cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MICHAEL MANN (Hg.): Europäische Aufklärung und protestantische Mission in Indien; MICHAEL MANN (Hg.): Aufgeklärter Geist und evangelische Missionen in Indien
Creators: name: Berkemer, Georg
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
JÜRGEN RÜLAND / GUNTER SCHUBERT / GÜNTHER SCHUCHER / CORNELIA STORZ (eds.): Asian-European Relations. Building Blocks for Global Governance?
Creators: name: Dosch, Jörn
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Design and development of a human-machine interactive-force controlled upper-limb powered exoskeleton for human augmentation and disability rehabilitation
Creators: name: Wong, Jackson Joon Shee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Humanity has long dreamt of synergistically combining human intelligence with robotic
strength enhancement. Current technological limitations still pose major challenges to
satisfactorily achieving this dream. However, one of the greatest challenges to the creation of a
practical, actively-controlled powered exoskeleton (EXOS) lies in its Human-Machine
Interface. Brain-Machine Interface EXOS control systems theoretically provide the ultimate in
development potential, but they are currently far from achieving satisfactory combinations of
safety, practicality, robustness and performance.
Hence, an alternative EXOS control paradigm was proposed, using the interactive forces
between the EXOS and its user as the input signals. By minimizing these forces, the EXOS
should accurately shadow the user’s motions with minimal impedance to one’s motions.
Conversely, the level of resistance to the EXOS user’s motions could also be easily controlled
for rehabilitative applications. Thus, the main goal of this thesis was to assess the viability of
the Human-Machine Interactive-Force Control System (HMIFCS).
To provide a realistic basis for the assessment of the HMIFCS’s potential, a Computer Aided
Design model of an upper-limb EXOS was created based on existing components and materials.
Studies were carried out to assess normal human arm performance to aid in the selection of
actuators and sensors with the appropriate performance envelops. After finalization of the
EXOS arm’s design, the HMIFCS’s algorithms were designed. A simulation model was created
to accurately assess the performance potential of the HMIFCS. The performance constraints of
the EXOS arm were included into the HMIFCS simulation model to maximize realism.
The effects of various relevant variables (e.g. dynamic compensation, arm length, etc.) on the
HMIFCS’s performance were assessed via the simulation model. With the simulation results as
the basis, calibrations were made to the HMIFCS’s power assistance settings to optimize free
motion performance by minimizing impedance to free motion.
However, the free motion optimized settings were incapable of providing safe and robust load
attenuation performance. Hence the HMIFCS’s torque amplification curve was modified. The
resulting Dynamic Assist Ratio Curve was shown to provide safe and effective strength
augmentation without significant affecting free motion performance. A Dynamic Damping Coefficient Curve was also tested and implemented to further refine the HMIFCS’s overall
performance. An inherent tendency to significantly attenuate external shocks to the user was
also shown, which benefitted safety.
Conclusively, the HMIFCS was shown to have excellent potential as a safe, high-performance
means to control an EXOS, deserving further research and development via experimentation
with physical prototypes.
REINHARD ZÖLLNER: Japan. Fukushima. Und Wir. Zelebranten einer nuklearen Erdbebenkatastrophe
Creators: name: Simonis, Udo E.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
MARC ASKEW / WILLIAM S. LOGAN / COLIN YOUNG: Vientiane. Transformations of a Lao Landscape
Creators: name: Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Use of surgical task shifting to scale up essential surgical services: a feasibility analysis at facility level in Uganda
Creators: name: Galukande, Moses
name: Kaggwa, Sam
name: Sekimpi, Patrick
name: Kakaire, Othman
name: Katamba, Achilles
name: Munabi, Ian
name: Runumi, Francis M
name: Mills, Ed
name: Hagopian, Amy
name: Blair, Geoffrey
name: Barnhart, Scott
name: Luboga, Sam
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The shortage and mal-distribution of surgical specialists in sub-Saharan African countries is born out of shortage of individuals choosing a surgical career, limited training capacity, inadequate remuneration, and reluctance on the part of professionals to work in rural and remote areas, among other reasons. This study set out to assess the views of clinicians and managers on the use of task shifting as an effective way of alleviating shortages of skilled personnel at a facility level. Methods: 37 in-depth interviews with key informants and 24 focus group discussions were held to collect qualitative data, with a total of 80 healthcare managers and frontline health workers at 24 sites in 15 districts. Quantitative and descriptive facility data were also collected, including operating room log sheets to identify the most commonly conducted operations. Results: Most health facility managers and health workers supported surgical task shifting and some health workers practiced it. The practice is primarily driven by a shortage of human resources for health. Personnel expressed reluctance to engage in surgical task shifting in the absence of a regulatory mechanism or guiding policy. Those in favor of surgical task shifting regarded it as a potential solution to the lack of skilled personnel. Those who opposed it saw it as an approach that could reduce the quality of care and weaken the health system in the long term by opening it to unregulated practice and abuse of privilege. There were enough patient numbers and basic infrastructure to support training across all facilities for surgical task shifting. Conclusion: Whereas surgical task shifting was viewed as a short-term measure alongside efforts to train and retain adequate numbers of surgical specialists, efforts to upscale its use were widely encouraged.
