cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Voluntary environmental disclosures of Malaysian listed companies: an application of stakeholder theory
Creators: name: Elijido-Ten, Evangeline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study examines the motives behind the voluntary provision of annual report environmental disclosures (AREDs) by Malaysian listed companies using stakeholder theory. The investigation is conducted in two phases employing both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Using regression analysis, Phase 1 results suggest that proxies for strategic posture are significantly related with the quality and quantity of disclosures. It is also found that the shareholder and creditor power (two stakeholder power proxies) and the average return on assets (economic performance proxy) are not significantly associated with AREDs. These results provide an impetus to ask further questions which are answered in Phase 2 through the use of qualitative interviews. Phase 2 uncovers the motivations behind the provision of AREDs which are related to the central premise of stakeholder theory.
Conserved associations between G-quadruplex-forming DNA motifs and virulence gene families in malaria parasites.
Creators: name: Gage, Hunter L
name: Merrick, Catherine J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Plasmodium
Malaria
Var Genes
G Quadruplex
Laverania
Pir Genes

description: BACKGROUND:The Plasmodium genus of malaria parasites encodes several families of antigen-encoding genes. These genes tend to be hyper-variable, highly recombinogenic and variantly expressed. The best-characterized family is the var genes, exclusively found in the Laveranian subgenus of malaria parasites infecting humans and great apes. Var genes encode major virulence factors involved in immune evasion and the maintenance of chronic infections. In the human parasite P. falciparum, var gene recombination and diversification appear to be promoted by G-quadruplex (G4) DNA motifs, which are strongly associated with var genes in P. falciparum. Here, we investigated how this association might have evolved across Plasmodium species - both Laverania and also more distantly related species which lack vars but encode other, more ancient variant gene families. RESULTS:The association between var genes and G4-forming motifs was conserved across Laverania, spanning ~ 1 million years of evolutionary time, with suggestive evidence for evolution of the association occurring within this subgenus. In rodent malaria species, G4-forming motifs were somewhat associated with pir genes, but this was not conserved in the Laverania, nor did we find a strong association of these motifs with any gene family in a second outgroup of avian malaria parasites. Secondly, we compared two different G4 prediction algorithms in their performance on extremely A/T-rich Plasmodium genomes, and also compared these predictions with experimental data from G4-seq, a DNA sequencing method for identifying G4-forming motifs. We found a surprising lack of concordance between the two algorithms and also between the algorithms and G4-seq data. CONCLUSIONS:G4-forming motifs are uniquely strongly associated with Plasmodium var genes, suggesting a particular role for G4s in recombination and diversification of these genes. Secondly, in the A/T-rich genomes of Plasmodium species, the choice of prediction algorithm may be particularly influential when studying G4s in these important protozoan pathogens.
Conversion of municipal solid waste fractions into model inputs
Creators: name: Lamborn, Julia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One of the main inputs required for any landfill gas generation model is the waste composition data. Waste composition data for municipal solid waste is collected in terms of food, green waste, paper, textiles, inert etc. For this data to be of use for a landfill model, it must be converted into the input values that the particular model requires. This paper examines various methods for the conversion of the waste fractions into model inputs for component models and recommends that a combined approach would help improve the accuracy of this conversion. This paper is only considering the input data and parameters for the degradation component of landfill models.
Developing writing skills for graduate NESBC students
Creators: name: Blicblau, Aaron
name: McManus, Kerry
name: Prince, Rachael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Students from non English-speaking backgrounds and cultures (NESBC) undertaking postgraduate research degrees are expected to write a major thesis and publish conference and journal articles. As novice researchers, they need mentoring through the process of writing a journal article in their specialized area. Experienced supervisors, who have previously published, have an intuitive grasp of the structure of the research article, and are able to suggest restructure of unsuccessful student drafts. This paper analyses the protocols of re-organization of both a professional journal article and sections of a thesis, which a NESBC postgraduate student and his supervisor went through to arrive at a suitable formula for publication. An interactive student/supervisor protocol was used to record the supervisor's revision of an NESBC student's draft journal article and thesis writing process.
title: La coutume : formes, représentation et enjeux
Publisher: name: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Year: 2008

description: Lors de ce colloque, il s’agit de considérer le Discours de la servitude volontaire (et, s’il se peut, les autres œuvres de La Boétie, ou que l’on a coutume d’attribuer à La Boétie) comme mettant en cause des notions centrales dans la culture de la Renaissance, de les re-situer dans les périodes antérieures au XVIe siècle, mais également d’en voir les prolongements jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle.  Dans un passage marqué par l’influence d’Hérodote et son regard sur les civilisations orientales, le début du  Discours fait de la coutume le premier principe explicatif de la « volonté de servir ». D’abord étudier la  présence du thème, de l’historien grec à Montesquieu et au-delà, en précisant ses enjeux philosophiques (son  inscription dans l’opposition entre nature et convention notamment), en mettant l’accent sur la manière dont il est exposé, tout autant que sur le travail de réflexion qu’il suscite - prise de conscience relativiste, analyse des processus d’accoutumance et de désaccoutumance...
