cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Labor Migration and Commodity Production in Africa: Global Entanglements
Creators: name: Bastos, Felipe
name: Duymus, Kerem
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: This introductory article presents the objectives, scope and contents of the Special Issue titled Labor Migration and Commodity Production in Africa: Global Entanglements. By congregating a diverse team of scholars from Brazil, Turkey, Germany, France, the United States, and Cameroon, all at different stages of their careers, this Special Issue seeks to build upon current trends in the fields of Global and African History to expand our current understanding of the centrality of African subjects in the making of the contemporary, densely globalized yet deeply unequal world. This introduction sets the theoretical framework that guided our call for papers, summarizes the key findings of each article, and situate their individual contributions within the topics related to the agency of African subjects in the creation of increasingly interconnected societies. We argue that the articles in this Special Issue offer a path to further strengthen and expand both fields of African and Global History by incorporating the analysis of understudied sources from diverse linguistic backgrounds, such as Arabic, Turkish, Portuguese and German, as well as legal documents produced by contemporary African states.
Observational bifurcation of Wyrtki Jets and its influence on the salinity balance in the eastern Indian Ocean
Creators: name: WANG, Jing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
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
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The eastward-propagation phenomenon from GPS-tracking drifters is characterized by strong Wyrtki Jets (WJs), with a maximum velocity of over 1.3 m s−1. Based on data gathered during a 2014 spring sea cruise in the Indian Ocean, the trajectories show the WJs bifurcate at the equator near the eastern boundary and flow northward and southward in two narrow strong currents. Surface currents reverse and flow westward in the east of the bifurcation longitude. In addition, Aquarius satellite data show the high-salinity water flows eastward from the western Indian Ocean, associated with WJs. Salinity budget analyses in the mixed layer using salinity data from Argo and currents data from OSCAR indicate that the WJs do indeed transport the high-salinity water eastward at the equator, and WJs bifurcation transports high-salinity water away from the equator and suppresses the Bay of Bengal and Java coast from freshening. Therefore, the WJs and WJs bifurcation play an important role in maintaining the salinity balance in the eastern Indian Ocean.
Contribution of intraseasonal oscillation to long-duration summer precipitation events over southern China
Creators: name: LIU, Ge
name: Ren-Guang WU
name: WANG, Hui-Mei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
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
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Precipitation events spanning multiple days may have consequences different from those limited to a single day. In the present paper, the authors analyze circulation anomalies and precursory signals associated with long-duration (over 14 days) summer precipitation events over southern China. The results show that the over-14-day precipitation events are induced by an anomalous lower-tropospheric (850-hPa) cyclone over the South China Sea (SCS) and southern China. The anomalous westerly winds to the south of the anomalous cyclone can be traced to north of New Guinea 30 days before. To the north of anomalous westerly winds, anomalous easterly winds appear later. The anomalous westerly and easterly winds form a cyclonic anomaly, moving northward and slightly westward during the following days and eventually controlling the SCS and southern China. The northward movement of anomalous westerly and easterly winds can also be found in the 30–60-day filtered wind field. This implies that the northward propagating 30–60-day intraseasonal oscillation from the equatorial western Pacific has an important contribution to over-14-day precipitation events over southern China.
The historical significance of the forges in the Ã¢â‚¬ËœOld SmithyÃ¢â‚¬Â , South Street, St Neots
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: K100 - Architecture
V320 - Social history
V321 - Local history
V400 - Archaeology

description: The historical significance of the forges in the Ã¢â‚¬ËœOld SmithyÃ¢â‚¬Â , South Street, St Neots for Crestel Partnerships Ltd
Delomerista pfankuchi Brauns 1905
Creators: name: Varga, O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Delomerista
Delomerista pfankuchi

description: Delomerista pfankuchi Brauns, 1905 * (figs 1, 4, 6) Material. Ukraine: IF: Mochary, sweeping, 21.05.2011, 1 ♀, 31.05.2011 2 ♀, 19.07.2011, 1 ♀, 1.05.2012, 1 Ơ, 29.05.2012, 1 ♀, 10.06.2012, 1 ♀, 24.07.2012, 1 ♀, 4.06.2013, 1 ♀, 18.08.2013, 1 ♀, TT, 15– 31.08.2014, 1 Ơ, MT, 8– 30.06.2015, 1 ♀; Dibrova, sweeping, 23.06.2011, 1 ♀, 2.06.2012, 1 ♀, 6.06.2013, 3 ♀, 18.06.2013, 2 ♀; Zhbyr, TT, 14.08– 16.09.2013, 1 ♀; Gorgany, m. Syvulya, 12–13 km SW of Stara Guta, 48.531433 N, 24.132609 E, 1425 m, subalpine zone, sweeping, 14.07.2012, 1 ♀; ZAK: Kvasy, MT, 24.06– 14.07.2013, 1 ♀, TT, 11– 26.05.2014, 1 ♀, TT, 26.05– 9.06.2014, 1 ♀, TT, 27.06– 13.07.2014, 2 ♀, TT, 13– 29.07.2014, 3 ♀, TT, 29.07– 15.08.2014, 1 ♀, TT, 15– 31.08.2014, 1 Ơ (Varga); Chornogora, sweeping, 5.08.1994, 1 ♀ (Kotenko) (ZISK). Diagnosis. This species is similar to D. novita, but both sexes have distinctly and closely punctate-reticulate metasoma (fig. 1, 4). Flight period in Carpathians. May to September (1.05–16.09). Remarks. The presence of two yellow spots below antennal sockets in females is variable.