XIST-induced silencing of flanking genes is achieved by additive action of repeat a monomers in human somatic cells
Creators: name: Minks, Jakub
name: Baldry, Sarah E.
name: Yang, Christine
name: Cotton, Allison M.
name: Brown, Carolyn Janet
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The establishment of facultative heterochromatin by X-chromosome inactivation requires the long non-coding RNA XIST/Xist. However, the molecular mechanism by which the RNA achieves chromosome-wide gene silencing remains unknown. Mouse Xist has been shown to have redundant domains for cis-localization, and requires a series of well-conserved tandem ‘A’ repeats for silencing. We previously described a human inducible XIST transgene that is capable of cis-localization and suppressing a downstream reporter gene in somatic cells, and have now leveraged these cells to dissect the sequences critical for XIST-dependent gene silencing in humans. Results: We demonstrated that expression of the inducible full-length XIST cDNA was able to suppress expression of two nearby reporter genes as well as endogenous genes up to 3 MB from the integration site. An inducible construct containing the repeat A region of XIST alone could silence the flanking reporter genes but not the more distal endogenous genes. Reporter gene silencing could also be accomplished by a synthetic construct consisting of nine copies of a consensus repeat A sequence, consistent with previous studies in mice. Progressively shorter constructs showed a linear relationship between the repeat number and the silencing capacity of the RNA. Constructs containing only two repeat A units were still able to partially silence the reporter genes and could thus be used for site-directed mutagenesis to demonstrate that sequences within the two palindromic cores of the repeat are essential for silencing, and that it is likely the first palindrome sequence folds to form a hairpin, consistent with compensatory mutations observed in eutherian sequences. Conclusions: Silencing of adjacent reporter genes can be effected by as little as 94 bp of XIST, including two ‘monomers’ of the A repeat. This region includes a pair of essential palindromic sequences that are evolutionarily well-conserved and the first of these is likely to form an intra-repeat hairpin structure. Additional sequences are required for the spread of silencing to endogenous genes on the chromosome.
Does a self-help online psycho-educational program on cyber bullying lead to increased confidence and help-seeking behaviours amongst adolescents?
Creators: name: Chillemi, Kerry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The main aim of this research was to develop and evaluate the 'Increasing Resilience to Cyber Bullying' program (IRCB). The IRCB program is an online, self-guided Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-based psycho-educational intervention that was developed in response to the clear need for adolescents to have access to a psychological intervention program that promotes effective coping in response to cyber bullying and encourages help-seeking behaviours. The present study found evidence that the IRCB program was effective in increasing adolescents' likelihood of using the coping skills of self-compassion and challenging unhelpful thinking to cope with an experience of cyber bullying. A further outcome of the current research was a significant increase in adolescents' help-seeking attitudes and behavioural intentions to engage with counselling services, in the event of being a victim of cyber bullying.
Detection, subtyping and control of Listeria monocytogenes in food processing environments
Creators: name: Jadhav, Snehal
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Snehal's thesis focussed on developing rapid and robust methods to detect and subtype a serious foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes from different foods and food processing environments. A mass spectrometry based approach, much more rapid in comparison to the currently available platforms was developed to detect the pathogen and discriminate it at the strain level. The thesis also investigated the use of essential oils as surface disinfectants to control the growth of this pathogen in food processing environments.
DIRK HOLTBRÜGGE / JONAS F. PUCK: Geschäftserfolg in China. Strategien für den größten Markt der Welt
Creators: name: Feuser, Florian
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
HARALD HOLZ / KONRAD WEGMANN (Hg.) mit HERBERT GÖTZL: Rechtsdenken. Schnittpunkte West und Ost. Recht in den gesellschafts- und staatstragenden Institutionen Europas und Chinas
Creators: name: Von Senger, Harro
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Porous anode materials for high performance lithium-ion batteries
Creators: name: Rahman, Md. Arafat
