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STS in a (Post)Socialist Context. Science and Technology Studies in Croatia
Creators: name: Prpić, Katarina
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: This paper presents an outline of science and technology studies (STS) in Croatia in both the socialist period and the transitional (or postsocialist) period. Introductory remarks delineate the social and intellectual context of Croatian STS in both observed periods. A brief sketch of early STS follows – primarily philosophical, historical and economic studies. The central section of the article is a presentation of Croatian sociological studies of science and technology from the early eighties until the present. The interdisciplinary issue of Croatian STS is discussed in the conclusions.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Relativistic model for anisotropic strange stars
Creators: name: Deb, Debabrata
name: Chowdhury, Sourav Roy
name: Ray, Saibal
name: Rahaman, Farook
name: Guha, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we attempt to find a singularity free solution of Einstein's field equations for compact stellar objects, precisely strange (quark) stars, considering Schwarzschild metric as the exterior spacetime. To this end, we consider that the stellar object is spherically symmetric, static and anisotropic in nature and follows the density profile given by Mak and Harko (2002), which satisfies all the physical conditions. To investigate different properties of the ultra-dense strange stars we have employed the MIT bag model for the quark matter. Our investigation displays an interesting feature that the anisotropy of compact stars increases with the radial coordinate and attains its maximum value at the surface which seems an inherent property for the singularity free anisotropic compact stellar objects. In this connection we also perform several tests for physical features of the proposed model and show that these are reasonably acceptable within certain range. Further, we find that the model is consistent with the energy conditions and the compact stellar structure is stable with the validity of the TOV equation and Herrera cracking concept. For the masses bellow the maximum mass point in mass vs radius curve the typical behavior achieved within the framework of general relativity. We have calculated the maximum mass and radius of the strange stars for the three finite values of bag constant $B_g$.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, Accepted in Annals of physics
A New Approach to the Internal Calibration of Reverberation Mapping Spectra
Creators: name: Fausnaugh, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new procedure for the internal (night-to-night) calibration of time series spectra, with specific applications to optical AGN reverberation mapping data. The traditional calibration technique assumes that the narrow [OIII]$λ$5007 emission line profile is constant in time; given a reference [OIII]$λ$5007 line profile, nightly spectra are aligned by fitting for a wavelength shift, a flux rescaling factor, and a change in the spectroscopic resolution. We propose the following modifications to this procedure: 1) we stipulate a constant spectral resolution for the final calibrated spectra, 2) we employ a more flexible model for changes in the spectral resolution, and 3) we use a Bayesian modeling framework to assess uncertainties in the calibration. In a test case using data for MCG+08-11-011, these modifications result in a calibration precision of $\sim\! 1$ millimagnitude, which is approximately a factor of five improvement over the traditional technique. At this level, other systematic issues (e.g., the nightly sensitivity functions and FeII contamination) limit the final precision of the observed light curves. We implement this procedure as a {\tt python} package ({\tt mapspec}), which we make available to the community.
description: 11 pages, 8 Figures, published in PASP. For a brief video describing the main results, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6F7SJrmSzQ&list=PL151C58BBFB53B1EA&index=1 . To download the code presented in this paper, see http://github.com/mmfausnaugh/mapspec
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 14/84
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Nichtamtlicher Teil: Ordnung für die Zwischenprüfung in dem Studiengang Mathematik mit dem Abschluß Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt für die Sekundarstufe II an der Universität Dortmund vom 24. September 1984
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 14, 1984
The invisible water utility: employee behaviour and customer experience in service-dominant logic
Creators: name: Prevos, Peter
