cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
William Echard. Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Padgett, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Neil Young is an ideal object for popular music scholarship, not only because of the volume of work that he has produced over his long career William Echard s study, for instance, cites no fewer than 40 of the albums Young produced between 1966 and 2003, a figure that does not even cover his entire output but also because of the eclecticism of his work, which allows Echard to draw on a wide range of theoretical models in searching for the stable Neil Young identity that he believes underpins Young s music. As a result of these dual considerations, Echard s book would have been capable of serving not only as a comprehensive introduction to Neil Young s music, but also as a study of contemporary popular music scholarship. In the first respect, the book succeeds. There are, however, a number of significant weaknesses with Echard s study that ensure it fails on the second count.
Inditex y la ventaja competitiva de la fast fashion española, 1985-2019
Creators: name: Miranda, José Antonio
name: Roldán, Alba
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: Dagli anni Novanta, il mercato internazionale della moda è stato sempre più influenzato dal cosiddetto fast fashion, un modello di business caratterizzato dalla produzione rapida di un’ampia varietà di capi, che si rinnovano continuamente, con modelli che seguono le ultime tendenze della moda a prezzi bassi. Il gruppo imprenditoriale spagnolo Inditex, capogruppo del marchio Zara, è quello che ha meglio sviluppato questo modello di business, diventando il più grande rivenditore di moda al mondo. Nel 2019, con quasi 180.000 dipendenti e 7.500 negozi sparsi in un centinaio di paesi, le sue vendite hanno superato i 28.000 milioni di euro. Questo articolo analizza la traiettoria di Inditex, dalle sue origini, nei primi anni Sessanta, ad oggi, mostrando le diverse fasi della sua evoluzione e approfondendo le cause del suo successo. L’articolo presta particolare attenzione alle fonti di vantaggio competitivo di Inditex, che sono anche la chiave per comprendere il recente successo internazionale di altre aziende di moda spagnole. Tutte queste aziende negli ultimi anni hanno dovuto affrontare una concorrenza internazionale fortissima e adattarsi ai profondi cambiamenti provocati dall’e-commerce.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910-1927, edited by Theodore Kisiel and Thomas Sheehan. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Garrett, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The publication of the Heidegger s lecture courses from the time of his publication blackout (1915-1927) is nearing completion, and a number of new translations of the lecture courses are currently forthcoming . Becoming Heidegger brings to light a large selection of other material by and regarding Heidegger including essays, lectures, formal and informal academic correspondence from before and during this period. Most of the texts have been seen before in particular, all but a few pages of John van Buren s collection, Supplements, from 2002, is newly translated or para-phrased here the collection, however, brings together much of what has been published in isolation with comprehensive introductions, copious notes, three appendices, a very succinct glossary, an up-to-date bibliography, and four indices. Becoming Heidegger will not be made obsolete as quickly as Supplements.
lusso e la moda: dalla moda di lusso alla “moda del lusso”
Creators: name: Pinchera, Valeria
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: In età moderna il lusso rappresenta un aspetto importante del sistema economico e sociale. Oggi, la crescente rilevanza del business dei beni di lusso nell’economia mondiale, ha rinnovato l’interesse della ricerca su questo tema di lunga tradizione. Sulla base della nuova fiorente letteratura, il saggio analizza l’evoluzione della moda nel lungo periodo, come paradigma del lusso, dall’emergere dell’haute couture, nel 1850, fino al raggiungimento dei conglomerati del lusso nei tempi attuali.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
Fashion in Italy (1951-1965). Consenso e opinione pubblica tra Europa e Stati Uniti: un’introduzione
Creators: name: Calanca, Daniela
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: L’obiettivo del saggio è quello di analizzare in che modo la stampa periodica nazionale e internazionale abbia rappresentato la Moda Italiana negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, a partire dall’Italian Fashion Shows, organizzati a Firenze da G.B. Giorgini. In particolare, si mostrerà come tra reportage, cronaca e rubriche, il dibattito del Fashion in Italy, in realtà, si articoli nella prospettiva delle relazioni geopolitiche, diplomatiche e culturali tra Italia, Europa e Stati Uniti. In tal senso, attraverso una espansione della ricerca storica dal piano italiano a quello internazionale, e mediante l’uso di fonti primarie, si fa largo la possibilità di leggere la moda italiana e tutto ciò che ad essa si correla, nelle reti internazionali della politica, dell’economia e della cultura, all’interno di una complessa organizzazione degli organi di stampa. Una lettura, questa, che allo stato attuale degli studi di storia sociale della moda contemporanea, pare non essere ancora stata realizzata.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
Degradation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilms using a chimeric lysin
Creators: name: Zhang, Yun
name: Wei, Hongping
name: Yang, Hang
name: Huang, Yanling
name: Yu, Junping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is responsible for a large number of chronic infections due to its ability to form robust biofilms. Herein, the authors evaluated the anti-biofilm activity of a Staphylococcus specific chimeric lysin ClyH on MRSA biofilms. ClyH is known to be active against planktonic MRSA cells in vitro and in vivo. The minimum concentrations for biofilm eradication (MCBE) of ClyH were 6.2–50 mg l−1, much lower than those of antibiotics. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis revealed that ClyH eliminated MRSA biofilms through cell lytic activity in a time-dependent manner. Viable plate counts and kinetic analysis demonstrated that biofilms of different ages displayed varying susceptibility to ClyH. Together with previously demonstrated in vivo efficacy of ClyH against MRSA, the degradation efficacy against biofilms of different ages indicates that ClyH could be used to remove MRSA biofilms in vivo.