description: Published as part of Varga, O., 2018, A Review Of The Tribe Delomeristini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) In The Ukrainian Carpathians, pp. 235-240 in Vestnik Zoologii 52 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0024, http://zenodo.org/record/6454724
INSON FALSAFASINING YOSHLAR MA'NAVIYATIGA TA'SIRI (FALSAFAVIY ANTROPOLOGIYA)
Creators: name: Jovliyeva, Sultonposhsha
name: Imomqulova, Madina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada inson falsafasi va falsafiy antropologiya haqida so‘z yuritiladi. Inson falsafasi, insonning mavjudligi, mohiyati, maqsadi va uning dunyo bilan munosabati haqidagi asosiy savollarni o‘rganadi. Bu yo‘nalish nafaqat insonning biologik jihatlarini, balki uning ma'naviy, axloqiy va intellektual tomonlarini ham tahlil qilinadi.
Immune-tolerant elastin-like polypeptides (iTEPs) and their application as CTL vaccine carriers
Creators: name: S. Cho
name: S. Dong
name: K. N. Parent
name: M. Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) vaccine carriers are known to enhance the efficacy of vaccines, but a search for more effective carriers is warranted. Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) have been examined for many medical applications but not as CTL vaccine carriers. Purpose: We aimed to create immune tolerant ELPs using a new polypeptide engineering practice and create CTL vaccine carriers using the ELPs. Results: Four sets of novel ELPs, termed immune-tolerant elastin-like polypeptide (iTEP) were generated according to the principles dictating humoral immunogenicity of polypeptides and phase transition property of ELPs. The iTEPs were non-immunogenic in mice. Their phase transition feature was confirmed through a turbidity assay. An iTEP nanoparticle (NP) was assembled from an amphiphilic iTEP copolymer plus a CTL peptide vaccine, SIINFEKL. The NP facilitated the presentation of the vaccine by dendritic cells (DCs) and enhanced vaccine-induced CTL responses. Discussion: A new ELP design and development practice was established. The non-canonical motif and the immune tolerant nature of the iTEPs broaden our insights about ELPs. ELPs, for the first time, were successfully used as carriers for CTL vaccines. Conclusion: It is feasible to concurrently engineer both immune-tolerant and functional peptide materials. ELPs are a promising type of CTL vaccine carriers.
reytan1925g.pdf
Creators: name: Flatau, Piotr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Drama
subject: History
subject: 160502 Arts and Cultural Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: An episode of classical play performance of Euripides in the Polish prewar lyceum is discussed in the context of changing social conditions after the I World War. Establishment of the “Moral Welfare Council” of parental associations and educators and their role in supporting high culture and classical dramas to counteract real or imaginary moral problems of the era are highlighted . The discussion centers on the Reytan Lyceum, one of the oldest Warsaw’s high schools.