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Lithium-ion battery (LIB) is an emerging field that demands new electrode materials for high performance applications such as EVs, HEVs, and energy storage for renewable energy. This thesis aims to understand the correlation of pore size, porosity, and morphology dependency of as-prepared anode materials such as nanoporous TiO2, nanoporous NiO, porous NiO/Ni foam, and nanogravel structured NiO/Ni foam on cyclic performances of LIBs. All the investigated electrode materials were found to have some advantages over the commercially used graphite anodes, and a thorough characterisation of the as-prepared anode materials was also performed to understand the processes that took place during electrochemical cycling.
DAGMAR HELLMANN-RAJANAYAGAM: Von Jaffna nach Kilinocchi. Wandel des politischen Bewusstseins der Tamilen in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Weiberg, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Asian home buyers less likely to default on their mortgage: study
Creators: name: Tajaddini, Reza
name: Gholipour Fereidouni, Hassan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: People from cultural backgrounds where getting financial assistance from families is the norm are less likely to default on their mortgages, new research shows. This includes those from South East Asian countries. We also found in societies where the culture is to save more and for people to control their desires and instincts, the default on mortgages is lower. The findings are true both in relatively stable economic periods (2010-2013) and during a period of financial crisis (2008-2009). In analysing the factors behind mortgage delinquencies, we used data on default rates from 42 developed and developing countries. These countries represent about 90% of the world's gross national income and the world's outstanding balance of housing mortgages in 2013. The rate of people who defaulted on their mortgage varied from 0.05% in Hong Kong to 17.05% in Greece. Australia has a low default rate on mortgage, thanks to a strong level of national income, stable growth of the property market and a low unemployment rate. But it ranks high in all cultural dimensions that potentially lead to high default rate, this is accentuated during times of widespread economic hardship. So policymakers should be mindful of unfavourable economic conditions that may trigger default on mortgages.
Client demands for unsafe sex : the socio-economic risk environment for HIV among street and off-street sex workers
Creators: name: Deering, Kathleen N.
name: Lyons, Tara
name: Feng, Cindy X.
name: Nosyk, Bohdan
name: Strathdee, Steffanie A.
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Objective Among sex workers (SWs) in Vancouver, Canada, this study identified social, drug use, sex work, environmental-structural and client-related factors associated with being offered and accepting more money after clients' demand for sex without a condom. Design Cross-sectional study using baseline (February/10-October/11) data from a longitudinal cohort of 510 SWs. Methods A two-part multivariable regression model was used to identify factors associated with two separate outcomes: (1) being offered and (2) accepting more money for sex without a condom in the last six months, among those who had been offered more money. Results The sample included 490 SWs. In multivariable analysis, being offered more money for sex without a condom was more likely for SWs who used speedballs, had higher average numbers of clients per week, had difficulty accessing condoms and had clients who visited other SWs. Accepting more money for sex without a condom was more likely for SWs self-reporting as a sexual minority and who had experienced client violence and used crystal methamphetamine use less than daily (vs. none), and less likely for SWs who solicited for clients mainly indoors (vs. outdoor/public places). Conclusions These results highlight the high demand for sex without a condom by clients of SWs. HIV prevention efforts should shift responsibility toward clients to reduce offers of more money for unsafe sex. Programs that mitigate the social and economic risk environments of SWs alongside the removal of criminal sanctions on sex work to enable condom use within safer indoor work spaces are urgently required.
DOMINIQUE SCHIRMER / GERNOT SAALMANN / CHRISTL KESSLER (eds.): Hybridising East and West. Tales Beyond Westernisation. Empirical Contributions to the Debates on Hybridity
Creators: name: Kleiner-Liebau, Désirée
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
RAJEEV BHARGAVA / HELMUT REIFELD (eds.): Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship. Dialogues and Perspectives
Creators: name: Kössler, Reinhart
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Buddhism and the Legitimicacy of Violence
Creators: name: Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: A review of MAHINDA DEEGALLE (ed.): Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism). London and New York: Routledge, 2006. XV, 277 pages; GBP 75.00. ISBN 0-451-35920-1.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Cosmic Resonance: Extending the Light-Pi Framework from Particles to Celestial Bodies
Creators: name: Needham, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: ENSO framework
Light-Pi model
recursive emergence
shell resonance
cosmic geometry
φπ-scaling
mass quantization
reproducible physics
exoplanet simulation
vacuum structure

