cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Two pillared-helical-layer frameworks based on spiral chainlike metavanadate and [M(btx)]2+ complexes
Creators: name: Liu, Zhigang
name: Qi, Wen
name: Li, Chunyan
name: Qi, Yanfei
name: Li, Juan
name: Wang, Enbo
name: Yang, Xiaoyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Two new isomorphous oxovanadium composite solids, [Zn(btx)V2O6] (1) and [Cu(btx)V2O6] (2) (btx = 1,4-bis(triazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene), have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, TGA, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structures of 1 and 2 are composed of {MV2O6} (M = Zn or Cu) bimetallic oxide layers, linked through {MO2N2} building blocks and btx ligands into 3-D architectures. The two compounds consist of infinite spiral chains and all helical chains are meso-helices, which lead to racemic solid-state compounds. The electrochemical properties of the two compounds have been studied.
Two pillared-helical-layer frameworks based on spiral chainlike metavanadate and [M(btx)]2+ complexes
Creators: name: Liu, Zhigang
name: Qi, Wen
name: Li, Chunyan
name: Qi, Yanfei
name: Li, Juan
name: Wang, Enbo
name: Yang, Xiaoyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Two new isomorphous oxovanadium composite solids, [Zn(btx)V2O6] (1) and [Cu(btx)V2O6] (2) (btx = 1,4-bis(triazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene), have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, TGA and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structures of 1 and 2 are composed of {MV2O6} (M = Zn or Cu) bimetallic oxide layers, linked through {MO2N2} building blocks and btx ligands into three-dimensional architectures. The two compounds consist of infinite spiral chains and all helical chains are meso-helices, which lead to racemic solid-state compounds. The electrochemical properties of the two compounds have been studied.
Synthesis and Fungicidal Activity of Simple Structural 1,3-Thiazolidine-2-Thione Derivatives
Creators: name: Chen, Ning
name: Du, Hongguang
name: Liu, Weidong
name: Wang, Shanshan
name: Li, Xinyao
name: Xu, Jiaxi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Everyday life and energy demand during UK greenfield and urban music festivals
Creators: name: Allen, Michael
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Energy demand
subject: Music festivals
subject: Practice theory
subject: Social practices
subject: Social practice theory
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Critical geography
subject: Greenfield music festivals
subject: Urban music festivals

description: Environmental sustainability at music festivals has been a focus of both academic and industry concern in recent years. However, work to improve sustainability, and address carbon emissions arising from energy demand at festivals, has predominantly focused upon the quantification of energy use at greenfield festivals and designing behaviour change interventions for festival organisers to implement. Rather than seeking to quantify the outcomes (energy use and carbon emissions) of what people do, I adopt a practice theory approach in order to open up new areas for consideration and ask questions about the composition of music festivals and the dynamics of their energy demand that have been underaddressed or overlooked in existing work. I adopt a multi-methods approach, comprising interviews with people involved in organising and running music festivals, observations of two greenfield and three urban music festivals and research into secondary sources on the history of greenfield music festivals. I argue that everyday life at greenfield festivals is made up of varied, interconnected and dynamic social practices that have evolved through repeated performances both at and outside of festivals. I also demonstrate that materiality is central to the performance of these practices, arguing that it is crucial to understand the provisioning of materials as it sequences and recursively shapes the performance of everyday life practices. I also consider how the various material settings in which everyday life is enacted during music festivals also affects everyday life. Exploring how everyday life is lived during both UK greenfield and urban music festivals generates insights into how festival organisers attend to the energy demanding practices of festival-goers, resulting in disproportionate attention to the (un)sustainability of greenfield festivals. By investigating how energy use arises from the performance of everyday life practices, my research takes a step towards understanding the social embeddedness of the energy demand of music festivals. This indicates possible directions of change in the provision for and performances of practices at greenfield music festivals and points to the recursive relationships between different aspects of festival-goer and festival organiser provisioning and marketplace competition that are driving this change.
Two new β-carboline alkaloids from the roots of Gypsophila oldhamiana
Creators: name: Zhang, Yangmei
name: Wang, Gang
name: Lv, Huawei
name: Luo, Jianguang
name: Kong, Lingyi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Phytochemical investigation of the roots of Gypsophila oldhamiana afforded two new β-carboline alkaloids, oldhamiaines A and B (1 and 2), along with a known analogue (3). Their structures were elucidated by using spectroscopic and chemical methods. This is the first report of β-carboline alkaloids in the genus Gypsophila.