Variation of chemical compounds in wild Heliconiini reveals ecological factors involved in the evolution of chemical defenses in mimetic butterflies.
Creators: name: Sculfort, Ombeline
name: De Castro, Erika C P
name: Kozak, Krzysztof M
name: Bak, Søren
name: Elias, Marianne
name: Nay, Bastien
name: Llaurens, Violaine
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Phylogenetic Signal
Aposematism
Müllerian Mimicry
Heliconius
Cyanogenic Glucosides
Lc‐ms/ms

description: Evolutionary convergence of color pattern in mimetic species is tightly linked with the evolution of chemical defenses. Yet, the evolutionary forces involved in natural variations of chemical defenses in aposematic species are still understudied. Herein, we focus on the evolution of chemical defenses in the butterfly tribe Heliconiini. These neotropical butterflies contain large concentrations of cyanogenic glucosides, cyanide-releasing compounds acting as predator deterrent. These compounds are either de novo synthesized or sequestered from their Passiflora host plant, so that their concentrations may depend on host plant specialization and host plant availability. We sampled 375 wild Heliconiini butterflies across Central and South America, covering 43% species of this clade, and quantify individual variations in the different CGs using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. We detected new compounds and important variations in chemical defenses both within and among species. Based on the most recent and well-studied phylogeny of Heliconiini, we show that ecological factors such as mimetic interactions and host plant specialization have a significant association with chemical profiles, but these effects are largely explained by phylogenetic relationships. Our results therefore suggest that shared ancestries largely contribute to chemical defense variation, pointing out at the interaction between historical and ecological factors in the evolution of Müllerian mimicry.
Neurocomputational mechanisms underpinning aberrant social learning in young adults with low self-esteem.
Creators: name: Will, Geert-Jan
name: Moutoussis, Michael
name: Womack, Palee M
name: Bullmore, Edward T
name: Goodyer, Ian M
name: Fonagy, Peter
name: Jones, Peter B
name: Rutledge, Robb B
name: Dolan, Raymond J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020

description: Low self-esteem is a risk factor for a range of psychiatric disorders. From a cognitive perspective a negative self-image can be maintained through aberrant learning about self-worth derived from social feedback. We previously showed that neural teaching signals that represent the difference between expected and actual social feedback (i.e., social prediction errors) drive fluctuations in self-worth. Here, we used model-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize learning from social prediction errors in 61 participants drawn from a population-based sample (n = 2402) who were recruited on the basis of being in the bottom or top 10% of self-esteem scores. Participants performed a social evaluation task during fMRI scanning, which entailed predicting whether other people liked them as well as the repeated provision of reported feelings of self-worth. Computational modeling results showed that low self-esteem participants had persistent expectations that others would dislike them, and a reduced propensity to update these expectations in response to social prediction errors. Low self-esteem subjects also displayed an enhanced volatility in reported feelings of self-worth, and this was linked to an increased tendency for social prediction errors to determine momentary self-worth. Canonical correlation analysis revealed that individual differences in self-esteem related to several interconnected psychiatric symptoms organized around a single dimension of interpersonal vulnerability. Such interpersonal vulnerability was associated with an attenuated social value signal in ventromedial prefrontal cortex when making predictions about being liked, and enhanced dorsal prefrontal cortex activity upon receipt of social feedback. We suggest these computational signatures of low self-esteem and their associated neural underpinnings might represent vulnerability for development of psychiatric disorder.
Norovirus Replication in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells Is Restricted by the Interferon-Induced JAK/STAT Signaling Pathway and RNA Polymerase II-Mediated Transcriptional Responses.
