cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Green and Efficient Method for Thiocyanation of Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Compounds Using Cross-linked Poly (4-vinylpyridine) Supported Thiocyanate Ion as Versatile Reagent and Oxone as Mild Oxidant
Creators: name: Ali, Mohammad
name: Zarchi, Karimi
name: Banihashemi, R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Graphical A green and efficient regioselective thiocyanation of indoles, anilines and pyrrole has been achieved via a simple protocol using cross-linked poly (4-vinylpyridine) supported thiocyanate ion, [P4-VP]SCN, as a versatile polymeric reagent and oxone as an environmentally friendly and mild oxidant. Various indoles, anilines, pyrroles and carbazoles were transformed into their corresponding aryl thiocyanates in high to excellent yields in a short reaction time. The present procedure offers advantages such as simple reaction work-up, and the polymeric reagents can also be regenerated and reused several times without significant loss of their activity.
O acesso a outrem como si no seu aí
Creators: name: Caeiro, António De Castro
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: O horizonte de acontecimento dos outros é fundamentalmente constitutivo do AÍ do SER O AÍ, DASEIN, aquele ente que desde sempre nós de cada vez somos no cuidar de nós a ser o nosso por ser. Não é, por isso, um horizonte avulso interpretado pela analítica existencial temporal do Dasein. É, antes, estruturante do nosso ser enquanto o ACESSO ao AÍ em que de cada vez somos a existir. Visa-se, assim, compreender as múltiplas maneiras de os outros serem connosco e, portanto, abrir às diversas maneiras de se dizer o outro. Para o efeito concentrar-nos-emos primeiro em Ser e Tempo, onde o outro como horizonte é analisado e interpretado, quase que apenas para ser posto como problema e ser levantada a sua questão. Depois ensaiaremos uma radicalização deste horizonte através da sua eclosão explícita como atmosfera, cadência, vibração e onda disposicionais a partir de outras estâncias posteriores no caminho do pensamento de Martin Heidegger. Também aqui ainda se anda à procura do outro na especificidade do seu acontecer a alagar (e a alastrar por) toda a nossa existência, mas já interpelado na peculiariedade do nosso acesso à dimensão em que ele verdadeiramente pode ser.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Detection of Promoter DNA Methylation of APC, DAPK, and GSTP1 Genes in tissue Biopsy and Matched Serum of Advanced-Stage Lung Cancer Patients
Creators: name: Ali, Ashraf
name: Kumar, Sachin
name: Kakaria, Vinod Kumar
name: Anant Mohan
name: Luthra, Kalpana
name: Upadhyay, Ashish Dutt
name: Randeep Guleria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Promoter DNA hypermethylation of APC, DAPK, and GSTP1 genes was evaluated in biopsy and matched serum of 160 lung cancer patients and 70 controls. In biopsy, 83.1, 83.1, and 78.1% of lung cancer patients and 72.9, 70, and 70% of controls, while in serum, 52.5, 30.6, and 65.6% of lung cancer patients and 14.3, 18.6, and 30% of controls were positive for APC, DAPK, and GSTP1 hypermethylation respectively. We couldn't find any significant role of DNA hypermethylation in lung cancer. However, long follow-up of methylation positive controls will be required to confirm its role for the prediction of lung cancer.
Bioaerosol detection through simultaneous measurement of particle intrinsic fluorescence and spatial light scattering
Creators: name: Barton, John E.
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: Interest in the role and detection of airborne biological micro-organisms has increased dramatically in recent years, in part through heightened fears of bioterrorism. Traditional bio-detection methods have generally slow response times and require the use of reagents. Conversely, techniques based on light scattering phenomena are reagent-free and are able to operate in real-time. Previous research has established that classification of certain types of airborne particles on the basis of shape and size may be achieved through the analysis of the spatial light scattering patterns produced by individual particles. Similarly, other research has shown that the intrinsic fluorescence of particles excited by radiation of an appropriate wavelength can be used to establish the presence of biological particles, provided background particles with similar fluorescence properties are not present. This is often not the case. This thesis, therefore, describes the design, development, and testing of a new type of bioaerosol detection instrument in which the advantages of both particle spatial light scattering analysis and intrinsic fluorescence are exploited. The instrument, referred to as the Mult- Parameter Aerosol Monitor (MPAM), is unique in simultaneously recording data relating to the size, shape, and fluorescence properties of individual airborne particles at rates up to several thousand particles per second. The MPAM uses a continuous-wave frequency quadrupled Nd: YVO4 laser to produce both spatial scattering and fluorescence data from particles carried in single-file through the laser beam. This use of a CW laser leads to opto-mechanical simplicity and reduces fluorescence bleaching effects. A custom-designed multi-pixel Hybrid Photodiode (HPD) detector is used to record the spatial scattering data in forward scattering plane whilst particle fluorescence is recorded via a large solid-angle ellipsoidal reflector and single photomultiplier detector. Calibration tests and experimental trials involving a range of both biological and nonbiological aerosols have shown that the MPAM, when supported by appropriate data analysis algorithms, is capable of achieving enhanced levels of discrimination between biological and non-biological particles down to the submicrometre sizes and, in some cases, enhanced discrimination between classes of biological particle.