Mark Poster. Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Lodders, Adam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In accessing this review, you have engaged with an information ma-chine. It is this engagement, that of the human and the machine, and how it has refigured our understanding of culture, politics and the self that is the central contention of Mark Poster s text. The text presents us with an exploration into the ubiquitous nature of information machines that permeate our daily existence. Technology has a profound effect on culture. He argues that culture cannot be seen as separate from technology and as such many assumptions long held in modern society require revision (9). This guiding principle frames debate throughout the text by interweaving the role that the advent of information and communications technology has upon globalisation, politics, identity, media, art and culture.
Henry Reynolds. The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Gray, Louise
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: With The Other Side of the Frontier, Henry Reynolds has exceeded his intention of turning Australian history inside out. Through fragments and excerpts pieced together from a range of archival information diaries, journals, newspapers, official documents and oral narratives, he has pre-sented the last two hundred years of the history of this continent from the perspectives of indigenous people. This radical retelling of history, although fragmentary, compels the reader s respect and admiration for those Aboriginal people who fought, at great cost, to co-exist on this continent on their own terms.
Combating against Byzantine Attacks in MANET using Enhanced Cooperative Bait Detection Scheme (ECBDS)
Creators: name: Anuj Mehta
name: Ravina Saini
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Mobile Ad-hoc(MANET) is an accumulation of versatile, decentralized, and self composed nodes. The distributive nature, base less & element structure make it a simple prey to security related dangers. The security dangers may change from dynamic mimic threats to passive eves-dropping. Actualizing Security & alleviating dangers in MANET has Significant difficulties on the grounds that its dynamic properties make it harder to be secured than alternate sorts of static systems. Implementing Security & mitigating threats in MANET has Significant challenges because its dynamic properties make it harder to be secured than the other types of static networks. We are using Enhanced CBDS technique here, so that we can save our network from the Byzantine attacks. This dissertation proposes an enhanced cooperative bait detection scheme (ECBDS) to combat the byzantine attack over MANET.This plan combine the proactive and receptive resistance building design in MANET by utilizing the virtual and non-existent destination location to trap the malicious nodes creating Byanzine attack. Implementation will be done using Mat lab and result will be shown on the basis of energy consumption of nodes and QoS parameters like throughput and delay etc.
Laccase production by Phomopsis liquidambari B3 cultured with food waste and wheat straw as the main nitrogen and carbon sources
Creators: name: Zhou, Jun
name: Yang, Teng
name: Mei, Yan-Zhen
name: Kang, Li
name: Dai, Chuan-Chao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Food waste is the most difficult waste to manage because of the high treatment costs and the risk of environmental contamination. Wheat straw burning has become an increasingly discussed topic in recent years because of the air pollution it causes. However, food waste and wheat straw contain high amounts of nutrient elements; efficient utilization of these wastes can improve the environment by lessening airborne pollutant emission and the amount of waste that must be landfilled. It is well known that use of low-cost and abundant waste materials in microbial fermentations can reduce product costs. We aimed to use these resources while improving laccase production by the endophytic fungus Phomopsis liquidambari B3. We cultured P. liquidambari B3 in medium containing food waste and wheat straw as the main nitrogen and carbon sources, respectively. We optimized the fermentation conditions by response surface methodology (RSM), using a Box–Behnken design for RSM I and a central composite design for RSM II. Optimization resulted in an 11.07-fold (1.98-fold RSM I; 5.59-fold RSM II) increase in laccase yield compared with that before optimization. The model was validated by mathematical evaluations and by comparisons between predicted and experimental values. Under optimized conditions, 53.76% of lignin in wheat straw was degraded. By optimizing fermentation conditions and using multiple bioresources, laccase production by this fungus was increased. These results provide the foundation for future research and for scaled-up laccase production.
