cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The intersection between law and art history: comparing interpretations of the intentional destruction of art
Creators: name: Wilson, Rosie
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: The intentional destruction of art is a highly contentious and complex topic. In recent years the importance of the destruction of art has been increasingly recognised but, thus far, very few studies have directly compared law and art history’s approaches to destruction. As a result, it is unclear whether art-historical and legal approaches to destruction are consistent or even compatible. This research addresses this gap in the literature by conducting a socio-legal comparison of interpretations of the intentional destruction of art in law and art history. This comparison is structured around four categories of destruction identified from recent art-historical literature on destruction, including conflict-related, religious, political, and artistic destruction, as well as the distinction between the destruction of art and destruction as art. These categories are used alongside case studies to determine whether interpretations of the intentional destruction of art differ between law and art history, and whether art historians’ interpretations do or could influence legal interpretations. In addressing these questions, this research contributes to a better understanding of the concept of ‘destruction’ as well as the relationship between law and art, in both theory and practice. Overall, this comparison shows that interpretations of the intentional destruction of art differ between law and art history and the role of art history in influencing law is limited – although this varies between areas of law and art-historical categories of destruction. While art historians effectively differentiate between different categories of destruction and interpret the meaning behind individual destructive acts, the law struggles to do this. As such, this research exposes a fundamental limitation of the regulation of the destruction of art. Under the current legal framework, the law regulates the destruction of art without looking to art history to understand what destruction means to art. Consequently, the law risks confusing important creative expressions and artistic practices with intentional acts of violence and harm.
title: ALLOc : Beaupuy : Parabole - 1
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
KI as iodine source for the synthesis of E-iodovinyl sulfones via metal-free iodosulfonylation of terminal alkynes
Creators: name: Yang, Lu
name: Hu, Deqing
name: Wei, Li
name: Liu, Yunyun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The E-selective iodosulfonylation of terminal alkynes has been achieved by employing sulfonyl hydrazines and potassium iodide as sulfonyl and iodine sources, respectively. Besides using simple and cheap reactants, the present method requires no metal catalyst and proceeds well at room temperature. A broad array of iodovinyl sulfones have been efficiently synthesized via the alkyne difunctionalization in the presence of benzoic peroxyanhydride (BPO).
title: ALLOc : Puycelsi : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
title: Constitutive modelling of fibre-reinforced sand based on the concept of effective skeleton stress and void ratio
Creators: name: Huang, Mian
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: The inclusion of flexible fibres such as polypropylene and waste or natural fibres is an effective method for soil improvement, as it can significantly enhance soil strength. Though a lot of research has been done on fibre-reinforced sand (FRS), a simple and practical constitutive model, essential for assessing the stability and serviceability of fibre-reinforced slopes/foundations, has not yet been developed. A new method for constitutive modelling of fibre-reinforced sand (FRS) is proposed in this study. The new model has also been used to simulate the mechanical behaviour of FRS prepared by different methods. In the new modelling approach, FRS is considered as a composite material with host sand and flexible fibres. It is assumed that the strain of FRS is dependent on the deformation of the sand skeleton only. The effective skeleton stress and effective skeleton void ratio, which should be used in describing the dilatancy, plastic hardening and elastic stiffness of FRS, are affected by fibre inclusion. The effective skeleton stress is dependent on the shear strain level, and the effective skeleton void ratio is affected by the fibre content and sample preparation method. A critical state FRS model in the triaxial stress space is proposed using the effective skeleton stress and void ratio. Four parameters are introduced to characterise the effect of fibre inclusion on the mechanical behaviour of sand, all of which can be easily determined based on triaxial test data on FRS, without measuring the stress-strain relationship of individual fibres. Triaxial compression test results validate the model on fibre-reinforced sands under loading conditions with various confining pressures, densities and stress paths. Potential improvement in the model for incorporating fibre orientation anisotropy is discussed. It is well known that the mechanical behaviour of pure sand depends on the internal soil structure, which can be affected by sample preparation methods. For FRS, the sample preparation methods influence the internal structure of the sand skeleton and the distribution of fibre orientation and sand-fibre interaction. The effect of sample preparation methods on the mechanical behaviour of FRS has been investigated using comprehensive drained triaxial compression tests. The soil samples have been prepared by moist tamping (MT) and moist vibration (MV). There is a small difference in the stress-strain relationship of pure sand with different sample preparation methods. But the response of FRS is dramatically different. Under the same initial conditions of void ratio, confining pressure and fibre content, FRS prepared using the MV method shows 30–50% higher peak deviator stress and a much less dilative response. The newly developed constitutive model has been used to predict the mechanical behaviour of FRS prepared using the MT and MV methods.