Creators: name: Hosmillo, Myra
name: Chaudhry, Yasmin
name: Nayak, Komal
name: Sorgeloos, Frederic
name: Koo, Bon-Kyoung
name: Merenda, Alessandra
name: Lillestol, Reidun
name: Drumright, Lydia
name: Zilbauer, Matthias
name: Goodfellow, Ian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Interferons
Intestine
Noroviruses
Organoid
Mucosal Pathogens

description: Human noroviruses (HuNoV) are a leading cause of viral gastroenteritis worldwide and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in all age groups. The recent finding that HuNoV can be propagated in B cells and mucosa-derived intestinal epithelial organoids (IEOs) has transformed our ability to dissect the life cycle of noroviruses. Using transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) of HuNoV-infected intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), we have found that replication of HuNoV in IECs results in interferon (IFN)-induced transcriptional responses and that HuNoV replication in IECs is sensitive to IFN. This contrasts with previous studies that suggested that the innate immune response may play no role in the restriction of HuNoV replication in immortalized cells. We demonstrated that inhibition of Janus kinase 1 (JAK1)/JAK2 enhanced HuNoV replication in IECs. Surprisingly, targeted inhibition of cellular RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription was not detrimental to HuNoV replication but instead enhanced replication to a greater degree than blocking of JAK signaling directly. Furthermore, we demonstrated for the first time that IECs generated from genetically modified intestinal organoids, engineered to be deficient in the interferon response, were more permissive to HuNoV infection. Taking the results together, our work revealed that IFN-induced transcriptional responses restrict HuNoV replication in IECs and demonstrated that inhibition of these responses mediated by modifications of the culture conditions can greatly enhance the robustness of the norovirus culture system.IMPORTANCE Noroviruses are a major cause of gastroenteritis worldwide, and yet the challenges associated with their growth in culture have greatly hampered the development of therapeutic approaches and have limited our understanding of the cellular pathways that control infection. Here, we show that human intestinal epithelial cells, which represent the first point of entry of human noroviruses into the host, limit virus replication by induction of innate responses. Furthermore, we show that modulating the ability of intestinal epithelial cells to induce transcriptional responses to HuNoV infection can significantly enhance human norovirus replication in culture. Collectively, our findings provide new insights into the biological pathways that control norovirus infection but also identify mechanisms that enhance the robustness of norovirus culture.
martinakienberger/LIS_2018-2020: Analysis Code
Creators: name: Kienberger, Martina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: foreign/second language acquisition
language learning strategies
vocabulary
inferencing
German as a Foreign Language
multilingualism
think-aloud

description: Analysis of lexical inferencing strategies used by German as a L3 learners at the University of Salamanca (Spain)
Pre-registration of: Assessing Group Sequential Designs With Real World Data
Creators: name: Heyman, Tom
name: Stilwell, Peter
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics and Probability
subject: Statistical Methodology
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Details of the pre-registration can be found in the pre-registration.pdf document in the markdown folder in the attached gitlab repository. Details on how to reproduce the pre-registration.pdf manuscript can be found in the README.md in the attached gitlab repository.
Going down the hole: Beaconsfield, celebrities and the changing news culture in Australia
Creators: name: Bainbridge, Jason
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The article discusses the rescue and retrieval of two gold miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, at the Beaconsfield gold mine in Tasmania. It uses the reporting of Beaconsfield event to explore notions of celebrity and infotainment. Moreover, the event in Beaconsfield is notable because it notices a change in television news reporting, confirmation of the increasing tabloidisation and news commodification and the impact of celebrity on news production in Australia.
Interrogating students’ perceptions of their online learning experiences with Brookfield’s critical incident questionnaire
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: This article discusses whether the very act of accessing online students’ experi- ences of teaching may itself foster students’ sense of belonging to a learning community. The article reports and reflects on the application of Brookfield’s critical incident questionnaire (CIQ) in postgraduate courses delivered online in 2008–2010 through the University of Newcastle in Australia. The anonymous CIQ is designed in part to access students’ views of teaching practice, and was deployed as part of an ongoing interest in quality teaching. The article makes recommendations for deploying the CIQ in online learning spaces and concludes with some reflections on unexpected opportunities thoughtful CIQ deployment may provide. The practice of sharing students’ anonymous responses may have helped to foster students’ sense of a shared learning community. This may be particularly valuable in an asynchronous online learning context where students are typically geographically isolated from one another.
IPSP Toolsuite [HR] / Skup alata
Creators: name: Armengou, Clara
name: Barnsby, Judith
name: Bowker, Lynne
name: Cupar, Drahomira
name: Laakso, Mikael
name: Labastida, Ignasi
name: Melinščak Zlodi, Iva
name: Mofardin, Danijel
name: de Pablo Llorente, Virginia
name: Pölönen, Janne
name: Proudman, Vanessa
name: Redhead, Claire
name: Rico-Castro, Pilar
name: Rooryck, Johan
name: Shen, Cenyu
name: Ševkušić, Milica
name: Souyioultzoglou, Irakleitos
name: Stojanovski, Jadranka
name: Stone, Graham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ovi članci i s njima povezani sadržaji glavni su rezultat zadatka 4.2 "IPSP Toolsuite" u projektu DIAMAS. Skup alata definiramo kao zbirku alata i izvora informacija koji podržavaju dijamanrni otvoreni pristup i Standard za dijamantni otvoreni pristup (Diamond Open Access Standard, DOAS), uključujući općenite uvodne članke, detaljne smjernice (zadatak 4.3 projekta DIAMAS) i poveznice na alate za samoprocjenu, materijale za obuku i druge resurse.