Implications:Food waste and wheat straw are waste products, but they could be bioresources if they were managed properly. In this work, we innovatively used a mixture of food waste and wheat straw as a substrate for the novel strain Phomopsis liquidambari B3 to produce laccase. This process, which provided the foundation for the subsequent research and for scaled-up laccase production, offers solutions for both rural and urban pollution problems: that is, it reduces the amount of waste material that needs to be disposed of by burning or dumping, and it also produces a valuable product.
Alison Ross. The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2007 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Salzani, Carlo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The thesis of this book is clearly stated in the introduction: the thinking of Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy can (and perhaps in a significant sense must) be understood as ways of addressing the problem of presentation as framed by and inherited from Kant s Critique of Judgement (4). Ross identifies in Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy a funda-mental aesthetic attitude that leads them to steer philosophy in an aes-thetic direction (1). The same aesthetic attitude that characterises Kant s Critique of Judgement, that is, the search for a satisfactory mode of relation between the forms of material nature and human freedom, which results in an aesthetic use of language, becomes the framework for these thinkers approach to philosophy. Ross argues thus that this aesthetic steering of philosophy is best understood as an adaptation of the specific and technical employment of the notion of presentation [Darstellung] in Kant s Critique of Judgement (1).
Laccase production by Phomopsis liquidambari B3 cultured with food waste and wheat straw as the main nitrogen and carbon sources
Creators: name: Zhou, Jun
name: Yang, Teng
name: Mei, Yan-Zhen
name: Kang, Li
name: Dai, Chuan-Chao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTFood waste is the most difficult waste to manage because the high treatment costs and the risk of environmental contamination. Wheat straw burning has become an increasingly discussed topic in recent years because the air pollution caused by it. However, food waste and wheat straw contain high amounts of nutrient elements, efficient utilization of these waste can improve the environment by lessening airborne pollutant emission and the amount of waste that must be landfilled. It is well known that use of low cost and abundant waste materials in microbial fermentations can reduce product costs. We aimed to use these resources while improving laccase production by the endophytic fungus Phomopsis liquidambari B3. We cultured P. liquidambari B3 in medium containing food waste and wheat straw as the main nitrogen and carbon sources, respectively. We optimized the fermentation conditions by response surface methodology (RSM), using a Box–Behnken design for RSM I and a central composite design for RSM II. Optimization resulted in an 11.07-fold (1.98-fold RSM I; 5.59-fold RSM II) increase in laccase yield compared with that before optimization. The model was validated by mathematical evaluations and by comparisons between predicted and experimental values. Under optimized conditions, 53.76% of lignin in wheat straw was degraded. By optimizing fermentation conditions and using multiple bioresources, laccase production by this fungus was increased. These results provide the foundation for future research and for scaled-up laccase production.
ImplicationsFood waste and wheat straw are two waste products, but they could be bioresources if they managed properly. In this work, we innovatively used a mixture of food waste and wheat straw as a substrate for the novel strain Phomopsis liquidambari B3 to produce laccase. This process which provided the foundation for the subsequent researches and for scale-up laccase production, offers solutions for both rural and urban pollution problems; that is, it reduces the amount of waste material that needs to be disposed of by burning or dumping, and it also produces a valuable product.
A Varying-Coefficient Expectile Model for Estimating Value at Risk
Creators: name: Xie, Shangyu
name: Zhou, Yong
name: T. K. Wan, Alan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This article develops a nonparametric varying-coefficient approach for modeling the expectile-based value at risk (EVaR). EVaR has an advantage over the conventional quantile-based VaR (QVaR) of being more sensitive to the magnitude of extreme losses. EVaR can also be used for calculating QVaR and expected shortfall (ES) by exploiting the one-to-one mapping from expectiles to quantiles, and the relationship between VaR and ES. Previous studies on conditional EVaR estimation only considered parametric autoregressive model set-ups, which account for the stochastic dynamics of asset returns but ignore other exogenous economic and investment related factors. Our approach overcomes this drawback and allows expectiles to be modeled directly using covariates that may be exogenous or lagged dependent in a flexible way. Risk factors associated with profits and losses can then be identified via the expectile regression at different levels of prudentiality. We develop a local linear smoothing technique for estimating the coefficient functions within an asymmetric least squares minimization set-up, and establish the consistency and asymptotic normality of the resultant estimator. To save computing time, we propose to use a one-step weighted local least squares procedure to compute the estimates. Our simulation results show that the computing advantage afforded by this one-step procedure over full iteration is not compromised by a deterioration in estimation accuracy. Real data examples are used to illustrate our method. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Kṛṣṇa’s Dvārakā
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: This and similar discoveries more or less establish the reality of the city founded by Kṛṣṇa when he moved there from Mathura besieged by King Jarasandha. But our interest in Kṛṣṇa’s Dvārakā lies not in proving its reality, but rather in the light that it can throw on the kshatriya domain at this time, that is 1,500 BCE. Kṛṣṇa’s known history, as testified by Mahābhārata, Harivaṁśa and the Purāṇas spans a broad swathe of land, almost from sea to sea, from Dvārakā in the west to Magadha in the east, with its centre at Mathurā. He was born in Mathurā, where his parents lived. But his ancestors came from Kuśasthaḷī, the ancient name of Dvārakā, or an ancient town close to it. [Pargiter, 1922 : Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, 98; Bhāgavata Purāna, Canto 9, Chapter 3 : 27 - 28] Kaṁsa, the king of Mathurā, was his maternal uncle. He was the son-in-law of Jarāsandha, king of Magadha. We need not worry whether these are historical facts or legends. What is important is the indication that they convey of a seamless kshatriya continuum from Dvārakā to Magadha. It was also a pastoralist community – they called themselves Yādava. And a community from which came the kings; Kṛṣṇa himself was both a cowherd and a king. This is the characteristic that we had noticed earlier as well – kshatriya as a pastoralist and warrior, and also the spiritual teacher. But an even greater discovery may be awaiting us, if we resolve the chronological inconsistency between the history of Kṛṣṇa and the scientific evidence of the end of the ice age.
