cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Can IT Services Drive Economic Growth: A Linkage Analysis of the ‘Pre-Industrial’ Production Context in Nigeria
Creators: name: Babalola, Olayinka
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: Several countries are pursuing a service-led structural transformation process inadvertently or by design. This thesis examines the process of structural change in a specific class of developing countries, termed ‘pre-industrial’. It investigates whether the Information Technology (IT) service sector can catalyse economic growth, performing like the manufacturing sector in industrial economies. Pre-industrial countries such as Nigeria are undergoing ‘pre-industrial deindustrialisation’, whereby the share of manufacturing in employment and value-added declines at lower levels of per-capita income compared to industrialised countries. In this thesis, the precipitating factors for the emergence of services in the pre-industrial context are investigated from the perspective of the interaction between deindustrialisation and tertiarisation processes. Service sector heterogeneity is re-examined from the viewpoint of IT producer service use in the production process, as not all services can drive economic growth. A composite index for IT Producer Services is developed using Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to facilitate evaluation of the contribution of IT services to production and economic growth in pre-industrial contexts. A Hirschmanian linkage approach is employed to determine the growth-inducing effects of IT Producer Services at the firm level. Production, fiscal or consumption, financial and technological linkages, all of which aid linkage formation, are juxtaposed against technological capabilities in firms. In this thesis, a mixed methods approach is deployed involving case studies of selected firms, using results from a survey of IT firms in Lagos, and statistical analysis to develop a composite index. This thesis finds that the deindustrialisation trajectory of a country and the drivers of deindustrialisation and tertiarisation are fundamental to the role of services in catalysing growth. These processes shape the producer services which emerge, the technological capabilities developed in producer service firms, the linkages formed between sectors and how IT producer services are utilised in the production process to generate economic growth.
Molecular dynamics simulation of the effect of bond flexibility on the transport properties of water
Creators: name: Raabe, Gabriele
name: Sadus, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Molecular dynamics simulations for the shear viscosity and self-diffusion coefficient of pure water were performed to investigate the effect of including intramolecular degrees of freedom in simple point charge (SPC) models over a wide range of state points. Results are reported for the flexible SPC/Fw model, its rigid SPC counterpart, and the widely used SPC/E model. The simulations covered the liquid phase from 277.15 to 363.15 K and the supercritical phase at 673.15 K and pressures up to 200 MPa. The flexibility exhibited by the SPC/Fw model results in slowing down of the dynamics. That is, it results in higher shear viscosities and lower diffusion coefficients than can be obtained from the rigid model, resulting in better agreement with experimental data. Significantly, the SPC/Fw model can be used to adequately predict the diffusion coefficients at ambient and supercritical temperatures over a wide range of pressures.
MILLIY MUNOSABATNING INTEGRATSIYALASHUVIDA O'ZLIKNI ANGLASH MUAMMOLARI
Creators: name: Tursunova, Gulruh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada qadim zamonlardan to bugungi kungacha milliy-ma’naviy tarbiyaning sharq olimlarimizning asarlarida aks etishi va bu asarlarni g‘arb olimlarimizning asarlari bilan qiyosiy taxlil kilish jarayonini o‘rganish. Oilada farzandlarni milliy ma’naviy tarbiyalashning milliy va ma’naviy omillarini  millat urf-odatlarini, udumlarini, an’analarining yosh avlodni tarbiyalashda mehr va muxabbatning  o‘rni va ahamiyatini yoritish dolzarb masala ekanligi ta’kidlanadi. Xalq  hayotida mavjud bo‘lgan tartib va qoidalarning  oilada barkamol avlod tarbiyasiga ta’siri.
title: Beyond violence: Commodity, nature and the expansion of a global market in late imperial south-eastern Mongolia
Creators: name: Shan, Siping
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: In the winter of 1891, a bloody storm swept the south-eastern region of Mongolia, which had provided a home for Mongols, Manchus and Han Chinese over the preceding two centuries. Followers of heterodox sects attacked local Mongol settlements and Christian churches, some even attempting to establish their own earthly regimes. The most active sect amongst them was the Jindandao 金丹道 (Golden Elixir Sect), making this event known as the ‘Jindandao incident’. Inevitably, this phenomenon provoked the Qing government, which was still recovering from multiple uprisings throughout its empire: Taiping, Nian, Muslim and other local rebellions, and large-scale unrest in the Qing empire’s northwest. Hence, the Qing government immediately sent armed forces to suppress the rebels. Although the unrest was pacified within two months, it still proved extremely destructive to local society; thousands of local residents lost their lives and hundreds of settlements vanished. And because different religious and ethnic groups were intent on eliminating their competitors, the local demographic structure was profoundly affected, not least providing a factor for the incipient independence movement in twentieth-century Mongolia. This paper will demonstrate that the ‘Jindandao event’ was triggered by the commoditisation of the local natural resources, representing a fundamental change in environmental ideology as a by-product of the global market system’s accelerating expansion. Therefore, the conflict between the Han immigrants and the Mongol natives was not a result of different lifestyles, but a consequence of both being integrated into a global market. Competition over the local natural commodities and the desire to maximise profits also ignited conflict between the various sectarian movements, as well as with the Christian congregations. For this reason, we can conclude that not ideological divergence was at fault in the break-up of Mongolia, but a conflict between different types of social organisation, each trying to afford their members added advantages in an unstable commercialised new world order.
title: The Saudi Legislative Approach and Judicial Attitude Towards the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Agreements and Awards
Creators: name: Alsulamy, Hamel Joreef A.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this thesis is to establish the Saudi legislative approach and judicial attitude towards I) the enforcement of agreements providing for arbitration in a foreign jurisdiction which is implemented by Saudi Arbitration Law of 2012 (SAL 2012), and II) the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards (FAAs) which is implemented by the Enforcement Law of 2012 (EL). Since the promulgation of SAL 2012 and the EL, there has been no extensive research with a particular focus on the compatibility of these two national legislations with the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 1985 (NYC). Moreover, there has been limited analysis of the extent to which these two different national legislations impact the Saudi judicial attitude towards the enforcement of such agreements and awards. With the use of the doctrinal and comparative methods, this thesis seeks to convince the reader that: I) the Saudi legislative approach and judicial attitude towards the enforcement of such agreements are largely positive owing to SAL 2012 and its arbitration-friendly provisions. As a result, Saudi courts have ended the scholarly assimilation of foreign arbitration and foreign litigation. And II) the Saudi legislative approach and judicial attitude towards the enforcement of FAAs are ambivalent, reflecting both a positive and negative stance. Accordingly, FAAs are highly likely to be enforced in Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, they will be enforced under conditions of the EL that are more demanding than those prescribed under the NYC. The negative stance may stem from 1) that the question of how different sources of the Saudi legal system, namely Shari’ah, international treaties, and domestic laws, interact in the case of conflict has not been sufficiently answered in either theory or practice; and/or 2) the EL reinforces the analogy between the enforcement of FAAs and the enforcement of foreign judgments to the extent that defining characteristic of international commercial arbitration (ICA) (i.e., sui generis) is discounted at the enforcement stage.
title: Fuelling Culture: Art, Race, and Capitalism on the Arabian Peninsula
Creators: name: Entwistle, Maia Holtermann
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is about how racial capitalism and empire have enabled the creation of the Gulf’s cultural infrastructure, which includes Saadiyat Cultural District, Art Dubai, and Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art. Some studies of high culture have illustrated how museum collections are rooted in colonial plunder and ordered by colonial epistemologies. Others have examined the effects of neoliberalisation on contemporary art, showing how capitalism eventually assimilates even counter-hegemonic art. Drawing on ethnographic and interview material collected among cultural milieus in the United Arab Emirates, New York, and London, this thesis intervenes in, and bridges, these two research strands. Carbon-based financial interdependence between the Gulf and the West is the visible afterlife of colonialism in the region. I argue that these asymmetrical circuits of capital accumulation underpin the new cultural ecology. The theory of racial capitalism emphasises that racialisations are central to the functioning of the world economy, resolving the contradictions inherent in liberal institution-building under the profoundly hierarchical conditions of global markets. Working with these insights, I show how orientalist imaginings of the Gulf contributed to the opening of its art market, and how white epistemologies have legitimised this enterprise and its violent effects. I examine how these cultural infrastructures form part of the Gulf states’ post-oil vision, elucidating how their built environments attempt to manage difference by turning the unruly multiplicity of urban space into homogenous and marketable identities. Bringing these together I argue that, despite centring decolonial aesthetics, the Gulf’s cultural infrastructure contributes forcefully to colonialism. Its institutions enshrine the Gulf’s colonial relations with subaltern subjects from the postcolonies on its peripheries and demonstrate the persistence of a racial calculus that prioritises whiteness. This infrastructure thus underscores that, rather than provincialise Europe, postcolonialism must stretch its concepts to the changing constellation of power precipitated by maturing capitalist processes.
Supplement Tables S2 and S3 for McClenachan et al. 2024: Reference lists for historical Pacific cod catch reconstruction from AD 1864 to 1950
Creators: name: McClenachan, Loren
name: Anderson, Bruce
name: Addison, Jason
name: Barbeaux, Steven J.
name: Moore, Karoline
name: Muir, Kai
name: Reedy, Katherine
name: Spies, Ingrid B.
name: West, Catherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310305
subject: Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
classificationCode: 310306
subject: Palaeoecology
classificationCode: 300505
subject: Fisheries management
classificationCode: 430307
subject: Environmental history
classificationCode: 430107
subject: Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)