Managing climate risk: extreme weather events and the future of insurance in a climate-changed world
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Recent extreme weather events in eastern Australia have again raised questions in the public sphere about the nature of links between anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather events. Demonstrating that anthropogenic climate change was wholly responsible for any extreme weather event may never be possible in a system as complex as the Earth’s. Yet the extent to which anthropogenic climate change increased the likelihood of some specific extreme weather events occurring can be quantified. However, this article argues that unmitigated climate change threatens not just measurable, increased likelihoods of extreme events, but over time, wholly unpredictable frequencies for extreme weather events. This article asks what the prospects might be for continued provision of insurance in a climate-changed world, for the insurance sector as well as the societies dependent on insurance as a primary tool to manage financial risks. The article argues that ultimately, the only viable way to insure against climate risks will be through effective mitigation of climate change: deep and rapid cuts in emissions now as a ‘premium’ to avoid uninsurable climate risks in the future.
EDUCATIONAL EQUATIONS: UNPACKING DOUBLE REDUCTION AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN COMPULSORY EDUCATION – A CASE STUDY OF LUOYANG CITY
Creators: name: Maria Teresa, Santos Reyes
Publisher: name: SADI journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Double reduction
Compulsory education
Homework burden
Off-campus training
Holistic development

description: The "double reduction" policy in China, aimed at alleviating the heavy homework and off-campus training burdens on students in compulsory education, holds paramount importance for the holistic development of minors. This policy has garnered widespread attention from educational stakeholders, parents, and society at large. In 2021, the release of the "Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Homework and Off-campus Training for Students Receiving Compulsory Education" marked a pivotal step towards promoting students' comprehensive growth and well-being. Over the past year, Luoyang City has spearheaded initiatives to enhance school quality and off-campus governance, emphasizing collaborative efforts between schools and parents. These endeavors have borne fruit by significantly reducing the homework and off-campus training burdens on students. This accomplishment is attributed to various factors: the education department's improved management mechanisms, stringent controls on the workload of primary and secondary school students, and the comprehensive implementation of after-school services, ensuring accessibility for all students in need. This achievement presents a promising "report card" that showcases the positive impact of proactive measures to mitigate the "double reduction" challenges in compulsory education. The success of these efforts underscores the significance of "double reduction" in nurturing the holistic development of young learners
Negativity drives online news consumption [ Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]
Creators: name: Feuerriegel, Stefan
name: Robertson, Claire
name: Pröllochs, Nicolas
name: Schwarzenegger, Kaoru
name: Pärnamets, Philip
name: Van Bavel, Jay J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: ABSTRACT  Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here, we analyze the effect of negative words on news consumption using a massive online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted preliminary analyses using a large-scale, series of randomized controlled trials in the field (N = 22,743). Our final dataset will comprise ∼105,000 different variations of news stories from Upworthy.com–one of the fastest growing websites of all time–that generated ∼8 million clicks across more than 530 million overall impressions. As such, this dataset allows a unique opportunity to test the causal impact of negative and emotional language on consumption with millions of news readers. An analysis with preliminary data reveals that negative words in news increase consumption rates. Our results contribute to a better understanding of why users engage with online media.
 ITEMS Stage 1 Registered Report Protocol Stage 1 Registered Report Supplementary Information
What to Make of COP 15?: A Ringside Report
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: The key aspects and features of the United Nations climate change negotiations (the 15th Conference of the Parties or COP 15) held in early December, 2009 are discussed. Several observations and recommendations made at COP 15 are highlighted.