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Due to the monopolistic nature of the tap water services, limited marketing scholarship exists to account for the specific characteristics of water utilities. Service-Dominant Logic is an influential paradigm in marketing, but there is little research on its applicability to managerial practice, especially concerning the marketing of products, such as tap water. This dissertation develops a framework for water utility marketing based on the Service-Dominant Logic (S-D Logic) paradigm. These objectives are achieved through an anthology of four thematically related studies about water utility marketing guided by the axioms of S-D Logic. The first two studies explore the activities of water utilities from a macromarketing and services marketing perspective, corroborated by interviews with customer advocacy organisations and regulators, and a content analysis of industry literature. The third study analyses employee attitudes towards customer-centric service provision. The last study introduces the concept of Service-Dominant Quality, a Service Quality model based on the axioms of S-D Logic. The findings of these studies are synthesised to review the applicability of S-D Logic to marketing practice. The exploratory research defines a Marketing Mix for tap water services. Analysis of employee data provides insight into the relationships between engineers and marketers in water utilities. The SERVAQUA survey instrument was developed to measure Service Quality for tap water, based on S-D Logic. Synthesising these findings enhances understanding of how Service-Dominant Logic can be applied to a managerial context. The main contribution to theory is advancing S-D Logic as an informal system of logic to expand the paradigm into practice. The S-D Logic framework is modified to provide a better fit to the particular characteristics of marketing products. Main contributions to practice are a framework to implement marketing in water utilities, including an industry-specific Marketing Mix and Service Quality survey instrument.
The Italian Pathways of Stem Cells
Creators: name: Viteritti, Assunta
name: Cattaneo, Elena
name: Testa, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: In this contribution, we take a look at the future of stem cell research, with particular emphasis on human embryonic stem cells and induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS). Their implications in terms of ethical and social issues are discussed through interviews with two top Italian scientists, Elena Cattaneo and Giuseppe Testa. In light of their answers, the introduction reflects on how stem cells research, interpreted from an STS perspective, allows us to observe the mutual adaptation between scientific practices which generate multiple biological artifacts, and the many ethical implications which characterize our biotechnological societies.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Holographical aspects of dyonic black holes: Massive gravity generalization
Creators: name: Hendi, S. H.
name: Riazi, N.
name: Panahiyan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The content of this paper includes studying holographical and thermodynamical aspects of dyonic black holes in the presence of massive gravity. For the first part of paper, thermodynamical properties of the bulk which includes black holes are studied and the main focus is on critical behavior. It will be shown that the existence of massive gravitons introduces remnant for temperature after evaporation of black holes, van der Waals phase transition for non-spherical black holes and etc. The consistency of different thermodynamical approaches toward critical behavior of the black holes is presented and the physical properties near the region of thermal instability are given. Next part of the paper studies holographical aspects of the boundary theory. Magnetization and susceptibility of the boundary are extracted and the conditions for having diamagnetic and paramagnetic behaviors are investigated. It will be shown that generalization to massive gravity results into the existence of diamagnetic/paramagnetic phases in phase structure of the hyperbolic and horizon flat of boundary conformal field theory.
description: 29 pages, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in Ann. Phys. (Berlin)
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 04/85
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Verzeichnis der berufenen Mitglieder des Staatlichen Prüfungsamtes für Erste Staatsprüfungen für Lehrämter an Schulen - Dortmund - Stand: 11. Februar 1985
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 4, 1985
(200668) Arthur Woodman Blair
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Contemporary Peruvian gastronomy: an analysis of the role of culinary brokers in the diversification of local cuisines and its influence in the international tourist experience
Creators: name: Cherro Osorio, Sandra Guisela
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Business School, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