description: In the Gulf of Alaska, a series of marine heat waves depleted Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) biomass to the lowest abundance ever recorded and led to the fishery’s closure in 2020. While the fishery has been productive for decades, this collapse may have historical precedents. Traditional knowledge holders refer to cod as “the fish that stop,” with the 1930s suggested as a period of decline. Here we conduct a catch reconstruction of the early commercial fishery (1864-1950), confirming a rapid catch decline in the 1920s and 1930s. Next, we evaluate evidence for possible drivers. We document changes to demand and technology that contributed to declining catch. However, we also find both qualitative and quantitative evidence of depletion, suggesting catch declines were not driven entirely by social factors. Overfishing may have contributed to localised catch declines as evidenced by declining catch rates in heavily fished localities. We also find evidence for climate as a driver of regional decline, with the period of catch decline characterized by up to 2° C higher temperatures as compared to the period of high fisheries production. Our analysis underscores the importance of understanding long-term drivers of fisheries productivity the value of linking fisheries and climate history. This data release includes Supplemental Tables S2 and S3, which list the references and sources used to generate the Pacific cod catch reconstruction data.
Evaluating LLM Prompts for Data Augmentation in Multi-label Classification of Ecological Texts
Creators: name: Glazkova, Anna
name: Zakharova, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; J.4; I.7.2
subject: 68T50