MOESM2 of Plastid genome and composition analysis of two medical ferns: Dryopteris crassirhizoma Nakai and Osmunda japonica Thunb.
Creators: name: Xu, Liang
name: Xing, Yanping
name: Wang, Bing
name: Liu, Chunsheng
name: Wang, Wenquan
name: Kang, Tingguo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. List of genes obtained from the D.Â crassirhizoma Nakai and O. japonca Thunb. plastid genome sequences.
Three Poems
Creators: name: Glance, Vivienne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Three poems: (1) desire (2) nightwatchwoman (3) inspiration
Tim Thorne. A Letter to Egon Kisch. Launceston: Cornford Press, 2007 [Book Review]
Creators: name: Blencowe, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Allow me to set the scene. An author, famed for his journalism and political engagement (including known communist sympathies), is invited by a group of peace activists to come to Melbourne and speak at a congress they are holding. Upon arrival the author is promptly refused entry to Australia, although he has the appropriate visa. He has not technically commit-ted an offence, but the federal government is concerned by what he might say at the peace congress, and is worried that it could offend the sensibilities of a certain world power as well as give credence to a cause to which the government is antipathetic. The government is determined to deport him at whatever cost, the Attorney-General declaring to the media that the man in question would not set foot on the soil of the Australian Common-wealth. Sound like another episode in Howard s Australia, with the government eager to stamp out the possibility of sedition coming from a foreign intellectual, who might criticise our ally, the USA, like Scott Parkin? It is not, but rather the welcome that greeted the Czech Egon Kisch upon his coming to Australia as the invited guest of the Movement Against War and Fas-cism. The year was 1934, the Attorney-General was not Phillip Ruddock but Robert Menzies, and the world power whose offence the government wished to prevent was none other than Nazi Germany.
A varying-coefficient expectile model for estimating Value at Risk
Creators: name: Xie, Shangyu
name: Zhou, Yong
name: T. K. Wan, Alan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper develops a nonparametric varying-coefficient approach for modeling the expectile-based Value at Risk (EVaR). EVaR has an advantage over the conventional quantile-based VaR (QVaR) of being more sensitive to the magnitude of extreme losses. EVaR can also be used for calculating QVaR and Expected Shortfall (ES) by exploiting the one-to-one mapping from expectiles to quantiles, and the relationship between VaR and ES. Previous studies on conditional EVaR estimation only considered parametric autoregressive model set-ups, which account for the stochastic dynamics of asset returns but ignore other exogenous economic and investment related factors. Our approach overcomes this drawback and allows expectiles to be modeled directly using covariates that may be exogenous or lagged dependent in a flexible way. Risk factors associated with profits and losses can then be identified via the expectile regression at different levels of prudentiality. We develop a local linear smoothing technique for estimating the coefficient functions within an asymmetric least squares minimization set-up, and establish the consistency and asymptotic normality of the resultant estimator. To save computing time, we propose to use a one-step weighted local least squares procedure to compute the estimates. Our simulation results show that the computing advantage afforded by this one-step procedure over full iteration is not compromised by a deterioration in estimation accuracy. Real data examples are used to illustrate our method.