Data and Results
Creators: name: Oeun, Richard
name: Chorman, Dacia
name: Shanelle Lum
name: Pierce, Rebecca
name: Cook, Corey L.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020

description: CREP Project #20-21
This folder contains: SPSS output analyses, SPSS raw data spreadsheet, a codebook for SPSS spreadsheet, graphs used in a student paper, results section used in a student paper, discussion section used in a student paper, and references for the discussion section.
British newsreels and the plight of European Jews, 1933-1945
Creators: name: Szczetnikowicz, Susan H.
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2006

description: This dissertation is an investigation into what the British newsreels told the public about the plight of German and European Jews, between January 1933) and the end of 1945. Nazi persecution of the Jews is a subject that has been well researched for the last 40 years. Historians have examined questions of attitudes to Jewish immigration into Britain and into Palestine, together with the British response to the news of the 'Final Solution' of the 'Jewish Question' in Europe. They have asked why countries such as Britain and her Allies did not do more. The role of the media is central to this question. Work has already been done on what the public was told by the British press as early as 1964, and, more recently on elements of the response of the BBC. Until the time of writing, no historian has considered the most popular medium of all in its response to the persecution of Jews. No-one has explained why the British newsreels did not inform the public, or has asked why there was almost total silence from this medium on the implementation of the 'Final Solution'. This dissertation will argue that more could have been done by British newsreels to highlight the plight of the European Jews between 1933 and 1945.
An instrument for monitoring number and mass of ambient particles in coarse, fine and ultrafine size ranges
Creators: name: Kuhn, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2003

description: Airborne particulate matter is today recognized as an important category of air pollutants. Current air quality standards, and hence most particle instruments, are based on particle mass concentration-the European standard, for example, on the PM10 fraction. For other metrics, such as number concentration, there is currently a lack of suitable instrumentation for monitoring purposes. A novel realtime particle-counting instrument has been developed in an attempt to fill this gap. The new instrument is capable of detecting and counting particles from about 10 nm to 10 pm particle diameter. This instrument, aimed at monitoring ambient air quality, uses a parallel combination of optical particle counting for larger particles plus condensation particle counting for the smallest particles. The particles are classified into several size fractions, which allows discrimination between ultrafine, fine, and coarse particles. The instrument also enables gravimetric measurement of PM10 or PM2.5 providing the possibility of comparing the measured number concentrations with the mass concentration standards. Furthermore, a conversion of the number concentration data into PMIO.P. M2.5,a nd also PMl mass concentration is possible. The new instrument is unique in offering number and mass information over the complete size range of interest in urban air quality monitoring. The design of the instrument and the development and construction of first prototypes are described as well as calibration and performance results. The performance tests included side-by-side comparisons of two identical prototypes and comparison studies with traditional instrumentation in an urban field environment at a monitoring station in Birmingham (UK). Here, very good correlation was observed between the ultrafine particle concentration indicated by the new instrument and the total number concentration measured by a CPC (TSI model 3022A). Number-to-mass conversion results correlated well with mass concentration measured by TEOM. Possibilities for a further size fractionation in the ultrafine particle size range were investigated and selected techniques tested. Size separation using diffusion devices was identified as a suitable technique to be implemented in the new instrument for ultrafine fractionation. Other future possibilities for further developments are also discussed.
The practical side of complexity : implications for leaders
Creators: name: Tobin, John Henry
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: The role of chief executive portrayed in the mainstream management literature. as visionary and inspirational leader, is one of power and prestige. The chief executive is cast as the corporate hero (or villain) who alone is responsible for the success or failure of his or her enterprise. This portfolio draws on Stacey's theory of complex processes of relating to present a different perspective. The chief executive is seen as a group participant where the executive role is one of intense engagement in the conversational processes of human social interaction in the living present. The executive observes and responds to unfolding patterns of power differences; detects and minimizes the impact of pernicious group processes, such as scapegoating; and, offers subtle interventions to help the group's members make sense of their situations. The division of labor is essential to sophisticated collaboration, and leading is a specialized role that emerges in shifting patterns of power and interdependence among task group members. The everyday life of a hospital chief executive is explored through in-depth study of relevant literature and the analysis of several narratives about organizational leaders in both ordinary and unusual circumstances. The narratives go ever more deeply into patterns of power differences as they are expressed in conversation, and explore the "messy" way in which decisions are made in real life organizations. In this thesis, I argue that emotions play a crucial role in human cognition and in the coordination of action necessary for sophisticated collaboration, and, as such, must be experienced and attended to as they arise spontaneously in social interaction. Engaging in group interaction as a participant rather than as an authority figure is difficult work. The executive's goal is to engage without becoming overwhelmed. For the practicing executive, I argue that emotionally and intellectually experiencing oneself as a member of a group in which the members are equals (that is, by getting away from one's own organization's power structure) may be a necessary first step in changing from an individual to a group perspective. I also argue that organizational effectiveness will be improved by increasing the opportunities for group interaction among leaders. I argue that "messy" interactions may be more effective than highly structured ones because they encourage the participants to remain actively engaged.
