cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emotion regulation in bipolar disorder: are emotion regulation abilities less compromised in euthymic bipolar disorder than unipolar depressive or anxiety disorders?
Creators: name: Becerra, Rodrigo
name: Cruise, Kate
name: Murray, Greg
name: Bassett, Darryl
name: Harms, Craig
name: Allan, Alfred
name: Hood, Sean
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objective: This study investigated the profile of emotion dysregulation in Bipolar Disorder (BD) and compared it to Unipolar Depression, Anxiety, and Healthy control groups. Methods: 148 euthymic patients diagnosed with BD (n = 48), Unipolar Depressive disorder (n = 50), Anxiety disorder (n = 50), and a Healthy Control (HC) group (n = 48) were evaluated using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). The DERS yields a total score in addition to scores on six subcomponents believed to encapsulate the emotion dysregulation construct. Results: Compared to the healthy control group, all clinical groups (BD, Unipolar Depression, and Anxiety) reported significantly greater overall difficulties in emotion regulation (Total DERS) and difficulties specific to the DERS subcomponent measures: Goals, Impulse, and Strategies. The profile of emotion dysregulation was virtually identical for the Unipolar Depression and Anxiety groups, with BD demonstrating emotion regulation difficulties intermediate between controls and the two clinical groups. Specifically, emotion regulation in the BD group was significantly less compromised in the domains of acceptance of emotions, emotional awareness, and emotional clarity compared to the depression and anxiety groups. Conclusions: Emotion regulation abilities among people with euthymic BD were significantly less compromised than Unipolar Depression and Anxiety groups with regards to emotional awareness, acceptance of emotions, and understanding of emotions. However, emotion regulation abilities pertaining to engagement in goal directed behaviour, impulse control, and access to emotion regulation strategies were similarly compromised across all three clinical groups. This profile might help enrich extant adjunct psychological interventions for BD by enlisting emotion regulation strategies with the aim of decreasing the relapse rate that characterises BD.
Becoming Rosalind's daughter: reflections on intercultural kinship and embodied histories, in 'Indigenous Marriage, Family and Kinship in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific: the Persistence of Life and Hope in Colonial and Neo-Colonial C
Creators: name: Hughes, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430303
subject: Biography

description: Taking a reflexive auto-ethnographic approach, this article explores the unique process of transcultural adoption by which Aboriginal people have selectively extended their family formations to include as well as “manage” outsiders. Focussing on my longstanding friendship and research collaboration with the respected Ngukurr Elder, and skilful historian, Rosalind Munur, I discuss some of the ways in which adoption into her family has profoundly reset my understanding of the discipline of history and contributed to a new and extended sense of family and personhood. I explore these changes within the concept of a feminist ethics of risk (Welch) that is tied to Aboriginal women’s agency. In recounting this story, I draw attention to some of the ethical and epistemological responsibilities of engaging with Aboriginal Australia.
title: Die Geister der Vergangenheit: Eine kritische Reflexion zur Kunduz-Entscheidung des BGH
Creators: name: Starski, Paulina
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy alleviates intestinal dysfunction following traumatic brain injury via m6A regulation
Creators: name: Huang, Peizan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320903
subject: Central nervous system

description: In this study, we investigated the potential impact of HBO therapy in intestinal dysfunction following TBI. We displayed that HBO reduced histopathological lesions and decreased the levels of inflammation and edema proteins in gut tissues but not brain tissue at 10 days post-CCI. We also found that HBO improved fungal mycobiome abundance and probiotics (particularly g_Bifidobacterium) colonization in mice at 10 days following CCI. Then, we identified the m6A level imcreased notably in injured cortical tissue of CCI+HBO group compared with the CCI group but there was no significant difference in jejunum tissue at 10 days after CCI. Our results suggest that HBO therapy could alleviate TBI-induced intestinal dysfunction and m6A might participate in this regulation process. Our study provides a new insight for exploring the specific mechanism and target of HBO in the treatment of intestinal dysfunction after TBI.
E-book monopolies and the law
Creators: name: Daly, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article will examine the legality of the digital rights management ('DRM') measures used by the major e-book publishers and device manufacturers in the United States, European Union and Australia not only to enforce their intellectual property rights but also to create monopolistic content silos, restrict interoperability and affect the ability for users to use the content they have bought in the way they wish. The analysis will then proceed to the recent competition investigations in the US and EU over price-fixing in e-book markets, and the current litigation against Amazon in the US for an alleged abuse of its dominant position. A final point will be made on possible responses in Australia to these issues taking into account the jurisprudence on DRM in other scenarios.