Materials
Creators: name: Searston, Rachel A.
name: Ibaviosa, Carlos
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2019

description: This component contains our subset of 200 images for 48 similar female identities from the VGGFace2 dataset: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/vgg_face2/meta_infor.html. The original dataset contains 8631 training identities and 500 identities test identities, with hundreds of ambient and varied images per identity (available to download for commercial/research purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License). We constrained our subset to caucasian female identities as a convenience method of increasing similarity and the difficulty of the distractor trials in our experiment (i.e., similar mismatching identities are more challenging to tell apart). We further matched the identities in our subset on similarity by computing the distributional characteristics (mean, min, max of image) of each and comparing them side-by-side. The average, min, and max images of each identity (generated using MatLab 2018b) are included in distributional properties folder. We preserved the substantial natural variation across the images of each identity to generate dissimilar target trials (i.e., dissimilar matching identities are more challenging to tell together). All images in our subset have been reduced to 48x48 pixels and then enlarged to 400x400 pixels using smoothed bicubic resampling procedures. The set was then duplicated and inverted to create the inverted and upright sets. We do not have permission to share the fingerprints in a public repository. Please contact Rachel Searston (rachel.searston@adelaide.edu.au) with any enquiries about using this set for research purposes.
Additional file 2 of Aromatherapy with single essential oils can significantly improve the sleep quality of cancer patients: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Cheng, Hui
name: Lin, Lu
name: Wang, Shaotong
name: Zhang, Yueyue
name: Liu, Tingting
name: Yuan, Yang
name: Chen, Qiuyun
name: Tian, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplement Table 1. Description of assessment tools.
Interfaith Dialogue: A Deconstructive Site for the Cycles of Mythic Violence?
Creators: name: Rider, Elyse
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The arena of interfaith dialogue is an important site for the investigation of how a deconstructive ethic can play out against the established cycles of mythic foundational and divine interruptive violence. An investigation here of key deconstructive themes theorised by Jacques Derrida will be woven into a methodology for an interfaith dialogue that moves deeper into cross-difference engagement and co-creative cultural growth. In developing this methodology I seek a deconstructive ethic and an appropriate structure for a generative culture in which cohesion is defined through difference. With these interests in mind I will address first the nature of divine and mythic violence as defined by Walter Benjamin. An overview of current interfaith dialogue approaches will then follow and the proposed praxis of a "pluralist-deconstructive" dialogue introduced. Derrida's themes of justice, sacrifice and faith will in turn be used to expand the potential of this praxis, adding deeper dimensions to the concepts of self, other and God in religion and its potential development. I will then move into an exploration of what Derrida's deconstructive project may mean in a social context and, more specifically, an interfaith context. Finally, a structure will be proposed which utilises Derrida's theory on différance to weave together the concepts explored into a methodological ideal for interfaith cultural development through hospitable dialogue.
N-donor co-ligand-driven zinc coordination polymers based upon a bithiophene dicarboxylate: syntheses, structures, and luminescent properties
Creators: name: Cao, Tingting
name: Lu, Jing
name: Wang, Suna
name: Zhou, Changhui
name: Dou, Jianmin
name: Li, Dacheng
name: Wang, Daqi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Three zinc compounds assembled from a bithiophene dicarboxylic acid (H2DMTDC) and different N-donor co-ligands, [Zn(DMTDC)(bpt)(H2O)]n (1), {[Zn(DMTDC)(5,5-dmbpy)]·0.5DMF·1.5H2O}n (2), and {[Zn(DMTDC)(1,3-bimb)]·2DMF·H2O}n (3) (H2DMTDC = 3,4-dimethylthieno[2,3-b]thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic acid, bpt = 4-amino-3,5-bis(4-pyridyl)1,2,4-triazole, 5,5′-dmbpy = 5,5′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridyl, 1,3-bimb = 1,3-bis(imidazol-1ylmethyl)benzene), were solvothermally synthesized and characterized. Compounds 1 and 2 are 1-D linear and zigzag chains with different supramolecular structures. In 1, adjacent chains form zipper-like structures through N–H⋯N interactions. In 2, however, chains in adjacent layers are stacked in an unusual unparallel level through C–H⋯O interactions. Compound 3 features a highly corrugated 2-D (4,4) layer and the layers are penetrated by each other to give 3-D polycatenations. Right- and left-handed helical Zn-bimb chains are arranged alternately within and between the layers, leading to mesomeric property of the whole network. Thermal stability and the decomposed products of all compounds were investigated. Luminescent properties of the ligands and compounds in the solid state at room temperature have also been explored. Moreover, the luminescence intensities of the compounds in different solvents are largely dependent on the solvent.