Isolation of a new flavanone from Daidai fruit and hypolipidemic activity of total flavonoids extracts
Creators: name: Zeng, Ling-Jun
name: Chen, Dan
name: Huang, Qing-De
name: Huang, Qun
name: Lian, Yun-Fang
name: Cai, Wei-Wei
name: Zeng, Hua-Ping
name: Lin, Yi-Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: In order to further discover the medicinal value of Daidai fruit, an exploration on the hypolipidemic activity of total flavonoids extracts of Daidai fruit (TFEODF) was conducted in high-fat diet-induced hyperlipemia rats. Results indicated that TFEODF exhibited significant hypolipidemic activity which resulted in the decline of serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, arteriosclerosis index and rise of high density lipoprotein cholesterol in hyperlipemia rats. For the purpose of expounding the chemical constituents of TFEODF, a phytochemical investigation of TFEODF was carried out for the first time. Research resulted in the isolation of a new compound together with 17 known compounds. This study lay a foundation for the development of a new hypolipidemic agent of traditional Chinese medicine whose chemical constituents were clarified.
Proyecto Ley MinCyT FPC.doc
Creators: name: Por El Conocimiento Frente
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy

description: Indicaciones al proyecto de Ley que crea el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
Antimicrobial activity of human β-defensins against lactic acid bacteria
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao-Fang
name: Tian, Fei
name: Cao, Rui-Ming
name: Li, Jing
name: Wu, Sheng-Mei
name: Guo, Xiao-Kui
name: Chen, Tong-Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: In this study, we evaluated the antimicrobial activity of human β-defensin-1 (hBD-1), human β-defensin-2 (hBD-2) and human β-defensin-3 (hBD-3) against three internationally common probiotic strains of lactic acid bacterium. Our results indicated that hBD-1, hBD-2 and hBD-3 at the range of 0.08–10 μg/mL do not have obvious antimicrobial activity against these strains. Viability of Bifidobacterium longum JDM301 (B. longum JDM301), Bifidobacterium lactis HN019 (B. lactis HN019) and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) were still very high even at concentration of 10 μg hBD/mL. Then, we explored the mechanism of resistance by using carbonyl cyanide 3-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) to inhibit efflux pumps. In the presence of CCCP, hBD-1, hBD-2 and hBD-3 exhibited enhanced antibacterial effect against B. longum JDM301 and B. lactis HN019, but not against LGG. Efflux pumps in B. longum JDM301 and B. lactis HN019 may partly contribute to their resistance to hBD-1, hBD-2, and hBD-3.
Ultraviolet light-emitting CdII complexes: synthesis and property studies
Creators: name: Wan, Yuchun
name: Fan, Wei
name: Guo, Yanchao
name: Chen, Cong
name: Si, Zhenjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Four ultraviolet light-emitting CdII complexes, [CdL1(H2O)]n (1), [CdL1(bpy)(H2O)2]n (2), [CdL2(H2O)]n (3), and [CdL2(bpy)(H2O)2]n (4), where L1 = 3,3′-(4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3,5-diyl)dibenzoate, L2 = 3,3′-(4-(4-fluorophenyl)-4H-1,2,4triazole-3,5-diyl)dibenzoate, and bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine, were hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder scattering spectra, and infrared spectra. 1–4 possess excellent thermal stability with decomposition temperature of ca. 340 °C. Their powder samples mainly give luminescent spectra at 350, 339, 351, and 339 nm, respectively, which should be attributed to the ligand-centered π* → π transfer transitions. Additionally, 1–4 have weak emission bands at 400–500 nm, which are tentatively attributed to the triplet ligand to ligand charge transfer transitions.
Ultraviolet light-emitting CdII complexes: Synthesis and property studies
Creators: name: Wan, Yuchun
name: Fan, Wei
name: Guo, Yanchao
name: Chen, Cong
name: Si, Zhenjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Four ultraviolet light-emitting CdII complexes, [CdL1(H2O)]n (1), [CdL1(bpy)(H2O)2]n (2), [CdL2(H2O)]n (3) and [CdL2(bpy)(H2O)2]n (4), where L1 = 3,3’-(4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3,5-diyl)dibenzoate, L2 = 3,3’-(4-(4-fluorophenyl)-4H-1,2,4triazole-3,5-diyl)dibenzoate, and bpy = 2,2’-bipyridine, were hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder scattering spectra and infrared spectra. 1-4 possess excellent thermal stability with decomposition temperature of ca. 340°C. Their powder samples mainly give luminescence spectra at 350 nm, 339 nm, 351 nm and 339 nm, respectively, which should be attributed to the ligand-centered π*→π transfer transitions. Additionally, 1-4 have weak emission bands at 400 - 500 nm, which are tentatively attributed to the triplet ligand to ligand charge transfer transitions.