Resilience, agency and resistance in the storytelling practice of Aunty Hilda Wilson (1911-2007), Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal elder
Creators: name: Hughes, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430303
subject: Biography

description: In this article the author discusses a story told by the South Australian Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal elder, Aunty Hilda Wilson (nee Varcoe), about the time when, at not quite sixteen, she was sent from the Point Pearce Aboriginal Station to work in the Adelaide Hills, some 500 kilometres away, as a housekeeper for 'one of Adelaide's leading doctors'. Her secondment was part of a widespread practice in early and mid-twentieth century Australia of placing young Aboriginal women 'of marriageable age' from missions and government reserves into domestic service. Consciously deploying Indigenous storytelling practices as pedagogy, Hilda Wilson recounted this episode in a number of distinct ways during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Across these iterations, each building on the other, she exhibited a personal resilience in her subjectivity, embedded in Indigenous knowledge systems of relationality, kin and work, which informed her agency and determination in a challenging situation in which she was both caring for a white socially-privileged family of five, while simultaneously grappling with the injustices of a state system of segregated indentured labour.
Localization of free and bound aromatic compounds among skin, juice and pulp fractions some grape varieties
Creators: name: Gomez, E.
name: Martinez, A.
name: Laencina, J.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The localization and distribution of free and glycosidically-bound aroma compounds among the skin, pulp and juice of three red grape varieties (Vitis vinifera L. var. Monastrell, Cabernet Sauvignon and Tempranillo) have been studied. An Amberlite XAD-2 column was utilized to separate and extract the free aroma compounds and the glycosidically-bound aromatic compounds. A commercial enzymatic preparation (Pectinol C) was used to release the bound aroma compounds. Gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were used for the analysis of the compounds. The results showed that the major compounds in these varieties were alcohols and aldehydes, the skin being the fraction with the largest quantities of aromatic compounds. After the enzymatic hydrolysis. the analysis of the liberated compounds showed that they were mainly alcohols and monoterpenes. Two monoterpenes that did not appear as free aroma compounds could he found.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 33 No. 1 (1994): Vitis
Explainability Requirements in Edge Band Manufacturing---Interview Slides
Creators: name: Heider, Michael
name: Stegherr, Helena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: With this collection of slides, we aim to assess explainability requirements for predictive quality models for edge band manufacturing. We especially investigate this with regard to the application of rule-based learners. The slides were presented as is to assist in an interview like process with different stakeholders of a case study company.
Comparison of methods used determining the stenospermic trait in Vitis vinifera L.
Creators: name: Ledbetter, C. A.
name: Burgos, L.
name: Palmquist, D.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Grape samples from nine progeny populations totaling 580 individual seedlings were evaluated organoleptically for the stenospermic character by four independent judges. These subjective evaluations were correlated to a standard objective procedure for evaluating stenospermy, as well as other variables associated with the sinker content of each sample. Correlations were diverse between organoleptic evaluations and calculated variables. Organoleptic evaluations more closely agreed with the objective stenospermic evaluation for seeded grapes. Highest correlations were realized between organoleptic evaluation and relative seed mass. These results indicate that organoleptic evaluations should not be used in genetic studies to discern between seeded and stenospermic accessions.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 33 No. 1 (1994): Vitis
Free software and the law. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: how shaking up intellectual property suits competition just fine
Creators: name: Daly, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Free software is viewed as a revolutionary and subversive practice, and in particular has dealt a strong blow to the traditional conception of intellectual property law (although in its current form could be considered a 'hack' of IP rights). However, other (capitalist) areas of law have been swift to embrace free software, or at least incorporate it into its own tenets. One area in particular is that of competition (antitrust) law, which itself has long been in theoretical conflict with intellectual property, due to the restriction on competition inherent in the grant of ‘monopoly’ rights by copyrights, patents and trademarks. This contribution will examine how competition law has approached free software by examining instances in which courts have had to deal with such initiatives, for instance in the Oracle Sun Systems merger, and the implications that these decisions have on free software initiatives. The presence or absence of corporate involvement in initiatives will be an important factor in this investigation, with it being posited that true instances of ‘commons-based peer production’ can still subvert the capitalist system, including perplexing its laws beyond intellectual property.
title: Who are Today’s Polish Traitors?: Of Politics of Paranoia and Resentment and Missed Lessons from the Past
Creators: name: Conelly, John
name: Koncewicz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
On the origin of the grapevine variety Müller-Thurgau as investigated by the inheritance of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
Creators: name: Büscher, Nicole
name: Zyprian, Eva
name: Bachmann, O.