Moda e istituzioni. Uno sguardo comparativo tra Italia e Francia (1945-1962)
Creators: name: Di Giangirolamo, Gianluigi
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: Il sistema moda italiano e quello francese sono oggi due modelli rilevanti e affermati su scala globale. In entrambi i Paesi, essi sono stati definiti, nella loro forma attuale, dall’evoluzione delle politiche e delle istituzioni dalla fine della seconda guerra mondiale. Questi processi hanno definito i confini di un settore di notevole importanza e interesse economico, politico e culturale. Il saggio si propone di fornire uno studio comparativo delle politiche e degli interventi del settore pubblico e privato nel campo della moda in Italia e in Francia tra il 1945 e il 1962. In particolare, attraverso lo studio di questi due casi, si vogliono evidenziare le differenze tra l’esperienza francese, fondata sull’accentramento degli interventi e sulla capacità mostrata nel secondo dopoguerra di ripartire e affermarsi nuovamente sullo scenario internazionale, e l’esperienza italiana che, nonostante contrasti interni e rivalità, ha contribuito al successo della moda Made in Italy negli anni post bellici.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
N-donor co-ligand-driven zinc coordination polymers based upon a bithiophene dicarboxylate: Syntheses, structures and luminescent properties
Creators: name: Cao, Tingting
name: Lu, Jing
name: Wang, Suna
name: Zhou, Changhui
name: Dou, Jianmin
name: Li, Dacheng
name: Wang, Daqi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Three zinc compounds assembled from a bithiophene dicarboxylic acid H2DMTDC and different N-donor co-ligands, [Zn(DMTDC)(bpt)(H2O)]n (1), {[Zn(DMTDC)(5,5’dmbpy)]·0.5DMF·1.5H2O}n (2) and {[Zn(DMTDC)(1,3-bimb)]·2DMF·H2O}n (3) (H2DMTDC = 3,4-dimethylthieno[2,3-b]thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic acid, bpt = 4-amino-3,5-bis(4-pyridyl)1,2,4-triazole, 5,5’-dmbpy = 5,5’-dimethyl-2,2’-bipyridyl, 1,3-bimb = 1,3-bis(imidazol-1ylmethyl)benzene), were solvothermally synthesized and characterized. Compounds 1 and 2 are one-dimensional linear and zigzag chains with different supramolecular structures. In 1, adjacent chains form zipper-like structures through N-H···N interactions. In 2, however, chains in adjacent layers are stacked in an unusual unparallel level through C-H···O interactions. Compound 3 features a highly corrugated two-dimensional (4,4) layer and the layers are penetrated by each other to give 3D polycatenations. Right and left-handed helical Zn-bimb chains are arranged alternately within and between the layers, leading to mesomeric property of the whole network. Thermal stability and the decomposed products of all compounds were investigated. Luminescent properties of the ligands and compounds in the solid state at room temperature have also been explored. Moreover, the luminescence intensities of the compounds in different solvents are largely dependent on the solvent.
Kant on the Beautiful: The Interest in Disinterestedness
Creators: name: Daniels, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Immanuel Kant proposes a puzzling account of the experience of the beautiful: that aesthetic judgments are both subjective and speak with a universal voice. These properties – the subjective and the universal – seem mutually exclusive but Kant maintains that they are compatible if we explain aesthetic judgment in terms of the mind's a priori structure, as explicated in his earlier Critique of Pure Reason. Kant advances two major claims towards arguing for the compatibility of the subjectivity and universality of the experience of beauty: (i) that aesthetic judgments are 'disinterested', and (ii) that the universality of an aesthetic judgment derives from the transcendental idealist's account of ordinary spatio-temporal experience – that is, our ordinary cognitive framework can explain the experience of beauty. If correct, these two claims support the thesis that, while the experience of beauty is wholly subjective, it nevertheless speaks with a universal voice (or, the experience of beauty can be related among subjects). I will move to interpret Kant's theory of the beautiful with reference to his earlier two Critiques in order to better understand the marriage of subjectivity and universality. In turn, this reveals a deeper symmetry between the disinterestedness of the experience of beauty and the freedom of moral action, allowing Kant to maintain, as he indeed does, that "beauty is the symbol of morality."