In recent years, gastronomy has become a source for creating products that can provide destinations with a distinctive tool for promotion. Previous scholarship has identified as being crucial the involvement of local people in the development and management of gastronomy-related initiatives. However, little research has analysed the significance that locals bestow on their food, particularly the influence of notions of national identity, perceptions of role and negotiations of authenticity in the generation of gastronomic products. This study focuses on Peru, a country that uses gastronomy as a source for tourism promotion and also for economic and social development. A group of renowned chefs are credited with the opening of innovative restaurants in Peru that combine aspects of local culinary heritage with imported techniques. This study demonstrated that these individuals exhibited common characteristics including education or work experience abroad; and exposure to foreign culture. They were identified as ‘culinary brokers’, a term that refers to individuals that use their cosmopolitan knowledge to enhance intercultural understanding. Qualitative research was employed using a narrative inquiry approach to understand how culinary brokers attribute meanings to their own personal and professional activities. A case study approach was also used to examine stakeholders’ perspectives regarding local gastronomy; and to explore the growing interest of international tourists in Peruvian food. This study determined that the Peruvian culinary brokers had influenced local gastronomy through the development of diverse versions of local cuisines commonly used for tourism promotion. At their restaurants, particular aspects of local culinary culture are transformed into gastronomic products that appeal to both locals and international tourists. Despite changes, the culinary brokers used their identity as Peruvians to provide authority and endorse authenticity to their innovative creations. Significantly, the culinary brokers had also structured discourses directed to locals regarding the importance of sustainable gastronomic practices. This study contributes to the conceptualisation of the term culinary brokers and provides a profile for identification of these individuals. It also proposes a model for the level of influence of culinary brokers on the international tourists’ experience.
(200664) Mary Elizabeth Furneaux
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(Not) Making “Hexternologous”. Fertilization The Italian ART Law and its paradoxes
Creators: name: Parolin, Laura Lucia
name: Metzler, Ingrid
name: Schuster, Alexander
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: The Italian law regulating ART approved in 2004 is at the centre of this conversation, which departs from the book ‘Fecondazione e(s)terologa’ (2012) written by two prominent Italian professionals in the field. The three contributors of this conversation analyse different profiles of the law: the contradictions between Catholic moral order and a scientific rationality which is not fully aware of its heteronormativity (Parolin); the macropolitics of information along Italian history and the moral economy surrounding fertilization techniques (Metzler); Law 40 in the context of the EU landscape of reproductive rights (Schuster). All the three voices of the conversation emphasize the paradoxes of ART in Italy and the perverse effects of the prohibition of heterologous fertilization, namely the medical exodus of Italian couples outside of the Italian territory.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Hip joint health in professional ballet dancers
Creators: name: Mayes, Susan Jane
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.