name: Blaich, R.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Random amplified polymorphic DNA obtained with 10 different primers and peroxidase isoenzymes of Riesling, Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau were analyzed for genetic relationships between these grapevine varieties. It can be concluded that Müller-Thurgau is not a progenitor of a cross Riesling x Silvaner as generally assumed, but of Riesling and an unknown cultivar.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 33 No. 1 (1994): Vitis
Viticultural characteristics of VR hybrid rootstocks in a vineyard site infected with grapevine fanleaf virus
Creators: name: Walker, M. A.
name: Wolpert, J. A.
name: Weber, E.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Two Vitis vinifera x Muscadinia rotundifolia hybrids (VR hybrids), 039-16 and 043-43, were tested for resistance to fanleaf degeneration over a 12-year period in the Napa Valley, California. Data comparing the vegetative growth and crop yields of these two VR hybrids to the fanleaf susceptible rootstocks AXR#1, Harmony, St. George and L171-6 (a LIDER selection) are presented for the last 8 years of the trial. Certified virus-tested Cabernet Sauvignon was used as the scion variety. Both VR hybrids became highly infected with grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) over the course of the trial, but neither showed the reduced crop yields associated with fanleaf degeneration. Information on the resistance of these two rootstocks to other soil-borne pests is also presented. Preliminary studies indicate that O43-43 may be susceptible to phylloxera, therefore, in sites infected with fanleaf degeneration and with potential for infestation with phylloxera, O39-16 is the only suitable choice.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 33 No. 1 (1994): Vitis
Synthesis of 1,3-Disubstituted Hexahydropyrimidine Derivatives from Dibenzoylmethane, Acetylacetone, Ethyl Acetoacetate: One-Pot FeCl3-Catalyzed Mannich Reaction
Creators: name: Saleh, Abdullah
name: Morton, Martha
name: D'Angelo, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: 1,3-Disubstituted hexahydropyrimidin-5-yl(phenyl)methanone (products 1–5) were prepared from the reaction of dibenzoylmethane with primary amines and formaldehyde in the presence of Lewis acid catalyst at ambient temperature. Replication of the reaction with acetylacetone and ethyl aetoacetate yielded 1,1′-(1,3-disubstituted hexahydropyrimidine-5,5-diyl)diethanone (products 6–10) and ethyl 5-acetylhexahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate (products 11–13), respectively. Yields obtained ranged from 69 to 89%.
Procyanodols ologomères des sarments de vigne, cépage Carignan
Creators: name: Boukharta, M.
name: Girardin, M.
name: Metche, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Les procyanidols des sarments de vigne (cépage Carignan) ont été obtenus par extractions successives à l'aide du mélange acétone- eau puis d'acétate d'éthyle. La combinaison des méthodes de fractionnement sur colonnes de Sephadex LH-20 et de Fractagel TSK HW40 avec la chromatographie préparative sur couches minces de silice complétée par I'HPLC semi-préparative, ont permis de purifier onze procyanidols. A l'aide de méthodes chimiques, enzymatiques et spectrophotométriques, ont été établies les structures de six procyanidols dimères B1, B2, B3, B4, B7 et B2-3'-O-gallate, de deux procyanidols trimères C1 et [épicatéchine ( 4 ß->8) épicatéchine ( 4 ß->8) catechine] ainsi que celles de trois monomères (-)epicatechine-3-0-gallate, (-)épicatéchine et ( + )catéchine. Oligomeric procyanidins of vine shoots of cultivar Carignan Procyanidins from vine shoots were extracted using acetone - water and ethyl acetate. The purification of procyanidins were carried out by combination of column chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and Fractogel TSK HW 40, preparative TLC on silicagel and HPLC. Two trimeric procyanidins C1 and [epicatechin (4ß->8) epicatechin (4ß->8) catechin], six dimeric procyanidins B1, B2, B3, B4, B7 and 3'-O-galloyl B2 along with 3-O-galloyl (-)epicatechin, (+)catechin and (-)epicatechin were identified on the basis of chromatographical and chemical evidences.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 33 No. 1 (1994): Vitis
A theoretical processing map for laser cladding: experimental validation with laser cladding of Ti-6Al-4V powder on a Ti-6Al-4V substrate
Creators: name: Cottam, Ryan
name: Barry, Timothy
name: Brandt, Milan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A theoretical processing map for the laser cladding of Ti-6Al-4V powder on a Ti-6Al-4V substrate was developed. The map was constructed with the aid of a new analytical model for laser cladding, which is detailed in this paper. The map is a series of loci that relate laser traversing speed with laser power for a given melt pool depth and clad height. Several of the developed parameters were experimentally trialled on Ti-6Al-4V clad on Ti-6Al-4V and produced clads of sound metallurgical quality. These maps would be useful for industrial engineers developing new cladding procedures or the research engineer developing understanding of the fundamental aspects of laser cladding. Additive manufacturing or laser engineered net shaping (LENS) could also use this type of map for the development of process parameters.
