cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Challenges in Collaborative Governance for Coastal Restoration: Lessons from the Caernarvon River Diversion in Louisiana
Creators: name: Ko, Jae-Young
name: Day, John W.
name: Wilkins, James G.
name: Jermesha Haywood
name: Lane, Robert R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In an effort to restore deteriorating coastal wetlands in Breton Sound, Louisiana, a diversion of Mississippi River water into the estuarine ecosystem has been operated at Caernarvon, Louisiana, since 1991. The diversion was implemented after a relatively long collaborative planning process beginning in the 1950s. The Caernarvon Interagency Advisory Committee, an official panel of stakeholders, considers scientific aspects of the freshwater inflow and stakeholder inputs in developing an operational plan, which internalizes stakeholder conflicts, while accomplishing goals of restoring the coastal ecosystem. Even though fishery representatives are committee members, local oyster fishers filed lawsuits in federal and state courts from 1994 through 2005, claiming damages to their oyster beds. These lawsuits were initially successful in state courts but were reversed by the Louisiana Supreme Court. The federal suits were unsuccessful. Following these lawsuits, voters in Louisiana in 2000 amended the State Constitution to protect coastal restoration projects against lawsuits reflecting increase in overall statewide support. Increasing scientific knowledge has contributed significantly to diversion operation. For better collaborative governance, efforts to increase common understanding among stakeholders will be needed, and a process to compensate interests of stakeholders suffering from impacts of restoration projects at an earlier stage should be institutionalized.
Drying Kinetics Study of Irregular Fibril Materials in a ‘Differential’ Laboratory Rotary Dryer: Case Study for Cut Tobacco
Creators: name: Li, Qiaoling
name: Li, Yue Feng
name: Zhang, Yingpu
name: Chen, Quoqin
name: Huang, Huizhen
name: Chen, Hexiang
name: Lin, Yan
name: Xiao, Hongli
name: Liao, Zhenkai
name: Che, Liming
name: Xie, Wei
name: Chen, Xiao Dong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Rotary dryers are commonly used in the modern large scale tobacco drying industry that consume huge amounts of energy. In fact, rotary dryers are commonly used in chemical industry in general. It is difficult to investigate the drying behavior at industrial scale. A ‘differential’ laboratory rotary dryer was therefore designed and tested. The large diameter of the industrial dryer was preserved but the width was a section of the industrial dryer. The drying characteristics of cut tobacco from top leaves and bottom leaves with initial moisture contents (22.5 ± 1.0% on the wet basis) were studied in the ‘differential’ dryer at air temperatures of 65, 85, 105, 125 and 145°C, respectively. The results show that increasing drying temperature accelerated the drying process, while the surface temperatures of the cut tobacco samples stayed in the temperature range of 48 ∼ 71°C when their moisture contents were reduced to 12.0 ± 1.0% (wb). This 12.0% (wb) was required by commercial operations. Uniquely, the drying kinetics was captured using the Reaction Engineering Approach (REA). Though different settings were applied, the model can be used to describe all the data well. The unique relationship between the normalized activation energy and the moisture content is approximated which is independent of the drying air temperature and the tobacco origin. The different drying behaviors for the cut tobacco from top leaves and bottom leaves can be attributed to their different equilibrium isotherms. Through controlling the drying time as predicted by REA model, the outlet moisture contents of cut tobacco from top leaves dried at 95°C/RH0.034/320 s and 115°C/RH0.017/250 s were shown to be 12.3% and 11.8% (wb), with the relative deviations of 2.5% and 1.7% respectively, and these were within the industrial permissible range.
A Study on Performance and Challenges of Remittances Inflows in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract Bangladesh witnessed a surge in remittances inflow since 2002, especially as measures had been taken to encourage remitters to send their money through official channels. The multi-faceted benefits generated from remittances include increasing the living standards of recipient households, easing national saving-investment and exports-imports gap, and the building up of foreign exchange reserves. Reaping continuous benefits from remittances depends on addressing two key issues, namely increasing number of remitters, particularly skilled and professionals and maintaining the sustainability of remittances inflow. Though the remittances inflow into Bangladesh is increasing and is proportionate to the growth in world remittance flows, continued increases are not guaranteed. This paper attempts to analyze the present performance of remittances inflows in Bangladesh as well as investigate the challenges in the acceleration of remittances inflows. The paper also suggests coherent policies that can facilitate smooth emigration, ensure sustainable remittance inflow and divert a significant share of received remittances into productive sectors aiming at achieving higher growth, generation of employment, and alleviation of poverty.