A narrative exploration of meaning in the public sector
Creators: name: Murray, Ursula
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: My thesis is a narrative exploration of making meaning in the public sector, drawing on my own lived experience of a radical 'reformation' of the British welfare state over the past two decades. This has been characterised by contested theoretical and political views about the commercialisation of public services, by the experience of turbulent social movements and public sector management, and by a profound sense of loss. The thesis is structured around an alternating weave of story and theory, which contributes to an iterative movement of different forms of reflection. As a researcher, I take up the role of a first-person narrator. This narrative approach is shaped by two discourses, which both emphasise awareness of the social and group dimension. Firstly, complex responsive processes of relating (Stacey et al, 2000; Stacey and Griffin, 2005) introduces a new and different dimension into use of narrative: one in which meaning making and ethical insight (Griffin, 2002,2005) are seen as emerging through social interaction. Secondly, the narrative work draws on psychosocial insights into the emotional life and politics of public services, particularly by Hoggett (1992,2000), Cooper (2003) and Cooper and Lousada (2005). Thirdly, it draws on a body of critical social theory about the new public management particularly by Newman (2000,2005), Du Gay (2000), Hall (2003) and Finlayson (2003). The thesis captures the lived experience of a social history and social movements around local government and addresses the question whether it matters if we now send public services 'off to the market'? I conclude that the idea of a 'public sector' is still critically important to our social well-being and that a public service ethos is to be rethought in terms of a capacity for human relating and intimacy, in contrast to the present orientation towards the utilitarian and pragmatic emphasis on efficiency and performance management. I identify the absence of 'a place to think' as an increasingly important phenomenon and advocate a new kind of conversation: one which draws on story and oral history to reflect on the emotional and moral capacities of a public service ethic confronted by intensive commercialisation and the rapid growth of a private public service sector and new monopolies.
The Experience of Qualified BME Clinical Psychologists: An Interpretative Phenomenological and Repertory Grid Analysis
Creators: name: Odusanya, Shamarel
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: BME
Black
Minority
Ethnic
Clinical Psychologist
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
IPA
Repertory Grid Analysis
Qualitative

description: Aim: Knowledge of the experience of qualified BME clinical psychologists in clinical practice is currently lacking in the research literature. The aim of the current study was to explore the lived experience of qualified BME clinical psychologists currently employed in the National Health Service (NHS). By investigating this under-researched topic, the study hopes to shed light on the impact on clinicians’ personal and professional identity of practicing within a profession that lacks cultural diversity. It is hoped that the results of this study will contribute to ongoing efforts to diversify the profession, improve our knowledge of the experience of BME groups in the helping profession and also challenge current misconceptions concerning the BME experience. Method: A mixed method qualitative approach was employed for this study. Repertory grids and semi-structured interviews were conducted with six female qualified BME clinical psychologists who are currently working in the NHS. They had been qualified between three and sixteen years. Their repertory grids were analysed using Idiogrid and their accounts were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Four master themes emerged from the analysis and were supported by the findings from the repertory grids showing that BME clinical psychologists feel that they stand out as different on account of their ethnic difference. The analytic procedure also highlighted how participants have to find a way to negotiate their cultural and professional values whilst also sitting with the uncertainty of their experiences in the profession. The final theme relates to the privilege that participants held in making it as a clinical psychologist. Implications: Initiatives to increase cultural competency and sensitivity need to be addressed by the profession. Efforts to increase ethnic diversity should be followed through to ensure practitioners are not left on the fringes of the profession on account of their minority ethnicity.