YWP2017 Program and Scientific Report
Creators: name: Coma, Marta
name: Lanham, Ana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 90508 Water Quality Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90410 Water Treatment Processes
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: 90409 Wastewater Treatment Processes

description: Program and Scientific report for the 18th IWA-UK Young Water Professionals Conference
Punya: Platform for Developing Mobile Linked Data Apps
Creators: name: Oshani Seneviratne
name: Wei@Thunkable.Com
name: Lkagal@Csail.Mit.Edu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80502 Mobile Technologies
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80709 Social and Community Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80505 Web Technologies (excl. Web Search)

description: The current popularity of hand-held devices and apps causes users to constantly generate large amounts of data through their mobile devices. However, the lack of Linked Data tools for mobile devices has left much of this data unstructured and difficult to reuse. Our platform, developed as an extension of MIT App Inventor, allows developers to build mobile applications that consume and publish Linked Data to bridge this gap. This platform includes components to query remote SPARQL endpoints, generate triples automatically by populating user interface elements tagged with the relevant ontological concepts and their properties, as well as cloud based messaging to publish generated triples easily. We believe that our platform will reduce the burden of mobile developers working with Linked Data and open up many opportunities for building mobile applications that interact with and contribute to the Linked Data world.
Preliminary genetic data suggest the occurrence of the Balkan water frog, Pelophylax kurtmuelleri, in southwestern Poland. Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Kolenda, Krzysztof
name: Pietras-Lebioda, Agnieszka
name: Hofman, Sebastian
name: Ogielska, Maria
name: Pabijan, Maciej
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Zoology
subject: 60809 Vertebrate Biology

description: Recent molecular studies have detected the occurrence of exotic water frog species (Pelophylax sp.) in central and western European populations. Here, we report genetic evidence for the occurrence of the Balkan water frog, Pelophylax kurtmuelleri, in southwestern Poland. We found a high frequency of an allele of serum albumin intron-1 and a mitochondrial cytochrome b haplotype specific for this southern taxon in frogs from the Barycz river drainage system. We interpret this finding as evidence of admixture between P. kurtmuelleri and the local ridibundus-esculentus water frog population. The origin of the exotic P. kurtmuelleri mitochondrial and nuclear alleles in southwestern Poland could be due to (i) hybridization after a human-mediated introduction of P. kurtmuelleri, (ii) the persistence of ancestral polymorphism in central European P. ridibundus, or (iii) hybridization between P. kurtmuelleri and P. ridibundus in the Balkans followed by the northward expansion of admixed P. ridibundus. Identical mtDNA haplotypes found in southwestern Poland and localities on the borders between Greece, Albania and Macedonia suggest that this region harboured the source population of P. kurtmuelleri at the studied site.
Translating Socio-Cultural Plurilingualism: Articulating Affect
Creators: name: Voyer, Anne Sophie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Translation
Plurilingualism
Emotions
Theatre
Literature
Multilingualism

description: A translator’s approach to literary plurilingualism in a source text can encourage readers to understand the deliberate juxtaposition of many languages within a single work of literature as a creatively productive mechanism, and one that has a socio-cultural purpose. In addressing the relative silence among scholars on a topic of significance to plurilingual societies, this thesis considers Marco Micone’s theatrical trilogy Gens du Silence (1982), Addolorata (1984) and Déjà l’agonie (1988), and their respective translations Voiceless People (1984) and Addolorata (1988), by Maurizia Binda, and Beyond the Ruins (1995) by Jill MacDougall, as a case study of plurilingual literature in translation, examining its sources, symptoms, challenges, and consequences. This plurilingualism is socially and culturally meaningful, engaging the translator in a creation of meaning and identity politics through the articulation of affect in the translation process. The joint critical framework of Translation Studies and the History of Emotions enables an exploration of how and why multiple languages come to coexist in the works of Micone, of the challenges the intersection of those languages in theatre texts pose to the process of translation, of the strategies deployed by Micone’s translators to tackle these challenges, and of their effects on the narratives. While theoretical approaches from Translation Studies help ground the analysis with notions of habitus, power, and representation and how they influence the translation process as it pertains to the case study, completing these concepts with the theories of conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 2010), emotions as practice (Scheer 2012), and emotional communities (Rosenwein 2006)—all used in the field of the History of Emotions—offers a new vantage point from which to analyze the impact of plurilingual instances in the corpus, the effects of translation on these instances, the changes that occur in the translation, and the consequences.