Empirical Evidence of International Fisher Effect in Bangladesh with India and China
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description:  Abstract This paper is an attempt to examine the empirical evidence of International Fisher Effect (IFE) between Bangladesh and its two other major trading partners, China and India. The IFE uses interest rate differentials to explain why exchange rates change over time. A time series approach is considered to trace the relationship between nominal interest rates and exchange rates in these countries. The estimated value, by applying OLS, is used to determine the casual relationship between interest rates and exchange rates for quarterly data from 4th Quarter, 1995 to the 2nd Quarter, 2008. The empirical results suggest that there is a little correlation between exchange rates and interest rates differential for Bangladesh with China and Bangladesh with India, and the relationship between the variables is also not noteworthy for Bangladesh. Further, the trends advocate that the forecasting of exchange rates with the hypothesis of IFE is not realistic for these countries.
A pillar-layered Cd(II) metal-organic framework for selective detection of organic explosives
Creators: name: Yang, Qi
name: Wang, Bin
name: Sheng, Shu-Nan
name: Xian, Hong-Shi
name: Xie, Ya-Bo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The detection of explosives is crucial for homeland security, environmental cleaning, and military issues. As a new class of porous materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising platforms for the detection of organic explosives. In this work, a new pillar-layered Cd(II) MOF, [CdL0.5dpe0.5]·2H2O (BUT-202, H4L = 4,8-disulfonaphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, dpe = 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene), was synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, infrared spectroscopy, and elemental analysis. BUT-202 has good fluorescent properties, which can be selectively quenched by trace amounts of 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP) in DMF with low detection limit of 0.2 μM.
An Examination of Local Non-Structured Institutional Impact on Microentrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract The role of entrepreneurship development has received intense attention for a long time because of its multidimensional contribution to socioeconomic development. Micro-entrepreneurship, especially, is considered as a bridge for economic and social development both in micro and macro level for high poverty rate countries, such as Bangladesh. Structured institutions, who are working to develop micro-entrepreneurship, provide the financial, technical and conceptual supports. But due to lack of proper support of local non-structured institutions, development of micro-entrepreneurship in Bangladesh has not yet been able to reach its expected level. In this context, many crucial local socio-economic-cultural elements need to be considered in Bangladesh. Structured local institutions administered by local government and non-government bodies have received attention regarding their role in assisting micro-entrepreneurship, but there are numerous and varied non-structured institutions that influence the lives of local people- who are existing and potential entrepreneurs. An example of non-structured institutions is “Shalish” – a body of opinion leaders who act as guardians of the village community, and can dictate what is right and wrong, what should be done, resolve conflicts etc. Another example is “Local religious leaders” who are also significantly powerful in terms of social decisions and public sentiment. As a result, area-specific cultural, social and religious factors strongly influence local people, and these factors are promoted and manipulated by these non-structured institutions, and can act as barriers to entrepreneurial development. Therefore, to develop and ultimately foster sustainable micro-entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, focus should be made on both structured and non-structured institutional factors, and also on cooperation among these institutions.
The FarFish Data Base
Creators: name: Lentin, Jamie
name: Rincón Hidalgo, Margarita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Fisheries management
CFP - Common Fisheries Policy
Decision Support Network
Data Base

description: One of many products of the FarFish project is the FarFish Data Base (FFDB), which is intended to make the data collected within the various tasks within the project available for project partners in an operational way. The FFDB is a repository for vide range of data, which allows users to easily upload new data and make queries e.g. for input to visualisation- and decision support tools developed in other tasks in the project. The FFDB is at present available for project partners but will be open access on the FarFish webpage soon and towards the end of the project the relevant datasets will be uploaded from FFDB to OpenAIRE; the data repository of the H2020 Open Research Data Pilot.