Figure S4 from The influence of wing morphology upon the dispersal, geographical distributions and diversification of the Corvides (Aves; Passeriformes)
Creators: name: Kennedy, Jonathan D.
name: Borregaard, Michael K.
name: Jønsson, Knud A.
name: Marki, Petter Z.
name: Fjeldså, Jon
name: Rahbek, Carsten
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: New species are sometimes known to arise as a consequence of the dispersal and establishment of populations in new areas. It has nevertheless been difficult to demonstrate an empirical link between rates of dispersal and diversification, partly because dispersal abilities are challenging to quantify. Here, using wing morphology as a proxy for dispersal ability, we assess this relationship among the global radiation of corvoid birds. We found that species distributions are associated with wing shape. Widespread species (occurring on both islands and continents), and those that are migratory, exhibit wing morphologies better adapted to long-distance flight compared with sedentary continental or insular forms. Habitat preferences also strongly predict wing form, with species that occur in canopies and/or areas of sparse vegetation possessing dispersive morphologies. By contrast, we found no significant differences in diversification rates among either the migratory or habitat classifications, but species distributed in island settings diversify at higher rates than those found on continents. This latter finding may reflect the elevated dispersal capabilities of widespread taxa, facilitating the radiation of these lineages across insular areas. However, as the correlations between wing morphology and diversification rates were consistently weak throughout our dataset, this suggests that historical patterns of diversification are not particularly well reflected by present-day wing morphology.
Statistical methods for estimating epistasis from Evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein of the ϕX174 phage family
Creators: name: Redondo, Rodrigo A. F.
name: Vladar, Harold P. De
name: Włodarski, Tomasz
name: Bollback, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Viral capsids are structurally constrained by interactions among the amino acids (AAs) of their constituent proteins. Therefore, epistasis is expected to evolve among physically interacting sites and to influence the rates of substitution. To study the evolution of epistasis, we focused on the major structural protein of the ϕX174 phage family by, first, reconstructing the ancestral protein sequences of 18 species using a Bayesian statistical framework. The inferred ancestral reconstruction differed at eight AAs, for a total of 256 possible ancestral haplotypes. For each ancestral haplotype and the extant species, we estimated, in silico, the distribution of free energies and epistasis of the capsid structure. We found that free energy has not significantly increased but epistasis has. We decomposed epistasis up to fifth order and found that higher-order epistasis sometimes compensates pairwise interactions making the free energy seem additive. The dN/dS ratio is low, suggesting strong purifying selection, and that structure is under stabilizing selection. We synthesized phages carrying ancestral haplotypes of the coat protein gene and measured their fitness experimentally. Our findings indicate that stabilizing mutations can have higher fitness, and that fitness optima do not necessarily coincide with energy minima.
Calculations and comparisons with Rosetta from Evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein of the ϕX174 phage family
Creators: name: Redondo, Rodrigo A. F.
name: Vladar, Harold P. De
name: Włodarski, Tomasz
name: Bollback, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Viral capsids are structurally constrained by interactions among the amino acids (AAs) of their constituent proteins. Therefore, epistasis is expected to evolve among physically interacting sites and to influence the rates of substitution. To study the evolution of epistasis, we focused on the major structural protein of the ϕX174 phage family by, first, reconstructing the ancestral protein sequences of 18 species using a Bayesian statistical framework. The inferred ancestral reconstruction differed at eight AAs, for a total of 256 possible ancestral haplotypes. For each ancestral haplotype and the extant species, we estimated, in silico, the distribution of free energies and epistasis of the capsid structure. We found that free energy has not significantly increased but epistasis has. We decomposed epistasis up to fifth order and found that higher-order epistasis sometimes compensates pairwise interactions making the free energy seem additive. The dN/dS ratio is low, suggesting strong purifying selection, and that structure is under stabilizing selection. We synthesized phages carrying ancestral haplotypes of the coat protein gene and measured their fitness experimentally. Our findings indicate that stabilizing mutations can have higher fitness, and that fitness optima do not necessarily coincide with energy minima.
Phylogenetics and ancestral reconstructions from Evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein of the ϕX174 phage family
Creators: name: Redondo, Rodrigo A. F.
name: Vladar, Harold P. De
name: Włodarski, Tomasz
name: Bollback, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Viral capsids are structurally constrained by interactions among the amino acids (AAs) of their constituent proteins. Therefore, epistasis is expected to evolve among physically interacting sites and to influence the rates of substitution. To study the evolution of epistasis, we focused on the major structural protein of the ϕX174 phage family by, first, reconstructing the ancestral protein sequences of 18 species using a Bayesian statistical framework. The inferred ancestral reconstruction differed at eight AAs, for a total of 256 possible ancestral haplotypes. For each ancestral haplotype and the extant species, we estimated, in silico, the distribution of free energies and epistasis of the capsid structure. We found that free energy has not significantly increased but epistasis has. We decomposed epistasis up to fifth order and found that higher-order epistasis sometimes compensates pairwise interactions making the free energy seem additive. The dN/dS ratio is low, suggesting strong purifying selection, and that structure is under stabilizing selection. We synthesized phages carrying ancestral haplotypes of the coat protein gene and measured their fitness experimentally. Our findings indicate that stabilizing mutations can have higher fitness, and that fitness optima do not necessarily coincide with energy minima.