description: Cosmic Resonance: Extending the Light-Pi Framework from Particles to Celestial Bodies

Description:This paper introduces a unified, first-principles framework that explains the emergence of mass across all physical scales—from fundamental particles to stellar and planetary bodies—using only three constants: π (pi), φ (the golden ratio), and the speed of light (c). Building on the Light-Pi Resolution Gap Theory and the broader ENSO Framework, it shows how structure, identity, and coherence arise at precise resonance thresholds, each corresponding to recursive shell positions in vacuum geometry.

The model is fully reproducible through open-source Python scripts included with this publication, which calculate:

Stellar mass and radius (e.g., the Sun at shell N₀ + 87) with <0.1% deviation from empirical data,

Exoplanetary characteristics (Needham 9) derived without observational input,

Vacuum resolution ladders and cosmic classification tables from mathematical symmetry alone.

This theory offers a scalable and falsifiable approach to:

Emergent mass modeling,

Planetary structure and orbital prediction,

Unification of quantum and cosmic domains via geometric recursion.

Includes:

sun-light-pi-framework.py

needham9-script.py

All equations and visualizations derived without curve fitting or empirical assumptions
The Allocation of Ultra Scarce Property Rights in Hong Kong - A Policy Evaluation
Creators: name: Mushkat, Miron
name: Mushkat, Roda
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Reality seldom conforms to theory and the Hong Kong experience lends credence to this assertion. The territory has a nearly unassailable reputation for allowing market forces to operate in a virtually unfettered fashion, but in practice it has a not insignificant public sector which flexes its muscles in the fiscal, monetary, and regulatory domains. The impulses that originate from this source are supposedly designed to complement and reinforce private initiative, yet there is ample evidence to suggest that government failure is by no means a rare phenomenon. The procedures relied upon in selling land, a precious commodity, serve as a telling case in point.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
The Villas of the New Bourgeoisie around West Lake in Hanoi. A Rediscovery of Colonial Architectural Patterns
Creators: name: Schütte, Heinz
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Ever since Doi Moi, i.e. the arrival of capitalist market forms (and the evolution of corresponding social relations), Hanoi has been undergoing a dramatic upheaval. After revolution, wars and a centralized economy, we now observe what amounts to a change from pre-modernity to modernity in a globalized age. The observer perceives its consequences when strolling through Hanoi’s streets and talking to the inhabitants. This article attempts to demonstrate that the process of transformation is not random or chaotic but that it follows a logic that can be historically categorized. The new villas on West Lake and their bourgeois owners representing new (syncretistic) values; the ‘purging’ of the footpaths of family businesses or private activities in the Old Quarter: each can be viewed as a document of change that can be deciphered like a written text. This is a story of disappearance and of renewal. The city is changing from a place of work and everyday social life into a centre of consumption. Urban space is getting disciplined, and its inhabitants are subjected to a new control logic.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Das Sondergericht zur Ahndung der Verbrechen der Roten Khmer
Creators: name: Weiss, Raimund
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The long awaited Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia to prosecute crimes of the Khmer Rouge were initiated in July 2006 with the inauguration of international and local judges. During the year 2007 key Khmer Rouge leaders were imprisoned and first court hearings took place at the beginning of 2008. The paper examines the 28 year delay and the importance of an Extraordinary Court for present-day Cambodia. The reasons for the delay are traced back to the second Cambodian Civil War (1979-1991), the precarious historical role of the former civil war parties, now government partners, and the role of the UN in the civil war. This led to difficult negotiations between the UN and the Cambodian Government, highlighted by conflicts as to whether an Extraordinary Court should be set up under a mixed judiciary or under UN jurisdiction and how former amnesties for key Khmer Rouge leaders should be handled. However, despite this 28 year delay, the Extraordinary Court can still be understood as an important step towards justice and a substantial contribution to fostering the rule of law and the peace process in present-day Cambodia.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Jenseits von "Push and Pull". Internationale Arbeitsmigration als Strategie der Lebenssicherung in Thailand
Creators: name: Sakdapolrak, Patrick
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The paper studies international labour migration on the basis of a case study from northeast Thailand, utilising the livelihoods approach as a framework of analysis. It is argued that as a holistic concept which focuses on the daily life of people, while embedding it in a broader context, the livelihoods approach can enhance understanding of migration. The paper describes the migration movement from the study area and shows the need to consider the interlinkage of various factors in order to explain the phenomenon. The paper concludes by discussing the value of the livelihoods approach for the study of migration and explores further steps in livelihoods analysis.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Environmental ethics and process philosophy
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Anempting to develop environmental ethics raises the question of what is ethics? What is the point of ethics? Is it simply the effon to discriminate right from wrong, good from bad? Or should it also provide the motivation to act and reveal how to act effectively? Should it evaluate individual actions only, or should it be concerned with what is the good life? Should it be concerned only with individuals, or should it be the basis for evaluating institutions, organizations and artifacts? In my view ethics should do all these things, and for this reason, if environmental problems are ever to be addressed effectively, it will be necessary to develop an environmental ethic on the basis of process philosophy. [Introduction]
Die langen Schatten der Politik - zum Stand der Birma-Forschung
Creators: name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The paper provides an overview of current Burma studies in a historical perspective, with a special focus on Burma studies in Germany. It starts with an assessment of the Burma Studies Conference held in Singapore in July 2006. Three features of the conference are singled out: The impact of Myanmar’s political crisis on the conference’s agenda, the fragility of research traditions and the role of the great old men and women within the community of Burma specialists. The historical retrospect highlights the foundation of the Burma Research Society in 1910 and proposes that an outstanding element of Burma studies was assisting the task of nation building in different stages of Burmese history. Besides this tradition of “research from within” which looked at Burma as an entity, there existed a spectrum of “research from the outside” which concentrated on specific aspects of Burma like its ethnic groups, Buddhism and cultural sites within different theoretical contexts. Burma’s isolation from the world as from 1962 resulted in a split of the research tradition into a national and an international branch, and prevented independent researchers from entering the country. Finally, some pragmatic consequences for the future of Burma studies are proposed.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Sex differences in neurogenesis and activation of new neurons in response to spatial learning
Creators: name: Chow, Carmen
name: Epp, Jonathan Richard
name: Lieblich, Stephanie E.
name: Barha, Cindy K.
name: Galea, Liisa A. M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2017