 A data input protocol for the FFDB (D6.1) was developed within the first four months of the FarFish project. The work on the development of the FFDB has continued since then and the core infrastructure for data collection and on-line visualisation tools was available by the end of the first year of the project (D6.2). This document describes the progress that has been made since then and the current state of the suite of tools developed (FFDB Upload, FarFish DLMtool, FarFish DLMgui, FarFish SPiCtgui and FarFish Maps) in turn, as well as any ancillary work.
 The report does as well include a discussion on the work ahead in developing the FFDB further and utilising it in different tasks for the reminder of the FarFish project.
Development Issues, Policies and Actions Selected Recent Works on Malaysia and Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Development is a Cultural and Ethical Construct and a model of material, moral and total wellbeing. Well-being of mankind is the sole purpose of the entire creation of Allah the Lord Almighty (Al-Quran: 14:32-33; 31:20). This divine scheme is a comprehensive welfare plan. It is a project of material, intellectual and spiritual betterment, a project of welfare here and the hereafter. It is a plan for world peace. However, it is left for mankind to actualize it through a strategy of balanced commitment to spiritual and worldly aspects of life. Wellbeing is more of a cultural and, thus, controversial phenomenon along the line of cultural, ideological and religious differences in measuring what is good and desirable, and bad and undesirable. The word ‘development’ is a most widely and frequently used term to mean many things to many individuals, societies, and peoples. It is perceived, meant, and described differently under different contexts by different people of different professional, economic, social, and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, both conceptually and operationally it is a multidimensional matter. In a simplistic manner, it can be described as improvement in the condition and level of living both materially and spiritually. It considers economic, social, institutional, cultural, and religious aspects of life as closely interrelated and inseparable elements of development. Each of these various aspects unilaterally is only a necessary but not sufficient condition of development. Economic development is only one important aspect of development. The non-economic and nonmaterial aspects are its other equally important components. Development therefore refers to simultaneously a material, moral, and spiritual advancement; it is a total wellbeing concept. In that sense it is equally a concern of industrialized rich nations where economic and material advancement have been attained, but spiritual and moral development are seriously lacking. From the perspective of Sen’s capabilities approach and five opportunities in social choice theory, development really refers to a life we want to lead and the freedom we want to enjoy. And similarly, economic development refers to, as a former minister of Uganda in mid-1970s stressed, a means towards building the kind of society we want to build. Therefore, it is seen ultimately rooted to values and ethics and, thus, fundamentally an ethical and cultural construct.
Socioeconomic Study of Climate Change: An Assessment of Agriculture and Livelihood Sustainability on Paddy Farming in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Agriculture is vitally important for world food security was aptly realized after the global food crisis in 2008. As a result, it is now gaining renewed attention of the pundits, governments, and the generality of public. The agricultural sector has gone through evolution over the past decades when many new ideas were implemented and many new technologies were introduced. Producing more food for higher demand had become a continuous challenge around the globe. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was assumed that the growth of agricultural production would be unable to meet the world demand, but in the mid 1970s world food production grew rapidly by using newly introduced farming methods under Green Revolution paradigm. Since the late 1980s, however, high food production raised new threat for environment as well as agriculture due to depletion of environmental and natural resources and land degradation (United Nations 1997). Considering these facts, the concept of sustainable agricultural development and international food security gained priority (Lancker and Nijkamp 2000; Nijkamp 1999).
title: 02_1839
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Do Climate Changes Lead to Income Inequality? Empirical Study on the Farming Community in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Abstract
 Changes in climatic factors have different impacts on different social groups. But the farmers are considered to be the most vulnerable group because of their direct and indirect dependency on climatic factors. This study aims to understand the nature of socioeconomic impacts of climatic changes on the farmers in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was conducted on a sample of 198 paddy farmers in the Integrated Agricultural Development Area at North-West Selangor of Malaysia in 2009. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, ordinal scale and percentile. The study reveals that climatic changes have adverse impacts on agricultural productivity, profitability, income equality, employment, farmer’s health, and government subsidy policy. The Kuznets ratio and Gini coefficient indicate that there is highly unequal distribution of income. Climatic changes are contributing to the widening of this income gap, because poor farmers are affected more by the adverse effects of climatic changes. The current government subsidy policy is not found appropriate and adequate to support and encourage the farmers to adequately adapt to the climatic changes and to reduce the inequality among the farming community. The paper ends up with recommending some policy guidelines to counter adverse effects of climate change on income of paddy farmers in Malaysia.