Ballet involves repetitive loading at extreme hip ranges of movement, but there is no conclusive evidence that ballet causes hip joint pathology or osteoarthritis (OA). The overall aim of the thesis was to compare hip joint imaging and clinical findings in male and female professional ballet dancers with age-and sex-matched non-dancing athletes. Study 1-3 compared the prevalence of hip joint pathology (labral tear (Study 1), ligamentum teres tear (LT) (Study 2), and cartilage defects (Study 3), with 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging in dancer and athletes, and examined the relationship between hip joint pathology and clinical findings. Dancers had a similar prevalence of labral tear and cartilage defects compared to athletes; however, ligamentum teres appears to be abnormally loaded in ballet, as the prevalence of LT tear was higher in dancers compared to athletes. Studies 1-3 demonstrated a weak correlation between pathology, and clinical measures. Thus, not all imaging findings are clinically relevant. Labral tear, LT tear and cartilage defects were found to co-exist, but prospective studies are required to determine a causal link. Study 4 compared hip bony morphology between dancers and athletes. Dancers had unique bony morphology, such as: greater femoral head-neck junction concavity measured superiorly, higher femoral neck-shaft angles, and lower acetabular version compared to athletes that may contribute to optimal performance in ballet, but high neck-shaft angles and low acetabular version are potential risk factors for hip joint injury. Study 5 investigated the relationship between bony morphology, labral tear, cartilage defects and hip symptoms in dancers. Bony morphology was not related to chondrolabral pathology, but all dancers with cam morphology had cartilage defects. Hip symptoms were not associated with bony morphology or chondrolabral pathology, and a longitudinal study is required to determine if these joint abnormalities are precursors to symptomatic hip joint pathology or OA.
(200661) Fleetwood Isham Edwards
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Characterization of a CdZnTe detector for a low-power CubeSat application
Creators: name: Lucchetta, Giulio
name: Ackermann, Markus
name: Berge, David
name: Bloch, Ingo
name: Bühler, Rolf
name: Kolanoski, Hermann
name: Lange, Wolfgang
name: Zappon, Francesco
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610
subject: Data analysis
subject: Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPGe, HgI etc)
subject: Solid state detectors
subject: Space instrumentation