title: Die ‚Anderen‘ an den Tisch holen: Ein Vorschlag für ein inklusiveres Südtirol
Creators: name: Conelly, John
name: Koncewicz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
APPLICATION OF CHEMOMETRIC RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF A RP-HPLC METHOD FOR THE SEPARATION OF METAXALONE AND ITS BASE HYDROLYTIC IMPURITIES
Creators: name: Prafulla Kumar Sahu
name: Patro, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Owing to know the complexity in reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method optimization; i.e., the selection of optimum combination of input variables for achieving the desired separation, a mathematical relationship between the experimental variables with the responses is to be established by response surface methodology. The paper aims to describe the use of the Box–Behnken experimental design to identify the significant variables effects influencing the separation of metaxalone (MTX) and its two base hydrolytic impurities (DP-1 and DP-2) in a stability indicating RP-HPLC method. Influence variables such as column temperature, buffer pH, and buffer concentration, each at three levels were screened for the desirability of responses like theoretical plates, resolution (MTX-DP-1), capacity factor of MTX, tailing factor at 10% (MTX), and analysis time (Rt of DP-2). A statistical program (Design Expert 8.0) was used to calculate and optimize the five responses simultaneously by means of a multiple response optimization algorithm. The optimum conditions are established including the robustness of the method using a Box–Behnken design, as part of the validation exercise. 10 mM phosphate buffer with pH 4.7 at 31°C column temperature was found to be the optimized condition to produce desirable responses. System suitability limits were defined based on the results of the robustness test. The RP-HPLC method was further validated with respect to linearity, range, precision, specificity, accuracy, limit of detection, and limit of quantification, according to the current regulatory requirements. The optimized method gives rapid and efficient separation with complete resolution between the three peaks, and represents an improvement over the existing reported methods.
On the relationship between age and dynamics in elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Ponman, Trevor J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Galaxy age estimates (mostly from spectroscopy of the central regions) are now available for many early-type galaxies. In a previous paper we showed that the offset of galaxies from the fundamental plane depends on galaxy age. Here, using the same sample of 88 galaxies, we examine the scatter about the Faber–Jackson (FJ) relation, and find that the position of a galaxy relative to this relation depends on its age. In particular, younger ellipticals are systematically brighter in MB and/or have a lower central velocity dispersion (σ0). The mean relation corresponds to galaxies that are ~10 Gyr old. We attempt to reproduce the observed trend of the FJ residuals with age using two simple models. The first assumes that galaxy age is tracing the last major star formation event in an elliptical galaxy. We assume that this starburst was instantaneous, centrally located and involved 10 per cent of the galaxy by mass. The fading of this burst changes the MB component of the FJ residuals, with time. Such a model was very successful at reproducing the B−V and Mg2 evolution reported in our previous paper, but is unable to reproduce the strength of the FJ trend. A second model is required to describe age-correlated changes in galaxy dynamics. Following expectations from cosmological simulations, we assume that σ0, for a galaxy of a given mass, scales with the epoch of galaxy formation, i.e. with the mean density of the Universe. Hence recently formed ellipticals have systematically lower velocity dispersions than do old ellipticals. We find that a combination of these two models provides a good match to the change in FJ residuals with galaxy age. This suggests that young ellipticals will have subtly different dynamical properties from old ellipticals. We also find that there is not a strong relationship between the age of a galaxy and its luminosity for our sample. This suggests that the tilt of the fundamental plane is not totally driven by age.
A corpus-based analysis of non-standard English features in the microblogging platform Tumblr
Creators: name: Villares, Rosana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: discourse analysis, tumblr, social networks

description: Conference presentation of Villares, R. (2017). A Corpus-based Analysis of Non-Standard English Features in the Microblogging Platform Tumblr. EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics, 2, 295–303. ISSN: 2398-5283. Read online: https://easychair-www.easychair.org/publications/paper/1gb
IF-101: Designing the Chromecast Out-of-Box Experience
Creators: name: ACM TVX2014
name: Ali-Hasan, Noor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: IF-101: Designing the Chromecast Out-of-Box Experience
IDENTIFICATION OF PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATED PRODUCTS OF QUINALPHOS BY HYPHENATED TECHNIQUE AND DEGRADATION PATHWAY
Creators: name: Paramjeet K. Sidhu
name: D. Sud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The present study is an attempt to identify the photocatalytic degradation products of quinalphos, an organophosphate pesticide, by employing high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC/MS). Preliminary experiments were carried out for the degradation of quinalphos by irradiating the aqueous solution of pesticide in the presence of TiO2/UV light. The residual concentration of quinalphos was estimated by using UV-Vis spectrophotometer and the formation of intermediates was determined by HPLC studies. The effect of the presence of cations and anions on the photocatalytic degradation has been explored. The intermediates formed during the process were separated and identified by using LC/MS. On the basis of identified products, the mechanism of photocatalytic degradation of quinalphos was proposed.