description: Large language models (LLMs) play a crucial role in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, improving the understanding, generation, and manipulation of human language across domains such as translating, summarizing, and classifying text. Previous studies have demonstrated that instruction-based LLMs can be effectively utilized for data augmentation to generate diverse and realistic text samples. This study applied prompt-based data augmentation to detect mentions of green practices in Russian social media. Detecting green practices in social media aids in understanding their prevalence and helps formulate recommendations for scaling eco-friendly actions to mitigate environmental issues. We evaluated several prompts for augmenting texts in a multi-label classification task, either by rewriting existing datasets using LLMs, generating new data, or combining both approaches. Our results revealed that all strategies improved classification performance compared to the models fine-tuned only on the original dataset, outperforming baselines in most cases. The best results were obtained with the prompt that paraphrased the original text while clearly indicating the relevant categories.
description: Ivannikov ISPRAS Open Conference (ISPRAS) 2024
Forefronting Welsh through English
Creators: name: Newbold, David
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

Alys Conran’s first novel, Pigeon, (2016), relates the misadventure of a disaffected young Welsh boy, partly through the eyes of his friend and accomplice Iola, who, like Pigeon, comes from a broken family. Both are growing up in a bleak post industrial village in North Wales, never named, possibly Bethesda, the setting for one of the finest novels ever written in Welsh, Caradog Prichard’s Un nos ola leuad, which also charts the psychological undercurrents of a pre-adolescent boy trying to make sense of the world in which he finds himself, as he wanders innocently along a path of self-destruction. Prichard’s novel, written half a century ago, is in Welsh. Conran, a native speaker of Welsh, writes in English. In choosing to do so, she offers insights into the way in which the two languages of Wales have been brought together through the media, through a bilingual educational system, and through changed attitudes towards both English and Welsh in the wake of devolution, more functional and less emotively charged. Pigeon and Iola are Welsh speakers, but they resort to English not just to interact with Pigeon’s monolingual step-sister, brought to the village by a violent Englishman who moves in with Pigeon’s mother, but also to play out their own fantasies, fueled by the language of films and social media. In short, Pigeon, with its continual reference to the language use of its protagonists, can be seen as an exploration of ‘translanguaging’, a term that first appeared in Welsh as trawsieithu (Williams 1994) and has been defined by Canagarajah (2011) as “the ability of multilingual speakers to shuttle between languages, treating the diverse languages that form their repertoire as an integrated system”.