Lobbying for Design Protection: a Perspective on France and the United States During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Creators: name: Pouillard, Véronique
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: Il saggio presenta una ricerca sull’ascesa delle professioni legali nel settore della moda. Dalla fine del XIX secolo, gli imprenditori creativi nel settore della moda hanno sviluppato un vivo interesse nell’utilizzo degli strumenti legali per proteggere i loro diritti di proprietà intellettuale, siano essi brevetti, marchi, diritti d’autore o segreti commerciali. In tal modo, gli imprenditori della moda, in particolare le Sorelle Callot, Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Maurice Rentner e Christian Dior, hanno lavorato con avvocati che hanno difeso i loro interessi nei tribunali e che hanno contribuito a costruire un crescente corpus giurisprudenziale relativo all’industria della moda. Basato su archivi di Tribunali e di aziende e su fonti di stampa, lo studio esamina i profili degli avvocati che hanno aperto la strada a quella che è diventata oggi legge sulla moda, nel contesto di due grandi paesi produttori di abbigliamento: Francia e Stati Uniti. Gli imprenditori della moda hanno assunto avvocati per casi occasionali, ma anche consulenti legali interni. L’articolo, quindi, mette in luce anche il ruolo della competenza legale all’interno della direzione dell’azienda di moda, oltre ad esaminare una serie di casi giudiziari in Francia nel periodo tra le due guerre, e negli Stati Uniti nel dopoguerra, per mostrare come gli avvocati abbiano influenzato l’industria della moda.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
Organisationsformen der Sachverhaltsabklärung bei Kindesschutzverfahren: Eine Analyse von externen und internen Abklärungsaufträgen
Creators: name: Müller, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Der Schutz und die Fürsorge von Kindern ist eine staatliche Pflicht, welche die Schweiz in der Bundesverfassung niedergeschrieben hat. Die Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutzbehörde ist bei Kenntniserhalt über die Gefährdung eines Kindeswohls dafür zuständig, den bestehenden Sachverhalt zu erforschen. Ist eine Familie von einem zivilrechtlichen Kindesschutzverfahren betroffen, stellt dies einen Eingriff in die höchstpersönlichen Rechte dar und bedeutet für das ganze Familiensystem eine grosse Belastung. Deshalb muss dem Prozess, vom Erhalt der Gefährdungsmeldung bis hin zur möglichen Errichtung einer Kindesschutzmassnahme, grösste Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt werden. Die Fachwelt setzt sich damit auseinander, wie bei einer Kindesschutzabklärung fachlich-methodisch vorgegangen werden soll. Jedoch bestehen kaum fachliche Erkenntnisse zum Einfluss unterschiedlicher Organisationsformen auf eine Sachverhaltsabklärung. Aufgrund der kantonalen Organisationshoheit stehen sehr unterschiedliche organisatorische und personelle Lösungen zu Verfügung. Die KESB kann Abklärungen selbst durchführen, dem internen sozialjuristischen Abklärungsdienst in Auftrag geben oder einen Abklärungsauftrag an einen externen Fachdienst delegieren. Die Politik setzt sich immer wieder mit der Frage zur Ausgestaltung von Abklärungsverfahren auseinander. Um dazu auch fachliche Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen, setzt sich vorliegende Master-Thesis im Rahmen einer explorativen Untersuchung mit der Frage auseinander, inwiefern sich strukturelle Aspekte der Durchführung einer Sachverhaltsabklärung als Einflussfaktoren für eine zielführende Abklärung erweisen. Die empirische Untersuchung fokussiert sich dabei auf den Kanton Luzern. Auf Basis der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit Theorien der Sozialen Arbeit zum Zwangskontext und dem organisationstheoretischen Wissensstand wurden Interviews mit Behördenmitgliedern und abklärenden Fachpersonen durchgeführt. Die Erkenntnisse daraus wurden mit einem Experten des Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutzes diskutiert. Dabei konnten strukturelle Einflussfaktoren hinsichtlich der unterschiedlichen Organisationsformen erarbeitet werden. Es zeigt sich, dass vor allem bezüglich der Prozessorganisation und den Möglichkeiten zur Prozesssteuerung durch die Behörde sowie in der Gestaltung der Zusammenarbeit und Kommunikation Unterschiede bestehen zwischen internen und externen Organisationsformen. Des Weiteren müssen die fachlichen Ressourcen berücksichtigt werden; so dürfen Abklärungsaufträge nur an Personen delegiert werden, welche sowohl über die nötigen Fachkenntnisse wie auch über die spezifischen methodischen Kenntnisse für die Abklärungstätigkeit verfügen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
“A Dark and Hidden Thing”: Evelyn Waugh, Cannibalism, and the Problem of African Christianity
Creators: name: Christensen, Timothy M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In a series of editorials published in the conservative Catholic weekly The Tablet during January and February 1933, editor Ernest Oldmeadow condemned Evelyn Waugh's third novel, Black Mischief, as "a disgrace to anyone professing the Catholic name." While Oldmeadow took issue with a number of aspects of Waugh's novel, he appears to have been particularly outraged by Waugh's representation of a cannibal feast, which literary critics have often read as a parody of the Eucharist. Despite the fact that a number of eminent literary figures including Wyndham Lewis rushed to Waugh's defence, Waugh was sufficiently incensed to compose a lengthy response to Oldmeadow's charges. In May 1933, Waugh wrote a letter of protest to Cardinal Bourne, the Archbishop of Westminster, who, as owner of The Tablet, had appointed Oldmeadow editor.