100% Renewable Power Generation in 2040: The Case of Java-Bali Region, Indonesia
Creators: name: Aviandito, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A sustainable and dependable electricity is needed to continue the economic significance of Java-Bali (JB) region in the future. This paper summarizes the renewable resources in JB region from literatures available in peer-reviewed journals, publicly available government documents, and international agencies reports, then projects it to meet current and 2040 system stability.Renewable energy resources in the region are identified in the form of geothermal, hydropower, biomass, solar PV, and wind energy. If it is available by now, renewable energy resources can reach 2016 system stability, but extensive increase in solar PV capacity and efficiency measures in all sector is needed to meet 2040 demand. Political commitment from national to subnational level is also needed for the transition to happen.
title: ALLOc : Allez-et-Cazeneuve : Parabole-1
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
Fast refacing of MR images with a generative neural network lowers re-identification risk and preserves volumetric consistency
Creators: name: Molchanova, Nataliia
name: Maréchal, Bénédicte
name: Thiran, Jean-Philippe
name: Kober, Tobias
name: Huelnhagen, Till
name: Richiardi, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rise of open data, identifiability of individuals based on 3D renderings obtained from routine structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the head has become a growing privacy concern. To protect subject privacy, several algorithms have been developed to de-identify imaging data using blurring, defacing or refacing. Completely removing facial structures provides the best re-identification protection but can significantly impact post-processing steps, like brain morphometry. As an alternative, refacing methods that replace individual facial structures with generic templates have a lower effect on the geometry and intensity distribution of original scans, and are able to provide more consistent post-processing results by the price of higher re-identification risk and computational complexity. In the current study, we propose a novel method for anonymised face generation for defaced 3D T1-weighted scans based on a 3D conditional generative adversarial network. To evaluate the performance of the proposed de-identification tool, a comparative study was conducted between several existing defacing and refacing tools, with two different segmentation algorithms (FAST and Morphobox). The aim was to evaluate (i) impact on brain morphometry reproducibility, (ii) re-identification risk, (iii) balance between (i) and (ii), and (iv) the processing time. The proposed method takes 9 seconds for face generation and is suitable for recovering consistent post-processing results after defacing.
description: preprint
title: Glottalisation in Scottish Gaelic
Creators: name: Mandić, David
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is dedicated to glottalisation in Scottish Gaelic, recorded in various south-western dialects. Glottalisation has been reported to occur, optionally or inconsistently, between a stressed short vowel and another vowel, in hiatus or with an intervening consonant, but not in svarabhakti groups. Less commonly, it is found in other contexts, for example, after a long vowel. It has been described either as glottal stop or a period of creaky phonation. This thesis presents the results of an analysis of two types of primary sources – the dialectological materials (word lists) collected in the mid-20th century as part of the Survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, and the audio recordings of native speakers made about the same time in different areas by the School of Scottish Studies. The data obtained from the SGDS records was expected to help determine the geographical area in which glottalisation occurs, its frequency in particular dialects, and the phonological contexts in which it occurs in these dialects. A closer examination of various types of examples, considering other related linguistic phenomena (such as epenthesis), was expected to answer the question of the phonological status of glottalisation in Gaelic dialects. The audio recordings were used for phonetic analysis aiming to provide a phonetic description of Gaelic glottalisation, and to find out whether it is related to other prosodic phenomena, such as stress and pitch.