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Supplement Tables S2 and S3 for McClenachan et al. 2024: Reference lists for historical Pacific cod catch reconstruction from AD 1864 to 1950
Creators: name: Addison, Jason
name: McClenachan, Loren
name: Anderson, Bruce
name: Barbeaux, Steven J.
name: Moore, Karoline
name: Muir, Kai
name: Reedy, Katherine
name: Spies, Ingrid B.
name: West, Catherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310305
subject: Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
classificationCode: 310306
subject: Palaeoecology
classificationCode: 300505
subject: Fisheries management
classificationCode: 430307
subject: Environmental history
classificationCode: 430107
subject: Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)

description: In the Gulf of Alaska, a series of marine heat waves depleted Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) biomass to the lowest abundance ever recorded and led to the fishery’s closure in 2020. While the fishery has been productive for decades, this collapse may have historical precedents. Traditional knowledge holders refer to cod as “the fish that stop,” with the 1930s suggested as a period of decline. Here we conduct a catch reconstruction of the early commercial fishery (1864-1950), confirming a rapid catch decline in the 1920s and 1930s. Next, we evaluate evidence for possible drivers. We document changes to demand and technology that contributed to declining catch. However, we also find both qualitative and quantitative evidence of depletion, suggesting catch declines were not driven entirely by social factors. Overfishing may have contributed to localised catch declines as evidenced by declining catch rates in heavily fished localities. We also find evidence for climate as a driver of regional decline, with the period of catch decline characterized by up to 2° C higher temperatures as compared to the period of high fisheries production. Our analysis underscores the importance of understanding long-term drivers of fisheries productivity the value of linking fisheries and climate history. This data release includes Supplemental Tables S2 and S3, which list the references and sources used to generate the Pacific cod catch reconstruction data.
Voci per la biografia di un paese
Creators: name: Paci, Francesca Romana
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

The whole of Yvonne Vera’s narrative production (five published novels and a number of short stories) is steeped in the history of her own country. Though faithful to historical facts, Vera choses to focus her attention on individual lives, giving voice, she says, to those who are not given voice by the official treatment of history. Never forgetting the Pre-Colonial past of Zimbabwe, from her first novel, Nehanda, to the fifth, The Stone Virgins, Vera makes her characters fight against the harsh social and cultural imprisonment of Colonialism as well as against the atavistic patterns of African culture. While she shows that women are predestined victims, overpowered as they are by hostile realities especially when they try to break their fetters, Vera creates also epitomic male characters. Especially in The Stone Virgins, the four agonistes, two sister and two men unknown one to the other, represent Zimbabwe’s predicament after Independence. The core of Vera’s research is how to remember and yet overcome the past. One of the two men, a Chimurenga former fighter, falls into the pit of violence and death, unable to accept the challenge of freedom and life; the other, an anthropologist and historian, directs all his efforts towards the future, including in the future of his country the imperative of the restoration of the past: the last word of The Stone Virgins is “deliverance”.

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17.05.20_How_SRL_mediates_motivational_beliefs_in_ESL_R4 – Supplemental material for The role of growth mindset, self-efficacy and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning and English language learning achievements
Creators: name: Bai, Barry
name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education
Language Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, 17.05.20_How_SRL_mediates_motivational_beliefs_in_ESL_R4 for The role of growth mindset, self-efficacy and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning and English language learning achievements by Barry Bai and Jing Wang in Language Teaching Research
Supplementary_information - MiR-1587 Regulates DNA Damage Repair and the Radiosensitivity of CRC Cells via Targeting LIG4
Creators: name: Liu, Ruixue
name: Shen, Liping
name: Lin, Chuxian
name: He, Junyan
name: Wang, Qi
name: Qi, Zhenhua
name: Zhang, Qingtong
name: Zhou, Meijuan
name: Wang, Zhidong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Radiology and Organ Imaging

description: Supplementary_information for MiR-1587 Regulates DNA Damage Repair and the Radiosensitivity of CRC Cells via Targeting LIG4 by Ruixue Liu, Liping Shen, Chuxian Lin, Junyan He, Qi Wang, Zhenhua Qi, Qingtong Zhang, Meijuan Zhou and Zhidong Wang in Dose-Response
Molecular simulation of the phase behavior of fluids and fluid mixtures using the synthetic method
Creators: name: Sadus, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A new molecular simulation procedure is reported for determining the phase behavior of fluids and fluid mixtures, which closely follows the experimental synthetic method. The simulation procedure can be implemented using Monte Calro or molecular dynamics in either the microcanonical or canonical statistical ensembles. Microcanonical molecular dynamics simulations are reported for the phase behavior of both the pure Lennard-Jones fluid and a Lennard-Jones mixture. The vapor pressures for the pure fluid are in good agreement with Monte Carlo Gibbs ensemble and Gibbs-Duhem calculations. The Lennard-Jones mixture is composed of equal size particles, with dissimilar energy parameters (ɛ2/ɛ1 = 1/2, ɛ12/ɛ1 = 1/math). The binary Lennard-Jones mixture exhibits liquid-liquid equilibria at high pressures and the simulation procedure allows us to estimate the coordinates of the high-pressure branch of the critical curve.
A Struggle Between Literary and Self-Cannibalisation
Creators: name: Polatti, Alessia
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

This article discusses the after-lives of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) as they have been rendered in V.S. Naipaul’s tenth novel Guerrillas (1975). Following the concept of ‘literary anthropophagy’ theorised by Oswald de Andrade in 1928 and then adopted by several postcolonial writers as a metaphor of reverse appropriation, this article argues that Naipaul’s novel can be read as an extreme form of literary cannibalism. Naipaul’s violent appropriation and ‘digestion’ of the Brontëan works are exemplified by the ironic interconnections among the characters of the novels, their gender role reversals, the peculiar reshaping of the colonial subtext, and the trope of rape. In particular, by means of these strategies, the author subverts the Victorian assumptions of order and creates a chaotic world in which the Brontëan references become the tools for a postcolonial ‘cannibalisation’ of 19th century fiction. In this light, literary cannibalism is not a mere rewriting of English literature, but Naipaul’s personal way of interrogating and ‘cannibalising’ himself through the reversal of the English canon.

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title: Emigration State in Transition: Foreign policy goals in Myanmar’s emigration policies and practices
Creators: name: Khemanitthathai, Sirada
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis demonstrates how migration constitutes a salient element of both Myanmar’s foreign policy goals and its relations with foreign receiving states. It examines the implications of Myanmar’s migration policies and practices by focusing on two aspects: firstly, it considers ethnic politics in relation to Myanmar’s core foreign policy goals, and secondly, it analyses the shifts in Myanmar’s emigration policies in response to receiving states and the international community. The study employs qualitative research methods by collecting data from semi-structured interviews with migration-related government officers, non-governmental agencies and international organisations. These were conducted during the fieldwork in Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. The study is also based on the analysis of primary material, such as archival documents and media coverage, and secondary materials. Using a within-case comparative approach, this thesis inductively illustrates how the military regime, which ruled Myanmar up to 2010, and the quasi-civilian governments, which began in 2011, utilised international labour migration to signal their demands in foreign relations. This thesis applies a state-centric ontology to investigate state behaviour in the wider context of international migration. This thesis does not intend to contest existing migration studies on Myanmar, but to extend the field of migration studies by including foreign policy analysis in the study. This thesis argues that Myanmar’s emigration policies and practices, including its refusal to act in certain situations, serve the country’s foreign policy objectives, which are highly influenced by the domestic political landscape. Myanmar’s ethnic politics is the main foreign policy imperative behind its various responses on international migration vis-a-vis different receiving countries, namely Thailand and Malaysia. Myanmar employs restrictive emigration policies and practices against receiving states when they intervene with Myanmar’s ethnic politics. By contrast, Myanmar utilises permissive emigration policies toward receiving states that maintain neutrality on Myanmar’s ethnic politics. Moreover, the political transition from a military regime to a quasi-civilian regime also shaped the government’s stance in emigration policies. Before the regime changed in 2011, the fully authoritarian government prioritised domestic ethnic politics as the sole foreign policy goal in the implementation of emigration policies. However, the hybrid regime that came to power in 2011 has aligned more with international norms while preserving the core political goal of maintaining the continuity of the old establishment. As a result, Myanmar’s migration policies continue corresponded with and are used as a tool in its foreign policy, even as it has shifted as a result of regime transformation.
Ritta parmi les bombes et Parler étrangement
Creators: name: Tumia, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

Between 1910 and 1975, Francophone Lebanese authors witness an evolution in their relation with French language that shows the necessity to ‘get out’ of their mother tongue in order to seize their identity in a better way. Despite a certain nationalist suspicion, this literature demonstrates all its relevance and authenticity. Lately, the generation of writers born in Lebanon during the Civil War puts itself in the continuity of this approach by means of a writing emerging from the memories of the ruins and corpses that inhabited their childhood. So, what is at stake when childhood and war cohabit in the same page some decades after the end of the war? How is the mother tongue perceived? And which characteristics does the linguistic ‘exile’ take in the poetic writing? Ritta Baddoura, Lebanese poet born in 1980 at Deir-el-Kamar and laureate of the Prix Max Jacob découverte 2015 for Parler étrangement, continuously explores this inextricable link among childhood, war and language in her collections. In this sense, we intend to analyse some texts of Ritta parmi le bombes and the path of tongue’s ‘shapes’ in Parler étrangement. We will do this in order to find new stakes in the poetic experience that could reveal original approaches and dynamics in the relation to a theme that never ceases to haunt the Francophone Lebanese poem.

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title: Daaras and development discourses: Three interventions targeting the practice of begging by talibés in urban Senegal
Creators: name: Macleod, Shona
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: The practice of begging by talibés (Qur’anic school students) in urban Senegal has long attracted the attention of international development actors who either see the talibés’ begging as the result of the exclusion of their daaras (traditional Qur’anic schools) from the state education system, or see the talibés as victims of child trafficking and exploitation. This thesis problematises both framings to understand how global development discourses influence state and NGO practice and policies towards daaras at the local and national levels. Based on interviews conducted in 2017/18 with NGO workers, state officials and Qur’anic teachers, the thesis explores the construction of talibés (as Qur’anic school students, or, exploited children) and their teachers, or traffickers, as objects in need of development assistance or regulation. It focuses on the blurred boundaries between narratives about talibé begging that each relate to a different branch of global development discourse, be it Education for All or the anti-child trafficking agenda. This thesis argues that these differing discourses both lead to, and are the result of, a fragmented landscape of institutions, structures, and organisations each claiming to be tackling a particular understanding of the problem and operating largely in silos. It highlights the dynamics of competition that exist between structures, as well as how the engagement of Qur’anic teachers is centralised. Requiring the existence of individuals who can translate between religious and secular worlds, this engagement and resistance within it both depend upon the use of dual narratives. Using case studies of three projects – the modernisation of daaras, the state’s push to remove children from the street, and a USAID project mobilising communities at municipal level – the thesis traces how these discourses and dynamics play out in practice, drawing attention to the contradictions and continuities between these projects.
Molecular dynamics simulation of the dielectric constant of water: The effect of bond flexibility
Creators: name: Raabe, Gabriele
name: Sadus, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The role of bond flexibility on the dielectric constant of water is investigated via molecular dynamics simulations using a flexible intermolecular potential SPC/Fw [Y. Wu, H. L. Tepper, and G. A. Voth, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 024503 (2006)]. Dielectric constants and densities are reported for the liquid phase at temperatures of 298.15 K and 473.15 K and the supercritical phase at 673.15 K for pressures between 0.1 MPa and 200 MPa. Comparison with both experimental data and other rigid bond intermolecular potentials indicates that introducing bond flexibility significantly improves the prediction of both dielectric constants and pressure-temperature-density behavior. In some cases, the predicted densities and dielectric constants almost exactly coincide with experimental data. The results are analyzed in terms of dipole moments, quadrupole moments, and equilibrium bond angles and lengths. It appears that bond flexibility allows the molecular dipole and quadrupole moment to change with the thermodynamic state point, and thereby mimic the change of the intermolecular interactions in response to the local environment.
title: Borders, Law, and Violence: Irregular Migration in Angola
Creators: name: Kula, Lucia
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2022

description: On borders, law and violence, this thesis explores the intersecting lives of irregular migrants in Angola. With a particular focus on irregular migration and forced displacement between the northern borders of Angola and The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), I interrogate how identity, belonging, and community are shaped through the epistemology of legal scholarship. Through an interrogation of feminist jurisprudence and TWAIL scholarship, I examine how the understanding of legal language weaves our perception of (il)legality and (im)mobility, and how conflict and violence affects displaced bodies through the multidimensional continuum of forced migration. A non-linear transition between space and time is used through an autoetnographic recounting of my family’s lived experience through legal and bordered spaces, and temporal spaces of belonging. A collection of life stories from the field are levelled within the discretion of legal practices and legislation to mitigate the exclusion of non-citizens in spaces of conditional legal statuses. Through borders, through space, and time, the complexities of the governance around borders as institutions where the limitations of the law materialise to change the dynamism of the bordering processes which categorises the identities of irregular migrants is challenged. The thesis additionally questions exclusion of specialised categories of protection in current refugee legal framework and facilitates an extension of this framework to consider strategies around legal status, protection and mobility in the way that it enforces paradoxical experience of the irregular migrant’s lived experience. To understand why women’s movement in forced migration settings should challenge the permanence of institutionalised insecurity where the irregular migrant is “othered”, criminalised and excluded from community participation, even within the context of internal borders and identity politics which do not take into account the intersectional structures of identities at the border. Who crosses and has presence at the border is then used a premise to interrogate what the border represents through time and space, in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Supp_material_SMR - Μeasuring and Visualizing Coders’ Reliability: New Approaches and Guidelines From Experimental Data
Creators: name: Lamprianou, Iasonas
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Sociology

description: Supp_material_SMR for Μeasuring and Visualizing Coders’ Reliability: New Approaches and Guidelines From Experimental Data by Iasonas Lamprianou in Sociological Methods & Research
IJTIMOIY AXLOQ ME'YORLARINING MAZMUN-MOHIYATI
Creators: name: To'raqulov, Akbar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada ijtimoiy axloq me’yorlarining mazmun-mohiyati, ijtimoiylashuvning o‘ziga xos jihatlari, talabalarning ijtimoiylashuv jarayonlari, axloqiy tamoyillar xususida ma’lumotlar keltirilgan. Shu bilan birga axloqiy me’yor munosabatlarining boshqarish usullari, axloqning birdamlik, insonparvarlik, yakuniy maqsad kabi aosoiy tamoyillarining mazmun-mohiyati yoritilgan. Me’yor tushunchasi, axloqiy me’yor tushunchasi hamda ijtimoiy axloq me’yorlari kabi tushunchalarga tavsif berilgan.
Supplemental Material, JBD922618_PRISM_checklist - Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
Creators: name: Waxman, Jordana A.
name: DiLorenzo, Miranda G.
name: Riddell, Rebecca R. Pillai
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, JBD922618_PRISM_checklist for Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis by Jordana A. Waxman, Miranda G. DiLorenzo and Rebecca R. Pillai Riddell in International Journal of Behavioral Development
Supplemental Material, JBD922618_supplement_3 - Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
Creators: name: Waxman, Jordana A.
name: DiLorenzo, Miranda G.
name: Riddell, Rebecca R. Pillai
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, JBD922618_supplement_3 for Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis by Jordana A. Waxman, Miranda G. DiLorenzo and Rebecca R. Pillai Riddell in International Journal of Behavioral Development
Estrés en el personal asistencial y administrativo del banco de sangre de un hospital de Chiclayo
Creators: name: Carbonel Mego, Socorro Giovanna
Publisher: name: Repositorio institucional USS
Year: 2021
Subjects: Estrés
Servicio de salud
Actitud

description: La tesis contiene el estrés en el personal asistencial y administrativo del banco desangre de un hospital de Chiclayo. 2020-2021. Lo cual llevó a explorar situacionesy características que manifestó el personal en referencia, que condujeron al estrés.Los aportes de diversos autores enriquecieron definiciones, causas,consecuencias, características y tipos de estrés. En referencia al abordaje teóricose tuvo en cuenta los aportes de Hans Selye, basado en el enfoque biopsicosocial.En el problema se planteó indagar las características del estrés que presentan lossujetos de estudio, aplicándose instrumentos de investigación cómo la Escala deLikert y el Estresómetro de Hugo Rostagno. Se recolectó los datos cualitativos, siendo los resultados que el personal enreferencia muestra características altamente significativas, específicamente Deacuerdo 48.2% y Muy De acuerdo el 18.3% lo que permitió identificar la reacciónde los participantes de estudio ante el estrés.Con relación al agente estresor, doce personas equivalentes al 75% sienten tensiónmuscular y rapidez en los latidos; diez personas equivalentes al 62.5% respondenal estresor tristeza y nueve personas equivalentes al 56.25% responden al estresor:enojo y cansancio. Afirmaciones que califican la actitud que se está midiendo.Es evidente que el personal asistencial administrativo del banco de sangre muestrasignos de estrés como fuertes latidos del corazón, tensión muscular, tristeza y enocasiones ganas de salir corriendo, que los lleva a no poder descansar ni renovarenergías.Los hallazgos confirman el conocimiento previo, los mismos que son congruentescon los datos obtenidos.
Resilience to summer bushfire in the threatened orchid, Caladenia tessellata, in terms of pollination success, herbivory, and mycorrhizal associations
Creators: name: Phillips, Ryan
name: Hatley, Timothy
name: Li, Xia
name: Dimon, Richard J
name: Reiter, Noushka
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3104
subject: Evolutionary biology
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology

description: In some biogeographic regions, many threatened plant species occur in habitats that periodically experience bushfire. However, we currently have relatively little information on how important plant-animal and plant-fungus interactions are affected by these fires. For the threatened sexually deceptive orchid Caladenia tessellata we test whether pollination rate, frequency of florivory, and the species of mycorrhizae the plant associates with differ between burnt and unburnt sites. Interestingly, pollination rates were unaffected by fire, demonstrating that populations of the thynnine wasp pollinator can persist post-fire. However, there was a significant negative relationship between number of flowers in a population and pollination success, which is likely a by-product of a deceptive pollination strategy. Despite the presence of vertebrate herbivores, florivory rates were low in both burnt and unburnt sites. Caladenia tessellata associated primarily with the mycorrhiza Serendiptia australiana, regardless of fire history. While our results suggest resilience to a one-off summer fire for the ecological interactions that we measured, it would be interesting to investigate the effects of fire frequency and time of year. High reproductive rates in small populations of C. tessellata suggest these populations may be viable and that retaining them is a high priority for conservation.
Supplemental Material, JBD922618_supplement_4 - Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
Creators: name: Waxman, Jordana A.
name: DiLorenzo, Miranda G.
name: Riddell, Rebecca R. Pillai
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, JBD922618_supplement_4 for Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis by Jordana A. Waxman, Miranda G. DiLorenzo and Rebecca R. Pillai Riddell in International Journal of Behavioral Development
Thermodynamic properties in the molecular dynamics ensemble applied to the Gaussian core model fluid
Creators: name: Mausbach, Peter
name: Sadus, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thermodynamic properties of pressure, energy, isothermal pressure coefficient, thermal expansion coefficient, isothermal and adiabatic compressibilities, isobaric and isochoric heat capacities, Joule-Thomson coefficient, and speed of sound are considered in a classical molecular dynamics ensemble. These properties were obtained using the treatment of Lustig [J. Chem. Phys. 100, 3048 (1994)] and Meier and Kabelac [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 064104 (2006)], whereby thermodynamic state variables are expressible in terms of phase-space functions determined directly from molecular dynamics simulations. The complete thermodynamic information about an equilibrium system can be obtained from this general formalism. We apply this method to the Gaussian core model fluid because the complex phase behavior of this simple model provides a severe test for this treatment. Waterlike and other anomalies are observed for some of the thermodynamic properties of the Gaussian core model fluid.
Erratum: Solid-liquid equilibria and triple points of n-6 Lennard-Jones fluids (Journal of Chemical Physics (2009) 131 (174504))
Creators: name: Ahmed, Alauddin
name: Sadus, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Corrects an error in Ahmed, Alauddin and Sadus, Richard J. (2009). Solid-liquid equilibria and triple points of n-6 Lennard-Jones fluids. Journal of Chemical Physics, 131 (17). For the original article, see: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/69526
title: The HE Free Speech Bill must Incorporate the Equality Act
Creators: name: Renton, David
name: Scott-Baumann, Alison
Publisher: name: SOAS Influencing the Corridors of Power project (ICOP)
Year: 2021

description: Summary: Since mid-May, the universities minister Michelle Donelan has insisted that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will not require universities to accept speech that contravenes the Equality Act: “We can hold and articulate views which are objectionable to others as long as they don’t cross the threshold of hate speech” This statement directly contradicts the fact that the bill now before parliament is an absolutist free speech bill, ensuring that the Equality Act will cease to apply.
Supplemental_Table_1._Institutional_vancomycin_dosing - Short Versus Extended Duration Vancomycin and Piperacillin/Tazobactam and the Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury in Noncritically Ill Patients
Creators: name: Traversa, Alfredo
name: Drayton A. Hammond
name: Peksa, Gary D.
name: DeMott, Joshua M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental_Table_1._Institutional_vancomycin_dosing for Short Versus Extended Duration Vancomycin and Piperacillin/Tazobactam and the Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury in Noncritically Ill Patients by Alfredo Traversa, Drayton A. Hammond, Gary D. Peksa and Joshua M. DeMott in Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Postcolonial Trauma in William Trevor’s Anglo-Irish Big House Trilogy
Creators: name: Monaco, Angelo
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

This article explores William Trevor’s Big House trilogy that is set against the backdrop of the early twentieth century Anglo-Irish tensions. By interweaving postcolonial theory and trauma studies, my investigation seeks to unveil the melancholic and anti-melancholic stance in Trevor’s fiction. Through narrative experimentalism, intertextual and intratextual links and symbolism, Trevor subverts the traditional features of the Big House literary tradition, showing that traumatic colonial history can offer a redemption of sort that discloses the transformative power of literary (postcolonial) imagination.

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W.E.B. Du Bois’s Proto-Afrofuturist Short Fiction: «The Comet»
Creators: name: Elia, Adriano
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

This article examines W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story «The Comet» in the light of the Afrofuturist movement, a transnational and interdisciplinary, theoretical and literary-cultural enterprise that has endeavoured to rethink the history of Black civilisation in order to imagine a different, better, future. A remarkable example of post-apocalyptic, speculative and proto-Afrofuturist short fiction, «The Comet» functions as a fictional counterpart of the influential key concepts – double consciousness, the color line and the veil – previously introduced by Du Bois and it also foreshadows further critical issues and tropes that would be developed later, namely Fanon’s psychology of racism and Ellison’s metaphor of invisibility. Moreover, as a proto-Afrofuturist work of fiction, the story prefigures the post-apocalyptic worlds of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler and becomes a parable in which the supernatural element of the toxic comet allows for interesting speculations on the alienation experienced by people of African descent.

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