Microwave-assisted synthesis and mesomorphic investigations of p-substituted aroylhydrazones and their nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes
Creators: name: Kumar Singh, Sachin
name: Kumar, Vijay
name: Nandi, Rajib
name: Kumar Singh, Hemant
name: Singh, Ranjan K.
name: Singh, Bachcha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cell Biology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The present study is focused on the development of green microwave process for the synthesis of mesogenic substituted aroylhydrazones and their nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes. The compounds have been synthesised by microwave-assisted as well as thermal methods for comparison purpose. The compounds were structurally characterised by using suitable spectroscopic techniques. The mesomorphic properties were studied by differential scanning calorimetric analysis and polarising optical microscopy. The stable molecular structures of the mesogenic methylidenehydrazinato-nickel(II) complex have been obtained by density functional theoretical method to understand the structural origin responsible for the mesomorphic property.
Matériaux nanocomposites sur supports céramiques pour l'assainissement de l'air intérieur (Nanocomposite materials developed using ceramics supports for the indoor air sanitation)
Creators: name: Dutheil de la Rochère, Aliénor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Indoor air quality, indoor air disinfection, germicidal composite materials

description: In developed countries, people spend more than 85% of their time in enclosed areas. Yet, air can carry pathogenic microorganisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Legionella pneumophila. In this context, the microbiologic quality of indoor air is an issue of common interest. Air treatment technologies for the microbial disinfection of indoor air exist already. However, in most cases, the proposed solutions require external energy inputs and some of them produce harmful compounds (nanoscale powders, ozone, etc.) when used. Therefore, the main goal of this thesis was to develop new antimicrobial materials for the disinfection of indoor air. These materials have to be energetically autonomous and function without any complementary energetic assistance; no harmful compounds must be released in the treated gas flows. To achieve this goal, the current research was focused on functionalizing of the surfaces of macroscopic alumina beads. Several compounds have been studied as active components of germicidal composites: manganese dioxide for its oxidizing properties, zinc oxide for its crystalline structure allowing the synthesis of microscale blades for the mechanical disruption of microorganisms and silver for its well-known antimicrobial ability. To assess the germicidal properties of these new materials, new test units have been designed. In particular, this thesis explored the use of tests units working in dynamic conditions with ambient air to evaluate the germicidal ability of materials in life-like conditions.
description: 231 pages, 109 figures, 32 tables; the thesis was defended on December 13th, 2019
ВНЕКЛАССНАЯ РАБОТА ПО РУССКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
Creators: name: Тожиева, Нигина
name: Гиёсова, В.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В современном обществе русский язык играет важнейшую объединяющую роль — именно на нём обогащается общение между большинствами представителями разных национальностей, живущих в нашей стране. Это язык межнационального взаимодействия, культуры, науки и образования.
Punya
Creators: name: Oshani Seneviratne
name: Wei@Thunkable.Com
name: Lkagal@Csail.Mit.Edu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80502 Mobile Technologies
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80709 Social and Community Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80505 Web Technologies (excl. Web Search)

description: The current popularity of hand-held devices and apps causes users to constantly generate large amounts of data through their mobile devices. However, the lack of Linked Data tools for mobile devices has left much of this data unstructured and difficult to reuse. Our platform, developed as an extension of MIT App Inventor, allows developers to build mobile applications that consume and publish Linked Data to bridge this gap. This platform includes components to query remote SPARQL endpoints, generate triples automatically by populating user interface elements tagged with the relevant ontological concepts and their properties, as well as cloud based messaging to publish generated triples easily. We believe that our platform will reduce the burden of mobile developers working with Linked Data and open up many opportunities for building mobile applications that interact with and contribute to the Linked Data world.
