cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Application of Machine Learning for the Differential Diagnosis of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures and Epilepsy
Creators: name: Hinchliffe, Chloe Hanna Louise
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are characterised by a lack of epileptic activity in
description: the brain and about one in five referrals to epilepsy clinics actually have this condition. PNES
description: is diagnosed by recording a seizure using video-electroencephalogram (EEG), from which an
description: expert inspects the semiology and the EEG. This method is reliable but expensive, inconvenient
description: for the patient, and not accessible for all hospitals. This could be improved with machine
description: learning classifiers, which are models that can consider multiple inputs at once. Since no single
description: biomarker has been found to diagnose PNES, these classifiers could be a very useful aid to
description: clinicians.

description:

description: The hypothesis of this PhD is that is it possible to identify subjects with PNES from those
description: with epilepsy using non-ictal biomedical signals with machine learning. This was tested using
description: a data set of interictal and preictal EEG and electrocardiograms (ECG) recordings from 48
description: subjects with PNES and 29 subjects with epilepsy. A wide range of features were extracted from
description: the signals and grouped into ‘families’. The performance of the different feature families was
description: evaluated using statistical methods and ranked using two feature ranking methods. The families
description: and the signals themselves were then classified using several machine learning models.

description:

description: The highest classification accuracy reported from purely statistical analysis was 60.67%. The
description: highest balanced accuracy reported by the machine learning models, however, was 97.00%
description: from the ‘all-reduced’ family. Therefore, machine learning was much more effective than using
description: individual features. This PhD has therefore shown that machine learning could be a powerful
description: aid in PNES diagnosis, which can limit the costs by reducing the need for diagnosis with a video
description: recording and review by an expert.
Strengthening population health interventions: developing the CollaboraKTion Framework for Community-Based Knowledge Translation
Creators: name: Jenkins, Emily (Emily K.), 1981-
name: Kothari, Anita
name: Bungay, Vicky
name: Johnson, Joy L.
name: Oliffe, John Lindsay
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Much of the research and theorising in the knowledge translation (KT) field has focused on clinical settings, providing little guidance to those working in community settings. In this study, we build on previous research in community-based KT by detailing the theory driven and empirically-informed CollaboraKTion framework. Methods A case study design and ethnographic methods were utilised to gain an in-depth understanding of the processes for conducting a community-based KT study as a means to distilling the CollaboraKTion framework. Drawing on extensive field notes describing fieldwork observations and interactions as well as evidence from the participatory research and KT literature, we detail the processes and steps undertaken in this community-based KT study as well as their rationale and the challenges encountered. In an effort to build upon existing knowledge, Kitson and colleagues’ co-KT framework, which provides guidance for conducting KT aimed at addressing population-level health, was applied as a coding structure to inform the current analysis. This approach was selected because it (1) supported the application of an existing community-based KT framework to empirical data and (2) provided an opportunity to contribute to the theory and practice gaps in the community-based KT literature through an inductively derived empirical example. Results Analysis revealed that community-based KT is an iterative process that can be viewed as comprising five overarching processes: (1) contacting and connecting; (2) deepening understandings; (3) adapting and applying the knowledge base; (4) supporting and evaluating continued action; and (5) transitioning and embedding as well as several key elements within each of these processes (e.g. building on existing knowledge, establishing partnerships). These empirically informed theory advancements in KT and participatory research traditions are summarised in the CollaboraKTion framework. We suggest that community-based KT researchers place less emphasis on enhancing uptake of specific interventions and focus on collaboratively identifying and creating changes to the contextual factors that influence health outcomes. Conclusions The CollaboraKTion framework can be used to guide the development, implementation and evaluation of contextually relevant, evidence-informed initiatives aimed at improving population health, amid providing a foundation to leverage future research and practice in this emergent KT area.
ПРАВОВЫЕ ПОЗИЦИИ КОНСТИТУЦИОННОГО СУДА РФ КАК ОСНОВА ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ ЗАКОННОСТИ В ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ СОТРУДНИКОВ ОРГАНОВ ВНУТРЕННИХ ДЕЛ
Creators: name: КОЖЕВНИКОВ О. А.
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2020
Subjects: Конституционный суд РФ
правовые позиции
органы внутренних дел
правоприменительная практика; повышение квалификации
законность
правопорядок