“We Grew Here You Flew Here”: Claims to “Home” in the Cronulla Riots
Creators: name: Clemence Due
name: Riggs, Damien W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Fiona Allon writes that "...home, now more than ever, is seen as firmly connected to the world of politics and economics, as actively shaped and defined by the public sphere rather than existing simply as a refuge from it." From this perspective, claims to home as they are located in a relationship to claims of both national and local belonging are often a contested site within Australia, where notions of who is seen to be at home in Australia are constantly being challenged and reworked. Structured around the desire amongst white people to retain Australia as a "white nation," claims to home may be seen as operating in complex ways in regards to the rights that arise from the ongoing existence of Indigenous sovereignties, and the politics surrounding levels of immigration from groups of people perceived as belonging to minority racial groups.
Fashion and Democracy in Europe, 1860-1960
Creators: name: Belfanti, Carlo Marco
name: Merlo, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: La moda è un’istituzione sociale storicamente determinata che alimenta il cambiamento attraverso un turn over in innovazione e novità e che diventa sempre più pervasiva a seconda dell’entità della quota di popolazione che ha le risorse – siano esse economiche, culturali o sociali – per accedere alla moda stessa. Una forte e decisa spinta all’incremento delle opportunità a tale accesso si è avuta tra la seconda metà dell’Ottocento e la seconda metà del Novecento. Sono già state fornite esaurienti illustrazioni delle cause di ordine economico e sociale che hanno prodotto tali progressi, mentre minore attenzione è stata dedicata alle modalità di interazione tra moda e sistemi politici. Se è vero, come ha affermato Yuniya Kawamura che “In alcune società dove l’ideologia dominante è antipatica al cambiamento e al progresso sociale, la moda non può esistere”, allora il secolo compreso tra il 1860 e il 1960, in cui in Europa si sono succeduti governi liberali, regimi socialisti e nazisti, dittature fasciste e, infine, regimi democratici, offre l’opportunità di analizzare questo tema in una stimolante prospettiva comparativa.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
MOESM3 of Plastid genome and composition analysis of two medical ferns: Dryopteris crassirhizoma Nakai and Osmunda japonica Thunb.
Creators: name: Xu, Liang
name: Xing, Yanping
name: Wang, Bing
name: Liu, Chunsheng
name: Wang, Wenquan
name: Kang, Tingguo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. The SSR characteristic in DryopterisÂ crassirhizoma Nakai.
Magical Allegory in Marie Darrieussecq’s novel Pig Tales (1996): Piggy Debauchery in Postcolonial France
Creators: name: Muirden, Sallie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200511 Literature in French
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This article presents an analysis of Marie Darrieussecq's first novel Pig Tales, which was initially published in France in 1996, where it became a bestseller. Pig Tales was subsequently translated into many languages, bringing the novel and its young French author international acclaim. In the process of making a case for reading the novel as an allegory, early sections of the article examine the ways in which Pig Tales displays allegorical characteristics. Subsequent sections consider aspects of post-feminist, postmodern and postcolonial France that Darrieussecq may be responding to, and satirising, through the use of her central allegorical trope – the representation of a human being as an animal.
mere matter of bonnets? La moda tra storia ed economia
Creators: name: Capalbo, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica
Year: 2021

description: La ricerca storica, così come quella relativa ad altre discipline umanistiche ed economiche, ha assistito solo negli ultimi vent’anni a un incremento cospicuo degli studi su temi inerenti alla moda. Nei decenni precedenti il complesso e variegato fenomeno della moda aveva suscitato l’interesse solo degli storici del costume e degli storici dell’arte, ma non degli studiosi di storia sociale e neanche degli storici dell’economia, finanche tra coloro che hanno dedicato i loro studi a un comparto contiguo alla produzione di abbigliamento come quello tessile. Eppure nel passato la moda aveva suscitato l’interesse di filosofi e intellettuali, tra cui molti economisti. Partendo da una riflessione sui ritardi degli studi storici sulla moda, il saggio si focalizza sulla lettura data alla moda da alcuni dei maggiori economisti del passato, da Adam Smith ad Alfred Marshall, collocando le loro riflessioni nel contesto economico e sociale del tempo.
description: Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, N. 2 (2021)
K2S2O8-Mediated Difunctionalization of C≡C Bonds in Water: A Simple and Efficient Approach to α,α-Dihaloacetophenones from Phenylacetylenes and NaX
Creators: name: Wang, Jing-Yu
name: Jiang, Qing
name: Guo, Can-Cheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A novel K2S2O8-mediated oxy-1,1-dihalogenation of alkynes with NaX in the presence of water has been developed, affording α,α-dihaloacetophenones in moderate to good yields. The advantages of this reaction are mild reaction conditions, operational simplicity, and use of pure water as reaction medium. A plausible reaction mechanism is proposed on the basis of mechanistic studies.