APPLICATION OF CHEMOMETRIC RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF A RP-HPLC METHOD FOR THE SEPARATION OF METAXALONE AND ITS BASE HYDROLYTIC IMPURITIES
Creators: name: Prafulla Kumar Sahu
name: Patro, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Owing to know the complexity in reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method optimization; i.e., the selection of optimum combination of input variables for achieving the desired separation, a mathematical relationship between the experimental variables with the responses is to be established by response surface methodology. The paper aims to describe the use of the Box–Behnken experimental design to identify the significant variables effects influencing the separation of metaxalone (MTX) and its two base hydrolytic impurities (DP-1 and DP-2) in a stability indicating RP-HPLC method. Influence variables such as column temperature, buffer pH, and buffer concentration, each at three levels were screened for the desirability of responses like theoretical plates, resolution (MTX-DP-1), capacity factor of MTX, tailing factor at 10% (MTX), and analysis time (Rt of DP-2). A statistical program (Design Expert 8.0) was used to calculate and optimize the five responses simultaneously by means of a multiple response optimization algorithm. The optimum conditions are established including the robustness of the method using a Box–Behnken design, as part of the validation exercise. 10 mM phosphate buffer with pH 4.7 at 31°C column temperature was found to be the optimized condition to produce desirable responses. System suitability limits were defined based on the results of the robustness test. The RP-HPLC method was further validated with respect to linearity, range, precision, specificity, accuracy, limit of detection, and limit of quantification, according to the current regulatory requirements. The optimized method gives rapid and efficient separation with complete resolution between the three peaks, and represents an improvement over the existing reported methods.
Prepare for anger, look for love: A ready reckoner for crisis scenario planners
Creators: name: Mcdonald, Lynette
name: Cokley, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A range of organisational crises are explored to discover how people react during a crisis and why, with a view to planning strategic actions based on those reactions. We conclude that people react, not just according to how they feel but also, less obviously, that their behaviour can be predicted using a clear understanding of those feelings. This article narrows the field of feelings, or emotions, to six categories and provides a reliable spectrum along which these emotions operate. Using this spectrum we propose a taxonomy or ‘ready reckoner’ of actions which individuals and organisations can take in response to these emotional reactions.
IF-110: Smart Wallpaper
Creators: name: ACM TVX2014
name: Campbell, Rosie
name: Felton, Richard
name: Hoare, Charlotte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: IF-110: Smart Wallpaper
IDENTIFICATION OF PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATED PRODUCTS OF QUINALPHOS BY HYPHENATED TECHNIQUE AND DEGRADATION PATHWAY
Creators: name: Paramjeet K. Sidhu
name: D. Sud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The present study is an attempt to identify the photocatalytic degradation products of quinalphos, an organophosphate pesticide, by employing high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC/MS). Preliminary experiments were carried out for the degradation of quinalphos by irradiating the aqueous solution of pesticide in the presence of TiO2/UV light. The residual concentration of quinalphos was estimated by using UV-Vis spectrophotometer and the formation of intermediates was determined by HPLC studies. The effect of the presence of cations and anions on the photocatalytic degradation has been explored. The intermediates formed during the process were separated and identified by using LC/MS. On the basis of identified products, the mechanism of photocatalytic degradation of quinalphos was proposed.
Synthesis of 1,3-disubstituted Hexahydropyrimidine Derivatives From Dibenzoylmethane, Acetylacetone, Ethyl Acetoacetate: One-Pot FeCl3-Catalysed Mannich Reaction
Creators: name: Saleh, Abdullah
name: Morton, Martha
name: D'Angelo, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: 1,3-disubstituted hexahydropyrimidin-5-yl(phenyl)methanone (products 1-5) were prepared from the reaction of dibenzoylmethane with primary amines, formaldehyde in presence of Lewis acid catalyst at ambient temperature. Replication of the reaction with acetylacetone, ethyl aetoacetate, yielded 1,1′-(1,3-disubstituted hexahydropyrimidine-5,5-diyl)diethanone (products 6-10), and ethyl 5-acetylhexahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate (products 11-13), respectively. Yields obtained ranged from 69-89%.
title: Stabilität als Fluchtpunkt der italienischen Verfassungsreform: auf welchem Weg und um welchem Preis?