A Study on Public Perception towards Effectiveness of Digital Lending Platforms with Special Reference to Coimbatore City
Creators: name: Ms. Jasmine Anitha A, Mr.Anish S, Mr.Harish K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study examines the effectiveness and key factors driving consumer adoption of digital lending platforms.Focusing on elements such as trust, ease of access, loan disbursement speed, affordability, and demographicinfluences, the study explores consumer motivation and challenges. This study uses simple random samplingtechnique and approximately 150 respondents are collected. Data is collected to through a structured questionnaire for primary insights and secondary sources such as books, journals, and online articles for contextual support. This research contributes to understanding public behaviour in the context of digital lending, providing practical recommendations for platforms to build trust, address consumer concerns, and support sustainable growth. These insights lay a foundation for future studies on optimizing digital lending platforms to remain competitive in an evolving digital economy.
Avital Ronell. Test Drive. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004 [Book review]
Creators: name: Brinsmead, Faye
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Avital Ronell has clearly been preoccupied by the unholy trinity of science, the test, and Nietzsche, particularly the Nietzsche of The Gay Science, for some time. In 2003 her intricately woven musings on this three-headed topic were published in two journals. The articles, which can perhaps be seen as test runs, appear in re-worked and expanded form as the central section of The Test Drive. Ronell states that these writings issue from "a philosophical need – such needs still exist – to respond to the question of testing."
James Phillips. Heidegger’s Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005 [Book review]
Creators: name: Padgett, Andrew
name: Phillips, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The space of the “in between” is a central figure in James Phillips’ study of Heidegger’s Volk (“the people”). Phillips’ reading of Heidegger manages to navigate a path between so many dangerous, because dogmatic, views of his engagement with National Socialism. The picture of Heidegger’s thought that Phillips constructs is one marked by das Fremde (the strange; the alien) and Unheimlichkeit (uncanniness, or the unhomeliness of that which lacks a home) that characterise Heidegger’s conception of Dasein’s poetic dwelling. The “in between” (80) which Heidegger’s thought inhabits is marked, on the one hand, by what in 1933 he saw to be the promise of National Socialism’s appeal to “the people,” and which he still saw in 1953 to be the movement’s “inner truth.” The other pole of the “in between” of Phillips’ study is that of Heidegger’s inevitable disillusionment with National Socialism, which his ontology exceeded but “could not leave... behind and cut itself off from” (53).
Synthesis and biological evaluation of nigranoic acid esters as novel human neutrophil elastase inhibitors
Creators: name: Huang, Guoli
name: Feng, Li
name: Liu, Bo
name: He, Yi
name: Li, Yiming
name: Chen, Yegao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Human neutrophil elastase (HNE) has been implicated as a major contributor in the pathogenesis of diseases, such as lung disorders and other inflammatory diseases. A series of 12 new nigranoic acid esters were regioselectively synthesised in good yields and evaluated for HNE inhibitory activity. Nigranoic acid exhibited significant inhibitory activity against HNE with the IC50 value of 3.77 μM, and six esters displayed considerable inhibitory effects on HNE with IC50 values in the range of 2.61–8.95 μM. The nigranoic acid esters having phenyls substituted with bromine and trimethoxyls (3h and 3b) showed stronger inhibitory activity on HNE than nigranoic acid.
Prediction of Dialogue Success with Spectral and Rhythm Acoustic Features Using DNNS and SVMS
Creators: name: Lykartsis, Athanasios
name: Kotti, Margarita
name: Papangelis, Alexandros
name: Stylianou, Yannis
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: 780 Musik
subject: dialogue success
subject: acoustic features
subject: deep neural networks
subject: support vector machines

description: © 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
description: In this paper we investigate the novel use of exclusively audio to predict whether a spoken dialogue will be successful or not, both in a subjective and in an objective manner. To achieve that, multiple spectral and rhythmic features are inputted to support vector machines and deep neural networks. We report results on data from 3267 spoken dialogues, using both the full user response as well as parts of it. Experiments show an average accuracy of 74% can be achieved using just 5 acoustic features, when analysing merely 1 user turn, which allows both a real-time but also a fairly accurate prediction of a dialogue successfulness only after one short interaction unit. From the features tested, those related to speech rate, signal energy and cepstrum are amongst the most informative. Results presented here outperform the state of the art in spoken dialogue success prediction through solely acoustic features.
