cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Synergies between Exoplanet Surveys and Variable Star Research
Creators: name: Kovacs, Geza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the discovery of the first transiting extrasolar planetary system back to 1999, a great number of projects started to hunt for other similar systems. Because of the incidence rate of such systems was unknown and the length of the shallow transit events is only a few percent of the orbital period, the goal was to monitor continuously as many stars as possible for at least a period of a few months. Small aperture, large field of view automated telescope systems have been installed with a parallel development of new data reduction and analysis methods, leading to better than 1% per data point precision for thousands of stars. With the successful launch of the photometric satellites CoRot and Kepler, the precision increased further by one-two orders of magnitude. Millions of stars have been analyzed and searched for transits. In the history of variable star astronomy this is the biggest undertaking so far, resulting in photometric time series inventories immensely valuable for the whole field. In this review we briefly discuss the methods of data analysis that were inspired by the main science driver of these surveys and highlight some of the most interesting variable star results that impact the field of variable star astronomy.
description: This is a review presented at "Wide-field variability surveys: a 21st-century perspective" - 22nd Los Alamos Stellar Pulsation Conference Series Meeting, held in: San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2016. To appear in Web of Conferences Journal: 13 pages, 8 figures
Counting the number of non-zero coefficients in rows of generalized Pascal triangles
Creators: name: Leroy, Julien
name: Rigo, Michel
name: Stipulanti, Manon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper is about counting the number of distinct (scattered) subwords occurring in a given word. More precisely, we consider the generalization of the Pascal triangle to binomial coefficients of words and the sequence $(S(n))_{n\ge 0}$ counting the number of positive entries on each row. By introducing a convenient tree structure, we provide a recurrence relation for $(S(n))_{n\ge 0}$. This leads to a connection with the $2$-regular Stern-Brocot sequence and the sequence of denominators occurring in the Farey tree. Then we extend our construction to the Zeckendorf numeration system based on the Fibonacci sequence. Again our tree structure permits us to obtain recurrence relations for and the F-regularity of the corresponding sequence.
description: 28 pages, 10 figures
What Changes When Incentives Change in Primary Medical Care, 2005-2006
What Changes When Incentives Change in Primary Medical Care?
Creators: name: Huby, G.
name: Guthrie, B.
name: Davies, H. T. O.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: The new 2004 General Medical Services (GMS) contract for general practitioners (GPs) exemplified trends across the public services towards increasing definition, measurement and regulation of professional work. Significantly increased resources are now available, with up to one third of GPs' income now dependent on the quality of care they provide measured against 146 clinical and organisational indicators as measured by the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). The central aim of this project was to examine how the organisation and culture of general medical practices both shape and constrain the effects of the 2004 GMS contract in terms of formal structure (contractual relationships between practice staff, and between practice and primary care trust), process (division of work among practice staff, and practice systems for delivering care) and culture (the renegotiation of professional identities and the division of labour, in the context of changing relationships between professions and the state).

 The project comprised three key components. The first component involved focus group interviews with a range of primary care professionals in three Scottish health board areas in order to map a broad range of organisational responses to the new GMS contract. The second phase involved ethnographic case studies in two practices in one health board in order to contextualise these responses within particular organisational settings. The third phase of the study involved individual interviews with professionals working at health board level who have been involved in implementing the new contract in order to explore how the new contract has affected other quality improvement work at a regional level and their relationship with the general practices in the region.
Photographs Leave Home: a Study of the Impacts of Personal Photography Online, 2004-2005
Creators: name: Cohen, K.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This qualitative dataset is a collection of 40 open-ended interviews with people who put their personal photographs online. Face-to-face interviews were conducted, through instant messaging (IM) and email. Participants maintain their photographs on photoblogs and on Flickr.com sites. None of them make their primary living from photography.

 Personal photographs, previously analysed by sociologists in relation to class, identity, family and domesticity, have acquired new social relevance with the widespread posting of personal photographs on the world wide web, and specifically on web logs or 'blogs'. The research explores how the new presence of millions of personal photographs online is changing how people understand images and themselves through images, and conversely, how those photographs are changing the way space on the internet is understood and used. By synthesising sociological literature on photography and the internet, the research contributes to academic discourse on the sociality of photographs. By working in collaboration with designers of photographic technologies, the research expands the range of sociology and contributes to the creation of new technologies and new design processes.