Creators: name: Ellerbrok, Torben
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Selektoren-Urteil des BVerfG: Karlsruhe verzwergt das Parlament
Creators: name: Achenbach, Jelena
name: Nešković, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
How sport brands conform to marketing empirical generalizations
Creators: name: Baker, Bradley
name: McDonald, Heath
name: Funk, Daniel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Two key law-like patterns - the double jeopardy law and the duplication of purchase law - have consistently been found to explain and predict consumer behaviour across a wide range of industries. There has been speculation that these empirical generalisations may not hold in the case of professional team sport brands. The reasons given include the passionate loyalty of sport fans, the fact that two sport teams must be consumed at once in any contest and the strong geographic dominance of sport brands. In this study, we examine the applicability of these two law-like generalisations to professional team sports. With a few caveats, these lawlike patterns hold, suggesting that sport team brands operate in line with what we know about other consumer markets. The results suggest that the unique aspects of the sports market do not impact meaningfully on consumer behaviour, and therefore sport brands should not be managed differently.
title: Perfidious Albion: Britain, the USA, and Slavery in ther 1840s and 1860s
title: Perfidious Albion
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sherwood, Marika
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1995

description: Britain outlawed trading in slaves in 1807; subsequent legislation tightened up the law, and the Royal Navy's cruisers on the West Coast attempted to prevent the export ofany more enslaved Africans. From 1808 through the 1860s, Britain also exerted considerable pressure (accompanied by equally considerable sums of money) on the U.S.A., Brazil, and European countries in the trade to cease their slaving. Subsequently, at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, which was at least partly fought over the issue of the extension of slavery, Britain declared her neutrality. Insofar as appearances were concerned, the British government both engaged in a vigorous suppression of the Atlantic slave trade and kept a distance from Confederate rebels during the American Civil War. But is that the whole story regarding Britain, the trade in enslaved Africans, and slavery? Did the British government prosecute Britons who broke the law with the utmost rigor, for example? And to what extent did that government maintain its professed neutrality in the "war between the states"?
IF-107: Highlights – a prototype that automatically identifies key moments in TV programmes
Creators: name: ACM TVX2014
name: Moore, Joanne
name: Parisot, Thomas
name: Dr Denise Bland
name: Zambrini, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: IF-107: Highlights – a prototype that automatically identifies key moments in TV programmes
Introducing a Pressure Index for Water Distribution Networks' Augmentation Planning Strategy
Creators: name: Akbarkhiavia, Savalan
name: Imteaz, Monzur
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Potable Water Distribution Systems (WDS) need augmentation strategies based on a determined and pre-defined time intervals. The main aim of potable water systems augmentation is maintaining the standard and acceptable level of service after occurrences of increase in design serviced population, asset ageing and/or serviced area. It is obvious that systems augmentations require significant amount of budget allocation, which is the main constraint for the water authorities for the implementation of any augmentation plan. In general, two main factors are playing roles in planning of WDS augmentation strategies; namely, the parameter of 'Level of Service' on one hand and the factor of 'Augmentation Cost' on the other. The main goal of a proper planning in a WDS is the prediction of a system's water demand in future and suggestion of an appropriate and efficient solution for the predicted demand. Till now, no research has been conducted to establish a relationship between 'Level of Service' and 'Augmentation Cost'. In this paper, a new index is introduced to measure the level of service of a water distribution system from its pressures point of view. Since there is no existing factor for the rating of a water network from its pressures point of view, a new factor named 'Pressure Index (PI)' incorporating number of pipe nodes for five different pressure regimes is defined. The PI factor is expected to show improvement after a WDS augmentation which is the indicator of that WDS pressures improvement and therefore the effectiveness of proposed planning scheme. As a case study, three existing water network systems in Castlemaine area near central Victoria is investigated and relationship with the augmentation costs and PI factors is presented.
W-122: 1st Workshop on Empathic Television Experiences (EmpaTeX 2014)
Creators: name: ACM TVX2014
name: Bergh, Jan Van Den
name: Luyten, Kris
name: Matton, Mike
name: Willaert, Koen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: W-122: 1st Workshop on Empathic Television Experiences (EmpaTeX 2014)
The complex radio and X-ray structure in the nuclear regions of the active galaxy NGC 1365
Creators: name: Stevens, Ian R.