description: В условиях предстоящего трансформирования текста отдельных положений Конституции РФ, направленных на повышение роли Конституционного суда РФ в обеспечении верховенства высшего по юридической силе акта на всех территории РФ представляется важным в постоянном режиме производить анализ уже имеющихся правовых позиций высшего органа конституционного контроля. В данном исследовании автором предпринята попытка анализа отдельных решений Конституционного суда РФ, посвященных обеспечению законности в деятельности сотрудников органов внутренних дел. Автор полагает, что в рамках осуществления мероприятий по повышению квалификации сотрудников органов внутренних дел необходимо уделять первостепенное внимание на неукоснительное соблюдение в повседневной практике сотрудниками органов внутренних дел правовых позиций Конституционного суда РФ, поскольку последние является одним из действенных инструментов повышения уровня законности в деятельности подразделений МВД России
Grauzone Indonesien: Bericht über die ILGA Asien Konferenz 2010 in Surabaya
Creators: name: Von Vacano, Mechthild
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Aktivistinnen aus über 20 Ländern sind angereist, um an der vierten regionalen Konferenz der ILGA Asien, des Asien-Zweigs der International Lesbian and Gay Association, teilzunehmen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Exploring alcohol consumption, psychological distress and health self-management in people with type 2 diabetes.
Creators: name: Callis, Sophie
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Aims: Using two data-sets, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of alcohol consumption among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in England and Wales, compared with people without T2DM, and to explore associations between alcohol consumption and both psychological and behavioural outcome measures in people with T2DM. Methods: Two data-sets were used. 7,848 participants from the Health Survey for England (HSE) 2016 (549 with T2DM) completed the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) and reported average weekly alcohol consumption in units. Sixty-one UK participants with T2DM were recruited through diabetes peer-support websites to complete a survey, comprising the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), WEMWBS, Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ), and Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS). Spearman’s rank correlations, Chi-squared, Mann-Whitney U, and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to explore the relationships between alcohol consumption and mental wellbeing (WEMWBS) in both samples, psychological distress (GHQ-12) from the HSE, and diabetes-related distress (DDS) and self-management (DSMQ) from the online survey. Results: From HSE data, people with T2DM were more likely to be non-drinkers (OR=2.087) and to have poorer mental wellbeing (p<0.0005) and psychological distress (p<0.0005) than people without T2DM. Non-drinkers with T2DM had poorer mental wellbeing (p<0.0005) and psychological distress (p<0.0005) than drinkers. From the online survey, AUDIT score was not associated with general (p=0.323) or diabetes-related distress (p=0.475). A greater AUDIT score was associated with poorer glucose management (p<0.0005) and dietary control (p=0.041), but not with physical activity (p=0.229) or healthcare use (p=0.708). Conclusions: Alcohol consumption is less prevalent among people with T2DM than the general population but may be associated with difficulties in some aspects of self-management. Drinking is associated with lower psychological distress than non-drinking among people with T2DM. Tentative clinical recommendations are made based on these findings and areas for further research are suggested. Keywords: type 2 diabetes, alcohol, self-management, distress, wellbeing
СУДЕБНАЯ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКАЯ ЭКСПЕРТИЗА ПО УГОЛОВНОМУ ДЕЛУ ОБ ОСКОРБЛЕНИИ СОТРУДНИКА ФСИН РОССИИКАК ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЯ ВЛАСТИ
Creators: name: МАЙСТРЕНКО Григорий Александрович
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2020
Subjects: судебная лингвистическая экспертиза
речевой продукт
оскорбление
честь
достоинство
служебная и/или профессиональная деятельность
представитель власти
сотрудник ФСИН
распорядительные полномочия

description: В статье раскрывается механизм судебной лингвистической экспертизы, проводимой в рамках производства по уголовному делу по факту оскорбления сотрудника ФСИН. Отмечаются проблемные аспекты уголовной ответственности за оскорбление сотрудника мест лишения свободы или мест содержания под стражей. Автор указывает на необходимость правильной квалификация подобных преступных проявлений. Подчеркивается важность защиты чести и достоинства сотрудников ФСИН как представителей государственной власти.
Fretboard Navigation Strategies in Jazz Guitar Improvisation: Theory and Practice
Creators: name: Dean, James Christian Roger
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: Jazz Guitar
Improvisation
Analysis
Pedagogy
Fretboard