 Further information about the study can be found on the depositor's web site Photos Leave Home
Scattering of twisted electron wave-packets by atoms in the Born approximation
Creators: name: Karlovets, D. V.
name: Kotkin, G. L.
name: Serbo, V. G.
name: Surzhykov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The potential scattering of electrons carrying non--zero quanta of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) is studied in a framework of the generalized Born approximation, developed in our recent paper by Karlovets \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. A. {\textbf 92}, 052703 (2015). We treat these so--called \textit{twisted} electrons as spatially localized wave--packets. The simple and convenient expressions are derived for a number of scattering events in collision of such a vortex electron with a single potential, located at a given impact parameter with respect to the wave-packet's axis. The more realistic scenarios are also considered with either localized (mesoscopic) targets or infinitely wide (macroscopic) ones that consist of the randomly distributed atoms. Dependence of the electron scattering pattern on a size and on a relative position of the target is studied in detail for all three scenarios of the single--potential--, mesoscopic-- and the macroscopic targets made of hydrogen in the ground $1s$ state. The results demonstrate that the angular distribution of the outgoing electrons can be very sensitive to the OAM and to kinematic parameters of the focused twisted beams, as well as to composition of the target. Scattering of vortex electrons by atoms can, therefore, serve as a valuable tool for diagnostic of such beams.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Interaction effects in a chaotic graphene quantum billiard
Creators: name: Hagymasi, Imre
name: Vancso, Peter
name: Palinkas, Andras
name: Osvath, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the local electronic structure of a Sinai-like, quadrilateral graphene quantum billiard with zigzag and armchair edges using scanning tunneling microscopy at room temperature. It is revealed that besides the $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30$° superstructure, which is caused by the intervalley scattering, its overtones also appear in the STM measurements, which are attributed to the Umklapp processes. We point out that these results can be well understood by taking into account the Coulomb interaction in the quantum billiard, accounting for both the measured density of state values and the experimentally observed topography patterns. The analysis of the level-spacing distribution substantiates the experimental findings as well. We also reveal the magnetic properties of our system which should be relevant in future graphene based electronic and spintronic applications.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PRB
Humic acid-catalyzed efficient synthesis of α-aminonitriles in water using potassium hexacyanoferrate (II) as a cyanide source
Creators: name: Fu, Yulu
name: Fu, Tian
name: Duan, Chao
name: Chi, Jie
name: Wang, Hongshe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A highly efficient, one-pot, three-component Strecker reaction for the synthesis of α-aminonitriles from carbonyl compounds, amines, and potassium hexacyanoferrate (II) (K4[Fe(CN)6]) in the presence of a catalytic amount of humic acid catalyst in water at room temperature has been developed. Advantages of this methodology are use of inexpensive, commercially available, environmentally friendly and reusable organocatalyst, environmentally benign and inexpensive cyanide source, simple experimental and work-up procedure, high yields, room temperature reaction, water as a green solvent and scaled-up synthesis. Environmentally friendly, commercially available, inexpensive and reusable catalyst Environmentally friendly and inexpensive cyanide source High yields Simple operations and mild conditions Water as a green solvent Green synthesis
Millennium Cohort Study, 2001-2003: Birth Registration and Maternity Hospital Episode Data
MCS
Creators: name: University Of London, Institute Of Education
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2008

description: Birth Registration and Maternity Hospital Episode Data, 2001-2003:
 The health questions included in the main MCS covered topics such as the mother's health during pregnancy, birth and delivery, and the baby's health immediately after birth. However, the time constraints on the MCS interview limited the number of health-related questions included in the questionnaire. Furthermore, mothers may not have been able to recall accurately some of the information on pregnancy and delivery when the nine-month interview was conducted. Mothers responding to the nine-month interview were therefore asked to give written consent to the following records being added to the survey:
birth registration records, containing personal and demographic information about baby and parents at birth registration

centrally collected hospital records: these data contain information about the mother's stay in hospital, including details of any operations performed or any diagnoses that were made during the hospital stay and the length of stay in hospital
Coded hospital of birth data are also included in the dataset (see file hospanon_ns). The corresponding uncoded hospital of birth data are held under SN 5724, but users should note that they are subject to stringent Special Licence Access conditions. For further information on data coverage and record linkage, see documentation.