description: We report spectral and imaging performance of a pixelated CdZnTe detector custom designed for the MeVCube project: a small Compton telescope on a CubeSat platform. MeVCube is expected to cover the energy range between 200 keV and 4 MeV, with a sensitivity comparable to the one of the last generation of larger satellites. In order to achieve this goal, an energy resolution of few percent in full width at half maximum (FWHM) and a 3-D spatial resolution of few millimeters for the individual detectors are needed. The severe power constraints present in small satellites require very low power read-out electronics for the detector. Our read-out is based on the VATA450.3 ASIC developed by Ideas, with a power consumption of only 0.25 mW/channel, which exhibits good performance in terms of dynamic range, noise and linearity. A 2.0 cm× 2.0 cm× 1.5 cm CdZnTe detector, with a custom 8 × 8 pixel anode structure read-out by a VATA450.3 ASIC, has been tested. A preliminary read-out system for the cathode, based on a discrete Amptek A250F charge sensitive pre-amplifier and a DRS4 ASIC, has been implemented. An energy resolution around 3% FWHM has been measured at a gamma energy of 662 keV; at 200 keV the average energy resolution is 6.5%, decreasing to ≲ 2% at energies above 1 MeV. A 3-D spatial resolution of ≈ 2 mm is achieved in each dimension.
Experimental Measurement of the Berry Curvature from Anomalous Transport
Creators: name: Wimmer, Martin
name: Price, Hannah M.
name: Carusotto, Iacopo
name: Peschel, Ulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can be related to global topological invariants such as those classifying quantum Hall states or topological insulators. Regardless of the band topology, however, any non-zero Berry curvature can have important consequences, such as in the semi-classical evolution of a wave packet. Here, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time that wave packet dynamics can be used to directly map out the Berry curvature. To this end, we use optical pulses in two coupled fibre loops to study the discrete time-evolution of a wave packet in a 1D geometrical "charge" pump, where the Berry curvature leads to an anomalous displacement of the wave packet under pumping. This is both the first direct observation of Berry curvature effects in an optical system, and, more generally, the proof-of-principle demonstration that semi-classical dynamics can serve as a high-resolution tool for mapping out geometrical properties.
“Sidestepping the Embryo”. The Cultural Meaning and Political Uses of Ethical Stem Cells
Creators: name: Beltrame, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: In many countries, stem cell research is embroiled in heated ethical and political debates because the most valued stem cell types are human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) taken from a few-days old human embryo which is destroyed during the harvesting procedure. ‘Ethical stem cells’ is the label commonly used to denote an array of cellular reprogramming techniques, biological artifacts, and somatic stem cells which make it possible to obtain pluripotent stem cells while avoiding the use of human embryos. This paper, by focusing on the Italian case, analyzes the cultural meaning and the political uses of these bio-objects which incorporate in their ontology the social and ethical quandaries raised by stem cell research in order to sidestep them. The debate on ethical stem cells shows a new way to deal with ethical commitments in biosciences and throws light on the process of regulatory ordering and normativity production in regard to biotechnological innovations.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Neither Gametes nor Children. Italian Prospective Parents and the Variable Meaning of Donor Embryos
Creators: name: Zanini, Giulia
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: “Sperm donation”, “egg donation”, “double donation”, “embryo donation” and “embryo adoption” are the main terms that prospective parents in Italy employ to refer to donor reproductive practices, which are forbidden within Italian national territory since 2004. Italian residents who think of donated gametes or embryos as viable ways to parenthood currently need to address assisted reproduction centres abroad. Drawing on a four-year ethnographic research on Italian cross-border reproductive travellers approaching donor conception, this paper aims at investigating the ways in which prospective parents choose and make sense of different kind of donation practices that consist in the use of donor embryos and explores their understanding of such practices with reference to the notions of personhood and parenthood in a context of transnational reproduction. In particular, this paper explores how they make sense of different “histories” of embryos, included the way in which reproductive cells have changed owners according to different trajectories.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section using $eμ$ events with b-tagged jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes a measurement of the inclusive top quark pair production cross-section ($σ_{t\bar{t}}$) with a data sample of 3.2 fb$^{-1}$ of proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV, collected in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This measurement uses events with an opposite-charge electron--muon pair in the final state. Jets containing $b$-quarks are tagged using an algorithm based on track impact parameters and reconstructed secondary vertices. The numbers of events with exactly one and exactly two $b$-tagged jets are counted and used to determine simultaneously $σ_{t\bar{t}}$ and the efficiency to reconstruct and $b$-tag a jet from a top quark decay, thereby minimising the associated systematic uncertainties. The cross-section is measured to be: $σ_{t\bar{t}}$= 818 $\pm$ 8 (stat) $\pm$ 27 (syst) $\pm$ 19 (lumi) $\pm$ 12 (beam) pb, where the four uncertainties arise from data statistics, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity and the LHC beam energy, giving a total relative uncertainty of 4.4%. The result is consistent with theoretical QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. A fiducial measurement corresponding to the experimental acceptance of the leptons is also presented.
description: 20 pages plus author list (37 pages total), 4 figures, 4 tables, published version including erratum corrections, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2015-09/
Substances, Knowledge, Gaze. The Bio-aesthetics of Reproductive Technology in a Sicilian Fertility Clinic
Creators: name: Gribaldo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: The article is based on an ethnographic investigation and interviews to patients and medical personnel of a private fertility clinic in Sicily. An element that emerges as a peculiar characteristic in this specific context is the importance given by the prospective parents to the possibility of “seeing” and following visually the reproductive process, where the aesthetic dimension is central. It is through a complex network of translations within the practices surrounding reproductive techniques (where professionals comments and indications, medical practices, patients interpretations and visions are intertwined) that image/objects of reproduction (embryo and gametes) are made, becoming the focus of considerable emotional and corporeal investment. Knowing and watching reproduction through “bio-aesthetics” means getting the chance to manage and to produce contested possible spaces of agency, making up new different and unexpected comments and interpretations in the supposedly unquestionable domain of kinship and nature.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
Pharmacological Mode of Action of Homoeopathy
Creators: name: LINGESHWAREN, RAJAGANAPATHY
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110499 Complementary and Alternative Medicine not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: 30405 Molecular Medicine
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 111502 Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