description: This thesis explores how the standard guitar fretboard may be navigated during common-practice jazz improvisation through the analysis of expert practitioners and the construction of relevant theoretical models. Analysis of some representative players is used to develop some novel graphic representations of selected improvisations with a focus on how the fretboard is navigated and to show how an understanding of individual navigations can illuminate ‘fretboard personalities’ from which various navigational strategies can be discovered, extracted and applied for the learner, as well as for purely analytical purposes. Composed of two main sections - theory and practice - the theory section includes contextual and analytical work, whilst the practice section applies some of the findings of the analysis as a mechanism which can be used for jazz guitar improvisation pedagogy.
The currency of distrust : performance, theatricality, and representative democracy.
Creators: name: Peetz, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: The Currency of Distrust examines the intersection of politics and performance through a focus on performances of the U.S. presidency. This research asks whether performance and theatricality should be seen as important functional elements, rather than mere embellishments or corrupting distractions, in representative democracy. Initially, the thesis furnishes a historically anchored argument for a conceptual move beyond the antitheatrical prejudice: positing the French Revolution and the perspective of the U.S. Founding Fathers as key moments, this research argues that distrust should be seen as a feature of, not a bug within, a representative system whose foundations are performative and theatrical. Using populism theory to examine the deployment of anti-establishment tropes in presidential performances, the thesis then asks how such performances might shift perceptions of legitimacy by positing performing politicians as authentic and incorruptible outsiders. This project is interdisciplinary both in its theoretical framework and its methods. It draws on theatre and performance theories of performativity, acting, and theatricality as well as on models of populism and political representation developed in political theory. Following the conceptual argument for the position of performance at the heart of representative democracy, the empirical implications of this argument are explored through a corpus of in-depth interviews with U.S. speechwriters spanning presidential administrations and campaigns from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama. Drawing on the perspectives of those involved in crafting presidential performances, the empirical chapters investigate the significance of performance and theatricality to the institution of the U.S. presidency and the imperative to navigate and mobilise the distrust of political audiences. While positing that distrust inheres within a political system whose core is performance-based, the project thus moves towards an inquiry of what is at stake as this distrust increasingly becomes an explicit focal point around which the theatre of politics revolves.
Materialism and well-being in adolescents.
Creators: name: Barnfield, Carys
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Materialism is associated with negative personal outcomes including reduced well-being, increased risk behaviours, lower quality relationships and reduced pro-social behaviours. Self-determination theory has been used to explain these links, suggesting that dissatisfaction with basic psychological needs underpins this relationship. The majority of the research addressing the effects of materialism is based on adult populations. This thesis aimed to determine the impact of materialism on adolescents.. Part one presents an empirical paper that investigated the association between materialism and well-being within an adolescent sample using comprehensive measures of well-being and materialism. The study also looked at whether satisfaction and frustration with basic psychological needs played an explanatory role within this relationship. Materialism within adolescence was found to be associated with reduced life satisfaction and psychological needs satisfaction had an explanatory role in this relationship. Materialism was not universally related to all well-being dimensions measured. Applications of these findings and future research directions are discussed. Part two of this portfolio is a systematic review of the literature on materialism and well-being within adolescent populations. The findings of the review suggested that materialism was associated with increased health risk behaviours and reduced life satisfaction within adolescent populations. However, the review found large variations in the findings with some contradicting evidence. The review identified methodological issues which limited the conclusions drawn
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Jordan, Rolf
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
title: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Du Boisian Double-Consciousness: Jean Rhys and Jean Toomer
Creators: name: Estes-Hicks, Onita
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: W. E. B. Du Bois