 For the third edition of the study (March 2008), a new version of the data file was deposited, with the family serial number variable (famsrno) replaced by a new serial number variable, mcsid (MCS Research Serial Number). The documentation remains unchanged. For a full edition history, see the study READ file (link below).
title:   Learning a Scalable Algorithm for Improving Betweenness in the Lightning Network
Creators: name: Davis, Vincent
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Engineering and technology
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: This paper presents a scalable algorithm for solving the Maximum Betweenness Improvement Problem as it occurs in the Bitcoin Lightning Network. In this approach, each node is embedded with a feature vector whereby an Advantage Actor-Critic model identifies key nodes in the network that a joining node should open channels with to maximize its own expected routing opportunities. This model is trained using a custom built environment, lightning-gym, which can randomly generate small scale-free networks or import snapshots of the Lightning Network. After 100 training episodes on networks with 128 nodes, this A2C agent can recommend channels in the Lightning Network that perform competitively with recommendations from centrality based heuristics and in less time. This approach provides a fast, low resource, algorithm for nodes to increase their expected routing opportunities in the Lightning Network.
description: © Vincent Davis
Virtually Second-Hand: a Case Study of eBay, the Internet Auction Site, 2004-2005
Creators: name: Haywood, A.
name: Ellis, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This project was a detailed study of a phenomenally successful form of e-commerce, the internet auction site. Such sites have revolutionised the buying and selling of second-hand and collectible items. However, they also provide potential new ways and spaces to perform and display knowledge and 'knowingness', particularly in relation to material culture and wider site-specific 'communities'. These alternative consumption spaces of e-commerce have as yet been relatively under-researched, as have (until recently) their offline equivalents (boot sales, charity shops). This project was a case study of one such internet auction site, eBay, chosen for its market dominance. The research sought to explore, through an innovative mix of qualitative methods, the relationship between participation in the eBay site and the expression of social identities and knowledges. An understanding of these processes is of considerable importance for developing future structures and systems of e-commerce.

 Further information and reports based on the project may be found on the Chimera eBay project web pages.
Facile one-pot, domino reaction to synthesize (Z)-2-imino-5-(1-alkyl-2-oxoindolin-3-ylidene)thiazolidin-4-one derivatives and its DFT study for the E/Z confirmation structure
Creators: name: Moghaddam, F. Matloubi
name: Kavoosi, Leila
name: Aghamiri, Bagher
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this publication, we reported an eco-friendly procedure for the efficient synthesis of 2-imino-5-(1-alkyl-2-oxoindolin-3-ylidene) thiazolidin-4-one derivatives with a stereospecific coupling reaction between 2-imino-thiazolidin-4-one (pseudothiohydantoin) and cyano-substituted oxindole derivatives. Thus, a variety of new thiazolidin-oxindole derivatives with potential medicinal applications have been synthesized with an effective and economical method, focusing on sustainable chemistry. The final products have been obtained in excellent yields together with high purity after washing with water and ethanol. This publication is the first easy protocol to be reported for the rapid condensation of pseudothiohydantoin with substituted isatins. In addition, the stereospecificity, which led to the formation of the Z- isomer of the products is validated using computational calculations.
High Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640
Creators: name: Cust, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: The aims of this project were to produce a calendar of the records of the Court of Chivalry in the 1630s and then use this material to analyse concepts of noble honour. Recent work has highlighted the importance of honour in the social and cultural life of early modern England, and our project has confirmed and illustrated this. In March 1634 (not 1633 as the standard accounts have hitherto asserted) the ancient Court of Chivalry, the supreme forum for trial in matters of honour, was established for the first time on a regular basis, with weekly meetings and routine procedures based on Roman Civil Law. This happened largely because the Earl Marshal was given authority to hear pleas of slander and defamatory words or actions, on the basis of a Jacobean proclamation empowering him to intervene in disputes liable to provoke a duel. In the period between March 1634 and its suspension as a result of investigation by the Long Parliament in December 1640 the court heard well over a thousand cases, most of them relating to defamatory language and all of them brought by plaintiffs able to demonstrate their noble lineage. The records generated by these processes which were scattered among the archives at the College of Arms and Arundel Castle in Sussex - have long constituted one of the great unused sources for the history of Charles I's reign. Surviving material covers every stage of the courts proceedings and we have reconstituted the surviving archive on a case by case basis. We have produced a published calendar of the archive Cases in the High Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 (Harleian Society, 2006-7) - which provides an extensive scholarly account of the courts proceedings and then summarises the content and case papers of each of the 738 cases for which we have been able to recover material. We have also set up web site The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640, www.court-of-chivalry.bham.ac.uk - which contains our transcripts and summaries of all the case papers, together with explanatory and introductory material, over a million words of text with extensive illustrations.
Copper catalyzed N-arylation of sulfonamides with aryl bromides under ligand-free conditions
Creators: name: Teo, Yong-Chua
name: Tan, Yun-Ru
name: Saanvi, M. Kyra
name: Loh, Chu-Ken
name: Tan, Swee-Ngin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A practical strategy for the C-N cross-coupling of both aliphatic and aromatic sulfonamides with a variety of substituted aryl bromides is reported. Under the optimized conditions, a good representative of N-arylated products were obtained in good to excellent yields (up to 78%) under the ligand-free conditions.
Domestic Cooking and Cooking Skills in Late Twentieth Century England, 1996-1997
Creators: name: Short, F.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: The project was researched and written as a doctoral thesis. It came about in response to rising concerns during the 1990s over domestic cooking practices and people's cooking abilities. It provided a critique of the popular and academic discourses surrounding cooking and cooking skills at the time, challenging current theoretical explanations of the impact of technology on domestic cooking and food provision and the de-skilling of the domestic cook.