Extended description of experimental procedures and results from Evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein of the ϕX174 phage family
Creators: name: Redondo, Rodrigo A. F.
name: Vladar, Harold P. De
name: Włodarski, Tomasz
name: Bollback, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Viral capsids are structurally constrained by interactions among the amino acids (AAs) of their constituent proteins. Therefore, epistasis is expected to evolve among physically interacting sites and to influence the rates of substitution. To study the evolution of epistasis, we focused on the major structural protein of the ϕX174 phage family by, first, reconstructing the ancestral protein sequences of 18 species using a Bayesian statistical framework. The inferred ancestral reconstruction differed at eight AAs, for a total of 256 possible ancestral haplotypes. For each ancestral haplotype and the extant species, we estimated, in silico, the distribution of free energies and epistasis of the capsid structure. We found that free energy has not significantly increased but epistasis has. We decomposed epistasis up to fifth order and found that higher-order epistasis sometimes compensates pairwise interactions making the free energy seem additive. The dN/dS ratio is low, suggesting strong purifying selection, and that structure is under stabilizing selection. We synthesized phages carrying ancestral haplotypes of the coat protein gene and measured their fitness experimentally. Our findings indicate that stabilizing mutations can have higher fitness, and that fitness optima do not necessarily coincide with energy minima.
Inference of the fitness landscape from Evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein of the ϕX174 phage family
Creators: name: Redondo, Rodrigo A. F.
name: Vladar, Harold P. De
name: Włodarski, Tomasz
name: Bollback, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Viral capsids are structurally constrained by interactions among the amino acids (AAs) of their constituent proteins. Therefore, epistasis is expected to evolve among physically interacting sites and to influence the rates of substitution. To study the evolution of epistasis, we focused on the major structural protein of the ϕX174 phage family by, first, reconstructing the ancestral protein sequences of 18 species using a Bayesian statistical framework. The inferred ancestral reconstruction differed at eight AAs, for a total of 256 possible ancestral haplotypes. For each ancestral haplotype and the extant species, we estimated, in silico, the distribution of free energies and epistasis of the capsid structure. We found that free energy has not significantly increased but epistasis has. We decomposed epistasis up to fifth order and found that higher-order epistasis sometimes compensates pairwise interactions making the free energy seem additive. The dN/dS ratio is low, suggesting strong purifying selection, and that structure is under stabilizing selection. We synthesized phages carrying ancestral haplotypes of the coat protein gene and measured their fitness experimentally. Our findings indicate that stabilizing mutations can have higher fitness, and that fitness optima do not necessarily coincide with energy minima.
Mutant anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor identification by integrated in silico approaches
Creators: name: Ahmad, Nadeem
name: Khan, Salman Ali
name: Sardar, Madiha
name: Mushtaq, Mamona
name: Siddiqui, Ali Raza
name: Munsif, Sajida
name: Nur-e-Alam, Mohammad
name: Nerukh, Dmitry
name: Ul-Haq, Zaheer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the primary form of lung cancer globally and remains a leading cause of mortality. Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) mutations, such as I1171N + L1198H, have been discovered to confer resistance to current ALK inhibitors, reducing their therapeutic effectiveness. Addressing drug resistance necessitates exploring selective inhibitors for innovative therapeutic approaches. In this study, a structure-based pharmacophore model, using ALK-approved inhibitors, was developed to screen an In-house database for potential mutant ALK inhibitors. Compounds with requisite pharmacophoric features were evaluated for binding potential against the I1171N + L1198H ALK mutant phenotype. Selected hits underwent assessment for chemical reactivity, and dynamics stability. The study identified five chemical scaffolds (NS1-5) with favorable binding modes and pharmacokinetic properties. The conformational ensembles featured the average RMSD values, ranging from 0.4 to 0.6 nm. RMSF analysis revealed consistent side chain fluctuations with reduced flexibility, while Rog analysis indicated convergence of most complexes. NS1 and NS5, in particular emerged as promising candidates, exhibiting remarkable performance than others, with binding free energies of −210.12 ± 9.94 and −163.68 ± 11.14 kcal/mol, respectively. These findings thus suggest further exploration and optimisation of NS1 and NS5 for mutant ALK inhibitors for the treatment of NSCLC.
New Physics: Redefining Energy, Momentum, and Gravity.