description: W. E. B. Du Bois' famous reflections on the "peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," has almost universally been considered applicable to a plight peculiar to the souls of black people. (Du Bois,1903) Initially constructed in the 1880's when psychology was yet in its infancy in America, this legendary contribution of Du Bois has become known to most readers by an essay appearing in the classic The Souls of Black Folk published in 1903. Du Bois' description of double-consciousness implied that such duality of vision was constant ("always looking at oneself") and shaped by the imperatives of color, a black self forever imprisoned in the negative projections of the white other.
Evaluation of the Insomnia Severity Index as a population-based assessment tool for the prevalence and genetic epidemiology of insomnia
Creators: name: AHMED, SABRINA SHARMIN
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: "INTRODUCTION: Insomnia is a prominent sleep disorder that impacts lifetime morbidity, with substantial socioeconomic costs. In high-income countries, insomnia prevalence is steadily increasing. However, little is known about insomnia in less urbanised, lower-income populations. Baependi is a rural town in the Brazilian heartland known to maintain day-night sleep cycles aligned to natural daylight availability despite electrification. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and genetic epidemiology of insomnia in the Baependi cohort, utilising the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) questionnaire. This cohort was also compared with an urban population, the São Paulo epidemiologic Study (EPISONO). The dimensionality of the ISI as a measure of insomnia was also evaluated.
description: METHODS: Mixed models were used for ISI score distribution and co-variate associations, and to compare subjective insomnia with quantitative sleep duration. Family structure was utilised to create polygenic models of insomnia heritability and manipulated for Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) and analysis of the candidate PER3 polymorphism. Factor analysis was performed to test the psychometric properties of the ISI.
description: RESULTS: Insomnia prevalence in the Baependi cohort was 7.3%, with numerous co-variate associations identified. Prevalence was higher in EPISONO, with notable differences in chronotype and depression. ISI score heritability in Baependi was 19%, and GWAS pinpointed CORO7 as a gene-of-interest. However, no significant association was found between PER3 genotype and ISI score. No definitive ISI factorial model was identified, but assessment of subjective insomnia and quantitative sleep duration did not show any notable disparities between the two measures.
description: CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to describe ISI-reported insomnia distribution and to conduct genetic studies in a general population. Overall, this study provided insight into the complex foundations of insomnia. Evaluation of the ISI suggested it is a potentially suitable measure of insomnia in population studies, although some questionnaire items should be interpreted with caution. "
Assessing Small Island Socio-ecological Resilience for Disaster Risk and Recovery Planning in the Philippines
Creators: name: Talubo, Joan
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Resilience is an encompassing and multifaceted concept which traces its definition and evolution based on the field of discipline in which it is used - and more recently, in the disaster paradigm. There is a wide range of studies on urban resilience, but there have only been a few focusing on small islands as the geographical unit. A socio-ecological system could be used as a unit of analysis of resilience since resilience is a systemic concept. Hence, a small island can be considered as a socio-ecological system and was used as the unit of analysis in this thesis. There are gaps in defining disaster resilience of small islands through a socio-ecological systems approach. Moreover, there are few studies on using the participatory approach for determining indicators of disaster resilience which contribute to a research-policy gap in resilience studies.

description:

description: This research aimed to develop an approach and framework based on indicators which were built and developed with the participation of communities and local practitioners in a case study site in the Philippines. It starts with a literature review of existing indicators and approaches and presents an initial framework based on socio-ecological systems approach. The initial phase explored the disaster resilience of small islands using the indicators in existing literature. The next two phases focus on building and developing indicators using participatory approaches involving the stakeholders on ground: the communities themselves and the local practitioners and national experts in the Philippines. This was done using soft-systems methodology and a variety of participatory tools such as key informant interviews, web-Delphi and experts’ interviews were utilized in combination with statistical analysis. Finally, an integrated and collaborative approach to assess the levels of disaster resilience of the island communities is introduced using the indicators which have been developed through the previous approaches.

description:

description: The findings revealed that participatory approaches validate the existing indicators but also make way for emerging, new ones which have not been given the same attention and significance before. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP) of an island community emerged as a highlight of the indicators indicating the significance of the inherent characteristics of the community to their resilience to disasters. The study also emphasizes that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach in the measurement of resilience and the development of various methodologies should be seen as a positive development in the field. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies strengthens the approach introduced in this thesis for assessing the resilience to disasters of island communities.
ИСКУССТВЕННЫЙ ИНТЕЛЛЕКТ КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТ ЭЛЕКТРОННОГО ПРАВОСУДИЯ: СМАРТ-РЕШЕНИЕ И ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЕ ВЕСЫ ПРАВОСУДИЯ
Creators: name: НОВИКОВА Кира Станиславовна
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2020
Subjects: Электронное правосудие
элементы электронного правосудия
информатизация
судопроизводство
искусственный интеллект
«смарт-решение».

description: в данной статье рассматривается возможность использования искусственного интеллекта при осуществлении правосудия. В статье приведен краткий обзор действующих элементов электронного правосудия в российских судах, а также приведен анализ международного опыта использования искусственного интеллекта в судебной деятельности. В качестве перспективы развития электронного правосудия в Российской Федерации рассмотрена возможность принятия «смарт-решений» искусственным интеллектом.
АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПРАВОВОГО РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ ЛИЦЕНЗИОННЫХ ТРЕБОВАНИЙ В СФЕРЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: РОСТОКИНСКИЙ Александр Владимирович
name: ДАНЕЛЯН Рита Суреновна
name: ШИКУЛА Ильмира Рифкатьевна
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2020
Subjects: право на образование
правовое регулирование
лицензионные требования
образовательная деятельность
законодательство об образовании