 The research was designed to be exploratory and to provide systematically researched insights and understanding, a 'framework for thinking'. The research took a qualitative approach in order to produce intricate detail about people's domestic cooking practices, the skills they use and their beliefs and opinions about cooking in the home. Thirty cooks, defined as people who prepared food, to any extent in the home, took part in the process of data generation.

 The research was structured in two phases. Phase one consisted of keeping food diaries, semi-structured interviews, and guided kitchen tours with seven middle-aged, diverse occupation, cohabiting couples in Greater London. Phase two consisted of semi-structured interviews with sixteen informants chosen for diversity of cooking experiences, interest in food, household structure, children, and work patterns.
Certificate of Shevchenko A.S. (O.S.), completed the course "Theory and methodology of scientific work"
Creators: name: University of Konstanz, Germany
name: DAAD
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: training
scientific work

description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8103769 The course "Theory and methodology of scientific work" by Oksana Melnyk (University of Konstanz, Germany) contains 60 hours (2 ECTS credit) within the project "Konstanz-Ukraine partnership for virtual teaching and digital skills success" of the DAAD programme "Ukraine digital: Ensuring academic success in times of crisis" and continued on 13 January - 19 June 2023. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-3882
Experiences of Claimants in Race Discrimination Employment Tribunal Cases, 2005-2006
Creators: name: Aston, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This qualitative study for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) explored the perceptions and subjective experiences of claimants who were involved in Race Relations Act (RRA) employment tribunal cases.

 The main aims of the study were to explore, in-depth, the subjective experiences of claimants involved in Race Relations Act cases. It aimed to cover the following main research themes:

the characteristics of the parties and the nature of the dispute

knowledge and pre-conceptions of the tribunal system prior to making a race discrimination claim

reasons for applying to an employment tribunal (pathways into the tribunal system)

the use and experience of workplace dispute resolution procedures

sources of advice and representation used, and their role in the case

the role of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)

the experience of tribunal hearings (if any attended)

the outcome of the case, especially, subjective explanations for the outcome of the case

the costs and benefits to the applicant of bringing the case

the experience of the tribunal process as a whole
Forty claimants were interviewed face to face and the interviews were recorded and transcribed, or written up in detail where recording was not possible. Of these, 33 consented to being deposited with the UK Data Archive (UKDA). The study found that claims originate through a complex process. Claimants described their claims as having originated in a mixture of both overt racism and other unfair treatment that was not, on the face of it, racist. Claimants felt that challenging issues of discrimination with their employer had ultimately contributed to the deterioration of the working relationship. Their primary motivation for taking the claim was justice rather than potential financial gain. Claimants tended to be unaware of what would be involved in taking an employment tribunal case. Their expectations of the employment tribunal process were very different from their reported experiences, particularly regarding how long the process would take, the amount of work involved, the amount of legal knowledge required and the need for representation.
Framing of Terrorist Threats in United States and Russian Elections, 2003-2004
Creators: name: Oates, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This Economic and Social Research Council New Security Challenges small grant project examined the framing of terrorist threats in Russian elections (2003 Duma and 2004 presidential) and the United States (US) presidential election in 2004. The project examined coverage of the nightly news during the campaigns, messages from political parties and candidates as well as audience reaction in focus groups in each country. Ten focus groups were held in Russia in the spring of 2004 in Moscow and Ulyanovsk. They were conducted and transcribed in Russian. There were an average of eight participants in each group, which were divided by age. Eleven focus groups were held in the US, which were conducted and transcribed in English. They were held in Missouri (Columbia), Florida (Cleremont, Gainesville and St. Petersburg) and the Washington DC area. The groups had an average of 10 participants and were divided into student, adult and senior citizen groups. The groups in both countries discussed media use, the coverage of terrorism in the mass media and the role that security concerns (including terrorism) played in their vote choice in the elections. In the US groups, some political advertisments from the John Kerry and George W. Bush general campaign were used to cue the discussion. Across the groups in both countries, anger and fear were expressed about terrorism. In the Russian groups, there was an acceptance of a government response that targeted Chechens in an attempt to control domestic terrorism. While the Russian participants did not make many overt links between terrorism and their vote choice, the notion of a strong president was very important to them. In the US, the doubt and confusion about the value of strength were clearer, yet it was also clear that, like the Russians, this notion of strength was a very important factor in picking Bush over Kerry in the close 2004 US election.
title: Characterization of CO₂-mediated microvascular blood flow responses in skeletal muscle tissue and investigation of underlying mechanisms using direct CO₂ microenvironment perturbations
Creators: name: McCarthy, Meaghan A.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2022

description: Several vasoactive molecules are involved in coordinating microvascular blood flow with metabolic demand in skeletal muscle tissue; however, the involvement of some metabolites, such as carbon dioxide (CO₂), are not well-characterized. The objective of this thesis was to characterize CO₂-mediated microvascular blood flow responses in skeletal muscle tissue and investigate potential underlying mechanisms, including ATP-sensitive potassium ion (KATP) channels and oxygen saturation (SO₂)-dependent release of ATP from red blood cells (RBC). A microfluidic gas exchange chamber was used to impose rapid and direct changes in the tissue CO₂ concentration of the extensor digitorum longus muscle of Sprague-Dawley rats. IVVM video sequences of capillary blood flow were recorded and analyzed offline for hemodynamic (RBC velocity, supply rate (SR), hematocrit (Hct)) and RBC SO2 measurements using a custom MATLAB software. Rapid and significant changes in capillary RBC velocity and SR were observed following incremental increases and dynamic step-changes in tissue CO₂. The involvement of KATP channels was investigated following systemic administration of glibenclamide (GLI, 5 mg / kg) (KATP channel antagonist). The magnitude of capillary RBC velocity and SR responses to CO₂ perturbations decreased following GLI administration. SO₂ remained constant throughout various CO₂ perturbations during baseline and after treatment with GLI. These findings support a significant involvement of CO₂ in local microvascular blood flow regulation in skeletal muscle tissue, the presence of an SO₂-independent mechanism, and a partial dependence on KATP channel activation.
Interpreting the Local Politics of Social Inclusion, 2004-2005
Creators: name: Davis, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This project seeks to understand the local politics of social exclusion through analysis of the meanings attached to terms such as social exclusion and inclusion. The objective is to compare and contrast central and local discourses of social exclusion, thereby determining the extent to which local responses to problems of multiple deprivation are framed by political commitments different from those at the centre. The project contributes to a range of literatures on social exclusion, partnership working, central-local relations and agenda setting. The study comprises case studies in two British cities and interviews with a range of partnership actors from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors.