Matthew Sharpe. A Little Piece of the Real. London: Ashgate, 2003 [Book review]
Creators: name: Boucher, Geoff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Slavoj Žižek is the most influential interdisciplinary thinker to have emerged in recent times. Yet despite the importance of his intervention into contemporary theory, reception of his work has so far been limited to some lucid introductions. Perhaps because of the astonishing breadth of knowledge displayed in Žižek’s writings, and the sometimes hermetic density of his style, many commentators have just rounded up the usual suspects – Laclau, Hegel, Lacan, then ethics and politics – and left it at that. But with the crucial preliminary reconnaissance of the terrain now well underway, the time has come for a deeper exploration of Žižek’s work
A Closer Look at Engagement
Creators: name: Parsons, Georgina
name: Splawa-Neyman, Patrick
name: Hardeman, Megan
name: Team Figshare
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Georgina Parsons from Cranfield University and Patrick Splawa-Neyman from La Trobe University share their tips and tricks for engaging researchers in data management.
John Sellars. The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 [Book review]
Creators: name: FitzGerald, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: It might be inferred, in either a receptive or a suspicious spirit, that the main title of John Sellars’ book suggests an intention to provide the companion-piece to Alexander Nehamas’ hugely popular Sather lectures, of the same name, on the figure of Socrates. Or again, an installation of the kind of programmatic research in ‘technologies of the self’ proposed, at the beginning of the 1980s, by Michel Foucault. In fact, Sellars makes no immodest claims to intellectual patronage; he does share, however, with Nehamas the intention of turning to philosophy’s classical heritage in order to widen and deepen contemporary perceptions of the discipline. As he summarises in the book’s opening and closing pages, the ‘technical conception of philosophy’ which he argues on behalf of Stoicism would not be simply an antiquarian relic, a naïf primitif, but the marrow of a counter-tradition taking in the humanisms of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Sellars is the author of the entry on Neostoicism in the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy), up to the works of Nietzsche, Foucault and Deleuze.
A Closer Look At Engagement
Creators: name: Parsons, Georgina
name: Splawa-Neyman, Patrick
name: Hardeman, Megan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Georgina Parsons from Cranfield University and Patrick Splawa-Neyman from La Trobe University share their tips and tricks for engaging researchers in data management.
Combined ultrasonication and thermal pre-treatment of sewage sludge for increasing methane production
Creators: name: Wang, Chong
name: Prandota Trzcinski, Antoine
name: Tian, Xinbo
name: Leonard Lin, Li
name: Ng, Wun Jern
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: This article focuses on the combination of ultrasonic and thermal treatment of sewage sludge (SS). The combination involved ultrasonicating a fraction of the sludge and thermal treatment at various temperatures and this resulted in solubilization of proteins and carbohydrates, and so contributing to increased COD solubilization. During the treatment, SCOD, soluble proteins and carbohydrates increased from 760 mg L−1 to 10,200 mg L−1, 110 mg L−1 to 2,900 mg L−1 and 60 mg L−1 to 630 mg L−1, respectively. It was found ultrasonication of only a fraction of the sludge (>20%) followed by thermal treatment led to significant improvement compared to thermal and ULS treatments applied on their own. At 65°C, the kinetic of solubilization was improved and the hyper-thermophilic treatment time could be reduced to a few hours when ultrasonication was used first. A linear correlation (R2 = 95%) was found between the SCOD obtained after ultrasonication pre-treatment and anaerobic biodegradability. The combined treatment resulted in 20% increase in biogas production during the anaerobic digestion of the pre-treated sludge.
Adrienne Munich and Melissa Bradshaw (eds.). Amy Lowell, American Modern. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2004 [Book review]
Creators: name: Rosenow, Ce
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200506 North American Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: From the publication of her first book, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass in 1912, until her death in 1925, Amy Lowell reigned as an important, influential, and well-known modernist poet. She published eleven books during her lifetime, edited three volumes of the Imagist anthology, Some Imagist Poets, gave numerous well-attended readings and lectures, and regularly contributed work to leading magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly. She also helped to fund and contributed work to a variety of literary magazines including Harriet Monroe’s Poetry. Lowell was a respected contemporary of the poets most often associated with the modernist movement, whether they supported her projects and ideas or whether, like Ezra Pound, they openly expressed their irritation and frustration. In the years just following her death, Lowell’s reputation continued to flourish with the posthumous publication of her lectures and essays in Poetry and Poets as well as with three additional collections of poetry, including What’s O’Clock which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1926. Given her importance as a poet, critic, and editor, the limited amount of critical attention she has received after 1930 and the fact that all of her books have been out of print for decades seem to be a glaring oversight on the part of scholars and publishers. The editors of and contributors to Amy Lowell, American Modern seek to remedy this situation by instigating a serious critical conversation about Lowell and her work as well as by bringing many of her poems back into print through a companion volume, Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (2003).