description: Освещены отдельные вопросы правового регулирования отношений в связи с осуществлением образовательной деятельности с соблюдением лицензионных требований. Рассматривается негативная практика игнорирования лицензионных требований и влияние неверного толкования нормативных положений вследствие несовершенства законодательства в этой сфере, его «пробельности» на деятельность образовательных организаций и качество оказываемых ими услуг. В результате проведенного анализа законодательства об образовании и иного федерального законодательства, правоприменительной практики и монографических исследований авторами сделан вывод о необходимости совершенствования системы лицензирования образовательной деятельности, сформулированы предложения и рекомендации по оптимизации действующего законодательства в этой сфере.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Wieczorek, Nina
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Improved Bond Equations for Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Bars in Concrete
Creators: name: Pour, Sadaf Moallemi
name: Alam, M. Shahria
name: Milani, Abbas S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This paper explores a set of new equations to predict the bond strength between fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) rebar and concrete. The proposed equations are based on a comprehensive statistical analysis and existing experimental results in the literature. Namely, the most effective parameters on bond behavior of FRP concrete were first identified by applying a factorial analysis on a part of the available database. Then the database that contains 250 pullout tests were divided into four groups based on the concrete compressive strength and the rebar surface. Afterward, nonlinear regression analysis was performed for each study group in order to determine the bond equations. The results show that the proposed equations can predict bond strengths more accurately compared to the other previously reported models.
Viel Lob – Wenig Erfolg: Überblick über die Beziehungen Malaysias und Südafrikas
Creators: name: Mühlfort, Dennis
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Beziehungen zwischen Malaysia und Südafrika sind ein Beispiel für eine bilaterale Süd-Süd-Kooperation auf mehreren Ebenen. Im Verlauf der letzten 50 Jahre unterlagen dabei die Art und das Ausmaß der Zusammenarbeit einem stetigen Wandel.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Liquid metal feasibility and characterisation in reconfigurable antenna applications.
Creators: name: Alqurashi, Khaled Yahya
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This thesis presents the feasibility of liquid metal in reconfigurable antenna applications. Unlike conventional reconfigurable antennas, liquid metal possesses the ability to reconfigure an antenna aperture in new ways largely undiscovered. In this work, the design, analysis and measurement of two liquid metal reconfigurable antennas are carried out bringing together research on materials, microfluidics and electromagnetics. In addition, a like for like comparison of applying liquid metal and PIN diode in pattern reconfigurable antennas is presented. On the RF characterisation, test fixtures are designed, analysed and measured to evaluate liquid metal and copper up to 67 GHz, and PIN diode up to 6 GHz. While various liquid metal antennas exist, the current state of the art has mainly implemented liquid metal in point-like contacts or limited confined areas. On how liquid metal can be used to connect/disconnect large areas of metalisation and achieve radiation performance not possible by using conventional switches is demonstrated in a frequency bandwidth reconfigurable antenna. The antenna results in a 2 dB gain and 24% efficiency enhancement. The second antenna presents a frequency tunable patch antenna formed from liquid metal. The antenna reconfigures its resonance in a continuous manner. A measured total usable spectrum of 73% is achieved. In the like for like pattern reconfigurable antennas comparison, the liquid metal shows no effect on resonance whereas PIN diodes cause 27% resonance shift. The liquid metal antenna shows up to 1.4 dB gain and 13% efficiency higher than that of the PIN diode antenna. In the RF characterisation, the diode shows up to 6.5 dB higher insertion loss than liquid metal. Liquid metal measurements up to 67 GHz show identical behaviour as of copper. Results conclude that liquid metal has a high feasibility in reconfigurable antenna applications and its RF performance is as of a typical conductor.
ON-MERRIT D5.1 Scoping Report: Open Science Outputs in Policy-Making and Public Participation
Creators: name: Reichmann, Stefan
name: Wieser, Bernhard
name: Ross-Hellauer, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Policymakers
Research outputs
Open Science

description: The use of publicly available scientific outputs by policymakers has been claimed to be one of the benefits of Open Science (OS). However, there is yet little empirical evidence as to the impact of OS practices on research uptake by policymakers. In fact, the relationship between evidence and policy is frequently described as a “gap”, highlighting the difficulties that prohibit the use of scientific evidence in policymaking. The deliverable addresses two key research questions "How are Open Science outputs used in policymaking?" and "Which societal actors participate in Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) and OS policymaking?" by systematically summarizing the evidence to date on how policymakers use scholarly resources with a special focus on open research practices. The systematic review found that researchers and policymakers are described as living in different and frequently incompatible worlds. Policymakers seek information that is timely, relevant, credible, and readily available. They struggle with knowledge management and appraisal of research outputs, in addition to a lack of resources, knowledge, and skills to utilize research. Research awareness is low, and few academics participate directly in the policy process. Factors conducive to research uptake are access to relevant and clear information and good relationships between researchers and policymakers, as policymakers prefer receiving information through personal networks rather than academic publications. The reviewed literature suggests that the availability of information in the form of academic publications and other research outputs is of secondary concern. Improved infrastructure for sharing scientific outputs could have a positive impact on the use of evidence in policymaking and introduces a set of methods to be used in other research tasks associated with this project.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Hesse, Nicole
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) malladai
Creators: name: Tillier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Hemerobiidae
Wesmaelius
Wesmaelius malladai