 A total of 53 interviews were carried out, 25 in an English city, 28 in a Scottish one. The respondents were members or former members of local partnerships. Respondents were selected from different sectors including the community, voluntary, statutory agency and business sectors.
Parenting of Youth: Social Protection and Economic Dependence, 2001
Creators: name: Jones, G.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2008

description: Youth has changed significantly in the course of a generation and the experiences of young people are different from those of their parents. The period of economic dependence has been extended and the role of the state in social protection has been transformed, as more emphasis has been placed on the responsibilities of parents. The perceptions and impact of these changes are likely to vary between social groups, but there has been little research done to explore this. The project examined beliefs and practices surrounding economic dependence and independence in youth, and perceptions of the respective roles of the family and the state, through in-depth interviews with young people and their parents. Seventy young people (aged 16-25) in different groups (students, unemployed and employed, trainees and young parents) were interviewed in 2001 in two contrasting areas of England, the Potteries (around Stoke-on-Trent) and the Cambridge area, and the parents of 30 of these respondents were interviewed the following year; 98 of the 100 interviews are held at the UKDA. The resulting data include information about the aids and barriers affecting young people's transitions to adulthood, and particularly the importance of various forms of family support. The research extends knowledge about the family lives of young people, and is of particular value to those concerned with policy and provision for young people and their parents.
Gendering Latin American Independence, 1790-1850
Creators: name: Brewster, C.
name: Liddell, C.
name: Macintyre, I.
name: Owen, H.
name: Davies, C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2008

description: The project was a textual and historical study that investigated the ideas and activities of women who, as a social group, contributed to the making of public culture in early nineteenth-century Latin America but were largely excluded from it. It examined how gender shaped the political discourses of Latin American independence. Some of the research questions were: What were the links between politics and sexual difference? How were women constructed as subjects and objects in contemporary political discourse? What were women's political culture and associational life, where did they take place, and how were they manifested? How did women respond to Republican discourse of individual rights? What were the contradictions in Latin American political discourse which arose from its formulations of gender categories?
 The methodology was interdisciplinary and text-based involving archival retrieval and discourse analysis. The research scope was continental. Research was undertaken in Latin America, namely in Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, and Quito. The project team established a principle corpus of texts by retrieving relevant published and unpublished material that identified and examined gendered political discourse. Women's political culture was investigated through enquiry into women's family-based or community networks. The database resulting from the project registers women's participation, writing and organizations.
Design and development of novel fluorescent oxo-fluoro quinoline (E)-chalcone derivatives via Claisen–Schmidt reaction using Al-SrTiO3 as a catalyst and its BSA protein binding studies
Creators: name: Murugesan, Arul
name: Samikannu, Prabu
name: Ilanchelian, Malaichamy
name: M, Gengan Robert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Novel fluorescent oxo-fluoro quinoline (E)-chalcone derivatives were synthesized using a new Aluminum Strontium Titanium Trioxide (Al-SrTiO3) solid catalyst. The Al-SrTiO3 catalyst was analyzed by spectroscopic techniques like Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR), X-Ray Powder Diffraction, absorption, Scanning Electron Microscopy, SEM-Mapping, Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis and Raman spectroscopy. The novel precursors 2-(4-fluorophenoxy)quinoline-3-carbaldehyde derivatives (3a, 3b) were synthesized from 2-chloro-3-formyl quinoline and were subsequently used to synthesize the oxo-fluoro quinoline-based E-chalcones derivatives (5a–x). The chemical structure of 5a–x were investigated by FT-IR, 1H and 13C-NMR, 2D-NMR and high-resolution mass spectroscopy. Further, molecular docking studies on the hit compound 5t indicated hydrogen bond interaction with Bovine Serum Albumin at amino acids Arginine-194, 198 and 217 with bond lengths of 2.1, 2.2 and 2.2 Å, respectively. The calculated Gibbs free energy value was −5.84 kJ mol−1, while the experimental value of −27.82 kJ mol−1 was obtained from emission spectroscopy.
Primary Care-Led Commissioning in England and Wales: the Changing Complexity of Governance for Quality, 1991-2005
Creators: name: Abbott, S.
name: Procter, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2007

description: This research project explored primary care-led commissioning (PCLC) in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and in Wales, and aimed to set these in the context of NHS changes since 1991. PCLC is understood here to mean the process of arranging the whole range of health care services (acute, community, primary), either by providing services directly or by commissioning them from other providers.