description: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis is often associated with hippocampus-dependent learning and memory. Throughout a new neuron’s development, it is differentially sensitive to factors that can influence its survival and functionality. Previous research shows that, spatial training that occurred 6 to 10 days after an injection of the DNA synthesis marker, bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), increased cell survival in male rats. Because sex differences in spatial cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis have been reported, it is unclear whether spatial training would influence hippocampal neurogenesis in the same way in males and females. Therefore, this study examined sex differences in hippocampal neurogenesis following training in a spatial task. Male and female rats were trained in the spatial or cued version of the Morris water maze task 6 to 10 days after one injection of BrdU (200mg/kg). Twenty days following BrdU injection, all animals were given a probe trial and perfused. Males performed better in the spatial, but not cue, task than females. Spatial training increased BrdU-labeled cells relative to cue training only in males, but both males and females showed greater activation of new cells (BrdU co-labeled with immediate early gene product zif268) after spatial training compared to cue training. Furthermore, performance during spatial training was positively correlated with cell activation in females but not males. This study shows that while spatial training differentially regulates hippocampal neurogenesis in males and females, the activity of new neurons in response to spatial memory retrieval is similar. These findings highlight the importance of sex on neural plasticity and cognition.
Stopgap or Change Agent? The Role of Burma's Civil Society after the Crackdown
Creators: name: Lorch, Jasmin
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: In summer 2007, Burma experienced the biggest popular demonstrations since 1988. What particularly took the international community by surprise was that the protests were led by Buddhist monks. What does the uprising suggest in terms of civil society development? Does it signal the re-emergence of political civil society in Burma? Or does the violent crackdown following the demonstrations prove that civil society cannot exist in such an authoritarian regime? State weakness has led to the emergence of civil society spaces in presentday Burma. Welfare state failure in particular has been the key factor enabling the existence of civil society in the country. Is Burma’s civil society thus just a stopgap for welfare state failure or does the 2007 uprising rather suggest that it can act as an agent of political change as well? This article tries to find a preliminary answer to this question. Mainly, it argues that even though the demonstrations showed that parts of Buddhist civil society have an enormous political potential which hardly anybody had expected, most civil society groups remain apolitical. Moreover, under the current political circumstances – i.e. with the continuing crackdown on dissidents – civil society in central Burma can only survive if it goes back to where it started from: to serving a stopgap function in welfare provision.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
Establishment of Afghanistan's Parliament and the Role of Women Parliamentarians. Retrospect and Prospects
Creators: name: Emadi, Hafizullah
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: This article studies the role of parliament and parliamentarians in Afghanistan with a particular focus on women during the Constitutional Period 1964-1973, the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and the re-establishment of the parliamentary system a few years after the United States toppled the Taliban regime in late 2001 and installed Hamid Karzai as head of the new government. It examines how elements of Afghanistan’s political landscape contributed to radicalization of the country’s politics and the subsequent mobilization of women as they joined political