IPSP Toolsuite [ES] / Suite de herramientas para IPSP
Creators: name: Armengou, Clara
name: Barnsby, Judith
name: Bowker, Lynne
name: Cupar, Drahomira
name: Laaskso, Mikael
name: Labastida, Ignasi
name: Zlodi, Iva Melinščak
name: Mofardin, Danijel
name: de Pablo Llorente, Virginia
name: Pölönen, Janne
name: Proudman, Vanessa
name: Redhead, Claire
name: Rico-Castro, Pilar
name: Rooryck, Johan
name: Shen,, Cenyu
name: Ševkušić, Milica
name: Souyioultzoglou, Irakleitos
name: Stojanovski, Jadranka
name: Stone, Graham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Estos artículos y el contenido asociado son el resultado principal de la Tarea 4.2 del proyecto DIAMAS, “Suite de Herramientas IPSP”. Definimos el suite de herramientas como un conjunto de herramientas y recursos que apoyan el Acceso Abierto Diamante y el Estándar de Acceso Abierto Diamante (DOAS), incluyendo una serie de artículos de alto nivel, directrices detalladas (Tarea 4.3 de DIAMAS) y enlaces a herramientas de autoevaluación, materiales de capacitación y otros recursos.
Enter ghosts, authors and translators
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the light of psychoanalysis, writing may be understood as a doubling of the absent. Starting from this premise, and grounding it in personal experience, my paper explores the fundamental nature of translation. Dominique Hecq argues that the process of ethical translation has an ontological dimension that involves a twofold doubling, or double ghosting. The act of translating indeed entails both a reading and a writing, and therefore a ghosting of the voice at first and second removes.
Design, science and engineering collaboration for developing new materials and technologies: a case study of outdoor cafe furniture
Creators: name: Thong, Christine
name: Jackson, Simon
name: Anderson, Lyndon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research and development of new materials and technologies has traditionally been dominated by scientific and engineering disciplines. However, methods are emerging that integrate design into the process to accelerate time frames, reduce risk and improve market uptake. In an Australian context, the Collaborative Research Centre for Wood Innovations integrated design with engineering and science in the initial stages of new materials development for microwave modified timber. This paper will explore how different modes of operation for industrial design were necessary to successfully engage in this cross-disciplinary research environment. The research strategies developed, non-traditional activities employed and alternative application of industrial design processes will be discussed using outdoor cafe furniture as a case study. The research shows that the new ways of working for industrial design were effective, allowing design to drive research and align material properties with real world product need. It also suggests that the strategies are transferable to other kinds of new technology development.
All hands to the pump: Notes from NCCARF’s 2010 International Climate Adaptation Futures ￼￼Conference
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Some of the highlights and themes from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) 2010 International Climate Adaptation Futures Conference are discussed. Some of the other issues with regards to adaptation that came up at the conference are highlighted.
Writing the Fine Print: Developing Regional Insurance for Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: McGee, Jeffrey
name: Wenta, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Proposals to form an insurance mechanism to support Small Island Developing States’ adaptation to climate change were first raised in 1991. At that time, the Alliance of Small Island States proposed an international, state-based insurance framework to assist adaptation to sea level rise. After two decades, an effective agreement and institutional structure on climate change insurance is yet to be realised. However, in the last two years, insurance has resurfaced in negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process. The 2013 United Nations climate conference meeting in Warsaw created a loss and damage mechanism and reinvigorated interest in risk transfer mechanisms to assist developing countries in adapting to climate change. This article argues that an existing regional international disaster risk-pooling facility, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, offers an instructive model for a regional risk transfer mechanism to further adaptation to climate change-related extreme weather events in the Pacific. The article concludes that there is a good case, on pragmatic grounds and also under existing burden sharing principles in global climate governance, for leading developed states to take a leadership role in developing regional risk-pooling initiatives in the Pacific.
Dynamic analysis of multiagent Q-learning with E-greedy exploration
Creators: name: Gomes, Eduardo
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The development of mechanisms to understand and model the expected behaviour of multiagent learners is becoming increasingly important as the area rapidly find application in a variety of domains. In this paper we present a framework to model the behaviour of Q-learning agents using the o-greedy exploration mechanism. For this, we analyse a continuous-time version of the Q-learning update rule and study how the presence of other agents and the o-greedy mechanism affect it. We then model the problem as a system of difference equations which is used to theoretically analyse the expected behaviour of the agents. The applicability of the framework is tested through experiments in typical games selected from the literature.
Electronic resources for "RNA modelling with the computational energy landscape framework"
Creators: name: Röder, Konstantin
name: Pasquali, Samuela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Online resources for "RNA modelling with the computational energy landscape framework" Contains a detailed description and input files for the study of the 5' hairpin of RNA 7SK published in: K Röder, G Stirnemann, AC Dock-Bregeon, DJ Wales, S Pasquali
 Structural transitions in the RNA 7SK 5′ hairpin and their effect on HEXIM binding, Nucleic Acids Res. 48 (1), 373-389 Requires OPTIM (http://www-wales.ch.cam.ac.uk/OPTIM/), PATHSAMPLE (http://www-wales.ch.cam.ac.uk/PATHSAMPLE/) and an AMBER license.
Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability.
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: The Environment and Sustainability Learning and Teaching Academic Standards (LTAS) project developed standards for the environment and sustainability field - documenting what students need to know and be able to do upon graduation. The project team consulted with a wide range of stakeholders including tertiary educators and researchers, employers and practitioners, students, other environmental educators and indigenous people.
Development and characterization of new microsatellite markers for grape
Creators: name: Arroyo-García, R.
name: Martínez-Zapater, J. M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Thirty five new grape microsatellite markers were developed under an international consortium involving AGROGENE. These loci were amplified in 41 Spanish cultivars of V. vinifera. Eleven of the markers were polymorphic and informative in V. vinifera. Twelve were monomorphic and of the remaining markers one was polymorphic but less useful because individuals amplified more than two bands and the rest had amplification problems. The number of alleles detected for the 11 informative markers ranged from 4 to 12, with heterozygosity values ranging from 0.6 to 0.8. Primer sequences are reported for these markers.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 4 (2004): Vitis
Molecular diversity within clones of cv. Tannat (Vitis vinifera)
Creators: name: González Techera, A.
name: Jubany, S.
name: Ponce De León, I.
name: Boido, E.
name: Dellacassa, E.
name: Carrau, F. M.
name: Hinrichsen, P.
name: Gaggero, C.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: DNAs from 9 clones of cv. Tannat (Vitis vinifera) were analyzed at 89 microsatellite loci. Only one, VMCNg 1d12, showed a differential pattern that separated the clones in two groups. The statistical analysis of concentrations for aroma compounds from microvinifications also resulted in the same two groupings of clones. Many analyzed microsatellite loci amplified only one allele, implying that Tannat is a highly homozygous variety. For a given set of 15 microsatellites the level of homozygosity was 53 % for Tannat, in contrast to 6 % for Pinot, 20 % for both Cabernet Franc and Chardonnay and 33 % for Cabernet Sauvignon. We provide molecular data for Tannat, originating from southwestern France and nowadays becoming the emblematic cultivar of Uruguayan fine red wines. We also report a correlation between aroma-related compounds and molecular markers within clones of a cultivar.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 4 (2004): Vitis
Course evaluation matters: improving students’ learning experiences with a peer-assisted teaching programme
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Carbone, Angela
name: Ross, Bella
name: Lindsay, Katherine
name: Drew, Steve
name: Stoney, Sue
name: Cottman, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: In the rapidly changing global higher education sector, greater attention is being paid to the quality of university teaching. However, academics have traditionally not received formal teacher training. The peer-assisted teaching programme reported on in this paper provides a structured yet flexible approach for peers to assist each other in reinvigorating and refining their teaching practice. Academics participated in this national, multi-institutional trial for varied reasons: the major- ity voluntarily, others to increase low student evaluation of course scores and some as part of a graduate certificate teaching qualification. Here we report on how academics used the scheme, and the teaching areas they focused on. Student evaluation of course scores increased in the majority of courses, suggesting the changes made had a positive effect on students’ learning experiences. The expe- riences of the multi-institutional trial reported here may benefit others consider- ing such a scheme to reinvigorate and refine teaching practice and improve course evaluation scores.
First record of a plasmodiophorid parasite in grapevine
Creators: name: Huber, L.
name: Hammes, M.
name: Eisenbeis, G.
name: Pöder, R.
name: Kirchmair, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: In the context of an interdisciplinary project on grape pests and pathogens in Rheingau (Germany), the fine root system of grafted rootstocks has been screened for pathogenic fungi associated with root galls induced by grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch)). In several insect-induced galls, masses of resting spores of a plasmodiophorid could be seen. An additional selective screening revealed the occurrence of the plasmodiophorid parasite also in samples of gall-free rootlets: cortical cells of small necrotic areas were crowded with resting spores or other developmental stages of its life cycle. According to current taxonomic concepts, this plasmodiophorid could be identified as a member of the genus Sorosphaera Schroeter, resembling S. veronicae Schroeter. This is the first record of a plasmodiophorid parasite in grapevine.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 4 (2004): Vitis
Presence of stolbur phytoplasma in Cixiidae in Hungarian vineyards
Creators: name: Palermo, S.
name: Elekes, M.
name: Botti, S.
name: Ember, I.
name: Alma, A.
name: Orosz, A.
name: Bertaccini, A.