Narratives of Parents Living With a Child Affected by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Creators: name: Payne, Rosalind
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Children
Mothers
Caring
Chronic Illness
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
CFS
ME
Narrative
Parents

description: Background and Aims Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) remains a poorly understood condition, shrouded by debate, stigma, and uncertainty. Unsurprisingly, the little available research suggests that caring for a Child or Young Person (CYP) affected by the condition can be extremely challenging. While the majority of available literature is quantitative in nature, there is some qualitative research examining the impact of having a CYP with CFS/ME on parents. However, there currently appear to be no studies examining the narratives of parents living with a CYP with CFS/ME. Therefore, this research aimed to hear how parents narrate their experiences of living with a CYP affected by CFS/ME, paying attention to how they construct their identity, and the contested condition. Methodology This research drew on a qualitative approach that explored the narratives of the participants. A purposive sample of five parents of CYP affected by CFS/ME (5 mothers) was recruited for a single semi-structured interview. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using a narrative approach to explore what participants said and how they narrated their accounts. This was then situated within the social and cultural contexts that shaped them. Analysis and Findings Multiple readings of the narratives allowed me to develop a summary of each individual’s narrative account. These were presented, after which similarities and differences across narratives were considered. Analysis identified six areas of collective focus: ‘stories of onset and diagnosis’, ‘stories of battle’, ‘stories of finding the person/people who can help’, stories of impact’, ‘stories of seeking social support’, and ‘stories of coping and adjustment’. Participants’ narratives were heavily influenced by dominant societal discourses surrounding CFS/ME and motherhood, and could be seen as a response to these narratives. Consequently, participants offered particular constructions of the condition, themselves, their CYP, and others that they had come into contact with. These findings are discussed with reference to their potential bearing for clinical practice, strengths and limitations of the methodology, and directions for future research.
Pyrogenic Carbon and Its Role in Contaminant Immobilization in Soils
Creators: name: Fangjie Qi
name: Saranya Kuppusamy
name: Naidu, Ravi
name: Nanthi S Bolan
name: Ok, Yong Sik
name: Lamb, Dane
name: Yubiao Li
name: Linbo Yu
name: Semple, Kirk T
name: Hailong Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Pyrogenic carbon (PyC), including soil native PyC and engineered PyC (biochars), is increasingly being recognized for its potential role as a low-cost immobilizer of contaminants in soils. Published reviews on the role of soil native PyC as a sorbent in soils have so far focused mainly on organic contaminants and paid little or no attention to inorganic contaminants. Further, a comprehensive review on the production of both natural PyC and engineered PyC (biochars), mechanisms involved and factors influencing their role as soil contaminant immobilizer is so far not available. The objective of this review is thus to systematically summarize the sources, formation and properties of PyC, including its quantification in soils, followed by their roles in the immobilization of both organic and inorganic contaminants in soils. Effectiveness of PyC on bioavailability, leaching, and degradation of soil contaminants were summarized. Notably, mechanisms and factors (for the first time) influencing the immobilization processes for soil contaminants were also extensively elucidated. This review helps better understand and design PyC for soil contaminant immobilization.
Um São Paulo em chave gnóstico-saudosista: Teixeira de Pascoaes
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: Em 1934, Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952) deu à luz uma biografia de S. Paulo, que teve larga difusão. Nela faz uma interpretação da figura e da obra do Apóstolo como verdadeiro fundador do cristianismo. Este, porém, é por ele interpretado em chave gnóstica, no interior e em dependência da sua poética filosofia da saudade: o Cristo do verdadeiro cristianismo vive (apenas) como personificação mítica do sentimento da queda de Deus no mundo material, em sua reacção positiva de elevação espiritualista ou de esperança. E esta é a via da redenção ou salvação, enquanto que por ela se dá a reintegração do homem e do mundo no divino originário de ambos. Paulo foi aquele que primeiro compreendeu Cristo deste modo e o transformou em objecto de crença para o mundo.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Revisiting Aryl Amidine Synthesis Using Metal Amide and/or Ammonia Gas: Novel Molecules and Their Biological Evaluation
Creators: name: Ishani I. Sahay
name: Prasanna S. Ghalsasi
name: Singh, Mala
name: Rasheedunnisa Begum
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
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: Amidines, due to their unique biocompatibility and desirable physical characteristics, have been the functionality of choice as a scaffold for large number of drug synthesis. But still synthesis of amidines in presence of other active functional groups or pharmacophore, remained a challenge. In this work, a simple and reliable protocol for conversion of nitrile-amide to unsubstituted amidine-amide is developed using metal amide and/or ammonia gas. The scope and efficiency of this synthetic strategy is demonstrated on a number of substrates which differ in functional groups will be discussed. In this process ten novel aryl amidines in good yields (upto 85%) were synthesized. Biological evaluation revealed that compound 4-(aminoiminomethyl)-N-(2-furanyl methyl) benzamide (IC50 = 9 µM) and 4-(aminoiminomethyl)-N-(3-pyridinylmethyl) benzamide (73.36% growth inhibition) showed moderate efficacy for cancer cells.