organizations to advance the cause of women. After the parliamentary elections in 2005 women made concerted efforts to define their role in the political arena. After securing seats in the parliament female representatives, particularly those with radical political orientations, became even more assertive not only in expressing their views on gender issues but also in challenging the regressive views of their male counterparts during the legislative processes. The role of women in the male-dominated parliament and how they have dealt with traditional cultural and political hurdles as well as vocal opposition and public insults from their male counterparts in parliamentary debates on sociopolitical and economic issues is the focus of this study.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 39 Nr. 1-2 (2008): Internationales Asienforum
The synergistic action of accessory enzymes enhances the hydrolytic potential of a “cellulase mixture” but is highly substrate specific
Creators: name: Hu, Jinguang
name: Arantes, Valdeir
name: Pribowo, Amadeus
name: Saddler, J. N. (John N.), 1953-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Currently, the amount of protein/enzyme required to achieve effective cellulose hydrolysis is still too high. One way to reduce the amount of protein/enzyme required is to formulate a more efficient enzyme cocktail by adding so-called accessory enzymes such as xylanase, lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (AA9, formerly known as GH61), etc., to the cellulase mixture. Previous work has shown the strong synergism that can occur between cellulase and xylanase mixtures during the hydrolysis of steam pretreated corn stover, requiring lower protein loading to achieve effective hydrolysis. However, relatively high loadings of xylanases were required. When family 10 and 11 endo-xylanases and family 5 xyloglucanase were supplemented to a commercial cellulase mixture varying degrees of improved hydrolysis over a range of pretreated, lignocellulosic substrates were observed. Results: The potential synergistic interactions between cellulase monocomponents and hemicellulases from family 10 and 11 endo-xylanases (GH10 EX and GH11 EX) and family 5 xyloglucanase (GH5 XG), during hydrolysis of various steam pretreated lignocellulosic substrates, were assessed. It was apparent that the hydrolytic activity of cellulase monocomponents was enhanced by the addition of accessory enzymes although the “boosting” effect was highly substrate specific. The GH10 EX and GH5 XG both exhibited broad substrate specificity and showed strong synergistic interaction with the cellulases when added individually. The GH10 EX was more effective on steam pretreated agriculture residues and hardwood substrates whereas GH5 XG addition was more effective on softwood substrates. The synergistic interaction between GH10 EX and GH5 XG when added together further enhanced the hydrolytic activity of the cellulase enzymes over a range of pretreated lignocellulosic substrates. GH10 EX addition could also stimulate further cellulose hydrolysis when added to the hydrolysis reactions when the rate of hydrolysis had levelled off. Conclusions: Endo-xylanases and xyloglucanases interacted synergistically with cellulases to improve the hydrolysis of a range of pretreated lignocellulosic substrates. However, the extent of improved hydrolysis was highly substrate dependent. It appears that those accessory enzymes, such as GH10 EX and GH5 XG, with broader substrate specificities promoted the greatest improvements in the hydrolytic performance of the cellulase mixture on all of the pretreated biomass substrates.
Vacancy-Hydrogen Interaction in Niobium during Low-Temperature Baking
Creators: name: Wenskat, Marc
name: Cizek, Jakub
name: Liedke, Maciej Oskar
name: Butterling, Maik
name: Bate, Christopher
name: Hausild, Peter
name: Hirschmann, Eric
name: Wagner, Andreas
name: Weise, Hans
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: positron: annihilation
accelerator: performance
niobium
superconductivity
temperature
enhancement
suppression
broadening
lifetime
hydrogen
surface
cavity