title: Development of small, engineered heart tissues and their acute response to implantation
Creators: name: Huethorst, Eline
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) are a great source of human cardiac cells and can be combined with biomaterials to form engineered heart tissues (EHTs). Implantation of EHTs into the myocardium after a myocardial infarction (MI) is a promising strategy to regenerate the scar area. However, the ongoing challenge is the lack of electrical and mechanical coupling of the graft to the host tissue. Moreover, to replace the number of lost cells after an MI, current EHTs are large (cm-scale) and consist of >107 cells, resulting in extremely high costs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a cost-efficient platform based on the implantation of small EHTs (<50,000 hiPSC-CMs) grafted into the rabbit myocardium in vitro, and subsequently to assess the electrophysiological adaptations of the hiPSC-CMs to the surrounding myocardium using of fluorescent indicators. Methods: The EHTs (mm-scale) consisted of commercially available hiPSC-CMs (45.000 cells) seeded on top of a recombinant collagen-like peptide hydrogel (22 kPa; 6 mm diameter; 350 μm thick). Excitation-contraction coupling (ECC) properties of the EHTs were assessed in vitro. Adult male rabbits were euthanized and, subsequently, the heart was excised and placed on a Langendorff rig. EHTs were stained a fluorescent calcium indicator prior to implantation to track their activity. Calcium traces of the EHT and the ECG of the rabbit heart were compared during analysis. Results: Incorporation of fibronectin into the hydrogel improved cell adhesion and resulted in viable EHTs for at least 7 days. EHTs were not able to follow high pacing frequencies comparable to the intrinsic rate of the rabbit heart, most likely because of slower calcium handling. HiPSC-CMs seeded on the hydrogel showed an improved (“twitch”-like) contraction profile in comparison to cells seeded on rigid matrixes that showed a multi-phasic time-course. Once implanted, EHTs were viable for at least 90 min and calcium transients could be recorded for this time, however, there were no signs of electrical coupling during the experiment. Conclusion: With this work, a novel ex vivo platform has been developed to investigate functionality of implanted cells within the myocardium in the acute phase post-implantation. This platform can be used to investigate many factors that might affect the integration and survival of implanted cells during the acute phase in a cost-effective way and is therefore a good intermediate step between in vitro and in vivo experiments.
A comparison of gap-filling approaches for Landsat-7 satellite data
Creators: name: Yin, Gaohong
name: Mariethoz, Gregoire
name: Sun, Ying
name: F. McCabe, Matthew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this study is to assess the relative performance of four different gap-filling approaches across a range of land-surface conditions, including both homogeneous and heterogeneous areas as well as in scenes with abrupt changes in landscape elements. The techniques considered in this study include: (1) Kriging and co-Kriging; (2) geostatistical neighbourhood similar pixel interpolator (GNSPI); (3) a weighted linear regression (WLR) algorithm; and (4) the direct sampling (DS) method. To examine the impact of image availability and the influence of temporal distance on the selection of input training data (i.e. time separating the training data from the gap-filled target image), input images acquired within the same season (temporally close) as well as in different seasons (temporally far) to the target image were examined, as was the case of using information only within the target image itself. Root mean square error (RMSE), mean spectral angle (MSA), and coefficient of determination (R2) were used as the evaluation metrics to assess the prediction results. In addition, the overall accuracy (OA) and kappa coefficient (kappa) were used to assess a land-cover classification based on the gap-filled images. Results show that all of the gap-filling approaches provide satisfactory results for the homogeneous case, with R2 > 0.93 for bands 1 and 2 in all cases and R2 > 0.80 for bands 3 and 4 in most cases. For the heterogeneous example, GNSPI performs the best, with R2 > 0.85 for all tested cases. WLR and GNSPI exhibit equivalent accuracy when a temporally close input image is used (i.e. WLR and GNSPI both have an R2 equal to 0.89 for band 1). For the case of abrupt changes in scene elements or in the absence of ancillary data, the DS approach outperforms the other tested methods.
Molecular phylogeny suggests transfer of Hemidiscus into Actinocyclus (Coscinodiscales, Coscinodiscophyceae)
Creators: name: Gómez, Fernando
name: Wang, Lu
name: Hernández-Becerril, David U.
name: Lisunova, Yuliya O.
name: M. Lopes, Rubens
name: Lin, Senjie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Hemidiscus cuneiformis, type of the family Hemidiscaceae, is a diatom with a distinctive semi-circular shape in valve view. A strain of H. cuneiformis was established from the coastal region of the tropical southwestern Atlantic Ocean off Brazil. Cells of this strain showed semi-circular to asymmetrically elliptical valves, indicating morphological plasticity. In the small subunit (SSU) rDNA phylogeny, the type species of Hemidiscus branched between two clades of Actinocyclus, one of which was a sister group, the other in a basal position. Beyond cell shape, there are no significant morphological differences between Hemidiscus and Actinocyclus. We propose the transfer of H. cuneiformis and H. kanayanus into Actinocyclus. The family Hemidiscaceae remains for the genus Actinocyclus.