Coping with Uncertainty in UX Design Practice: Practitioner Strategies and Judgment
Creators: name: Shukla, Prakash
name: Bui, Phuong
name: Parsons, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The complexity of UX design practice extends beyond ill-structured design problems to include uncertainties shaped by shifting stakeholder priorities, team dynamics, limited resources, and implementation constraints. While prior research in related fields has addressed uncertainty in design more broadly, the specific character of uncertainty in UX practice remains underexplored. This study examines how UX practitioners experience and respond to uncertainty in real-world projects, drawing on a multi-week diary study and follow-up interviews with ten designers. We identify a range of practitioner strategies-including adaptive framing, negotiation, and judgment-that allow designers to move forward amid ambiguity. Our findings highlight the central role of design judgment in navigating uncertainty, including emergent forms such as temporal and sacrificial judgment, and extend prior understandings by showing how UX practitioners engage uncertainty as a persistent, situated feature of practice.
description: 11 pages, In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '25), June 23--25, 2025, Virtual, United Kingdom
Le frontiere dell’evangelizzazione
Creators: name: Battaglia, Gino
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: No limiar do terceiro milénio, quando a Igreja Católica repensa os confins da própria responsabilidade, o ano dedicado a São Paulo constitui um desafio a percorrer os cenários nos quais a Igreja é chamada a comunicar o Evangelho. Sobreviverá a Igreja ao segundo milénio de Cristo? O cristianismo – parece – transformar-se-á profundamente. Será cada vez mais popular, negro (ou certamente não-branco em predominância), muito mais sincretista, carismático e, por vezes, sectário. São as questões actuais que se vivem na América Latina e na África negra sub-sahariana. Existe, depois, a grande questão da Ásia, que contém em si mundos muito diversos: o Próximo-Oriente com as suas comunidades cristãs, antiquíssimas e em grande sofrimento; a Ásia do Sul ou o Extremo Oriente, onde culturas milenárias e grandes religiões parecem impedir a difusão do cristianismo; a China e a Índia, motores da economia mundial de amanhã. Ainda hoje – como no tempo das primeiríssimas gerações cristãs – o mundo vive na expectativa. As suas rápidas transformações e os seus conflitos colocam questões novas à Igreja.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Experiência cristã: especificidade e equívocos: A propósito da expressão «viver pelo Espírito» (Gal 5, 25)
Creators: name: Terra, Domingos
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: A ideia de S. Paulo «viver pelo Espírito», enunciada em Gal 5, 25, motiva uma reflexão sobre a singularidade da experiência cristã. Convida a perceber os enganos a que esta está sujeita, na nossa era de sede espiritual. Tal experiência atribui a primazia a Deus, que se dirige ao ser humano no exercício da sua liberdade soberana. Importa ter isto assente, antes de tomar consciência da confusão em que a noção de ‘espiritual’se vê hoje mergulhada. Aparece a designar realidades, por vezes, contraditórias entre si. Assistimos, de facto, a uma nova onda de buscas de sentido, de expressão social e cultural considerável, habitualmente apelidadas de ‘espirituais’. Reclamam-se de carácter religioso, mesmo contendo aspectos que contradizem tal pretensão. Chegam ao ponto de se misturarem com o crer cristão, podendo pervertê-lo com a lógica do ‘saber’que lhes é própria.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Dez quadrículas e um excurso sobre os azulejos de Álvaro Siza na Basílica da Trindade, Fátima
Creators: name: Higino, Nuno
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: «A primeira cena que Siza desenhou foi a queda de S.Paulo do cavalo: porque gosta de desenhar cavalos e porque o episódio tem quase tudo o que um artista procura:movimento, luz, dramatismo, mistério, ruptura. A mais célebre queda do cavalo da História. Os corpos do cavalo e do cavaleiro fundem-se, no desenho, num corpo único:uma espontânea e frugal distribuição de linhas que mostram o sobressalto do cavalo e escondem o rosto do cavaleiro». Este texto guarda e segreda, desta forma, a memória de uma conversa com o arquitecto Álvaro Siza Vieira, a propósito dos azulejos colocados na nova Basílica do Santuário de Fátima, com cenas da vida de São Paulo.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Predestination and human responsibility in medieval Islam: some aspects of a classical problem
Creators: name: Belo, Catarina
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: A questão da omnipotência divina e determinação (ou predestinação, qadar) de processos naturais e voluntários por parte de Deus ocupa um lugar central nos debates medievais dentro da teologia islâmica. Trata-se de um conflito central entre dois conceitos fundamentais do islão: a omnipotência divina e a responsabilidade humana, um pressuposto inevitável para a afirmação da justiça divina, outro atributo de Deus a par da sua omnipotência. Este artigo analisa o desenvolvimento das diversas escolas de teologia islâmica relativamente à questão da predestinação e o modo em que a tendência crescente para acentuar a predestinação influenciou inclusivamente filósofos islâmicos tais como Avicena e Averróis.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Falar da criação no Egipto e no Antigo Testamento