Creators: name: Korompilias, Basil
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum theory
subject: Gravity
subject: Physics
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Cosmology
subject: Higgs bosons
subject: Ethics

description: This paper presents a unified model of physics grounded in the Axiom of Common Origin, positing that all phenomena in the universe emerge from a shared source. From this foundational axiom, we derive two fundamental theorems: the Impossibility of Absolute Opposition, which states that all opposites are interconnected, and the Impossibility of Absolute Unity, emphasizing the necessity of diversity and differentiation. These principles redefine momentum and gravity as complementary aspects of energy dynamics—momentum arising from energy divergence (polarity) and gravity from energy convergence.  Central to our model is the concept of Dual Isotropy, explaining the balanced interplay between energy, momentum, and gravity across distinct spatial and temporal dynamics. We introduce the proto-photon, a foundational oscillatory entity underpinning fundamental interactions, offering new insights into the nature of the Higgs boson and particle behavior. By modeling energy as an oscillatory function—where its divergence manifests as momentum and its convergence as gravity—we establish core equations derived from our axioms and theorems. The proto-photon’s oscillation is captured in time-dependent expressions for energy E(t) = h * ν * cos(ω * t + φ), leading to formulations of momentum as P(t) = E(t) / c and gravity as G(t) = dE(t) / dt, ensuring dimensional and physical consistency throughout.  In addition, we present a Grand Unified Theory through a formal mathematical framework that integrates gravitational dynamics within quantum field theory. This approach extends the model to unify all fundamental interactions, providing potential insights into both quantum and cosmological phenomena.  We also propose a Universal Common Consensus, an ethical system derived from the model’s principles, aimed at fostering Global Peace by reflecting the interconnected nature of all beings and systems.
Affective modes of cinematic inquiry: oil and subjective distance in Crude (2016) and Flight (2016)
Creators: name: Denton, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: This article, and accompanying photo-essay, present snapshots of some of the images and thoughts that reside in and around the recently completed essayist film Crude (2016) and a companion video installation Flight (2016). The works, produced by the writer, attempt 'essayer' to see and hear some of the elusive signs of anthropogenic climate change through affective cinematic devices, making what is invisible visible, to evoke contemplations on the subject of ecological crisis through subjects directly or tenuously connected to human reliance on fossil fuels. They seek to agitate a space of contemplation, uneasiness and sadness by engaging with the residual and stratified signs of our collective impact on our environment. The practice-based project works from the position that another tactic for progressing discourses around anthropogenic climate and geological change might be poetic or affective modes of cinematic inquiry.
Effects of fused thiophene Π-bridge on the electronic and optical properties of modified theaflavin natural dye
Creators: name: Syafri
name: Ahmad, Faozan
name: Sakti, Aditya Wibawa
name: Putro, Permono A.
name: Tinambunan, Alvius
name: Alatas, Husin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology

description: Natural dye sensitizers are substances that are sensitive to light colour and can be classified into several classes based on their chemical structure. Theaflavin pigments are unexplored natural dyes used as light sensitizers derived from black tea waste. However, the efficiency of natural dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) is lower than that of synthetic ones. To increase the efficiency, an amine donor molecule, a thiophene bridge, and a cyanoacrylic acid anchoring group were added. This improvement was achieved by comparing the LHE values, absorption shifts towards the red spectrum, and electronic parameters before and after modification of the theaflavin structure. This study aimed to analyze the effect of a fused thiophene bridge on the colour pigment of theaflavin on the electronic and optical properties of DSSC. TDDFT was employed with the hybrid functional B3LYP and def2-SVP. The calculated results concluded that adding fused thiophene can shift the wavelength with a maximum value of 256 nm and an increase in LHE of 40%. The addition of five thiophenes can shift the absorption wavelength closer to the red spectrum and satisfy the electronic properties of the DSSC, and the number of electron donor and acceptor sites obeying the law of conservation of charge.
Gönül Ferman Dinlerse
Creators: name: Camoglu, Arif
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefsi köreltmek sosyal iradenin terkiyle, kişisel zaafların yenilmesiyse iktidara duyulan zafiyetle ilintilenir. Mağdurluk, zayıflık, düşkünlük, çaresizlik adalet talebini değil, muktedire hayranlığı körükler çünkü güçlü olanın ayrıcalıkları soyutlaşmış, temsilde kendini yalanlamıştır.
New Physics: Redefining Energy, Momentum, and Gravity.