Bell sampling from quantum circuits
Creators: name: Hangleiter, Dominik
name: Gullans, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A central challenge in the verification of quantum computers is benchmarking their performance as a whole and demonstrating their computational capabilities. In this work, we find a universal model of quantum computation, Bell sampling, that can be used for both of those tasks and thus provides an ideal stepping stone towards fault-tolerance. In Bell sampling, we measure two copies of a state prepared by a quantum circuit in the transversal Bell basis. We show that the Bell samples are classically intractable to produce and at the same time constitute what we call a circuit shadow: from the Bell samples we can efficiently extract information about the quantum circuit preparing the state, as well as diagnose circuit errors. In addition to known properties that can be efficiently extracted from Bell samples, we give several new and efficient protocols: an estimator of state fidelity, a test for the depth of the circuit and an algorithm to estimate a lower bound to the number of T gates in the circuit. With some additional measurements, our algorithm learns a full description of states prepared by circuits with low T-count.
description: 7+17 pages, 5 figures. Comments welcome. v2: corrected typos, added references v3: added results, improved proofs v4: extended noise analysis v5: added analysis of Bell sampling as a fidelity estimator
Hu Li_figures_ESM.pdf from Mitochondrial phylogenomics of Hemiptera reveals adaptive innovations driving the diversification of true bugs
Creators: name: Li, Hu
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Chapman, Eric G.
name: Burkhardt, Daniel
name: Song, Fan
name: Jiang, Pei
name: Liu, Jinpeng
name: Zhou, Xuguo
name: Cai, Wanzhi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017

description: Figures S1-S17
title: On slice alternating 3-braid closures and Stein-fillable genus one open books
Creators: name: Brejevs, Vitalijs
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis consists of two parts, each concerning a different question about the relationship of 3- and 4-manifolds. The first part is devoted to a generalisation of the slice–ribbon conjecture to non-zero determinant links that can be obtained as closures of alternating 3-braids, while the second investigates the connection between Stein fillings of contact manifolds and positive monodromy factorisations of supporting open books. In the first part, we obtain a conditional classification of alternating 3-braid closures whose double branched covers are unobstructed from bounding rational homology 4-balls by Donaldson’s theorem. This result has been independently superseded by Jonathan Simone who provided an unconditional classification that consists of five infinite families. Based on Simone’s work, we confirm the generalised slice–ribbon conjecture for four of these families by explicitly constructing ribbon surfaces via band moves. We also show that the remaining family contains infinitely many ribbon links and employ twisted Alexander polynomials to conclude the enumeration of smoothly slice knots that can be given as closures of alternating 3-braids with at most 20 crossings. In the second part, we apply the theory of surface mapping class groups to the study of symplectic fillings of contact manifolds. For a contact manifold supported by a genus zero open book, there exists a correspondence between Stein fillings of the manifold and factorisations of the monodromy of the open book into positive Dehn twists; this correspondence is known to fail in genera greater than one. We present the results of joint work with Andy Wand in which we exhibit an infinite family of Steinfillable contact manifolds supported by open books with two-holed torus pages whose monodromies do not admit positive factorisations. These are the first known such examples of genus one, and their existence implies that the above correspondence only holds in the planar case. Our proof crucially relies on transverse contact surgery tools developed by James Conway and observations about lantern relations in the mapping class group of the two-holed torus.
title: ALLOc : Allez-et-Cazeneuve : Parabole-2
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
Hydrothermal synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon dots as a sensitive fluorescent probe for the rapid, selective determination of Hg2+
Creators: name: Zhang, Yong
name: Jing, Na
name: Zhang, Junqiu
name: Wang, Yingte
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: In the present work, a green synthetic method for producing nitrogen-doped carbon dots (NCDs) by using ammonium citrate and urea is introduced. The obtained NCDs were characterised by transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectra, UV–vis absorption and fluorescence spectra. The results showed that the prepared NCDs were spherical with a size of about 3.5 nm, emitting strong and stable blue fluorescence when excited at 352 nm. It was noting that the NCDs enable sensitive and selective determination of Hg2+ in tap water with a linear range of 0.01–5 mg L−1 based on a possible charge transfer process. The detection limit was 9.4 µg L−1.