Creators: name: Carreira, José Nunes
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: Falar da criação remete para os confins do tempo e do espaço, do que ninguém presenciou e só pode imaginar. Claudicam experiência e razão. Só a intuição e o discurso simbólico do mito se aventuram a recuar aos primórdios do tempo. O mais óbvio é transpor a experiência da produção de coisas novas para as origens. Novos seres vivos aparecem por geração; novos artefactos por trabalho; novas obras e situações pela ordem de quem manda. Antes do Antigo Testamento, já os Egípcios tinham recorrido às duas mais óbvias formas de criação – por geração e por trabalho. Em ambas as culturas, a acção divina de criar exprime-se numa paleta de verbos (gerar, criar, fazer, formar, etc.) e de géneros literários – formas simples, hino e relato. É que, ao contrário do que pensou S. Tomás de Aquino, nenhum termo é apropriado e nenhum nem o seu conjunto é suficiente.Todo o esforço conceptual e verbal não podia passar de aproximações.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 1 (2008): Olhares recentes sobre São Paulo
Frank O’Hara’s “Second Avenue” and the Modernist Tradition
Creators: name: Dick, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The writing of Frank O’Hara, including his abstract epic, “Second Avenue,” emerged from a period of conflict in US poetry circles in the 1950s. In his acceptance speech for the 1960 National Book Award, Robert Lowell de-clared that there were two competing poetries in post-war America. The “cooked,” he declared, was “marvelously expert … laboriously concocted to be tasted and digested by a graduate seminar”; the “raw,” on the other hand, was “huge blood-dripping gobbets of unseasoned experience … dished up for midnight listeners.” The “cooked” included poets associated with the New Criticism and their academic contemporaries. Arguing for a rejection of “the exuberance and excess of Modernism in favor of poems that were self-contained, ironic, and dense with elaborately constructed metaphors,” they embraced T.S. Eliot’s “tradition”—that “no poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone”—and complied with his theory that “the poet himself [can] have no necessary role in the poetry he writes.”
The Final Newsletter of the Patient Empowerment through Predictive Personalised Decision Support (PEPPER) Project
Creators: name: Martin, Clare
name: Lopez, Beatriz
name: Murla, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: diabetes
technology

description: Welcome to the last issue of the PEPPER Project newsletter. We have had an exciting few months to reach the end of the project with our goals reached. You will find news about project review. Also, you can also read the recent results achieved by technical work packages, and particularly, some preliminary results achieved in the feasibility study. And finally, the summary of some events we have participated.
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Editorial
Creators: name: Cash, Conall
name: Cuff, Samuel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Issue 23 of Colloquy: text, theory, critique is comprised mainly of papers collected under the title Pastoral Echoes, a special section arising from the symposium Reimagining Pastoral, which was convened at the University of Queensland in 2011. This section is guest edited by Xanthe Ashburner and Timothy Chandler, whom the editors thank for their diligence and commend for assembling a diverse range of articles. This issue is the debut of two new Editors-in-Chief: Conall Cash and Samuel Cuff.
Tunka-Rex: Status, Plans, and Recent Results
Creators: name: Schröder, F. G.
name: Bezyazeekov, P. A.
name: Budnev, N. M.
name: Fedorov, O.
name: Gress, O. A.
name: Haungs, A.
name: Hiller, R.
name: Huege, T.
name: Kazarina, Y.
name: Kleifges, M.
name: Korosteleva, E. E.
name: Kostunin, D.
name: Krömer, O.
name: Kungel, V.
name: Kuzmichev, L. A.
name: Lubsandorzhiev, N.
name: Mirgazov, R. R.
name: Monkhoev, R.
name: Osipova, E. A.
name: Pakhorukov, A.
name: Pankov, L.
name: Prosin, V.V
name: Rubtsov, G. I.
name: Wischnewski, R.
name: Zagorodnikov, A.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2017

description: Tunka-Rex, the Tunka Radio extension at the TAIGA facility (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) in Siberia, has recently been expanded to a total number of 63 SALLA antennas, most of them distributed on an area of one square kilometer. In the first years of operation, Tunka-Rex was solely triggered by the co-located air-Cherenkov array Tunka-133. The correlation of the measurements by both detectors has provided direct experimental proof that radio arrays can measure the position of the shower maximum. The precision achieved so far is 40 g/cm2, and several methodical improvements are under study. Moreover, the cross-comparison of Tunka-Rex and Tunka-133 shows that the energy reconstruction of Tunka-Rex is precise to 15 %, with a total accuracy of 20 % including the absolute energy scale. By using exactly the same calibration source for Tunka-Rex and LOPES, the energy scale of their host experiments, Tunka-133 and KASCADE-Grande, respectively, can be compared even more accurately with a remaining uncertainty of about 10 %. The main goal of Tunka-Rex for the next years is a study of the cosmic-ray mass composition in the energy range above 100 PeV: For this purpose, Tunka-Rex now is triggered also during daytime by the particle detector array Tunka-Grande featuring surface and underground scintillators for electron and muon detection.
