together with two books in Tswana, Returning to South Africa in 1917 he resumed his political role, and sought to establish an organisation known as the Brotherhood Movement which he had encountered in England. In 1919 he returned to England with a second deputation, and subsequently carried his campaign to North America, seeking to publicise the grievances of his people and to raise funds for his Brotherhood work. Writing extensively in both black and white newspapers in South Africa in the 1920s, Plaatje came to devote more of his time and energy to literary activities of various kinds; his novel, Mhudi, was published in 1930. Involved in his later years in a temperance organisation, whose journal he edited in 1931, Plaatje died in Johannesburg in 1932 after a lifetime of ceaseless activity.
sj-pdf-1-ecl-10.1177_1468798420930339 - Supplemental material for Mexican-American preschoolers as co-creators of zones of proximal development during retellings of culturally relevant stories: A participatory study
Creators: name: García-Alvarado, Socorro
name: Arreguín, María Guadalupe
name: Ruiz-Escalante, José Agustín
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ecl-10.1177_1468798420930339 for Mexican-American preschoolers as co-creators of zones of proximal development during retellings of culturally relevant stories: A participatory study by Socorro García-Alvarado, María Guadalupe Arreguín and José Agustín Ruiz-Escalante in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
sj-pdf-2-ecl-10.1177_1468798420930339 - Supplemental material for Mexican-American preschoolers as co-creators of zones of proximal development during retellings of culturally relevant stories: A participatory study
Creators: name: García-Alvarado, Socorro
name: Arreguín, María Guadalupe
name: Ruiz-Escalante, José Agustín
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-ecl-10.1177_1468798420930339 for Mexican-American preschoolers as co-creators of zones of proximal development during retellings of culturally relevant stories: A participatory study by Socorro García-Alvarado, María Guadalupe Arreguín and José Agustín Ruiz-Escalante in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
Supplemental Material, Kaaletal,_Online_Supplement - The Clinical Research Landscape of Pediatric Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Creators: name: Kaal, K. Julia
name: Aguiar, Magda
name: Harrison, Mark
name: McDonald, Patrick J.
name: Illes, Judy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Material, Kaaletal,_Online_Supplement for The Clinical Research Landscape of Pediatric Drug-Resistant Epilepsy by K. Julia Kaal, Magda Aguiar, Mark Harrison, Patrick J. McDonald and Judy Illes in Journal of Child Neurology
title: Rural Power and Debt in Sind in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1865-1901.
Creators: name: Cheesman, David
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1980

description: The thesis investigates the exercise and distribution of power in rural Sind in the late nineteenth century. Waderos (great Muslim landholders) dominated the countryside. Their strength derived partly from their landed wealth and partly from their hold over the landless labourers who worked their estates. The Waderos co-operated with the British authorities and their influence over the agricultural population was crucial to the smooth functioning of the local administration. In the second half of the century, however, British officials reported that many Waderos were seriously in debt to Hindu banias (traders and moneylenders); they feared that their estates might pass to their creditors. Banias could not replace Waderos as the leaders of rural society because, being Hindus, they could not command the respect of the predominantly Muslim agriculturists. Government therefore took steps to protect the landed magnates of Sind and preserve the traditional social hierarchy. The available evidence doeS not in fact confirm that Waderos' estates were disintegrating on a large scale. Smallholders were as seriously affected by indebtedness but, until 1901, it was only the Waderos who received help from Government. The new century began with the Waderos firmly entrenched in power, openly championed by the British. The first chapter sets the scene by describing the country, the people and their means of subsistence. The next two chapters look at the organisation of the great estates and the rural power structure: Chapter 2 concentrates on the haris, the landless labourers who cultivated the Waderos' lands, while Chapter 3 discusses the ways in which Waderos' wielded their authority, and considers their importance to the administration. Chapter 4 questions whether or not the great estates were breaking up and examines the significance of the British settlement system. Chapters 5 and 6 are concerned with debt: its causes, its effects and the attempts made to relieve it; Chapter 5 includes an analysis of the bania's operations.