name: Kölber, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Bois Noir (16SrXII-A) phytoplasmas were identified in three viticultural areas of Hungary in 18 % of Hyalesthes obsoletus, and in an asymptomatic nettle sample. The cixiid Reptalus panzeri was found to be infected with 16SrXII-A and with 16SrIII (X-disease) phytoplasmas. The latter pathogen was also detected in symptomatic wild Cirsium spp. and Convolvolus collected inside Bois Noir-infected and R. panzeri-infested vineyards.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 4 (2004): Vitis
Titrimetric method based on potentiometric titration to evaluate redox couples in wine and polyphenols
Creators: name: Vivas, N.
name: Nonier, M. F.
name: Vivas De Gaulejac, N.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Polyphenols are electroactive compounds, each molecule having reductive (Rd) and oxidative forms (Ox) due to the presence of several phenolic hydroxyls. Direct study of Rd/Ox forms was conducted using potentiometric titration in two steps: First, a complete reduction of the polyphenol Rd/Ox couples by titanium III chloride TiCl3 (100 % Rd), and then, oxidative titration by dichlorophenolindophenol DCPIP (100 % Ox). The second curve represents the totality of polyphenol couples titration with, for each couple, a characteristic E0 point representing the equilibrium between the concentration of Rd and Ox forms (Rd/Ox = 1). This value was typical for each polyphenol. We conducted several preliminary experiments with a model polyphenol (catechin) to establish the analysis conditions. The titration solution concentration was N/10 in HCl N and N/20 in water for TiCl3 and DCPIP respectively. The concentration of this solution diminished very rapidly, i.e. within 24 h for TiCl3 and DCPIP (under nitrogen and in darkness) and regularly needed a fresh preparation. To control the consistency and precision of the method we performed a few tests on pure products (e.g. hydroquinone/quihydrone, Fe III, Fe II, Cu II) permitting comparison between theoretical and experimental E0 values. Our result indicated less than 5 % variation and curves with a high reproducibility.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 4 (2004): Vitis
Suppression of grapevine powdery mildew (Uncinula necator) by acibenzolar-S-methyl
Creators: name: Campbell, P. A.
name: Latorre, B. A.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Research Note
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 4 (2004): Vitis
Cuidados de la cavidad bucal – la necesidad de atención profesional y de cuidadores y la comprobación de excelencia en Cuidados Paliativos
Creators: name: Alves de Oliveira, João Batista
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: . Cuidados bucales. Alteraciones bucales. Calidad de vida.

description: Entre todos los cuidados que necesita un paciente con una enfermedad grave o al final de la vida está el cuidado de la cavidad bucal, que habitualmente se descuida y, sin embargo, es una parte fundamental de la asistencia, ayudando a controlar el sufrimiento y la calidad de vida, y su ejecución meticulosa representa la excelencia de los Cuidados Paliativos

 

 
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Modernist Ecology: Literary Modernism and the Reimagination of Nature
Creators: name: P. Saunders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Literature

description: Short Description: An essay about the relationship between literary modernism, utopian ideas about nature, and radical political movements. "Modernist ecology" -- shorthand for an esoteric conception of nature evident in the works of many 20th century writers -- is discussed as it appears in the works of W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Samuel Beckett. Full Abstract: Countering the trend in contemporary ecocriticism to advance realism as an environmentally responsible mode of representation, this essay argues that the anti-realist aesthetics of literary modernism were implicitly “ecological.” In order to make this argument I distinguish between contemporary and modernist ecological culture (both of which I differentiate in turn from ecological science); while the former is concerned primarily with the practical reform characteristic of what we now call “environmentalism,” the latter demanded an all-encompassing reimagination of the relationship between humanity and nature. “Modernist ecology,” as I call it, attempted to envision this change, which would be ontological or metaphysical rather than simply social, through thematically and formally experimental works of art. Its radical vision, suggestive in some ways of today‟s “deep” ecology, repudiated modern accounts of nature as a congeries of inert objects to be manipulated by a sovereign subject, and instead foregrounded the chiasmic intertexture of the subject/object relationship. In aesthetic modernism we encounter not “objective” nature, but “nature-being” – a blank substratum beneath the solid contours of what philosopher Kate Soper calls “lay nature” – the revelation of which shatters historical constructions of nature and seems to allow for radical alternatives. This essay looks specifically at modernist ecology as it appears in the works of W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Samuel Beckett. It details their attempts to envision revolutionary new ecologies, but also their struggles with the limited capacity of esoteric modernist art to effect change on a collective level and, for Yeats and Lawrence, the dangerous allure presented by fascist politics as a resolution to this problem.