Creators: name: Korompilias, Basil
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ethics
subject: Quantum theory
subject: Gravity
subject: Cosmology
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Physics
subject: Higgs bosons

description: This paper presents a unified model of physics grounded in the Axiom of Common Origin, positing that all phenomena in the universe emerge from a shared source. From this foundational axiom, we derive two fundamental theorems: the Impossibility of Absolute Opposition, which states that all opposites are interconnected, and the Impossibility of Absolute Unity, emphasizing the necessity of diversity and differentiation. These principles redefine momentum and gravity as complementary aspects of energy dynamics—momentum arising from energy divergence (polarity) and gravity from energy convergence.

Central to our model is the concept of Dual Isotropy, explaining the balanced interplay between energy, momentum, and gravity across distinct spatial and temporal dynamics. We introduce the proto-photon, a foundational oscillatory entity underpinning fundamental interactions, offering new insights into the nature of the Higgs boson and particle behavior. By modeling energy as an oscillatory function—where its divergence manifests as momentum and its convergence as gravity—we establish core equations derived from our axioms and theorems. The proto-photon's oscillation is captured in time-dependent expressions for energy E(t) = h * ν * cos(ω * t + φ), leading to formulations of momentum as P(t) = E(t) / c and gravity as G(t) = dE(t) / dt, ensuring dimensional and physical consistency throughout.

In addition, we present a Grand Unified Theory through a formal mathematical framework that integrates gravitational dynamics within quantum field theory. This approach extends the model to unify all fundamental interactions, providing potential insights into both quantum and cosmological phenomena.

We also propose a Universal Common Consensus, an ethical system derived from the model's principles, aimed at fostering Global Peace by reflecting the interconnected nature of all beings and systems.
North Kelvin Meadow
Creators: name: Miller, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: In North-West Glasgow, between economically depressed Maryhill and upmarket Kelvinside, a 1.4 hectare plot of land has become the site of a local controversy. Depending on your point of view, this is either the Clouston Street Pitches or the North Kelvin Meadow: a space which served as playing fields from the 1940s until the 1990s when, falling into decay, it was earmarked for development by the council. Since then the rhythms of global capital have seen schemes for building on the land emerge and fade away. The red blaes pitches changed character. Mature trees grew up on the tennis court; the clay playing surface was seeded with grass by local residents; flower bulbs were planted. Changing rooms that had reportedly been taken over by drug users were renovated into a community shed. An orchard is showing its first blossom.
Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past
Creators: name: Duymus, Kerem
name: Şaul, Mahir
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the global character of this mobility. While the flow of labor and commodities between Africa and Turkey continues, especially with Turkey's new Africa policy after 2002, African migrants are also implementing their own interests and agendas. Thus, an interdisciplinary approach encompassing history, economics, and anthropology reveals intertwined transformations and networks that provide a perspective for historical changes.
Walking through Lightning: a peripatetic bioregional reading of a novel
Creators: name: Banting, Pamela
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: This essay is an experiment in bioregional reading practices and an exploration of local knowledge, foot travel and thinking about setting. The various sections of the essay have taken place over time and are written as a series of fragments and diary entries. It is, in some ways, an experiment potentially without end insofar as both novels and landscapes are inexhaustible.
Influence of metal oxides on circumcorannulene for the design of new push-pull corannulene models: applications in nano-electronics, optoelectronics and non-linear optics
Creators: name: Aloumko, Barnabas
name: Foadin, Crevain Souop Tala
name: Mohammadou, Sali
name: Nya, Fridolin Tchangnwa
name: Ejuh, Geh Wilson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: The search for new high-performance push-pull materials for use in nonlinear optics (NLO) and optics is currently a popular area of research. In this study, the effects of metal oxides -(MO)n = 1,2 (monomer: MO=TiO2, CuO, Al2O3, and ZnO; and dimer: MO =  Ti2O4, Cu2O2, Al4O6, and Zn2O2) on the electronic, absorption, optoelectronic and NLO characteristics of circumcorannulene (CO) in the gas phase and in acetonitrile have been investigated using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) at the B3LYP and CAM-B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p)/LANL2DZ levels of theory. Research has shown that adding metal oxides to CO leads to the formation of new push-pull CO derivatives. These derivatives include T1, U1, A1, Z1, T2, U2, A2, and Z2 formed from TiO2, CuO, Al2O3, ZnO, Ti2O4, Cu2O2, Al4O6, and Zn2O2 metal oxides, respectively. They exhibit excellent stability, low |HOMO-LUMO| gap energy, high NLO, and photocurrent responses compared to CO in gaseous media and polar solvents. However, it is interesting to note that the use of the copper oxide monomer configuration on corannulene family compounds is effective in improving their NLO response, while increasing the alumina chain proves necessary to improve their photocurrent response in the visible region.