title: The UK Public Sector Ombudsmen: a doctoral and socio-legal analysis on the possibility of transplanting an ombudsman into Saudi Arabia inspired by the UK model
Creators: name: Alnefaie, Budur Dhaifallah
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: This doctoral thesis analyses the operation of the public sector ombudsman schemes in the UK, with a particular emphasis on three ombudsmen: the PHSO, LGSCO and SPSO. The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the rationality of the idea of transplanting into Saudi Arabia an ombudsman that is mainly modelled on the UK schemes. Based on this aim, the work of the UK ombudsmen has been analysed from three perspectives: normative, legal and descriptive. The research method adopted in this thesis involves doctrinal and sociolegal methods, along with a comparative approach. The UK ombudsmen have been adopted as a mechanism that provides citizens with an accessible route to justice and helps to improve the quality of public administration’s practices. The theoretical analysis conducted in this thesis indicates that the ombudsman has the necessary powers and the ability to achieve the goals of administrative justice. However, in practice, there is no full knowledge of the extent of ombudsmen’ outputs and contributions in achieving the goals of administrative justice. The lack of detailed evidence, as well as the changes and developments that have occurred in the ombudsman enterprise itself, and in public administration and public policy in general, make it difficult or even impossible to track the full contribution of the UK’s public sector ombudsmen to administrative justice. In Saudi Arabia, the redress mechanisms in the public sector are only concerned with the legality of administrative decisions and actions. Therefore, there is an absence of an institution that handlesindividuals’ complaints against unfair decisions made by government organisations. Another issue in Saudi Arabia is that public administration suffers from several administrative deficiencies that can be considered as manifestations of maladministration. Therefore, the contribution of the thesis is to propose a way of addressing the problems existing in Saudi Arabia’s judicial and administrative systems. Transplanting an ombudsman to Saudi Arabia seems a rational solution to fill these gaps. Hence, this thesis constructs a proposal for a Saudi Arabian ombudsman that is mainly patterned on the UK ombudsmen, with a number of appropriate adjustments to suit the legal system in Saudi Arabia. However, to ensure the success of this institutional transplant, there should be a plan to change the social and administrative cultures in Saudi Arabia, as they are more likely to resist the introduction of the ombudsman and limit its effectiveness. Another key factor for the success of an ombudsman in Saudi Arabia is the availability of the Council of Ministers’ support.
Optimization of the linear quantification range of an online trypsin digestion coupled liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) platform
Creators: name: Kuklenyik, Zsuzsanna
name: Jones, Jeffrey I.
name: Toth, Christopher A.
name: Gardner, Michael S.
name: Pirkle, James L.
name: Barr, John R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based proteomic workflows with a bottom-up approach require enzymatic digestion of proteins to peptide analytes, usually by trypsin. Online coupling of trypsin digestion of proteins, using an immobilized enzyme reactor (IMER), with liquid chromatography (LC) and MS/MS is becoming a frequently used approach. However, finding IMER digestion conditions that allow quantitative analysis of multiple proteins with wide range of endogenous concentration requires optimization of multiple interactive parameters: digestion buffer flow rate, injection volume, sample dilution, and surfactant type/concentration. In this report, we present a design of experiment approach for the optimization of an integrated IMER-LC–MS/MS platform. With bovine serum albumin as a model protein, the digestion efficacy and digestion rate were monitored based on LC–MS/MS peak area count versus protein concentration regression. The optimal parameters were determined through multivariate surface response modeling and consideration of diffusion controlled immobilized enzyme kinetics. The results may provide guidance to other users for the development of quantitative IMER-LC–MS/MS methods for other proteins.
Synthesis, crystal structure, and fluorescence properties of two 1-D chain polymers extended by a semi-rigid bis(triazole) ligand
Creators: name: Zhang, Ming
name: Yang, Canyu
name: Wang, Liwen
name: Zhou, Hong
name: Pan, Zhiquan
name: Cheng, Qingrong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Two 1-D luminescent metal-organic frameworks with identical structures, {[Mn(BBPTZ)2(MeCN)2]·(ClO4)2}n (1) and {[Zn(BBPTZ)2(MeCN)2]·(MeCN)2·(ClO4)2}n (2), have been synthesized under solvent diffusion evaporation and characterized by elemental analyses, thermal analyses and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Both complexes crystallize in the monoclinic system, space group C2/c with six-coordinate M(II). Thermal decompositions of the complexes have been studied using thermogravimetric analyses (TGA). The complexes exhibit a significant fluorescence quenching effect to Fe3+ in acetonitrile solution. The LoDs (Limit of Detection) of the complexes to Fe3+ are 2.59 × 10−8 M and 1.57 × 10−8 M for 1 and 2, respectively. The complexes could be applied to efficient chemosensor for Fe3+ detection.