Designing information, experience and presence: an interdisciplinary approach to visual heritage
Creators: name: De Kruiff, Alison
name: Barnes, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Digitisation, combined with the Internet, offers new access to heritage sites. However, overcoming the intrusion of the mediating technology to give people a feeling of 'being there'â- a psychological phenomenon known as presence â- is a fundamental challenge in developing web-based virtual heritage environments. Design is important to the communication of presence, but its role is not considered in the literature of virtual heritage or presence. In crossing matters of form, content, people and technology, issues in virtual heritage resist the processes of reduction that characterise traditional disciplinary research. This paper combines ideas from information and experience design, presence and virtual heritage to investigate how the demand for historical accuracy and heightened audience experience can be balanced in creating virtual heritage environments. Conversely, it also discusses the risks for design researchers in drawing on heterogeneous sources of knowledge, but argues that this is a way to see larger issues in design.
Designing with the experiential in digitally augmented exhibitions
Creators: name: Kocsis, Anita
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The ways in which audiences interact and make meaning of digitally augmented exhibitions is an important design determinant. In such an interdisciplinary project, the design, the museum and new media encounter the problem of the experiential. A creative experimental analysis of audience experience employing aesthetic visualisation semiotics drawn from the principles of information design, computational aesthetics and human centred design is argued as a relevant adjunct to an exhibition providing fresh persepectives and new knowledge to interdisciplinary stakeholders. Interactive, experimental artifacts, known as field and body, provides a conceptual map of the exhibition experience relying on the creativity of audience participants in making visible, legible and tangible their personal reception of a work. The data yielded reflects abstract notions of audience experience engendering a discussion about the phenomenological, curatorial and cognitive effects of the digitally augmented exhibition.
Artigo Técnico Ilustrado - A Educação a Distância na Universidade Salvador UNIFACS Um Relato de Aspectos de Evolução da Área
Creators: name: Neto, Guilherme Marback
name: Martins, Joberto S. B.
name: Quadros, Teresinha G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Educação a Distância
EAD
Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação
TIC
Núcleo de Pesquisa e Projetos em Educação a Distância
NUPPEAD
Currículo EAD
Processo EAD
Implantação EAD
Modelos e Práticas do EAD
Polos e Atuação EAD

description: This "ILLUSTRATED TECHNICAL PAPER" presents the slides describing the contents of the paper "A Educação a Distância na Universidade Salvador UNIFACS Um Relato de Aspectos de Evolução da Área".
 The paper was presented at the Seminário EAD no Contexto Brasileiro: Perspectivas nos Municípios Baianos, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil. The "illustrated technical paper format" is intended to complement, enrich and subsidize the technical paper content and contains slides, complementary text and additional and/or focused bibliographic references.
The effect of new public management on participative decision-making in a public sector organisation
Creators: name: Choy, Jerome
name: McCormack, Darcy
name: Djurkovic, Nikola
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores the effect of New Public Management on Participative Decision-Making in a public sector organisation. Data were collected from a large public sector organisation in Victoria, where 24 semi-structured interviews were used to obtain information on the aforementioned phenomena. The findings suggest a 'hybridity' of traditional bureaucratic public sector management and new public management, including participative decision-making (i.e., delegation and participation). Implications arising from these findings are discussed, including the provision of appropriate training for managers and subordinates to prepare each for their decision-making roles.
'A right to be troublesome': the arrest of Dexter Daniels and the politics of vagrancy laws.
Creators: name: Kimber, Julie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dexter Daniels' role in the Wave Hill walk-off has cemented his place in Australian history. This paper, however, examines a lesser-known though related incident: Daniels' arrest for vagrancy in December 1967. His arrest is curious. He had money in his pocket and was actively seeking work. It was his reputation for political and industrial agitation, rather than wilful indigence, that lay at the heart of his arrest. His conviction draws attention both to the political intent of vagrancy laws and the inequity of their application. Such laws, many of which have now been repealed and their provisions diffused elsewhere in the criminal code, were used extensively in Australia. With their 'moral' underpinnings and lax evidentiary requirements, they became convenient mechanisms to isolate and punish 'anti-social' behaviour. Drawing on files held in the National Archives, this paper attempts to explain why Daniels was targeted in this way and why a seemingly insignificant conviction made headlines in the southern states' metropolitan newspapers and captured the attention of the Prime Minister and Cabinet as well as the resources of several government departments.
Riding without a saddle
Creators: name: Campbell, Gordon
name: Brennan, Linda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes a qualitative study taking place into (un)safe sex practices by gay men. The paper seeks to understand the initiation of sexual practice from a loyalty perspective in an effort to ascertain if established behaviours (loyalty) may be shifted over time. To this end, a natural history embedded within a narrative enquiry approach has been adopted. Preliminary outcomes provide some insights into urgent priorities for social marketing campaigns aiming to decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS in gay populations.