Bird-watching with Elizabeth Gould at Bowra Conservation Sanctuary
Creators: name: Ashley, Melissa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: Habitats are often defined by dominant features, be they related to geomorphology, climatic conditions, striking land formations or ubiquitous plant species. In Australia's semi-arid regions, mulga is a helpful concept for thinking about the nuances of this beguilingly stabile country, which seems to best connote the desiccated landscape. The word has an ancient lineage, traced to the central west, an Aboriginal term for a small flat shield, a weapon traditionally fashioned from mulga timbers. To many, 'mulga' means desert, wilderness, a place one can disappear, going 'up the mulga'. Mulga is also the common name of many of the animals that inhabit the region. There are mulga snakes, for instance, huge brown scaly ropes that snooze inside piles of greying lumber; and the mulga parrot, Psephotus varius, or many coloured parrot.
Targeting MurB from Helicobacter pylori: insights from virtual screening, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Sharma, Abhishek
name: Singh, Amit Kumar
name: Muthukumaran, Jayaraman
name: Jain, Monika
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative, helical-shaped bacteria found in the mucus lining of the stomach of humans responsible for causing sores or an ulcer. H. pylori is becoming a multi-drug resistant bacterium, which in turn demands the need for development of alternative treatment strategies for the proper management of diseases. The peptidoglycan biosynthesis pathway is critical for the synthesis of cell walls and for the survival of H. pylori. There are several crucial enzymes in this biosynthesis pathway which can act as significant drug targets against H. pylori. One of these important enzymes is UDP-N-acetylenolpyruvoylglucosamine reductase (MurB), which catalyses an important committed step of cell wall biosynthesis. In the present study, we performed a high throughput virtual screening using the Enamine HTSC library against the MurB enzyme. The molecules were also screened for druglike properties by ADME screening, toxicity, and tumorigenic nature, followed by MD simulations. We found that Z102621114_1 and Z228235240_1 ligand molecules can act as potential inhibitors of MurB protein. Our results suggest, these molecules may be able to meet the demand for novel antimicrobials to treat H. pylori medication resistance. The subsequent experimental investigations can increase their potential as a novel agents against H. pylori infections.
Research highlightsHelicobacter pylori infects 50% of the Global population.Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with gastric cancer.MurB is a key drug target protein as it is responsible for cell wall synthesis.Z102621114_1 and Z228235240_1 were identified as potential inhibitors of MurB of Helicobacter pylori. Helicobacter pylori infects 50% of the Global population. Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with gastric cancer. MurB is a key drug target protein as it is responsible for cell wall synthesis. Z102621114_1 and Z228235240_1 were identified as potential inhibitors of MurB of Helicobacter pylori.
In place of nature - a response to Leigh Woods
Creators: name: Carter, Justin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: This paper reflects on an art project developed by the author which was commissioned for the exhibition STILL LIFE/ecologies of perception in 2013 by Trust New Art. The artists brief was relatively open but demanded some kind of response to Leigh Woods where the work would be located. The Woods themselves are a National Trust nature reserve situated within walking distance of Bristol, but separated from the city by the imposing cliffs of the Avon Gorge.
Museal moods and the Santos Museum of economic botany (Adelaide Botanical Garden)
Creators: name: Kerr, Heather
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: My paper considers some affective atmospheres in the Adelaide Botanical Garden's enthralling Museum of Economic Botany. My compositional mode traces an itinerary that begins with the Museum's important collection of model fruit types, displayed in nineteenth century Arnoldi pomological cabinets, and ends with the artist Fiona Hall's specially commissioned multimedia installation, the enigmatic 'Grove' (2009), a latter-day Wunderkammer (chamber of wonders). I work, too, with the Museum's publications and interpretive texts, treating words as artefacts, quotation marks putting them on display in the space of my own text. Along the way, I linger over cultural remnants, notice curious ways to bridge apparent discontinuities, combine awkwardly disparate discursive registers, and spend too much time on discredited tropes and figures of thought, especially personification. The figure of speech which assigns agency and a voice to non-human things, personification is one of the governing tropes in the Museum's publications, most obviously in the assertion that 'objects speak'. In particular, I spend time with some of the potentially embarrassing, because na ve, sentimental, or otherwise conceptually unwelcome aspects of 'enchantment' and 'melancholy' as dispositions, considering what the philosopher Jane Bennett calls 'moods of attention'. In doing so, I pay attention to the interplay of production and reception aesthetics: I examine what is offered by the Museum's material objects and words-as-artefacts, and experiment with the interpretive possibilities I bring as a visitor to this place. Such a compositional mode also obliquely alludes to the Wunderkammer's well documented embrace of both 'wonder and melancholy', at least in so far as this provides a spectrum for museal atmospheres and their disturbances. I ask, in other words, what atmospheres 'the last colonial economic botany museum in the world' might generate? For example, visitors and commentators remark on 'poignant', or just plain sad feelings upon encountering the cabinets of nineteenth-century model fruit, particularly a single, 'lonely' wax pomegranate, and the important collection of papier- mache pomological models made by the German company Arnoldi (1856-1899). These cabinets of model apples, pears, plums, peaches and apricots attest to a colonial urge to know about and acclimatise many fruit varieties as well as to our own eco-melancholic awareness of the potential loss of type diversity.