Synthesis, crystal structure and fluorescence properties of two 1D chain polymers extended by a semi-rigid bis(triazole) ligand
Creators: name: Zhang, Ming
name: Yang, Canyu
name: Wang, Liwen
name: Zhou, Hong
name: Pan, Zhiquan
name: Cheng, Qingrong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Virology

description: Two 1D luminescent metal-organic frameworks with identical structures,{[Mn(BBPTZ)2(MeCN)2]·(ClO4)2}n(1) and{[Zn(BBPTZ)2(MeCN)2]·(MeCN)2·(ClO4)2}n(2), have been synthesized under solvent diffusion evaporation and characterized by elemental analyses, thermal analyses and single crystal X-ray diffraction. Both complexes crystallize in the monoclinic system, space group C2/cwith six-coordinateM(II). Thermal decompositions of the complexes have been studied usingthermogravimetric analyses (TGA). The complexes exhibit a significant fluorescence quenching effect to Fe3+ in acetonitrile solution. The LoDs (Limit of Detection) of the complexes to Fe3+ are 2.59×10−8M and 1.57×10−8M for 1 and 2, respectively. The complexes could be applied toefficient chemosensor for Fe3+ detection.
Ammonium iodide-mediated regioselective chalcogenation of chromones with diaryl disulfides and diselenides
Creators: name: Guo, Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: A metal-free method for the synthesis of 3-chalcogenyl-chromones/quinolones from chromones/quinolones and diorganyl dichalcogenides using ammonium iodide under air was developed. This approach allowed the preparation of a wide range of 3-selenyl- and 3-sulfenyl-chromones/quinolones in good to excellent yields.
Ammonium Iodide-Mediated Regioselective Chalcogenation of Chromones with Diaryl Disulfides and Diselenides
Creators: name: Guo, Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: A metal-free method for the synthesis of 3-chalcogenyl-chromones/quinolones from chromones/quinolones and diorganyl dichalcogenides using ammonium iodide under air was developed. This approach allowed the preparation of a wide range of 3-selenyl- and 3-sulfenyl-chromones/quinolones in good to excellent yields.
Synthesis of 3-acylated indoles through iron-catalyzed oxidative coupling of indoles with α-amino carbonyl compounds
Creators: name: Yi, Niannian
name: Li, Jinxia
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Wang, Ruijia
name: Jiang, Jun
name: Deng, Wei
name: Zeng, Zebing
name: Xiang, Jiannan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A novel iron-catalyzed oxidative coupling of indoles with α-amino carbonyl compounds has been developed. The transformation provides an attractive approach to the synthesis of 3-acylindoles, with the advantages of easily available starting materials and high functional group tolerance. Furthermore, control experiments imply that a radical process maybe involved in this reaction.
title: ALLOc : Beaupuy : Parabole-2
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
Synthesis of 3-acylated indoles via iron-catalyzed oxidative coupling of indoles with α-amino carbonyl compounds
Creators: name: Yi, Niannian
name: Li, Jinxia
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Wang, Ruijia
name: Jiang, Jun
name: Deng, Wei
name: Zeng, Zebing
name: Xiang, Jiannan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A novel iron-catalyzed oxidative coupling of indoles with α-amino carbonyl compounds has been developed. The transformation provides an attractive approach to the synthesis of 3-acylindoles, with the advantages of easily available starting materials and high functional group tolerance. Furthermore, control experiments imply that a radical process maybe involved in this reaction.