Review on how European fleet international- and SFPA water fisheries are managed and conducted
Creators: name: Kvalvik, Ingrid
name: Svorken, Marianne
name: Arias-Hansen, Juliana
name: Vidal, Duarte F.
name: Nilsen, Kåre Nolde
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: SFPA - Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements
CFP - Common Fisheries Policy
Fisheries management
Tuna value chain
Stock assessment
Transparency

description: This report contains a journal manuscript analysing the development in four bilateral fisheries access agreements that the EU has made with non-member coastal states in terms of monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS). The four bilateral fisheries access agreements, today termed Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs) are: the agreement with Capo Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, and the Seychelles. The study analyses the changes in the access agreements over time and how the reforms in the CFP (in 1992, 2002 and 2013) and accompanying changes in regulations addressing the external dimension of the EU fleet, are enshrined in the fisheries access agreements. In addition, some considerations are made on how implementation challenges are reflected in the development of the agreements. The focus is on the formal development of the agreements and how new MCS requirements are introduced and operationalized. The study finds a clear strengthening in the MCS provisions in the EU access agreements over time. The provisions generally follow the development in the CFP and accompanying implementing regulations, in some cases also preceding the enshrinement in EU regulations. At the same time, the analysis shows that even though there is a positive development in the MSC requirements in the agreements, the implementation of new requirements can be slow. The study concludes that on the one hand, this gradual and slow implementation might be a viable approach and a way for the EU to be able to implement its external fisheries policy, in particular when accompanied with capacity building initiatives and increased cooperation. On the other hand, if the MCS requirements are not implemented, and are not adjusted to the actual situation, they may end up as paper-regulations which over time will undermine the credibility of the access agreements.
Methylation of TMEM176A is an independent prognostic marker and is involved in human colorectal cancer development
Creators: name: Gao, Dan
name: Han, Yingjie
name: Yang, Yang
name: G. Herman, James
name: Linghu, Enqiang
name: Zhan, Qimin
name: Fuks, François
name: John Lu, Zhi
name: Guo, Mingzhou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignancy and the fourth most common cause of cancer related death worldwide. This study was designed to find tumor suppressors involved in CRC development by performing RNA-seq. Eight CRC cell lines and 130 cases of primary CRC samples were used. RNA-seq, methylation-specific PCR (MSP), flow cytometry, transwell assays, and a xenograft mouse model were used. Reduction of TMEM176A expression was confirmed in human CRC cells by RNA-seq. TMEM176A was expressed in LS180 and SW620 cells, loss of TMEM176A expression was observed in LOVO, HCT116, RKO, and DLD1 cells, and reduced TMEM176A expression was found in HT29 and SW480 cells. Unmethylation of the TMEM176A promoter was found in LS180 and SW620 cells, whereas complete methylation was found in LOVO, HCT116, RKO, and DLD1 cells, and partial methylation was found in HT29 and SW480 cells. Promoter region methylation correlated with loss of/reduced expression of TMEM176A. Re-expression of TMEM176A was induced by 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine. TMEM176A was methylated in 50.77% of primary colorectal cancers. Methylation of TMEM176A was associated with tumor metastasis (P<0.05) and was an independent prognostic factor for 5-year overall survival (OS) according to Cox proportional hazards model analysis (P<0.05). TMEM176A induced apoptosis and inhibited cell migration and invasion in CRC cells. TMEM176A suppressed CRC cell growth both in vitro and in vivo. Our results suggest that expression of TMEM176A is regulated by promoter region methylation. TMEM176A methylation is an independent prognostic marker for 5-year OS in CRC, and may act as a tumor suppressor in CRC.
From Snyder space-times to doubly $κ$-dependent Yang quantum phase spaces and their generalizations
Creators: name: Lukierski, Jerzy
name: Meljanac, Stjepan
name: Mignemi, Salvatore
name: Pachoł, Anna
name: Woronowicz, Mariusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the doubly $κ$-dependent Yang quantum phase space which describes the generalization of $D = 4$ Yang model. We postulate that such model is covariant under the generalized Born map, what permits to derive this new model from the earlier proposed $κ$-Snyder model. Our model of $D=4$ relativistic Yang quantum phase space depends on five deformation parameters which form two Born map-related dimensionful pairs: $(M,R)$ specifying the standard Yang model and $(κ,\tildeκ)$ characterizing the Born-dual $κ$-dependence of quantum space-time and quantum fourmomenta sectors; fifth parameter $ρ$ is dimensionless and Born-selfdual. In the last section, we propose the Kaluza-Klein generalization of $D=4$ Yang model and the new quantum Yang models described algebraically by quantum-deformed $\hat{o}(1,5)$ algebras.