Reading Walkabout in Osaka: travel, mobility, and place-making
Creators: name: Johnston, Anna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: Travelling by nostalgically hyper-modern monorail, I arrived at Suita in Osaka in search of Australian modernity. The Expo 1970 site is now a commemorative park, dotted with concrete infrastructure and brutalist architecture amongst gardens filled with autumnal colour, or spring sakura, depending on season. Its entrance is marked by an enormous two armed primitivist sculpture-The Tower of the Sun (1970) by Taro Okamoto-that looms 70 metres above the viewer, with three faces whose light-up eyes prove a disconcerting sight for night-time arrivals. The Osaka Commemorative Park is also home to the National Museum of Ethnology (known as Minpaku), which houses an extraordinary collection of ethnological artefacts from around the world and a well-stocked anthropology library.
Love and vision: the story of Kathleen McArthur's care for wallum country
Creators: name: Collett, Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: In Wild Dog Dreaming, published in 2011, Deborah Bird Rose writes about 'Anthropogenic extinction' as 'a fact of death that is growing exponentially.' She notes that 'we are entering an era of loss of life unprecedented in human history' and states that '[t]he question, of course, is: if we humans are the cause, can we change ourselves enough to change our impacts?' (2) Rose moves on to quote Michael Soule's observation that '[p]eople save what they love', and asks with him, '[a]re humans capable of loving, and therefore of caring for, the animals and plants that are currently losing their lives in a growing cascade of extinctions?' She follows this question up with another, more imperative one, '[h]ow [are we] to invigorate love and action in ways that are generous, knowledgeable, and life-affirming?' (2) In interview three years later, Rose reiterates this view, urging her audience to take this moment, this challenge of the Anthropocene, 'to enhance our capacity for love, for care, for keeping faith with earth, keeping faith with life.'
title: What controls triplet exciton transfer in organic semiconductors?
Creators: name: Köhler, Anna
name: Bässler, Heinz
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Dexter-type triplet transfer is a phenomenon that is ubiquitous in the field of molecular electronics, and that takes place at the interface of chemistry, physics and biology. It may be considered as a correlated transfer of two charges, and thus, models originally developed for charge transfer may be applied to describe triplet transfer. In dilute fluid solutions, triplet transfer from a donor to an acceptor is well-understood and it has been described in terms of Marcus theory, i.e. taking into account distortions in the molecule and its surroundings. In amorphous thin films, that are used for organic semiconductor applications, the effects of energetic disorder prevail, and they need to be considered for an appropriate description of triplet energy transfer. We present here an overview on recent experimental and theoretical work concerning a unified description of triplet energy transfer.
'Poetry needs real outcomes': John Kinsella responds to Tom Bristow's questions on place
Creators: name: Kinsella, John
name: Bristow, Tom
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract: Let us conceive of the grassroots community becoming the intermediate micro-social space between the private and the public, macro-social spaces. What are the barriers to constructing sustainable communities, in your experience, and how does your place-based poetry address or represent the private-public dynamic? What happens when we take these questions to the more-than-human world?

I believe in real outcomes. Poetry needs real outcomes. Activist poetry certainly needs real outcomes. Place is layered with real outcomes. Sustainable communities are those that are self-aware on the level of the individual and in terms of consensus. Awareness comes about through access to knowledge and data, but also through listening to the 'environment' itself. Data only tell us what is already evident. Communities with a 'spiritual' sensitivity to the place they occupy are inevitably aware of its needs, vulnerabilities, and characteristics of 'intactness'. A dialogue of respect allows for longevity.