description: The homoeopathic system followed the principle of Similia Similibus Curantur. Most of the drugs in homoeopathic materia medica contains toxicological/pharmacological, Drug proving, traditional use related symptoms and indications. Abnormal sensations and symptoms of the disease caused by involvement of a specific receptor or molecular pathway & gene functions, these receptors or molecules may be stimulated or suppressed by environmental, natural or artificial agents. In such conditions, administration of specific homoeopathic medicine having a similar kind of affinity towards the particular receptors or molecules involved in the disease process leads to modulation of such receptor or molecular pathways (e.g., desensitization, sensitization, inhibition). These kinds of actions cause the betterment of symptoms or curative effects. The selection of medicine is by comparing the similarity between the receptor or molecular pathway in disease pathogenesis and drug pathogenesis..
Foreign acquisitions in developed and developing economies: motivations, long-term operating performance and their cross-sectional determinants
Creators: name: Chawla, Swati
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Victoria.

This thesis presents new and up-to-date evidence on the U.S cross-border takeover market by investigating a sample of 266 successful, majority-control foreign acquisitions by U.S public corporations, that were announced between 2000 and 2012. A beginning-to-end analysis is conducted by an examination of the motives of acquisitions, their long-term operating performance and the relationship between motive-based synergies and the post-acquisition operating performance outcomes. Overall, the traditional takeover motives associated with operating synergies and disciplining target management are important for U.S international acquirers. Key differences emerge in the motivations of bidders that acquire firms in developed and developing economies. Research and development intensity of target firms increases the likelihood of conducting acquisitions in developed markets, whereas target firms characterized with high free cash flow ratios increase the likelihood of conducting acquisitions in developing markets. Attractive corporate tax rates in the target country increases the likelihood of acquisitions in developed countries, whereas favourable exchange rate terms relative to the target country currency increases the likelihood of acquiring firms in developing countries. The long-term operating performance of acquisitions in developed countries, on average, deteriorates, whereas that of developing country acquisitions improves. In developed countries, the post-acquisition operating performance is associated with scaled based synergies in the operating activities and research and development functions. In emerging markets, value is created by improving the managerial practices subsequent to the acquisitions; lending support to the idea that acquisitions from developed countries, such as the U.S, act as an effective mechanism to provide firms in developing economies with better quality governance.
CRAFT-OA Deliverable 7.1 Communication and Dissemination Plan
Creators: name: Arasteh-Roodsary, Sona Lisa
name: Holsinger, Sy
name: Klaus, Tabea
name: Posavec, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Science
Diamond OA
Horizon Europe
Communication and Dissemination
Exploitation
Sustainability

description: This deliverable outlines the overall communication and dissemination plan (CDP) for the CRAFT-OA project. The CDP describes the project and its targets, the objectives for its communication and dissemination (C&D) activities and presents a stakeholder analysis. Furthermore, the CDP explains the project’s C&D strategy and gives an outlook on C&D measures already initiated and planned for the future. The strategic approach, internal and external communication activities and a KPI table are presented in this document. Additionally, the deliverable outlines its intertwinement with D7.2 “Exploitation and Sustainability Plan”, due for M18, identifies potential risks and threats to the C&D goals and gives an overview of the collaboration among CRAFT-OA, PALOMERA, and DIAMAS.
title: Honouring Ghosts The Nature of Grief: Artmaking as Transfiguration
Creators: name: Perkin, Amberlie
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Phenomenology and art
valueUri: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007004713
subject: Grief
valueUri: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057330
subject: Walking
valueUri: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144900
subject: Nature
valueUri: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090277
subject: Ecology
valueUri: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040752
subject: Sculpture
valueUri: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119004

description: This thesis project is rooted in relationships─ the deep bonds which we share with one another, with our more-than-human kin, and our relationship with the abundant animate life that exists in the natural world. After losing several loved ones to cancer in a short time I became drawn to the interplay of grief and wounded ecology. This led to a methodological framework for making which involves thinking with grief and thinking with and through nature. Through curious and embodied engagement with the natural world, my aim is to create a material vernacular for grief using the formal and metaphoric language of nature. The questions I am researching through my thesis work are: How is the transformational nature of grief enacted through the intuitive, embodied, material, and metaphoric processes of making? How can the absence created by death be materially and conceptually made present through space and form? The research takes a phenomenological approach through walking, observing, sensing, and collecting organic ephemera in the natural environment. This sensorial experience includes an openness to the spectral─ making space to listen and commune with ghosts while in nature and in the studio. My embodied experiences in the natural world and the organic matter I’ve collected are then translated through various material investigations in the studio including relief printing, repetitive layering to build up forms, generating 3D sculptures, and finally, creating large scale immersive installations. This thesis has elucidated how death can be a type of refugia in both life and artmaking ─ allowing us to draw from the compost of loss and chaos to re-order and reanimate them through altered forms. The final artworks have been propelled by asking: What material processes enact regeneration─ extracting a quality from the debris of our losses to make new with? The thesis project explores what it looks like to actively grieve, to go on living with death. It enacts the hopeful potentiality in the simultaneous work of mourning while making new.
Euler summability method of sequences of fuzzy numbers and a Tauberian theorem
Creators: name: Yavuz, Enes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce Euler summability method for sequences of fuzzy numbers and state a Tauberian theorem concerning Euler summability method, of which proof provides an alternative to that of K. Knopp[Über das Eulersche Summierungsverfahren II, Math. Z. 18 (1923)] when the sequence is of real numbers. As corollaries, we extend the obtained results to series of fuzzy numbers.
description: 8 pages
Law, Biopolitics and Reproductive Citizenship: The Case of Assisted Reproduction in Italy
Creators: name: Hanafin, Patrick
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2013