description: 10 pages; published version
Fragmentation Study of Limonoids from Turraae pubescens by Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry
Creators: name: Xu, Xu
name: Cai, Tian
name: Xie, Ke-Xin
name: Hou, Xue
name: Xu, Xiao-Ying
name: Jiang, Yan
name: Wu, Zhi-Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Nine representative limonoids isolated from Turraae pubescens were investigated by electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry in positive ion mode. Although the structures of these compounds are similar, the corresponding fragmentation patterns and mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) spectra are clearly different. For Turrapubin A–C, product ions can be detected in both low and high mass ranges. A McLafferty-type rearrangement is the only way for the cleavage of C9–C10. For 11-epi-toonacilin, Turrapubin E, Turraflorin A, 11-epi-23-hydroxytoonacilide, Turrapubin H and 11-epi-21-hydroxytoonacilide, the cleavage of C9–C10 goes through two different ways, including McLafferty-type rearrangement and homolytic cleavage. The relative abundances of product ions from McLafferty-type rearrangement for 11-epi-toonacilin, 11-epi-23-hydroxytoonacilide, and Turrapubin H are high, while those for Turrapubin E, Turraflorin A, and 11-epi-21-hydroxytoonacilide are low. A pair of epimers was distinguished unambiguously by MS/MS spectra. It was found that the substituent group at C-1, hydroxy group, O atom linked to C-14 and C-15, and the oxygenated furan ring were the important factors leading to the differences of their MS/MS spectra.
Inside Story of Microcredit in Bangladesh An Empirical Investigation on the Role and Productivity
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The concept of microfinance, however, is not new. Formal credit and savings institutions for the poor, such as cooperatives, have also been around for centuries, serving those whom Professor Yunus calls the “unbanked”, meaning those neglected by commercial banks. One of the earlier and longer-lived micro credit organisations providing small loans to rural poor with no collateral was the Irish Loan Fund system, initiated in the early 1700s by the Irish nationalist Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels. Its principal purpose was to give small loans with interest for short periods. By the 1840s, Swift's idea had become a widespread institution of about 300 funds all over Ireland. At their peak, they were making loans to 20% of all Irish households annually.
Fragmentation Study of Limonoids from Turraae pubescens by Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
Creators: name: Xu, Xu
name: Cai, Tian
name: Xie, Ke-Xin
name: Hou, Xue
name: Xu, Xiao-Ying
name: Jiang, Yan
name: Wu, Zhi-Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Nine representative limonoids isolated from Turraae pubescens were investigated by electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-QTOF-MS/MS) in positive-ion mode. Although the structures of these compounds are similar, the corresponding fragmentation patterns and MS/MS spectra are clearly different. For Turrapubin A-C, product ions can be detected in both low and high mass range. A McLafferty-type rearrangement is the only way for the cleavage of C9-C10. For 11-epi-toonacilin, Turrapubin E, Turraflorin A, 11-epi-23-hydroxytoonacilide, Turrapubin H and 11-epi-21-hydroxytoonacilide, the cleavage of C9-C10 goes through two different ways, including McLafferty-type rearrangement and homolytic cleavage. The relative abundances of product ions from McLafferty-type rearrangement for 11-epi-toonacilin, 11-epi-23-hydroxytoonacilide and Turrapubin H are high, while those for Turrapubin E, Turraflorin A and 11-epi-21-hydroxytoonacilide are low. A pair of epimers was distinguished unambiguously by MS/MS spectra. It was found that the substituent group at C-1, hydroxy group, O atom linked to C-14 and C-15, and the oxygenated furan ring, were the important factors leading to the differences of their MS/MS spectra.