 The study had five key objectives:
to explore the extent to which the complexity and bureaucratic nature of governance processes enable Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England and Local Health Boards (LHBs) in Wales to pursue strategic and clinical objectives relating to service quality

to discover how PCTs/LHBs and the disparate groups within them manage and negotiate the demands of governance mechanisms on organisational capacity

to assess which governance mechanisms have most (and least) 'bite' and influence on service quality, and why

to discover whether these governance arrangements permit 'bottom-up' innovation and encourage clinical and managerial commitment to quality

to interpret the findings in the light of between-country differences (England and Wales) and changes in the NHS since 1991
The study used qualitative methodology to construct three case studies (two in England, one in Wales), using in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted with PCT members in England and LHB members in Wales. Documentary analysis was also conducted of board meeting papers published on the web (ten in England and five in Wales). The resulting data collection includes 48 interview transcripts and 3 board meeting minutes documents (these also include grid analyses of other documents).

 Further information about the project, including documents, may be found on the ESRC Primary Care-Led Commissioning in England and Wales award web page.
Scientific Career Transitions: from Public to Private Sector Science, 2004-2007
Creators: name: Duberley, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2009

description: A great deal of debate has taken place in recent years about the changing nature of knowledge production and the increased commercialisation of science. This study focused on research scientists who had moved between public and private sector contexts. In particular, the following groups were examined: university scientists who were engaged in setting up spin out companies; scientists who had moved from the public sector to young, entrepreneurial companies; and those who had moved to large established companies.

 The objectives of the project were:
to contribute to the debate on changing modes of knowledge production by examining scientists' accounts of doing research in public and private sector contexts

to develop a model for understanding how scientists experience and manage the interplay between the scientific, commercial and ethical imperatives that they face, including consideration of the role of external stakeholders such as customers, other research establishments, regulatory and legislative bodies, and the general public

to construct a theoretical framework for understanding scientists’ career transitions between the public and private sectors

to contribute to the training and career development of scientists through an exploration of the constraints and challenges of moving across sectors
The study explored the ways in which scientists with an applied orientiation towards science rationalised their move into the private sector, as a method of taking their science to its natural endpoint. The project demonstrated how scientists negotiated between the various scientific, legal and commercial imperatives impacting upon them, and that these imperatives were not always viewed in opposition to each other. The project developed a model of career transition which takes account of structure and agency in the development of scientific careers.
Learning Cultures in Community-Based Education in Scotland, 2003-2006
Creators: name: Mayes, T.
name: Gallacher, J.
name: Crossan, B.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2008

description: The aims of the project were to enhance understanding of cultures in community-based learning centres (CLCs) in further education in Scotland, and to identify areas for change in these cultures and work with Further Education (FE) colleges to implement changes. These aims were pursued through a series of interviews with staff and learners at the CLCs. The project was based on an ethnographic study of staff and learner perspectives about working and studying in CLCs.

 Approximately 80 interviews were conducted with staff and learners at CLCs attached to two FE colleges in the West of Scotland (this data collection includes 76 interviews, 50 with learners and 26 with staff). Each of the colleges participated fully in the project. For example, each college provided a member of staff to act as Research Fellow on the research team and this gave the team a useful link in partnership with the colleges. The Research Fellows were seconded one day per week to be involved in planning research, collecting data and carrying out interviews, analysing data and writing up research.

 Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, concepts of 'field' and 'habitus' were used to interpret the data in relation to the learning and teaching context and the dispositions of staff and learners in the context. Learning cultures were explored in terms of the different types of learning relationships which were identified in the setting and which structured daily interactions between staff and learners.

 The study highlighted the importance of community-based learning in strategies of widening participation and provided insight into the permeable boundaries that exist in CLCs.

 Further information, including documents and publications, may be found on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Understanding and Enhancing Learning in Community-Based Further Education project web page.
North East Referendum Campaign and Media Coverage, 2003-2005
Qualitative Study of the North East Referendum Campaign and Media Coverage, 2004
Creators: name: Tickell, A.
name: Musson, S.
name: John, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2008

description: The North East referendum of November 2004 asked voters whether an elected assembly should be created for the region. The referendum aimed to formalise New Labour's regional programme in England and to mirror the creation of elected assemblies in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London. Initially, referendums had been planned in three northern English regions, including the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East. However, two referendums were cancelled by the government once it became apparent that defeat was almost inevitable. Only in the North East was a referendum held. In the event, voters in the North East rejected an elected assembly by almost four votes to one, effectively ending plans for elected regional government in England.