title: Library wars: Discourse, power and Dystopian Young Adult Literature from the East and West
Creators: name: Ma, Lan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: In the last twenty years, much of the excitement over the rapid development of technology has faded away as it has not provided all the answers to social problems. On the contrary, some problems have become more acute through the use of new technologies, such as the subjugation and monitoring of citizens, a phenomenon this thesis examines in a sample of the many dystopian works written for young adults which have emerged in both the West and the East in the last two decades. These works reveal authors’ thoughts about the power structure of human society; their concerns and ideas about the past and present and their expectations about the future of the world. This thesis is based on a comparative analysis of the contemporary Western and Eastern Dystopian Young Adult Literature (DYAL) from a sociological perspective. The focus will be on issues of information control and censorship in DYAL, because knowledge is one of the main bones of power contention in a dystopian prospect. Based on the theories of sociology of literature and Michel Foucault’s theory about discourse and power and a historical review of the development of YAL in the East and West, this research attempts to structure the spatiotemporal attributes of DYAL, and expound the circulated, exchanged and interactive relationship between (D)YAL and society. From this structure, more importantly, a discourse-power mapping framework for analysing dystopian literature has been developed. Although there have been numerous studies on the Western DYAL, comparative research on the Western and Eastern DYAL has been scarce. Hence, three representative dystopian YA works from USA (The Great Library series, Rachel Caine, 2015), Japan (Library Wars series, Hiro Arikawa, 2006) and China (Infernal Affairs, Sizhe Zangyi, 2014) were selected to be analysed with the framework in order to discuss the discourse-power relationship; the political ideas and social concerns shown in works from different cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, the results of the qualitative research on the Western and Eastern reader groups’ discussions have been included in the comparative analysis of the works. This sheds light on both authors’ and readers’ thoughts about discourse-power structure and the future prospect of human society inside and outside DYAL. This thesis aims to demonstrate the sociological issues around DYAL from a different theoretical scope. The study may provide an effective framework for the researchers in this field and could be applicable to further educational conversations. Hence, this research has realistic and practical importance not only for scholars and educators in YA literature, but also for the sociologists who are interested in youth culture in the digital era.
Enriching Students' Conceptual Understanding of Confidence Intervals: An Interactive Trivia-based Classroom Activity
Creators: name: Xiaofei Wang
name: Reich, Nicholas G.
name: Horton, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Confidence intervals provide a way to determine plausible values for a population parameter. They are omnipresent in research articles involving statistical analyses. Appropriately, a key statistical literacy learning objective is the ability to interpret and understand confidence intervals in a wide range of settings. As instructors, we devote a considerable amount of time and effort to ensure that students master this topic in introductory courses and beyond. Yet, studies continue to find that confidence intervals are commonly misinterpreted and that even experts have trouble calibrating their individual confidence levels. In this article, we present a ten-minute trivia game-based activity that addresses these misconceptions by exposing students to confidence intervals from a personal perspective. We describe how the activity can be integrated into a statistics course as a one-time activity or with repetition at intervals throughout a course, discuss results of using the activity in class, and present possible extensions.
Enriching Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Confidence Intervals: An Interactive Trivia-Based Classroom Activity
Creators: name: Xiaofei Wang
name: Reich, Nicholas G.
name: Horton, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Confidence intervals provide a way to determine plausible values for a population parameter. They are omnipresent in research articles involving statistical analyses. Appropriately, a key statistical literacy learning objective is the ability to interpret and understand confidence intervals in a wide range of settings. As instructors, we devote a considerable amount of time and effort to ensure that students master this topic in introductory courses and beyond. Yet, studies continue to find that confidence intervals are commonly misinterpreted and that even experts have trouble calibrating their individual confidence levels. In this article, we present a 10-min trivia game-based activity that addresses these misconceptions by exposing students to confidence intervals from a personal perspective. We describe how the activity can be integrated into a statistics course as a one-time activity or with repetition at intervals throughout a course, discuss results of using the activity in class, and present possible extensions. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
title: ALLOc : Savignac : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Optimization of the Linear Quantification Range of an on-line Trypsin Digestion Coupled Liquid Chromatography – Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Platform
Creators: name: Kuklenyik, Zsuzsanna
name: Jones, Jeffrey I.
name: Toth, Christopher A.
name: Gardner, Michael S.
name: Pirkle, James L.
name: Barr, John R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based proteomic workflows with a bottom-up approach require enzymatic digestion of proteins to peptide analytes, usually by trypsin. On-line coupling of trypsin digestion of proteins, using an immobilized enzyme reactor (IMER), with liquid chromatography (LC) and MS/MS is becoming a frequently used approach. However, finding IMER digestion conditions that allow quantitative analysis of multiple proteins with wide range of endogenous concentration requires optimization of multiple interactive parameters; digestion buffer flow rate, injection volume, sample dilution, and surfactant type/concentration. In this report, we present a design of experiment (DoE) approach for the optimization of an integrated IMER-LC-MS/MS platform. With bovine serum albumin as a model protein, the digestion efficacy and digestion rate were monitored based on LC-MS/MS peak area count versus protein concentration regression. The optimal parameters were determined through multivariate surface response modelling and consideration of diffusion controlled immobilized enzyme kinetics. The results may provide guidance to other users for the development of quantitative IMER-LC-MS/MS methods for other proteins.