Juliana de Nooy. Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Look Twice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 [Book review]
Creators: name: Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: What is exceptional about Juliana de Nooy’s book on the twins is the insight that, despite the fascination exercised by the twins since ancient time, there appears to be nothing exceptional about them. Stories about twins are not presentations of a curiosity or even an aberration. Rather, narratives about twins highlight difference as the condition of the possibility of culture. This difference comes to the fore because the image of the twins ineluctably brings to mind the notion of sameness. However, as de Nooy argues throughout Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture, sameness can never sustain itself: even identical twins are never absolutely the same. Thus, the twins give rise to a critique of sameness and a philosophy of difference.
A Closer Look at Engagement
Creators: name: Parsons, Georgina
name: Splawa-Neyman, Patrick
name: Hardeman, Megan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Georgina Parsons from Cranfield University and Patrick Splawa-Neyman from La Trobe University share their tips and tricks for engaging researchers in data management.
Helping learners activate productive inner feedback: Using resource and dialogic comparisons
Creators: name: Nicol, David
name: Quinn, Nick
name: Kushwah, Lovleen
name: Mullen, Helen
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: International research on feedback in higher education is dominated by the idea that feedback is a two-way communicative exchange, dialogue that requires action by the students as well as the teacher. In line with this framing, the prime focus of recent research is on how to increase students’ engagement and agency in that dialogue.
 “Helping learners activate productive inner feedback: Using resource and dialogic comparisons” was a presentation given at the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Conference, 29-30 June 2021.
Synthesis and liquid crystalline property of H-shaped 1,3,4-thiadiazole dimers
Creators: name: Han, Jie
name: Wang, Qiong
name: Wu, Jing
name: Zhu, Li-Rong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Marine Biology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Two H-shaped liquid crystalline 1,3,4-thiadiazole dimers D1 and D2 and the corresponding monomers M1 and M2 were synthesised and characterised by 1H/13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and high-resolution mass spectrometry. The thermal properties of the dimers and monomers were investigated by polarised optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis. All of these compounds exhibited liquid crystalline behaviours with excellent thermal stabilities. The dimers displayed an enantiotropic or a monotropic nematic phase, while the monomers showed nematic and/or smectic A phases enantiotropically. The nature of the mesophases was determined by the molecular shapes and the terminal groups. Notably, the H-shaped dimers exhibited much lower clearing temperatures than the corresponding rod-like monomers.
A. L. McCann. Subtopia. Carlton North: Vulgar Press, 2005 [Book review]
Creators: name: Thompson, Jay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Subtopia is A.L. (Andrew) McCann’s second novel. The book initially appears to be a standard ‘coming-of-age’ narrative. However, it quickly transforms itself into a treatise on a broad range of issues: suburbia, sex, politics, memory, death. The result is a dark and dense, but also highly imaginative read that avoids clichés and provides its readers with some rich (if at times troubling) food for thought.
Clare Archer-Lean. Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Writings of Thomas King and Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo). Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006 [Book review]
Creators: name: Salzani, Carlo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200506 North American Literature

description: Archer-Lean’s book is an analysis of representations and representativeness. The context is the post-colonial and post-modern end of the millennium in settler societies like Australia and Canada, where the traditional Eurocentric notions of identity and representation are challenged by the rising voices of Indigenous discourses. Comparing two distant and apparently diverse writers like the Indigenous Canadian Thomas King and the Indigenous Australian Colin Johnson, Archer-Lean pursues the similarities that unite their projects in undermining the past representations of Indigeneity. The differences between the two – cultural, thematic, stylistic – are thus acknowledged but partially put aside, in an attempt to focus on the ways in which both authors deal with the question of identity and the act of textual representation. The cross-cultural analysis centres on in the two writers’ common focus on semiotic fields and meta-discursive and intertextual practices aimed at unmasking the colonial discourses. The works analysed are mainly the novels of the two authors: whereas Johnson has written also poetry and plays, and King film, television and radio drama scripts, Archer-Lean limits her analysis to their novelistic production. Another self-imposed limit is in the theoretical approach: whereas the analysis draws from a wide range of theoretical sources, post-modern and feminist interpretations are almost omitted, and post-colonial theory is used “critically” because of King’s and Johnson’s similar scepticism about it; post-colonial terminology like “rehearsal,” “hybridity” and “magic realism” informs the book but is re-visited and re-appropriated.