On the generalized process capability under simple and mixture models
Creators: name: Ali, Sajid
name: Riaz, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Process capability (PC) indices measure the ability of a process of interest to meet the desired specifications under certain restrictions. There are a variety of capability indices available in literature for different interest variables such as weights, lengths, thickness, and the life time of items among many others. The goal of this article is to study the generalized capability indices from the Bayesian view point under different symmetric and asymmetric loss functions for the simple and mixture of generalized lifetime models. For our study purposes, we have covered a simple and two component mixture of Maxwell distribution as a special case of the generalized class of models. A comparative discussion of the PC with the mixture models under Laplace and inverse Rayleigh are also included. Bayesian point estimation of maintenance performance of the system is also part of the study (considering the Maxwell failure lifetime model and the repair time model). A real-life example is also included to illustrate the procedural details of the proposed method.
Additional file 1 of FLI1 regulates radiotherapy resistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma through TIE1-mediated PI3K/AKT signaling pathway
Creators: name: Chen, Enni
name: Huang, Jiajia
name: Chen, Miao
name: Wu, Jiawei
name: Ouyang, Puyun
name: Wang, Xiaonan
name: Shi, Dingbo
name: Liu, Zhiqiao
name: Zhu, Wancui
name: Sun, Haohui
name: Yang, Shanshan
name: Zhang, Baoyu
name: Deng, Wuguo
name: Qiu, Huijuan
name: Xie, Fangyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. KEGG pathway analysis of differentially expressed genes between CR and PD group. DNA replication pathway was among the significant pathways. Figure S2. (A-B) Western blot (A) and RT-qPCR (B) analysis of FLI1 expression in NPC cells. (C) Cells were seeded at the density of 200, 400, 800 and 1000 cells for 0Gy, 1Gy, 2Gy and 4Gy IR dose. Colony formation assays were performed and survival fraction curve analysis were employed to assess cell survival at 10-14 days after exposure to indicated IR dose. (D-E) Western blot (D) and RT-qPCR (E) analysis of FLI1 expression in SUNE1 cells with FLI1 overexpression and 6-10B cells with FLI1 knockdown. (F) Colony formation assays and survival fraction curve analysis were employed to assess cell survival at 10-14 days after exposure to indicated IR dose. (G) Annexin V/PI double-staining assays were performed to evaluate the effects of FLI1 on apoptosis 48h after cells treated with or without IR. Data in C, E ,F and G are presented as mean ± SD (n=3). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001; ns, not significant (Student's t-test). Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Figure S3. Western blot of γ-H2AX protein levels in indicated NPC cells with or without IR. Figure S4. (A-B) Western blot (A) and RT-qPCR (B) analysis of TIE1 protein and mRNA level in FLI1 overexpression and knockdown NPC cells. (C) Dual-luciferase reporter assays were used to evaluate TIE1 promoter activity in NPC cells transiently transfected with control vector (VEC), FLI1 overexpression plasmid (FLI1), negative control siRNA (NC) and FLI1-specific siRNA (siFLI1). Figure S5. (A) Western blot analysis of TIE1, PI3K, p-PI3K, AKT, p-AKT (Thr308) and p-AKT (Ser473) in SUNE1 cells with FLI1 overexpression and 6-10B cells with FLI1 knockdown. (B) CNE1-VEC and CNE1-FLI1 cells were treated with IR, a PI3K inhibitor BKM120 (3μM) and an AKT inhibitor MK2206 (3μM). Western blot analysis was performed to detect the protein levels of γ-H2AX.
Two new 1-D and 3-D Wells–Dawson structures assisted by alkali metals
Creators: name: Tian, Ai-Xiang
name: Lin, Xiao-Ling
name: Sun, Na
name: Liu, Yu-Jing
name: Yang, Yang
name: Ying, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two new Wells–Dawson based compounds containing alkali metals, [Ag(H2biim)2]2·[Ag5(H2biim)10Na2(H2O)2(H3/2P2W18O62)2]·12H2O (1) and [Cd(H2biim)2 K(P2W18O62)1/2] (2) (H2biim = 2,2′-biimidazole), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. In 1, two-supporting Wells–Dawson anions are linked by a [Ag(H2biim)2]+ subunit to form a dimer. The adjacent dimers are further connected by Na+ through (POM)O-Na-O(POM) bonds to build a 1-D chain. In 2, adjacent anions are linked by two [Cd2(H2biim)2]4+ subunits and a 1-D chain is formed. Furthermore, the anion in the chain is fused by six K+ ions and a 3-D framework is obtained. The alkali metals exhibit crucial influence on the conversion of dimensionality assisting anions and Ag-H2biim subunits to construct 1-D and 3-D frameworks. The electrochemical and photocatalytic properties of 1 and 2 have been investigated.