description: A recently discovered modified low-temperature baking leads to reduced surface losses and an increase of the accelerating gradient of superconducting TESLA shape cavities. We will show that the dynamics of vacancy-hydrogen complexes at low-temperature baking lead to a suppression of lossy nanohydrides at 2\,K and thus a significant enhancement of accelerator performance. Utilizing Doppler broadening Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy, Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy and instrumented nanoindentation, samples made from European XFEL niobium sheets were investigated. We studied the evolution of vacancies in bulk samples and in the sub-surface region and their interaction with hydrogen at different temperature levels during {\it in-situ} and {\it ex-situ} annealing.
An Environmental Civil Society in China? Bridging Theoretical Gaps through a Case Study of Environmental Protest
Creators: name: Thibaut, Johann L.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: In discussing China‟s environmental issues scholars generally agree that a strong civil society is needed for effective environmental management. The related literature primarily discusses the theory on environmental citizen action and environmental movements, in addition to assessments of the potential for such public engagement through surveys. In this study the approach taken is that the results of surveys do not provide a reliable insight into the potential of such activities. Instead, this study attempts to test the existing theory by con-ducting a case study. The claims tested are: (1) environmentalism in China is non-confrontational; (2) environmentalism in China is locally fragmented; and (3) further political opportunity is needed. An additional aspect is the 2003 EIA law, which is considered in terms of its contribution to environmental civil society in China. The study concludes that the condition of civil society in China is not as insubstantial as portrayed by most scholars, and that the poten-tial for an environmental movement is quite promising.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
The Last Brunei Revolt? A Case Study of Microstate (In-)Security
Creators: name: Kershaw, Roger
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Recent observation of small states, and complementary theory in this area, do not record or anticipate significant vulnerability, and indeed Brunei is no „exception to the rule‟. The present case-study does not even analyse a threat from an outside power, but the attempt by an international entrepreneur to apply his wealth to subverting the stability of the Sultanate, in collaboration with the remnants of the leadership of Brunei People‟s Party (PRB), mainly exiled since 1973 in Malaysia. However, the non-appearance of unrest may serve to demonstrate that internal cohesion is as important an asset for territorial survival as a secure external environment – albeit at the same time the absolute ruler could be lured into dangerous complacency by the experience of oil-funded success in maintaining the institution of monarchy. A brief historical background is supplied, focused on the PRB revolt of 1962 and how the Sultanate subsequently contrived to consolidate itself, to the point where any attempt at a „replay‟ of nationalist revolution was bound to face formidable obstacles in any circumstances. This is also a study of the role of PRB second-in-command Zaini Ahmad, without whose unquenchable optimism no such enterprise could ever have been contemplated.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
ROMEO, Reliable OM decisions tools and strategies for high LCoE reduction on Offshore wind
Creators: name: Yanes, Cesar; Ojanguren, Teresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: offshore wind, wind power, LCOE, O&M, machine learning, wind farm, H2020, East Anglia ONE, Wikinger, Teeside, WindEurope Offshore Conference