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Norris, Ray P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a multiwavelength analysis of the prominent active galaxy NGC 1365, in particular looking at the radio and X-ray properties of the central regions of the galaxy. We analyse ROSAT (PSPC and HRI) observations of NGC 1365, and discuss recent ASCA results. In addition to a number of point sources in the vicinity of NGC 1365, we find a region of extended X-ray emission extending along the central bar of the galaxy, combined with an emission peak near the centre of the galaxy. This central X-ray emission is centred on the optical/radio nucleus, but is spatially extended. The X-ray spectrum can be well fitted by a thermal plasma model, with a temperature of kT=0.6–0.8 keV and a very low local absorbing column. The thermal spectrum is suggestive of starburst emission rather than emission from a central black hole. The ATCA radio observations show a number of hotspots, located in a ring around a weak radio nucleus. Synchrotron emission from electrons accelerated by supernovae and supernova remnants (SNRs) is the likely origin of these hotspots. The radio nucleus has a steep spectrum, indicative perhaps of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) or SNRs. The evidence for a jet emanating from the nucleus (as has been previously claimed) is at best marginal. The extent of the radio ring is comparable to that of the extended central X-ray source. We discuss the nature of the central activity in NGC 1365 in the light of these observations. The extended X-ray emission and the thermal spectra strongly suggest that at soft X-ray energies we are not seeing emission predominantly from a central black hole, although the presence of Fe K line emission at higher energies does suggest the presence of an AGN. Consequently, a black hole is probably not the dominant contributor to the energetics of the central regions of NGC 1365 at radio, optical or soft X-ray wavelengths. Activity associated with a starburst is likely the dominant explanation for the observed properties of NGC 1365.
W-114:2nd International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption at TVX 2014
Creators: name: ACM TVX2014
name: Meixner, Britta
name: Tonndorf, Katrin
name: Kaiser, Rene
name: Jaeger, Joscha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: W-114:2nd International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption at TVX 2014
Introducing a pressure index for water distribution networks' augmentation planning strategy
Creators: name: Akbarkhiavi, Savalan Pour
name: Imteaz, Monzur
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Potable Water Distribution Systems (WDS) need augmentation strategies based on a determined and pre-defined time intervals. The main aim of potable water systems augmentation is maintaining the standard and acceptable level of service after occurrences of increase in design serviced population, asset ageing and/or serviced area. It is obvious that systems augmentations require significant amount of budget allocation, which is the main constraint for the water authorities for the implementation of any augmentation plan. In general, two main factors are playing roles in planning of WDS augmentation strategies; namely, the parameter of 'Level of Service' on one hand and the factor of 'Augmentation Cost' on the other. The main goal of a proper planning in a WDS is the prediction of a system's water demand in future and suggestion of an appropriate and efficient solution for the predicted demand. Till now, no research has been conducted to establish a relationship between 'Level of Service' and 'Augmentation Cost'. In this paper, a new index is introduced to measure the level of service of a water distribution system from its pressures point of view. Since there is no existing factor for the rating of a water network from its pressures point of view, a new factor named 'Pressure Index (PI)' incorporating number of pipe nodes for five different pressure regimes is defined. The PI factor is expected to show improvement after a WDS augmentation which is the indicator of that WDS pressures improvement and therefore the effectiveness of proposed planning scheme. As a case study, three existing water network systems in Castlemaine area near central Victoria is investigated and relationship with the augmentation costs and PI factors is presented.
Presentation of Peer Community In
Creators: name: Bourguet, Denis
name: Facon, Benoit
name: Guillemaud, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: preprints, peer-review, submission by authors, recommendation platform

description: The “Peer Community in” (PCI) is a non-profit scientific organization that aims to create specific communities of researchers reviewing and recommending, for free, unpublished preprints in their field (i.e. unpublished articles deposited on open online archives like arXiv.org and bioRxiv.org). To a lesser extent, they may also recommend postprints (i.e. articles already published in journals). These specific communities are entitled Peer Community in X, e.g. Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology (PCI Evol Biol), Peer Community in Ecology (PCI Ecol), Peer Community inPaleontology (PCI Paleo) etc ... Once recommended by one or several of these PCIs on the basis of rigorous peer reviews, preprints become valid references and may be considered to be articles of high value. Recommended preprints can be used by scientists and cited in the scientific literature. There is no need for these recommended preprints to be submitted for publication in classic journals (although they can be, according to the authors’ preferences).
description: A free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer-reviews, upon authors' submission
СОВРЕМЕННЫЙ ВЗГЛЯД НА РАННЮЮ ДИАГНОСТИКУ  МУКОВИСЦИДОЗА В УЗБЕКИСТАНЕ
Creators: name: Хаитбаева, Н.Т.
name: Исамухамедова, М.Т.