University student perceptions of open educational resources
Creators: name: Rolfe, Vivien
name: Hurt, Libor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education

description: This document is an MRes Dissertation by Libor Hurt on student perceptions of open educational resources, and their attitudes toward sharing teaching materials. The dissertation included a student questionnaire and interviews, and focused on a health and life science perspective. The work was presented at several conferences, and elements have been published in academic journals. We wish to share this dissertation for the benefit of the global community.
Significance of baseline FDG-PET/CT scan as a method of staging regional lymph nodes in patients with operable distal oesophageal or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Papaxoinis, George
name: Weaver, Jamie M. J.
name: Khoja, Leila
name: Patrao, Ana
name: Stamatopoulou, Sofia
name: Alchawaf, Alia
name: Owen-Holt, Vikki
name: Germetaki, Theodora
name: Kordatou, Zoe
name: Wasat Mansoor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: The new American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition (AJCC8) staging is the first to describe separate clinical and pathology staging systems, but still has low performance to predict prognosis in patients with oesophageal/gastroesophageal junction (O/GOJ) adenocarcinoma, who are candidates for surgery. Recent studies have demonstrated that O/GOJ cancer patients with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avid regional lymph nodes (RLNs) may have poor prognosis. The aim of our study was to examine whether the baseline assessment of the FDG uptake of RLN improves the prognostic accuracy of the new AJCC8 staging. Patients and methods: This single-centre retrospective study included patients with operable FDG avid O/GOJ adenocarcinoma treated with perioperative chemotherapy. All patients were reclassified according to the new AJCC8 clinical staging. Prognostic factors for time-to-progression (TTP) and overall survival (OS) were explored. Results: Of 430 patients included in the study, 180 (41.9%) had FDG avid RLN at baseline PET/CT scan before starting perioperative chemotherapy. The presence of FDG avid RLN was significantly and independently associated with shorter TTP and OS, especially in clinical stage III patients (p p p Conclusions: We propose that the incorporation of RLN status (by FDG PET/CT scan) into the AJCC8 staging system of O/GOJ adenocarcinoma improves its prognostic accuracy and may also improve treatment stratification.
Synthesis and characterization of mono- and dinuclear aryl palladium(II) complexes: oxidative additions of 1,4-dihalogenated benzene or 4,4′-dibromobiphenyl to Pd(PR3)4
Creators: name: Fu, Hongwei
name: Song, Qunli
name: Li, Jing
name: Zhang, Zilong
name: Li, Xiao
name: Zhan, Hongmei
name: Cheng, Yanxiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Mononuclear palladium(II) complexes 1–12, (C6H4X-4)PdXʹ(PR3)2 (X = I, Br, or Cl; Xʹ = I or Br; R = Ph, Cy, Et, or Me), were synthesized by oxidative addition of 1,4-dihalogenated benzene to Pd(PR3)4; dinuclear palladium(II) complexes 13–15, (Me3P)2XPd(C6H4-1,4)PdXʹ(PMe3)2 (X, Xʹ = I or Br), could be obtained only using trimethylphosphine. Another method to prepare 13–15 is via re-oxidative addition of the corresponding mononuclear palladium(II) complexes and Pd(PMe3)4. Using 4,4′-dibromobiphenyl as the starting material, the mononuclear palladium(II) complexes [C6H4(C6H4Br-4)-4]PdBr(PPh3)2 (16) and [C6H4(C6H4Br-4)-4]PdBr(PCy3)2 (17) with bulky phosphines could be synthesized at relative low temperature, while dinuclear 18, (Cy3P)2BrPd(C6H4C6H4-4,4ʹ)PdBr(PCy3)2, was prepared by bis-oxidative addition at higher temperature. The re-oxidative addition of 16 and Pd(PMe3)4 gave dinuclear 19, (Me3P)2BrPd(C6H4C6H4-4,4ʹ)PdBr(PMe3)2, accompanying phosphine exchange. X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that formation of dinuclear palladium(II) complexes depends on the reaction temperature, phosphine ligands, and bridging groups.
Designing a policy package for the promotion of servicising: A case study of vineyard crop protection in Galicia (Spain)
Creators: name: Á. Pereira
name: A. Carballo-Penela
name: A. Guerra
name: X. Vence
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The servicising approach in vineyard protection is considered a valid alternative to achieve decoupling between the economic and environmental performance of viticulture. In this paper, a policy package is designed to promote the uptake of a servicised model of vineyard protection in an area of smallholding viticulture. In doing so, a specific methodology based on a step by step protocol has been followed that aims to come up with a package that is effective, implementable and socially as well as politically acceptable. The paper concludes on the importance of combining several policy instruments in a policy package to realise the political objective. The proposed viable policy package includes incentives that support the companies’ shift towards offering crop protection solutions, further development of IPM solutions and instruments that encourage farmers to reduce the use of pesticides and collectively hire crop protection services.