description: Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) malladai (Navás, 1925)
Hemerobius malladai Navás, 1925: 30.
Kimminsia killingtoni Morton in Fraser, 1942: 80.
CATÉGORIE ZOOGÉOGRAPHIQUE. — Espèce arctico-alpine.
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — M10-CAÏ2000 T 1-M2 (1 ♀); M11- LAR 2000 T 4-M2 (1 ♂); M11- LAR 2000 T 2-M1 (1 ♀).
DISTRIBUTION DANS LE MERCANTOUR. — Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage (Cocquempot & Chambon 1990); col de la Cazolle (Leraut 1992c); Saorge, Larche.
description: Published as part of Tillier, Pierre, 2015, Raphidioptera et Neuroptera (Insecta, Neuropterida) du Parc national du Mercantour (France), pp. 581-594 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 588, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5156903
Mangelhaft: Die fehlende Solidarität in Südostasien
Creators: name: Walsh, John
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Es scheint kaum eine Süd-Süd-Zusammenarbeit oder Solidarität zu geben: In der gesamten Mekong-Region werden die meisten internationalen Soft-Power-Beziehungen mit ehemaligen Kolonialherren, langjährigen Geldgebern oder Vorbildern unterhalten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
title: Jeeves and Wooster
title: Style, Origins and Influences
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: FERRIS, STEWART PETER
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This Creative Writing thesis consists of two parts: a creative component (a comic novel entitled The Code of the Buskers); and a critical component (entitled Jeeves and Wooster: Style, Origins and Influences). The Code of the Buskers is a loose homage to the Jeeves and Wooster books by P.G. Wodehouse. It is a richly intertextual work which connects not only to many Wodehouse tropes and techniques, but also to cultural reference points of its own era of the late 1980s and to the classical sources which the critical component will argue inspired Wodehouse to create the relationship between Jeeves and Wooster. Specifically, the thesis proposes that Wodehouse’s comedic pairing has origins in the master-servant relationship depicted between Dionysus and Xanthias in Frogs by Aristophanes, and demonstrates that the characters Jeevie and Bert in my novel are more than just reinventions of Jeeves and Wooster, for they also revive elements of that same classical heritage and demonstrate its enduring comedic validity.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Müller, Michaela
name: Lakemann, Tabea
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Impact of online reputation management on hotel bookings for luxury hotels in Bangkok
Creators: name: SIRIVADHANAWARAVACHARA, APHISAVADH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This project report aims to examine the impact of embracing online reputation management (ORM) strategies on luxury hotels' bookings in Bangkok.The project report has adopted a qualitative study approach with the integration of the five in-depth interviews into the sampling of luxury hotels in Bangkok to make further studies on the apparent dynamics of online reviews and their implications for bookings. The outcomes highlighted the significant part of online reputation managers in luxury hospitality business in three significant objectives. Hotelkeeper, especially in luxury hotels, are attempted to recognize the interconnected dynamics of human-edited content. and its impact on reservation behaviors. Additionally, the results highlight that hoteliers in Bangkok have locked a dramatic movement of booking trends based on utilization of offline reputation management (ORM) strategies. The study implies that managers in hotels can prosper effective techniques to not just maximize their presence on the web but also streamline the satisfaction of guest, thereby drive bookings and ensuring sustainable prosperity and competitiveness.
Eine gelungene Mischung
Creators: name: Weck, Marlene
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Thant Myint-U, Burma. Der Fluss der verlorenen Fußspuren - Eine persönliche Geschichte. ISBN 978-3-570-01101-0.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) subnebulosus
Creators: name: Tillier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Hemerobiidae
Wesmaelius
Wesmaelius subnebulosus