description: In 2004, the introduction of a restrictive law on assisted reproduction in Italy sees the privileging of a conservative model of family relations and a misogynist view of society by the political elite. This backlash politics excludes many individuals from full reproductive citizenship. In this regard what the Italian case allows us to see is the operation of a biopolitics which both governs and excludes. The 2004 Act excludes gay couples, single people and people who are carriers of genetically inherited conditions from access to assisted reproductive technologies. Such an exclusionary biopolitics has provoked a counter-politics of resistance against the legislation. This article examines the manner in which individuals have contested the legislation’s prohibitions, and, in so doing, looks at how this might constitute an example of what Nikolas Rose has termed an ethopolitics. The concept of ethopolitics allows us to visualize the potential of an active counter-politics of resistance for restoring reproductive citizenship to those deprived of it by legislative interventions of this nature.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Tecnoscienza Nr. 7
CRAFT-OA Deliverable 7.1 Communication and Dissemination Plan
Creators: name: Arasteh-Roodsary, Sona Lisa
name: Holsinger, Sy
name: Klaus, Tabea
name: Posavec, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Diamond OA
Horizon Europe
Communication and Dissemination
Exploitation
Sustainability

description: This deliverable outlines the overall communication and dissemination plan (CDP) for the CRAFT-OA project. The CDP describes the project and its targets, the objectives for its communication and dissemination (C&D) activities and presents a stakeholder analysis. Furthermore, the CDP explains the project’s C&D strategy and gives an outlook on C&D measures already initiated and planned for the future. The strategic approach, internal and external communication activities and a KPI table are presented in this document. Additionally, the deliverable outlines its intertwinement with D7.2 “Exploitation and Sustainability Plan”, due for M18, identifies potential risks and threats to the C&D goals and gives an overview of the collaboration among CRAFT-OA, PALOMERA, and DIAMAS.
description: This deliverable is currently under review by the EC.
(200662) Evelyn Catherine Furneaux
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Uncertainty propagation within the UNEDF models
Creators: name: Haverinen, T.
name: Kortelainen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parameters of the nuclear energy density have to be adjusted to experimental data. As a result they carry certain uncertainty which then propagates to calculated values of observables. In the present work we quantify the statistical uncertainties of binding energies, proton quadrupole moments, and proton matter radius for three UNEDF Skyrme energy density functionals by taking advantage of the knowledge of the model parameter uncertainties. We find that the uncertainty of UNEDF models increases rapidly when going towards proton or neutron rich nuclei. We also investigate the impact of each model parameter on the total error budget.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
Pharmacological Mode of Action of Homoeopathic MedicineHypothesis on Homoeopathy.pdfPharmacological Mode of Action of Homoeopathy
Creators: name: LINGESHWAREN, RAJAGANAPATHY
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110499 Complementary and Alternative Medicine not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: 30405 Molecular Medicine
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 111502 Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