Productivity and Efficiency Challenges of Microcredit Program in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: After more than two decades of hype, microfinance has come under serious scrutiny. The recent debacle and crisis in India seem to have given some credence to the critics of the microfinance movement. As big commercial banks flocked to the sector in lure of “sure profits”, such microfinance institutions as Compartamos in Mexico and SKS in India have gone public, providing windfall profits for their founders with little if any benefit for their borrowers, Professor Yunus wrote sombrely in a New York Times op-ed, “I never imagined that one day microcredit would give rise to its own breed of loan sharks. But it has.” “Loan sharks” or not, the microfinance institutions have been criticised for charging exorbitant interest rates. Critics wondered how micro businesses could yield high enough returns to pay such excessive interest rates. They also pointed out the practice of multiple loans – new loans to pay the old ones – creating a “debt-trap”. There also has been disappointing rate of graduation – failure to move upward from micro to meso businesses. The advocates of the microfinance movement claim that the rates of return from microenterprises are indeed high. One critical point in the debate is whether the borrowers are properly taking into account their own wages as owner operators in calculating profit or the rate of return. If not, then the entire surplus over and above the cost of running the business can be mistakenly regarded as profit or returns to capital. This can be the most plausible explanation for the high returns to microenterprises, such as from selling milk or eggs; but this essentially means that free labour accrues to capital.
Opportunities and constraints: phenomenological insights into students’ experiences of learning through English-medium instruction (EMI) in Bangladeshi higher education
Creators: name: Rahnuma, Naureen
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: English medium instruction (EMI) is analogous to internationalisation in higher education (HE) today. The present study contributes to a growing body of literature in EMI by focusing on Bangladeshi students’ beliefs and a sociocultural perspective of their identity in a private university in Bangladesh. In examining how Bangladeshi HE students conceptualise learning using English as a second language (ESL), this study employs a qualitative inquiry to explore complex social phenomena, as experienced by students, for a more profound and meaningful understanding. As the current study aims to describe experiences, events, processes or culture from the perspective of HE students at a private university, a hermeneutic phenomenological approach was taken to interpret the students’ overlapping version of reality. The data consisted of eighteen student interviews, six teacher interviews, twenty-one documents, and eight sets of field notes. Findings confirmed that students' view of EMI is construed by the perceived benefits of English in providing enhanced job prospects by creating a global workforce. The findings have important implications for developing explicit language-in-education policies at Bangladeshi higher education institutions (HEIs) conducive to acquiring bilingual language competence. It also has implications for ELT, EAP practitioners, and content teachers to advance the internationalisation agenda in HEIs through the adoption and implementation of EMI through translanguaging practices.
Microentrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh: Achievements and Shortcomings
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160505 Economic Development Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: ABSTRACT  Micro-entrepreneurial activities play a pivotal role in rural economic development in the third world countries. As a result, in Bangladesh poverty alleviation through rural centric micro-entrepreneurship development has been focused for more than thirty five years. Over 600 registered and thousands unregistered microcredit organizations including globally prominent institutions like Grameen Bank, BRAC, ASA, BARD, ActionAid, CARE etc. are operating here with their own reputed models. However, the micro-entrepreneurship development and its achievements in the country are still lagging behind a satisfactory level due to a number of prevailing factors. This book examines its major achievements and shortcomings from the perspectives of the structured institutions, non-structured institutions, and non-institutional factors, and government’s policy guidelines influencing development of micro-entrepreneurship, and makes recommendations for overcoming the shortcomings.
Cyclic stretch-induced the cytoskeleton rearrangement and gene expression of cytoskeletal regulators in human periodontal ligament cells
Creators: name: Wu, Yaqin
name: Zhuang, Jiabao
name: Zhao, Dan
name: Zhang, Fuqiang
name: Ma, Jiayin
name: Xu, Chun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: This study aimed to explore the mechanism of the stretch-induced cell realignment and cytoskeletal rearrangement by identifying several mechanoresponsive genes related to cytoskeletal regulators in human PDL cells. Material and methods: After the cells were stretched by 1, 10 and 20% strains for 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 12 or 24 h, the changes of the morphology and content of microfilaments were recorded and calculated. Meanwhile, the expression of 84 key genes encoding cytoskeletal regulators after 6 and 24 h stretches with 20% strain was detected by using real-time PCR array. Western blot was applied to identify the protein expression level of several cytoskeletal regulators encoded by these differentially expressed genes. Results: The confocal fluorescent staining results confirmed that stretch-induced realignment of cells and rearrangement of microfilaments. Among the 84 genes screened, one gene was up-regulated while two genes were down-regulated after 6 h stretch. Meanwhile, three genes were up-regulated while two genes were down-regulated after 24 h stretch. These genes displaying differential expression included genes regulating polymerization/depolymerization of microfilaments (CDC42EP2, FNBP1L, NCK2, PIKFYVE, WASL), polymerization/depolymerization of microtubules (STMN1), interacting between microfilaments and microtubules (MACF1), as well as a phosphatase (PPP1R12B). Among the proteins encoded by these genes, the protein expression level of Cdc42 effector protein-2 (encoded by CDC42EP2) and Stathmin-1 (encoded by STMN1) was down-regulated, while the protein expression level of N-WASP (encoded by WASL) was up-regulated. Conclusion: The present study confirmed the cyclic stretch-induced cellular realignment and rearrangement of microfilaments in the human PDL cells and indicated several force-sensitive genes with regard to cytoskeletal regulators.