 This project investigated the activities of the official 'Yes' (supporting an elected assembly) and 'No' (opposing an elected assembly) campaigns in the North East. It set the referendum in the wider context of debates on English regionalism and spatial inequalities of power in the UK state. The interaction between the campaigns and the regional and national media was also researched. It was felt that the media played a key role in translating campaign arguments into issues of public interest.

 There were three distinct research elements in the project.

 The first was a programme of qualitative interviews with key actors in the campaigns and regional and national media.

 Second, an extensive media monitoring exercise was carried out, reviewing newspaper coverage of the referendum over two years leading up to November 2004. It used LexisNexis archives and the web archives of individual newspapers (source: www.lexisnexis.com, no copyright permissions necessary). These data were aggregated into summary information on media coverage.

 Third, quantitative analysis of elite social networks within the North East region was conducted using UCINET V software. This looked at the board membership of regional and local institutions of governance. A comparison of networks in the North East, North West, and the Yorkshire and the Humber regions was also conducted.

 ESRC award page.
Enol phosphates from 3-diethylphosphonocoumarin: synthesis and transformations under phase-transfer conditions
Creators: name: Petkova-Yankova, Nevena I.
name: Nikolova, Rositca D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Enol phosphates were prepared from 3-diethylphosphonocoumarin under phase-transfer conditions as altered conditions for tandem hydrogenation / phosphorylation reactions. The optimized reaction conditions are characterized with high regioselectivity for O-phosphorylation and O-acylation. The newly synthesized enol phosphates were fully characterized by NMR Spectroscopic techniques and the single (Z)-isomers were assigned.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Police Local Partnership Boards in Sierra Leone, 2006
Creators: name: Baker, B.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2008

description: The aim of this research project was to understand how the Police Local Partnership Boards (PLPBs) in Sierra Leone function, including what they achieve, and how they relate to the local community and the Sierra Leone Police (SLP).

 The objectives of the study were to establish:
to what degree the PLPBs are representative of the local community (whether they are composed primarily of the local business or socio-economic elite) and how members are selected

to what degree the goals actively being pursued by the PLPBs are set by the community or the SLP

whether there are any hindrances to the sustainability of the PLPBs

the types of intelligence that the PLPBs provide to the SLP and how the SLP evaluate the utility of that intelligence

whether the PLPBs have brought any crime prevention benefits to the community, PLPB or SLP

whether local PLPBs vary, and the possible reasons for these variations
The dataset comprises semi-structured qualitative interviews with local unit commanders and community police officers in four police divisions in Freetown (Sierra Leone's capital); interviews (multiple participants) with executive and general members of the PLPBs in the four divisions; and summaries of interviews held with community focus groups in the four divisions.

 A previous qualitative study by the same principal investigator, Multilateral Policing in Africa: its Nature and Socio-Political Impact in Uganda and Sierra Leone, 2003-2005, comparing forms of policing in the two countries, is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5314. Further information about these studies and other research projects on African policing may be found on the principal investigator's Welcome to African Policing web site.
Behavior of eigenvalues in a region of broken-PT symmetry
Creators: name: Bender, Carl M.
name: Hassanpour, Nima
name: Hook, Daniel W.
name: Klevansky, S. P.
name: Sünderhauf, Christoph
name: Wen, Zichao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PT-symmetric quantum mechanics began with a study of the Hamiltonian $H=p^2+x^2(ix)^\varepsilon$. When $\varepsilon\geq0$, the eigenvalues of this non-Hermitian Hamiltonian are discrete, real, and positive. This portion of parameter space is known as the region of unbroken PT symmetry. In the region of broken PT symmetry $\varepsilon<0$ only a finite number of eigenvalues are real and the remaining eigenvalues appear as complex-conjugate pairs. The region of unbroken PT symmetry has been studied but the region of broken PT symmetry has thus far been unexplored. This paper presents a detailed numerical and analytical examination of the behavior of the eigenvalues for $-4
description: 14 pages, 19 figures