name: Омонова, У.Т.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Муковисцидоз (МВ, CF; OMIM:219700) – частая наследственная полиорганная патология, обусловленная мутацией в гене трансмембранного регулятора проводимости CFTR, манифестирующая, как правило, в раннем детском возрасте. Частота  муковисцидоза в Европе и Северной Америке  составляет 1 : 2000 рождений, в России  - в 6 раз ниже ( 1: 12000 рождений). Ирландии частота возникновения МВ составляет 1: 1800  новорожденных, а в Финляндии – 1 : 26000 (1,3). В настоящее время описано около 2000 мутаций и 200 полиморфизмов в гене CFTR, причем их частота и спектр широко варьируют у разных этнических групп и популяций. Очень важна ранняя диагностика заболевания, только в случае своевременного адекватного лечения можно рассчитывать на качественную и продолжительную жизнь данного контингента больных.
title: Investigating the effects of augmented reality cues during non-driving related tasks on the situational awareness of drivers
Creators: name: Goodge, Thomas Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2025

description: As automated vehicles become responsible for more of the driving task, the way in which drivers need to process the road will change. This will free up capacity to engage with non-driving related tasks, activities which are unrelated to operation of the vehicle or attending to the road. However, the current state of automation still requires a driver to be ready to resume control of the vehicle at all times. This thesis evaluates the effects of using augmented reality for presenting these non-driving tasks to drivers of automated vehicles. In particular, the ability of drivers to react to a hazard and predict what happens next in a road scene, a key component of situational awareness, were measured while they were performing a non-driving related task presented in augmented reality. Six experiments, using a mix of validated empirical tests of situational awareness, expert focus groups and eye tracking measures, were designed and conducted to assess the impact of engaging with a distracting non-driving task while attempting to maintain attention on the road. Results showed that, contrary to prior recommendations, a heads-up display presentation of a non-driving task at eye level does not convey the same benefits found when displaying non-driving related information. Evidence of intentional blindness was found when evaluating the use of attentional cues within a dynamic augmented reality display. This demonstrated that using eyes-on-road as a measure of attention is not wholly appropriate when investigating how an augmented reality interface overlaid onto the real-world impacts driver attention. Further exploration into how to design efficacious attentional cues highlights how the inclusion of salient attention capturing elements in a positional cue can enhance driver awareness of the road when they are distracted by an NDRT. Additionally, it was shown that drivers were able to utilise social cues from a virtual agent highlighting the position of a hazard, indicating the potential application of this modality for enhancing situational awareness through in-vehicle virtual assistants. This thesis contributes to the field by providing evidence of the impact of presenting an NDRT via AR on driving performance measures and methods in which this can be overcome with attentional cues. Overall, the findings in this thesis have significant implications for the applied transport psychology and automotive user interfaces domains.
An investigation of usability issues in AJAX based web sites
Creators: name: Pilgrim, Chris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ajax, as one of the technological pillars of Web 2.0, has revolutionized the way that users access content and interact with each other on the Web. Unfortunately, many developers appear to be inspired by what is technologically possible through Ajax disregarding good design practice and fundamental usability theories. The key usability challenges of Ajax have been noted in the research literature with some technical solutions and design advice available on developer forums. What is unclear is how commercial Ajax developers respond to these issues. This paper presents the results of an empirical study of four commercial web sites that utilize Ajax technologies. The study investigated two usability issues in Ajax with the results contrasted in relation to the general usability principles of consistency, learnability and feedback. The results of the study found inconsistencies in how the sites managed the usability issues and demonstrated that combinations of the issues have a detrimental effect on user performance and satisfaction. The findings also suggest that developers may not be consistently responding to the available advice and guidelines. The paper concludes with several recommendations for Ajax developers to improve the usability of their Web applications.
Enhanced organic pollutant removal influenced by activated-ferric-sludge
Creators: name: G.R. Xu
name: J.H. Tang
name: G.B. Li
name: L. Spinosa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The primary goal of this study was to compare the pollutant removal efficiency of the reactivated activated-ferric-sludge (AFS) with that of the activated sludge (AS). Most tested organic pollutants were preferably removed by reactivated AFS. The optimal reactivated conditions for AFS were a reactivation time of 3 h, pH of 5–9, AFS dose of 5 g/L and dissolved oxygen of 2–6 mg/L. The results revealed a positive correlation between microbial activity and the removal efficiency of organic pollutants, with a higher microbial activity being associated with a better removal efficiency of organic pollutants. Additionally, variations in extracellular polymeric substances were found to be crucial to the microbial activity and adsorption capacity of reactivated AFS. After reactivation, reactivated AFS was superior to AS for the removal of most pollutants. Finally, the mechanism of AFS reactivation was investigated. Overall, the results of the present study demonstrate that reactivated AFS has the potential for widespread application in the removal of organic pollutants during the wastewater treatment process.