Innovation Risk and Sustainable Competitive Advantages: Empirical Assessment of Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract  This study attempts to assess the present level of innovation status among Malaysian Government-Linked Companies (GLCs). A set of questionnaire was distributed among 134 managers and executives from these GLCs to collect the primary data for this study. The perspectives of executives were collected based on ten factors of innovation practices utilizing the five-point Likert scales. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data while the reliability and validity were tested using the Cronbach’s alpha test and the Skewness and Kurtosis test, respectively. Factor analysis was used to test the data consistency. The findings revealed the 82.8% of the respondents were agreeable to their firms’ emphasis on the factors of innovation. However, it was found that GLCs that were owned by the federal government placed more focus on innovation compared to the GLCs that were state-owned. This study reveals that overall the Malaysian GLCs should enhance their innovation practices by placing more focus on being engaged in the adoption of innovative designs at work, the reengineering of business processes, innovative pricing, market distribution and promotional methods, enhancing customer satisfaction by importing innovative warranty and maintenance systems, as well as by importing innovative claim clearing processes and methods, and the adoption of innovative order management and follow-up systems.
Replication of a genome-wide association study on essential hypertension in Mongolians
Creators: name: Li, Hongmei
name: Wu, Tong
name: Wang, Shaoqing
name: Li, Xueyan
name: Qiu, Yongqiang
name: Lin, Chunrong
name: Qiu, Changchun
name: Deng, Zhihui
name: Zhou, Li
name: Zhang, Xiaojie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Replication of genome-wide significant association SNPs in independent populations is an essential approach for identifying gene–disease relationships. Therefore, we sought to investigate the top 21 SNPs (rs10507454, rs11897156, rs11897991, rs12325203, rs12541835, rs13395322, rs1525035, rs16936892, rs17010027, rs17045859, rs17136827, rs1866525, rs2045590, rs4547758, rs4655688, rs7107438, rs761353, rs8127139, rs9312305, rs9407874 and rs9865108) from a genome-wide association study of essential hypertension in Mongolians. This was a community-based case-control study involving 428 hypertensives and 638 normotensives from Kerqinzuoyihou Banner,Tongliao, Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. Genotyping was conducted with Sequenom MassArray (®) SNP detection technology. Overall, there were no significant differences in the genotype distributions and allele frequencies between the cases and controls. There was a significant difference between the allele frequencies at locus rs17010027 in cases (high systolic blood pressure) and controls in female (p = .036). There were significant differences in the distribution of genotypes and the allele frequencies at locus rs10507454 between cases (high diastolic blood pressure) and controls (p = .019 and p = .022, respectively) especially in male (p = .009 and p = .011, respectively). rs17010027 is associated with high systolic blood pressure in female, and rs10507454 is associated with high diastolic blood pressure especially in male of this Mongolian population.
Subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for translation invariant systems
Creators: name: Huang, Zhiqiang
name: Guo, Xiao-Kan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for translation invariant quantum spin systems has been proved recently by using random matrices. In this paper, we study the subsystem version of eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for translation invariant quantum systems without referring to random matrices. We first find a relation between the quantum variance and the Belavkin-Staszewski relative entropy. Then, by showing the small upper bounds on the quantum variance and the Belavkin-Staszewski relative entropy, we prove the subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for translation invariant quantum systems with an algebraic speed of convergence in an elementary way. The proof holds for most of the translation invariant quantum lattice models with exponential or algebraic decays of correlations.
description: 9 pages
title: Persistence of Perceived Effects of Executive Coaching on Managers
title: A Grounded Theory Exploration
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: McInerney, Éamon
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Coaching
Management
LONG-TERM

description: Executive coaching (EC) outcome studies generally return positive findings. Effects include better work performance, greater self-efficacy and improved well-being. Most primary studies address only short-term effects of EC. Reliance on short-term outcome measures, however, neglects effects emergent after a latency period as well as long-term effects. The present study used the experience of 40 managers who received EC at different times in their careers, ranging from 2-15 years prior to data collection. Participants were told that the research concerned all aspects of their development as managers; the specific interest in EC was not divulged in order to minimise potential bias for or against coaching. Data were analysed using the methods of grounded theory, with the aim of generating theory to explain ‘what’s happening in the data’.
Novel urushiol derivatives as HDAC8 inhibitors: rational design, virtual screening, molecular docking and molecular dynamics studies
Creators: name: Zhou, Hao
name: Wang, Chengzhang
name: Deng, Tao
name: Tao, Ran
name: Li, Wenjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Three series of novel urushiol derivatives were designed by introducing a hydroxamic acid moiety into the tail of an alkyl side chain and substituents with differing electronic properties or steric bulk onto the benzene ring and alkyl side chain. The compounds’ binding affinity toward HDAC8 was screened by Glide docking. The highest-scoring compounds were processed further with molecular docking, MD simulations, and binding free energy studies to analyze the binding modes and mechanisms. Ten compounds had Glide scores of −8.2 to −10.2, which revealed that introducing hydroxy, carbonyl, amino, or methyl ether groups into the alkyl side chain or addition of –F, –Cl, sulfonamide, benzamido, amino, or hydroxy substituents on the benzene ring could significantly increase binding affinity. Molecular docking studies revealed that zinc ion coordination, hydrogen bonding, and hydrophobic interactions contributed to the high calculated binding affinities of these compounds toward HDAC8. MD simulations and binding free energy studies showed that all complexes possessed good stability, as characterized by low RMSDs, low RMSFs of residues, moderate hydrogen bonding and zinc ion coordination and low values of binding free energies. Hie147, Tyr121, Phe175, Hip110, Phe119, Tyr273, Lys21, Gly118, Gln230, Leu122, Gly269, and Gly107 contributed favorably to the binding; and Van der Waals and electrostatic interactions provided major contributions to the stability of these complexes. These results show the potential of urushiol derivatives as HDAC8 binding lead compounds, which have great therapeutic potential in the treatment of various malignancies, neurological disorders, and human parasitic diseases.
Liquid crystalline glycosteroids and acyl steroid glycosides (ASG)
Creators: name: Yang, Zonglong
name: Xu, Rui
name: Ali-Rachedi, Fahima
name: Chambert, Stéphane
name: Xavier, Nuno M.
name: Soulère, Laurent
name: Ahmar, Mohammed
name: Mackenzie, Grahame
name: Davis, Edward J.
name: Goodby, John W.
name: Cowling, Stephen J.
name: Queneau, Yves
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biochemistry
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: As part of our studies on glycolipidic liquid crystals, we have investigated some molecules comprising a steroid moiety. These systems can exhibit several types of structures depending on their polarity pattern based on the number of polar and non-polar moieties and their resulting molecular shape. Therefore, to aid describing such systems, we have proposed a specific classification based on this polarity pattern. Many compounds in this family are natural products, which possess important biological properties. Some of the compounds have bolaphilic structures, with both a steroid and a fatty alkyl chain attached to the carbohydrate moiety, such as either the β-galactoside BbGL-1 or the α-glucoside α-CAG that are found in the membranes of the pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi and Helicobacter pylori, respectively. In this account, after a brief introduction on liquid crystalline glycolipids, we focus on carbohydrate–steroid hybrids, summarising our previous work on glycosteroids prepared by the CMGL-synthon strategy, and reporting our preliminary results on the thermotropic behaviour of acyl steroid glycosides (ASG), namely cholesteryl 6-O-acyl-β-gluco- and -galacto-pyranosides.