description: The homoeopathic system followed the principle of Similia Similibus Curantur. Most of the drugs in homoeopathic materia medica contains toxicological/pharmacological, Drug proving, traditional use related symptoms and indications. Abnormal sensations and symptoms of the disease caused by involvement of a specific receptor or molecular pathway & gene functions, these receptors or molecules may be stimulated or suppressed by environmental, natural or artificial agents. In such conditions, administration of specific homoeopathic medicine having a similar kind of affinity towards the particular receptors or molecules involved in the disease process leads to modulation of such receptor or molecular pathways (e.g., desensitization, sensitization, inhibition). These kinds of actions cause the betterment of symptoms or curative effects. The selection of medicine is by comparing the similarity between the receptor or molecular pathway in disease pathogenesis and drug pathogenesis..
Sampling and Reconstruction of Sparse Signals on Circulant Graphs - An Introduction to Graph-FRI
Creators: name: Kotzagiannidis, Madeleine S.
name: Dragotti, Pier Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the objective of employing graphs toward a more generalized theory of signal processing, we present a novel sampling framework for (wavelet-)sparse signals defined on circulant graphs which extends basic properties of Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) theory to the graph domain, and can be applied to arbitrary graphs via suitable approximation schemes. At its core, the introduced Graph-FRI-framework states that any K-sparse signal on the vertices of a circulant graph can be perfectly reconstructed from its dimensionality-reduced representation in the graph spectral domain, the Graph Fourier Transform (GFT), of minimum size 2K. By leveraging the recently developed theory of e-splines and e-spline wavelets on graphs, one can decompose this graph spectral transformation into the multiresolution low-pass filtering operation with a graph e-spline filter, and subsequent transformation to the spectral graph domain; this allows to infer a distinct sampling pattern, and, ultimately, the structure of an associated coarsened graph, which preserves essential properties of the original, including circularity and, where applicable, the graph generating set.
description: To appear in Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. (2017)
The impact of bilingual exposure on the cognitive abilities of children with autism
Creators: name: Kam, Rebecca Yuen-Ying
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology to the School of Psychology and Public Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Despite the growing global prevalence of both bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), there is a paucity of research exploring both phenomena together. Past studies examining issues associated with children with ASD in multi/bilingual families, have indicated that both parents and professionals believe dual-language learning is detrimental to child development. However, this is contrary to findings from six empirical studies published to date that have explored the impact of bilingualism among children with ASD, suggesting that they have comparable language skills and social communication functioning to their monolingually exposed peers. Although study findings have been consistent, further replications of these preliminary data are required, because considerable heterogeneity exists across the study methodologies, which includes varying operationalisation of bilingualism, sample characteristics and approaches to assessing child language skills. Furthermore, these studies have yet to go beyond the two domains of language and social communication. Hence, this thesis sought to contribute to the growing evidence-base on bilingualism and ASD by adopting a multi-measure approach, and to extend investigations into cognitive domains that have not previously been explored: executive function (EF) and Theory of Mind (ToM) skills. A sample of 21 monolingually exposed and 20 bilingually exposed children with ASD, aged between 21 and 85 months, participated in a 2 to 3-hour assessment session with their caregivers. Measures included a range of direct-administered standardised assessments and experimental tasks, and parent-report questionnaires across the domains of language, social communication, EF and ToM skills, as well as observational coding from filmed parent-child interactions. Overall, this sample of bilingually exposed children with ASD had similar EF, but more impaired language, social communication and ToM abilities, compared to their monolingually exposed peers. Factors such as the role of culture require consideration in future studies of bilingualism and ASD, to ensure study outcomes reflect the impact of dual-language exposure and not extraneous influences.
A New Hash-based Enhanced Privacy ID Signature Scheme
Creators: name: ENTRUST Horizon Europe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Publication info: Published elsewhere. Proceedings of PQCrypto 2024

ABSTRACT

The elliptic curve-based Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID) signature scheme is broadly used for hardware enclave attestation by many platforms that implement Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) and other devices. This scheme has also been included in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) specifications and ISO/IEC standards. However, it is insecure against quantum attackers. While research into quantum-resistant EPID has resulted in several lattice-based schemes, Boneh et al. have initiated the study of EPID signature schemes built only from symmetric primitives. We observe that for this line of research, there is still room for improvement. In this paper, we propose a new hash-based EPID scheme, which includes a novel and efficient signature revocation scheme. In addition, our scheme can handle a large group size (up to 260 group members), which meets the requirements of rapidly developing hardware enclave attestation applications. The security of our scheme is proved under the Universal Composability (UC) model. Finally, we have implemented our EPID scheme, which, to our best knowledge, is the first implementation of EPID from symmetric primitives.

AUTHORS

Liqun Chen, University of Surrey

Changyu Dong, Guangzhou University

Nada El Kassem, University of Surrey

Christopher J.P. Newton, University of Surrey

Yalan Wang, University of Surrey