description: Presentation in the framework of WindEurope Offshore 2019 – Conference, Session "Digitalization concepts to optimize O&M strategies in Offshore Wind Energy".
Die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder. Mangelnde Legitimation, pädagogische Gewalt und organisierter Terror unter den Roten Khmer
Creators: name: Bultmann, Daniel
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The article shows how the dynamics of violence under the Khmer Rouge regime were intimately linked to the unusual process of seizing power in the war-ridden country. The central thesis is that the Khmer Rouge were facing a fundamental lack of legitimation in the eyes of the population and their own movement, which made it necessary for the leadership to transform the people into ‚true‟, loyal socialist subjects. The party, which strenghtened itself by incorporating many different military factions during the civil war, was fighting for power and control in the country and its own divided movement. The major problem and the upshot of violence under the Khmer Rouge was that the population and the movement‟s own members were far from being faithful socialists. Hence, to transform the people into loyal subjects, which would keep the communist party in power, the regime installed a complex system of terror aimed at the correction of the „rebellious‟ and „deluded‟ psyche. Michel Foucault‟s analysis of techniques of subjugation helps to explain how the regime tried to transform and control its people. In order to build a new society, Angkar attempted to build new people.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
A demonstration study comparing “role-emergent” versus “role-established” pharmacy clinical placement experiences in long-term care facilities
Creators: name: Kassam, Rosemin
name: Kwong, Mona
name: Collins, John B.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Increasing challenges to recruit hospital sites with full-time on-site pharmacy preceptors for institutional-based Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE) has made it necessary to consider alternate experiential models. Sites with on-site discipline specific preceptors to supervise students have typically been referred to in the literature as “role-established” sites. In British Columbia, long-term care (LTC) facilities offered a unique opportunity to address placement capacity issues. However, since the majority of these facilities are serviced by off-site community pharmacists, this study was undertaken to explore the viability of supervising pharmacy students remotely – a model referred to in the literature as “role-emergent” placements. This paper’s objectives are to discuss pharmacy preceptors’ and LTC non-pharmacist staff experiences with this model. Methods: The study consisted of three phases: (1) the development phase which included delivery of a training program to create a pool of potential LTC preceptors, (2) an evaluation phase to test the viability of the LTC role-emergent model with seven pharmacists (two role-established and five role-emergent) together with their LTC staff, and (3) expansion of LTC role-emergent sites to build capacity. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to obtain feedback from pharmacists and staff and t-tests and Mann–Whitney U tests were used to examine equivalency of survey outcomes from staff representing both models. Results: The 76 pharmacists who completed the training program survey rated the modules as “largely” meeting their learning needs. All five role-emergent pharmacists and 29 LTC participating staff reported positive experiences with the pharmacy preceptor-student-staff collaboration. Preceptors reported that having students work side-by-side with facility staff promoted inter-professional collaboration. The staff viewed students’ presence as a mutually beneficial experience, suggesting that the students’ presence had enabled them to deliver better care to the residents. As a direct result of the study findings, the annual role-emergent placement capacity was increased to over 45 by the end of the study. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that role-emergent LTC facilities were not only viable for quality institutional APPEs but also provided more available sites, greater student placement capacity, and more trained pharmacy preceptors than could be achieved in role-established facilities.
After an Election and a Symbolic Re-election in Myanmar - What Next?
Creators: name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The article examines some aspects of the changes taking place in Myanmar in connection with the elections held on November 7, 2010 and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the worldwide recognised opposition leader one week later. After providing an overview of the country‟s post-war elections the political strategies of Suu Kyi and the military are outlined, contrasting the symbolic politics of Suu Kyi and the military with its roadmap towards a “disciplined democracy”. Next, the impact of “third forces”, both in the Burmese heartland and on the country‟s fringes which are inhabited by a variety of ethnic groups, is considered. The final section makes a cautious estimate of the prospects for the transition process which may well depend on the international response to the activities of Myanmar‟s various political actors.
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Indian Labour Migration to the Arab Gulf States. The Impact of a Growing Interdependence
Creators: name: Storbeck, Doreen
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Historical ties, geographical proximity and a labour force surplus made India the natural answer to the Arab Gulf states‟ manpower shortage in the 1970s. Rising oil and gas revenues enabled the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to invest heavily in their infrastructure, but forced them for demographic reasons to open their doors to manpower primarily from India. With more than five million migrants Indians represent the biggest expatriate community in the GCC region today. To attain a better standard of living for themselves and their families they incur heavy debts to take up employment on the Arabian Peninsula, only to be at the mercy of their kafīl (sponsor) after their arrival. The sponsorship system, which is differently applied in every country of the GCC, results in exploitation and harassment that has no equal. Dependent on the vast armies of blue-collar workers from South Asia but at the same time threatened by their growing numbers and demands the Arab Gulf states have so far resisted increasing pressure from the Indian and Western governments as well as international NGOs to address the migrants‟ grievances and to improve their working and living conditions.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum
Entwicklungswelten 2030 - Versuche einer Annäherung
Creators: name: Weiss, Dieter
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Six scenarios are used to delineate possible futures: A: Conventional Textbook Growth, B: Millennium Development Goals not Achieved, C: Climate Change, D: Armed Distributional Conflicts, E: Chaos, and F: Shift of Paradigms. Eight policy options are discussed for dealing with these futures: I: Business as Usual, II: More of the Same, III: Resource Security, IV: Fighting Poverty, V: Addressing Pandemics, VI: Migration Policies, VII: Technological Competence, and VIII: Enclaves of Efficiency. New global risks will have to be addressed in the years to come. Rising scarcities as regards water, energy, foodstuffs and rare minerals are calling for an extended concept of both hard and soft security, possibly supported by peace-keeping operations. Goals, available means, constraints and time horizons will have to be discussed in a comprehensive manner. As futures are ever more difficult to predict, the challenge is to build resilience and potential, i.e. the capability to proact and react from a position of relative strength.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 42 Nr. 1-2 (2011): Internationales Asienforum