description: Wesmaelius (Kimminsia) subnebulosus (Stephens, 1836)
Hemerobius subnebulosus Stephens, 1836: 107.
CATÉGORIE ZOOGÉOGRAPHIQUE. — Espèce holoméditerranéenne expansive.
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — M09-BOR1400 T 1-M1 (1 ♀); M09-BOR2000 T 1-M1 (1 ♀); M10-CAÏ2000 T 1-M2 (1 ♂, 2 ♀); M10-CAÏ2000 T 2-M2 (1 ♂).
DISTRIBUTION DANS LE MERCANTOUR. — Col de la Cayolle (Leraut 1992c). Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Valdebore, Saorge.
description: Published as part of Tillier, Pierre, 2015, Raphidioptera et Neuroptera (Insecta, Neuropterida) du Parc national du Mercantour (France), pp. 581-594 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 588, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5156903
Analytische Impressionen: Myanmar vor den Wahlen – Eindrücke nach einer dreiwöchigen Reise durchs Land im Mai 2010
Creators: name: Zöllner, Hans-Bernd
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Kaum war dieser Artikel geschrieben, hat die Wahlkommission in Burma den Wahltermin bekannt gegeben: Die Wahlen werden am 7. November 2010 stattfinden. Diese Meldung ändert nichts an den im Folgenden wiedergegebenen Impressionen, auch nicht an deren ersten Absatz.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
A Holistically Designed Hyperspectral Imager For CubeSats
Creators: name: MIDDLETON, CALLUM JOSEPH
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: "CubeSat-based Hyperspectral Imagers have become an attractive concept to Earth Observation scientists in recent years, due to the potential of providing cost-effective constellations of satellites with hyperspectral capability. This will be beneficial to applications such as precision agriculture and disaster relief, where increased temporal resolution measurements and rapid response to information request is more critical. However, the challenges of providing science-grade Earth Observation data from CubeSats are great and varied, not only because of the physical size of the instrument, but because of the operational constraints of the CubeSat, such as limited physical pointing stability/accuracy and restricted data downlink budgets.
description: The objective of this research is to investigate the problem holistically; rather than focussing only on the physical size of the instrument, the operational constraints of the CubeSat platform have been considered since design inception, allowing for the investigation of ways to mitigate these issues within the optical design of the instrument itself. In addition, the cost of the instrument must also be kept within the resources of a typical university CubeSat budget.
description: To this end, the compact hyperspectral imager prototype CHAFF (CubeSat Hyperspectral Application For Farming) has been designed, developed and constructed with commercial off-the-shelf optics at Surrey Space Centre, in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). As part of the holistic design methodology, CHAFF aims to mitigate the pointing instability of the CubeSat via optically-aided image co-registration, allowing for automatic co-registration and data cube construction on-board the satellite. This in turn will improve the performance of lossless, predictive image compression schemes operating on the data cube, thus mitigating the data downlink bottleneck.
description: Laboratory and field trials have shown that CHAFF has achieved good optical quality, with a spectral resolution of 3.46 nm at 546 nm. In addition, the image processing chain, including the optically-aided image co-registration, has been observed to improve the motion-induced distortion, by approximately a factor of 12. "
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Peters, Daniel
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
Understanding the Impact of Genetic Variation of Equine Infectious Anaemia Virus (EIAV)
Creators: name: Mcgowan, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: Equine infectious anaemia virus (EIAV) is the causative agent of equine infectious
description: anaemia (EIA), a disease of equids which causes a persistent infection that cannot be
description: treated and therefore disease detection and monitoring is critical for its control.
description: Serological screening is the most reliable form of diagnosis due to a persistent antibody
description: response and as clinical signs vary. The capsid p26 protein is the target for most of the
description: serological diagnostic tests. Concerningly, serologically non-detectable equids have
description: been proposed which threaten control programmes. This problem may be due to EIAV
description: strain(s) with mutations within the p26. This study aimed to identify the effect p26
description: mutations have on EIAV serological diagnosis and infectivity. Mutated p26
description: recombinant proteins were produced and used to generate equine antisera for analysis.
description: It was identified that antibodies generated against a highly mutated p26 led to a
description: reduction in serological detection. However, some ELISAs and immunoblots could
description: detect such antisera thus setting up a 3-tiered diagnostic system should reduce the risk
description: of missing divergent strains. To strengthen disease surveillance capability I set up an
description: immunoblot capable of detecting three of the immunogenic recombinant proteins (p26,
description: gp45 and gp90). The immunoblot showed excellent sensitivity, an ability to detect
description: divergent strains, higher throughput capabilities and could detect multiple proteins
description: simultaneously thus will be useful for future EIAV diagnosis. It is unknown what effect
description: p26 mutations may have on infectivity. I therefore created a full-length EIAV clone