Landmark-based Vehicle Self-Localization Using Automotive Polarimetric Radars
Creators: name: Weishaupt, Fabio
name: Tilly, Julius F.
name: Appenrodt, Nils
name: Fischer, Pascal
name: Dickmann, Jürgen
name: Heberling, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Automotive self-localization is an essential task for any automated driving function. This means that the vehicle has to reliably know its position and orientation with an accuracy of a few centimeters and degrees, respectively. This paper presents a radar-based approach to self-localization, which exploits fully polarimetric scattering information for robust landmark detection. The proposed method requires no input from sensors other than radar during localization for a given map. By association of landmark observations with map landmarks, the vehicle's position is inferred. Abstract point- and line-shaped landmarks allow for compact map sizes and, in combination with the factor graph formulation used, for an efficient implementation. Evaluation of extensive real-world experiments in diverse environments shows a promising overall localization performance of $0.12 \text{m}$ RMS absolute trajectory and $0.43 {}^\circ$ RMS heading error by leveraging the polarimetric information. A comparison of the performance of different levels of polarimetric information proves the advantage in challenging scenarios.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS); 17 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables
Acceso y conectividad rural
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Political communication
subject: Human rights law
subject: Media and communications
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Publicación presentada en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
sj-pdf-1-wso-10.1177_1747493016669861 - Supplemental material for The prevalence of fatigue after stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Cumming, Toby B
name: Packer, Marcie
name: Kramer, Sharon F
name: English, Coralie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-wso-10.1177_1747493016669861 for The prevalence of fatigue after stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Toby B Cumming, Marcie Packer, Sharon F Kramer and Coralie English in International Journal of Stroke
Reviewer_1_v.1 – Supplemental material for Acquired multiple mutations ALK I1171N, L1196M and G1202R mediate lorlatinib resistance in EML4-ALK-rearranged malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case report
Creators: name: Hu, Jia
name: Zhang, Baoshi
name: Yao, Fangfang
name: Fu, Yan
name: Chen, Dianjun
name: Li, Donghui
name: Du, Nan
name: Lizaso, Analyn
name: Song, Jinlei
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Li, Xiaosong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_1_v.1 for Acquired multiple mutations ALK I1171N, L1196M and G1202R mediate lorlatinib resistance in EML4-ALK-rearranged malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case report by Jia Hu, Baoshi Zhang, Fangfang Yao, Yan Fu, Dianjun Chen, Donghui Li, Nan Du, Analyn Lizaso, Jinlei Song, Lu Zhang and Xiaosong Li in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: The Introduction and Growth of Christianity in Busoga 1890-1940 With Particular Reference to the Roles of the Basoga Clergy, Catechists and Chiefs.
Creators: name: Tuma, A. D. Tom
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1973

description: Christianity was first introduced in Busoga by the Baganda and European missionaries in 1891. For the first ten years, the missionaries ran into suspicion and sporadic opposition from the Basoga. However, with the growing awareness that Christianity could be used as a channel to new sources of power and influence, some of the Basoga increasingly embraced the new religion. The missionaries encouraged some of the newly "converted" Basoga to work as abasomesa or catechists. This meant spreading the Gospel in the remote villages where the abasomesa were faced with the various problems of a young and growing Christian Church. The abasomesa - and later the ordained Basoga clergymen - received substantial assistance from the Basoga chiefs who used their political positions and wealth to further the growth and expansion of Christianity, particularly in the areas under their control. With the growing Christian population, the missionary bodies were encouraged to develop an indigenous professional ministry. During the inter-war period, for example, many of the Basoga catechists, hitherto untrained, were given formal training while others were admitted to the holy Orders. This development enabled the Basoga professionals, mainly those of the CMS, to assume more pastoral responsibilities, administer and organize the growing and expanding Busoga Church whose activities were, by the end of this period (1940), spread all over the country.