Writings from Turkey: Rifat Ilgaz and Sunay Akin
Creators: name: Alkan, Burcu
name: Ilgaz, Rifat
name: Akin, Sunay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Modern Turkish literature has produced much politically and socially committed writing, with proponents such as Rıfat Ilgaz (1911-93) and Sunay Akın (b.1962).
Identification of insecticidal constituents of the essential oils of Dahlia pinnata Cav. against Sitophilus zeamais and Sitophilus oryzae
Creators: name: Wang, Da-Cheng
name: Qiu, Da-Ren
name: Shi, Li-Na
name: Pan, Hong-Yu
name: Li, Ya-Wei
name: Sun, Jin-Zhu
name: Xue, Ying-Jie
name: Wei, Dong-Sheng
name: Li, Xiang
name: Zhang, Ya-Mei
name: Qin, Jian-Chun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Genetics
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The aim of this research was to determine the chemical composition of the essential oils of Dahlia pinnata, their insecticidal activity against Sitophilus zeamais and Sitophilusoryzae and to isolate insecticidal constituents. Based on bioactivity-guided fractionation, active constituents were isolated and identified as d-limonene, 4-terpineol and α-terpineol. Essential oils and active compounds tested exhibited contact toxicity, with LD50 values ranging from 132.48 to 828.79 μg/cm2 against S. zeamais and S. oryzae. Essential oils possessed fumigant toxicity against S. zeamais and S. oryzae with LC50 from 14.10 to 73.46 mg/L. d-Limonene (LC50 = 4.55 and 7.92 mg/L) showed stronger fumigant toxicity against target insects. 4-Terpineol (88 ± 8%) and d-limonene (87 ± 5%) showed the strongest repellency against S. zeamais and S. oryzae, respectively. The results indicate that essential oils and insecticidal constituents have potential for development into natural fumigants, insecticides or repellents for control of the stored-product insect pests.
Simon Featherstone. Postcolonial Cultures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005 [Book review]
Creators: name: Ghattas, Barbara
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified

description: This book is an introductory text to postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on contemporary debates. The first chapter, "The Nervous Condition of Postcolonial Studies," clearly outlines the complexities of the field of postcolonial studies. It emphasises the importance of moving away from critical analysis from inside the academy, and instead turning to popular culture for strategies and movements in this discourse.
Blues for Allah
Creators: name: Ahmede Hussain
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Shormi woke up from a long nap by the sound of a cat screeching. The rain had just stopped and the curtains were tightly pulled. Bright sunlight that fell on the mirror gave her face a raffish charm. There was a small photo-frame on the bedside table. She looked much younger in black and white, helping a toddler walk. The boy was holding a toy gun and was staring at the camera with a menacing look. Both of them looked forlorn, like the ice creams they consumed years ago on a holiday-trip to Cox's Bazaar – long lost and forgotten.
Synthesis, structures, and magnetic properties of four dodecanuclear Ni8RE4 (RE = Gd, Dy, Y) clusters trapping four μ5-bridged carbonate anions
Creators: name: Ke, Hongshan
name: Zhang, Sheng
name: Zhu, Wanxia
name: Xie, Gang
name: Chen, Sanping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Medicine
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The syntheses, structures, and magnetic properties of four heterometallic dodecanuclear aggregates with molecular formulas [NiΙΙ8REΙΙΙ4(L)8(CO3)6(H2O)14]·mCH3OH·12H2O [RE = Gd (1), m = 2; Dy (2), m = 0] and [NiΙΙ8REΙΙΙ4(L)8(CO3)4(CH3OH)4(H2O)8]·(ClO4)4·8H2O [RE = Dy (3), Y (4)] are presented. These complexes were obtained from two easy synthetic procedures through atmospheric CO2 fixation involving direct reaction of 2-(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylideneamino)phenol (H2L) with RE(NO3)3·nH2O and Ni(ClO4)2·6H2O in the presence of triethylamine in different solvents under ambient conditions. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that these complexes possess very similar core structures featuring an unprecedented “tetra-capped hexahedron” topology bridged by four μ5-bridged carbonates. Static magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate dominant ferromagnetic coupling between the metal centers for 1 and 4. The dissimilar static and dynamic magnetic behaviors seen in 2 and 3 are probably ascribed to different coordination environments and ligand fields around DyΙΙΙ ions. These complexes represent limited examples of high-nuclearity NiΙΙ-REΙΙΙ family trapping μ5-bridged carbonates through atmospheric carbon dioxide fixation.