description: incorporating the mutated p26 sequence, using golden gate assembly for cloning the
description: full EIAV genome. Once rescued a recEIAVmut-p26 can be used to assess its infectivity
description: in equine cells.
Engagement zeigt Wirkung: In Kambodscha sinkt die Akzeptanz von Gewalt gegen Frauen
Creators: name: Müller, Susanne M.
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Seit 2005 steht der Kampf gegen häusliche Gewalt im Mittelpunkt der Aktivitäten des Frauenministeriums. Eine Studie gibt Aufschluss über den Stand der Gewalt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 3 (2010): Im Süden nichts Neues? Süd-Süd-Beziehungen unter der Lupe
SPARC expression by cerebral microvascular endothelial cells in vitro and its influence on blood-brain barrier properties
Creators: name: Alkabie, Samir
name: Basivireddy, Jayasree
name: Zhou, Lixin
name: Roskams, Jane
name: Rieckmann, Peter
name: Quandt, Jacqueline A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: SPARC (secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine) is a nonstructural, cell-matrix modulating protein involved in angiogenesis and endothelial barrier function, yet its potential role in cerebrovascular development, inflammation, and repair in the central nervous system (CNS) remains undetermined. Methods This study examines SPARC expression in cultured human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (hCMEC/D3)—an in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier (BBB)—as they transition between proliferative and barrier phenotypes and encounter pro-inflammatory stimuli. SPARC protein levels were quantified by Western blotting and immunocytochemistry and messenger RNA (mRNA) by RT-PCR. Results Constitutive SPARC expression by proliferating hCMEC/D3s is reduced as cells mature and establish a confluent monolayer. SPARC expression positively correlated with the proliferation marker Ki-67 suggesting a role for SPARC in cerebrovascular development. The pro-inflammatory molecules tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) increased SPARC expression in cerebral endothelia. Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) abrogated SPARC induction observed with TNF-α alone. Barrier function assays show recombinant human (rh)-SPARC increased paracellular permeability and decreased transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER). This was paralleled by reduced zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) and occludin expression in hCMEC/D3s exposed to rh-SPARC (1–10 μg/ml) compared with cells in media containing a physiological dose of SPARC. Conclusions Together, these findings define a role for SPARC in influencing cerebral microvascular properties and function during development and inflammation at the BBB such that it may mediate processes of CNS inflammation and repair.
A typological approach to the morphome
Creators: name: Herce, Borja
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation constitutes the first typologically-oriented monograph on morphomes, which is the term given to systematic morphological identities that do not map onto morphosyntactic or semantic natural classes like ‘plural’, ‘past’, ‘third person singular’ etc. Chapter 1 discusses terminology and the relevant literature on this unusual phenomenon and Chapter 2 introduces some necessary clarifications with respect to the identification and definition of morphomes. From there, the discussion moves to more empirical matters. In Chapter 3, the notions of naturalness and economy are discussed in detail, and the connection of morphomicity to other morphological phenomena is explored. Diachrony takes then centre stage, as Chapter 4 presents the different ways in which morphomic structures may emerge, change, and disappear from a language. Chapter 5 constitutes the core of the dissertation and presents 110 morphomic structures that the author has identified across the world’s languages. These structures are presented with great qualitative detail along with their diachronic history if known. On the basis of the synchronic variation across the morphomes, a dozen logically independent variables have been identified (in the spirit of Canonical or Multivariate Typology) as relevant to describing these structures in the most fine-grained detail. These variables have been operationalized into quantitative measures. After establishing the values they take in all 110 morphomes in the database, statistical analysis has been undertaken to spot correlations and dependencies between them which are subsequently discussed. Another major finding to emerge from this synchronic database concerns the cross-linguistic recurrence of various morphomic structures. Some extramorphologically unmotivated structures like SG+3PL, 1SG+3, PL+1SG etc. have been found to be present in several genetically and areally unrelated languages. This is something which had been previously excluded from the phenomenon on definitional grounds. The dissertation finishes by reiterating in Chapter 6 its findings and their implications for morphomic research, and for typology and morphology more generally.
What is the role of Social Life Cycle Assessment within the context of Safe and Sustainable-by-Design? An explorative study
Creators: name: D'Eusanio, Manuela
name: Petti, Luigia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Social Assessment
Safe and Sustainable by Design
Circular economy
Integration Approach

description: This poster was presented at the conference Circular Economy: The Pathway Towards a Sustainable Development, 11–13 September 2024. It explores the role of Safe and Sustainability-by-Design (SSbD) and examines how ANALYST project address the social dimension of sustainability, particularly through Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA).