cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
REDAN: relative entropy-based dynamical allosteric network model
Creators: name: Zhou, Hongyu
name: Tao, Peng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Protein allostery is ubiquitous phenomena that are important for cellular signalling processes. Despite extensive methodology development, a quantitative model is still needed to accurately measure protein allosteric response upon external perturbation. Here, we introduced the relative entropy concept from information theory as a quantitative metric to develop a method for measurement of the population shift with regard to protein structure during allosteric transition. This method is referred to as relative entropy-based dynamical allosteric network (REDAN) model. Using this method, protein allostery could be evaluated at three mutually dependent structural levels: allosteric residues, allosteric pathways, and allosteric communities. All three levels are carried out using rigorous searching algorithms based on relative entropy. Application of the REDAN model on the second PDZ domain (PDZ2) in the human PTP1E protein provided metric-based insight into its allostery upon peptide binding.
Rheological Behavior of Aqueous Solutions of An Ionic Liquid As A Surfactant
Creators: name: Ping, Ali
name: Geng, Peipei
name: Zhang, Junhong
name: Liu, Jie
name: Sun, Dezhi
name: Zhang, Xudong
name: Li, Qingxia
name: Liu, Jifeng
name: Wei, Xilian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The rheological properties of aqueous solutions of an ionic liquid as a surfactant, 1-tetradecyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (C14mimBr), in the presence of sodium salicylate (NaSal), have been studied by rheological measurements. For these C14mimBr/NaSal systems, zero-shear viscosity as a function of NaSal concentration shows the maxima behavior. The effect of the concentration ratio, CNaSal/CC14mimBr, on the maximum was determined, and the scaling relations were obtained. Network structures could be formed in the aqueous C14mimBr solutions containing NaSal. 1H NMR spectra analysis indicates that the main interaction between C14mimBr and NaSal molecules is electrostatic attraction, which leads to the formation of an ion pair.
Ефективність використання основних виробничих фондів вантажних автотранспортних підприємств в умовах трансформації суспільно-економічних відносин
Creators: name: Vashkiv, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Economics

description: В роботі аналізуються величина і структура основних виробничих фондів вантажних автотранспортних підприємств та особливості їх відтворення в умовах трансформації суспільно-економічних відносин. На базі статистичного матеріалу вантажних АТП Івано-Франківської, Львівської та Тернопільської областей з’ясовується вплив виробничих факторів на рівень фондовіддачі основних фондів, виявляються резерви її підвищення. Вмотивовано необхідність адаптивних якісних змін в управлінні і реалізації виробничого потенціалу та активізації інновацій у сфері вантажних автоперевезень, дано науково обґрунтовані рекомендації щодо підвищення ефективності використання основних виробничих фондів вантажних автогосподарств в сучасних економічних умовах.
This work investigates the structure of basic industrial funds of cargo motor transport enterprises and peculiarities of the processes of their reproduction in the conditions of social and economic relations transformation.
On the basis of statistic data of cargo-motor transport enterprises of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil regions the author investigates the effect of production factors on the level of capital productivity of the basic funds, he determines reserves of its increase. The author motivates the necessity of adaptive qualitative changes in the management and realization of industrial potential and innovations activization in the sphere of cargo motor transportations, scientiffically grounded recommendations for efficiency increase of the usage of basic industrial funds of cargo motor transportation enterprises in modern economic conditions are provided in this work.
An Investigation into the Impact of Childhood Abuse and Care-giver Invalidation on Psychological Inflexibility in Clinical and Subclinical Eating Disorders
Creators: name: Tucknott, Maria
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Eating Disorder Not otherwise specified
Psychological inflexibility
Emotional Processing
Childhood Abuse
Childhood emotional abuse
Invalidation
Maternal
Paternal
Care-giver
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT

description: As a whole, eating disorders have been characterised as having the following key features: a persistent over concern with body size and shape; and weight control behaviours such as fasting, exercise, and self-induced vomiting. However, there tends to be a blurred line between those that do and do not meet diagnostic thresholds as the level of psychological distress is comparably similar. This study examined whether psychological inflexibility (from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy perspective) was associated with eating disorders and whether it mediated the relationship between childhood abuse and invalidation and eating disorders. This was considered to be important because high rates of abuse have consistently been found in this population, yet not everyone goes on to develop an eating disorder. In addition, the role of emotional abuse has been largely neglected. A clinical sample of 190 participants with a clinical or subclinical eating disorder were recruited from eating disorder charities and support forums; they completed a range of questionnaires measuring experiences of abuse and maternal/paternal emotional invalidation in childhood, current levels of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance and current levels of eating pathology. The sample was split into three groups based on their Eating Disorder Risk Composite scores: elevated, typical and low clinical range. It was found that those in the elevated clinical range (most severe eating pathology) had the poorest emotional processing and significantly higher levels of psychological inflexibility, thought-shape-fusion, depression and anxiety than those in the low clinical range (least severe eating pathology). In terms of predicting current levels of eating pathology, three variables emerged as significant predictors: emotional processing, thought-shape fusion and depression. In terms of predicting current levels of psychological inflexibility, five variables emerged as significant predictors: childhood emotional abuse, emotional processing, thought-shape-fusion, depression and anxiety. The results add novel findings to the literature regarding the role of early experiences on the development of psychological inflexibility, and the role of psychological inflexibility in the maintenance of eating pathology and psychological distress. Clinical implications of these findings in relation to assessment, formulation, intervention and prevention are discussed.
Rheological Behavior of Aqueous Solutions of an Ionic Liquid as a Surfactant
Creators: name: Ping, Ali
name: Geng, Peipei
name: Zhang, Junhong
name: Liu, Jie
name: Sun, Dezhi
name: Zhang, Xudong
name: Li, Qingxia
name: Liu, Jifeng
name: Wei, Xilian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The rheological properties of aqueous solutions of an ionic liquid as a surfactant, 1-tetradecyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (C14mimBr), in the presence of sodium salicylate (NaSal), have been studied by rheological measurements. For these C14mimBr/NaSal systems, zero-shear viscosity as a function of NaSal concentration shows the maxima behavior. The effect of the concentration ratio, CNaSal/CC14mimBr, on the maximum has been determined, and the scaling relations are obtained. Network structures could be formed in the aqueous C14mimBr solutions containing NaSal. 1H NMR spectra analysis indicates that the main interaction between C14mimBr and NaSal molecules is electrostatic attraction, which leads the formation of ion pair.
title: 01_2625
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Supplementary Material for: Administration Safety of Blood Products - Lessons Learned from a National Registry for Transfusion and Hemotherapy Practice
Creators: name: Frietsch, T.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Schöler, M.
name: Fleiter, B.
name: Schipplick, M.
name: Spannagl, M.
name: Knels, R.
name: Nguyen, X.D.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background: Compared to blood component safety, the administration of blood may not be as safe as intended. The German Interdisciplinary Task Force for Clinical Hemotherapy (IAKH) specialized registry for administration errors of blood products was chosen for a detailed analysis of reports. Methods: Voluntarily submitted critical incident reports (n = 138) from 2009 to 2013 were analyzed. Results:Incidents occurred in the operation room (34.1%), in the ICU (25.2%), and in the peripheral ward (18.5%). Procedural steps with errors were administration to the patient (27.2%), indication and blood order (17.1%), patient identification (17.1%), and blood sample withdrawal and tube labeling (18.0%). Bedside testing (BST) of blood groups avoided errors in only 2.6%. Associated factors were routine work conditions (66%), communication error (36%), emergency case (26%), night or weekend team (39%), untrained personnel (19%). Recommendations addressed process and quality (n = 479) as well as structure quality (n = 314). In 189 instances, an IT solution would have helped to avoid the error. Conclusions: The administration process is prone to errors at the patient assessment for the need to transfuse and the application of blood products to patients. BST is only detecting a minority of handling errors. According to the expert recommendations for practice improvement, the potential to improve transfusion safety by a technical solution is considerable.
HUBUNGAN PERSEPSI SISWA TENTANG GURU MATEMATIKA DENGAN HASIL BELAJAR MATEMATIKA SISWA
Creators: name: Najichun, Mohamad
name: Widodo Winarso
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this study was to know the relationship between student perception towards mathematics teacher with mathematics academic performace. The population of the study were all students of class VIII SMPN 8 Cirebon in the academic year 2014/2015, with the number of students 287 people. The sampling technique used proportional random sampling, and the sample size was 56 students. Data collection techniques used: 1) Questionnaire of Perceptions towards Mathematics teacher, and 2) The results of student mathematics learning test. The result of correlation analysis show no significant correlation between students perception towards teacher and academic performance (r= .155, p= .254).
FeCl3-Catalyzed Cascade Reaction: An Efficient Approach to Functionalized Coumarin Derivatives
Creators: name: Jin, Lei
name: He, Xinwei
name: Yan, Zhenglei
name: Hu, Xiaoqian
name: Zuo, Yin
name: Jiang, Chang
name: Shang, Yongjia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: An efficient and environmentally benign synthesis of 3-substituted or 3,4-disubstituted coumarins was accomplished via iron(III) chloride–catalyzed cascade reactions of salicylaldehydes and activated methylene compounds. The reaction preceded cleanly under mild reaction conditions to provide the desired coumarin derivatives in good to excellent yields.
Psychological Distress and Access to Services Among a Community Sample of the South Asian Population in South East England
Creators: name: Milsom, Sophia
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: South Asian
BME
access to services
cultural competence
distress

description: South Asian people are less likely to have their mental health needs recognised and experience inequality in access to services, compared to the White British population in the UK. Attempts through government policy to improve equality in mental health care and outcomes have had limited success. The aim of this study was to explore access to and experiences of services among people of South Asian origin living in the UK who were experiencing distress. An anonymous survey was distributed in GP surgeries and online, collecting a community sample of 103 adults who self-identified as South Asian. The survey contained questionnaires measuring distress, quality of life, acculturation and access to and experience of services for mental health. Between 33% and 50% of the sample was above the threshold for distress, depending on the measure used, while 40% reported a low quality of life. Those who were unemployed had greater levels of distress. Half of the sample had sought help for emotional problems in the past, with the majority seeking help in the NHS. Greater acculturation was associated with reduced distress and a higher quality of life. Seeking help from services was predicted by experiencing distress, being female and having a physical health problem. Clinical implications for mental health service delivery as well as the need for further research relating to the recognition of mental health problems in primary care are discussed.
Supplementary Material for: Administration Safety of Blood Products - Lessons Learned from a National Registry for Transfusion and Hemotherapy Practice
Creators: name: Frietsch, T.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Schöler, M.
name: Fleiter, B.
name: Schipplick, M.
name: Spannagl, M.
name: Knels, R.
name: Nguyen, X.D.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background: Compared to blood component safety, the administration of blood may not be as safe as intended. The German Interdisciplinary Task Force for Clinical Hemotherapy (IAKH) specialized registry for administration errors of blood products was chosen for a detailed analysis of reports. Methods: Voluntarily submitted critical incident reports (n = 138) from 2009 to 2013 were analyzed. Results: Incidents occurred in the operation room (34.1%), in the ICU (25.2%), and in the peripheral ward (18.5%). Procedural steps with errors were administration to the patient (27.2%), indication and blood order (17.1%), patient identification (17.1%), and blood sample withdrawal and tube labeling (18.0%). Bedside testing (BST) of blood groups avoided errors in only 2.6%. Associated factors were routine work conditions (66%), communication error (36%), emergency case (26%), night or weekend team (39%), untrained personnel (19%). Recommendations addressed process and quality (n = 479) as well as structure quality (n = 314). In 189 instances, an IT solution would have helped to avoid the error. Conclusions: The administration process is prone to errors at the patient assessment for the need to transfuse and the application of blood products to patients. BST is only detecting a minority of handling errors. According to the expert recommendations for practice improvement, the potential to improve transfusion safety by a technical solution is considerable.
Factors Influencing Beliefs about Mental Health Difficulties and Attitudes Towards Seeking Help Amongst Nepalese people in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Thake, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Nepal
South Asian
Mental Health
access to services
stigma
izzat
acculturation

description: Research shows that in the UK, individuals from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are significantly less likely to access mental health services than the general population. In the absence of literature or robust mental health service access figures for Nepalese people living in the UK (NLU) there is little understanding of the mental health needs and help-seeking preferences of this group. This study aimed to examine factors which are associated with professional help-seeking for mental health difficulties in NLU. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1985) was used as a guiding theoretical framework to examine the strongest predictors of intention to seek professional help. Potential predictors, shame/izzat, acculturation, beliefs about the causes of mental distress and demographic variables were measured. The sample were 65 NLU recruited from community centres, health events and online groups across the UK. Results indicated that although a significant number of NLU reported having experienced mental health difficulties, very few had sought professional help. A number of variables significantly correlated with intention to seek professional help, including level of acculturation, non-Western physiological causal beliefs and izzat. According to a multiple-regression analysis of the whole sample, izzat was the most strongly related to intention to seek professional help. A number of barriers to help-seeking were identified such as hoping problems would go away or not wanting to burden others. A significant strength of the study was the use of both Nepalese and English language questionnaires which ensured that a large non-English speaking section of the NLU population was not excluded from the study. Limitations include methodological considerations such as the use of one measure which appeared to have limited validity. Furthermore, the exclusion of illiterate individuals by merit of using a self-report questionnaire limits the generalisability of these findings to the NLU more widely. Low mental health service access rates were identified within this sample relative to the prevalence of mental health difficulties. The clinical implications of this study highlight the need for policy and service level strategies to increase service access rates and the need for mental health services which are sensitive to the culturally specific issues within the population.
Improving recovery after microvascular decompression surgery for hemifacial spasm: experience from 530 cases with enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol
Creators: name: Wang, Dongliang
name: Fang, Jixia
name: Liu, Jiayu
name: Hao, Qingpei
name: Ding, Hu
name: Liu, Bo
name: Liu, Zhi
name: Song, Haidong
name: Ouyang, Jia
name: Liu, Ruen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: To assess the efficacy of microvascular decompression (MVD) for hemifacial spasm with an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol. 984 hemifacial spasm patients who underwent MVD from Jan 2017 to Dec 2017 were analyzed. They were divided into the conventional treatment group (control; n = 453) and the later ERAS group (n = 531). The multimodal ERAS protocol consists of 23 perioperative elements. Time to feeding, mobilization, and urinary catheter removal, wound pain, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and total, preoperative, and perioperative hospital length of stay (LOS), along with outcomes and complications, were analyzed. The patients in both groups had similar clinical characteristics. Patients in the ERAS group had significantly higher rates of early feeding (469 [88.5%], ERAS, vs. 183 [40.6%], control; p < 0.05), early mobilization (497 [93.7%], ERAS, vs. 215 [47.7%], control; p < 0.05), and early removal of urinary catheter (458 [86.4%], ERAS, vs. 175 [38.8%], control; p < 0.05). The ERAS group also had a significantly lower incidence of wound pain (135 [25.5%], ERAS, vs. 348 [77.2%], control) and PONV (173 [32.6%], ERAS, vs. 251 (55.7%), control) (p < 0.05) and significantly shorter preoperative (0.9 ± 0.3 d, ERAS, vs. 2.3 ± 0.6 d, control), postoperative (4.1 ± 0.4 d, ERAS, vs. 5.8 ± 0.7 d, control), and total LOS (5.2 ± 0.3 d, ERAS, vs. 8.8 ± 0.6 d, control) (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in outcomes or surgical complication rates between two groups. Implementation of the ERAS protocol for patients undergoing MVD procedures for the treatment of HFS improved the quality of perioperative care without an increase in adverse events.
No fault or no rights?: a critical consideration of the New South Wales workers compensation journey provisions
Creators: name: Bailey, Kim Leanne
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: From the inception of Workers' Compensation in New South Wales in 1926, there has been provision made for compensating those workers who are injured on their way to or from work. The "journey claim", has always been an extremely controversial entitlement, arousing both passionate support and ardent opposition from politicians, the judiciary, employers and unions. In 1989, under the Liberal Party, a worker's right to journey claims was significantly qualified by the insertion of "fault". That is, the worker would be entitled to claim compensation for a commuting injury provided it was not proven that the accident was "partly or wholly" his/her fault. The entire system of journey claims is predicated on the assumption that there are separate spheres of responsibility - the public or "work" sphere, in which employers are responsible for the well being and compensation of their workers, and the "private", where this responsibility ends. The problem with journey claims is that these injuries straddle both spheres, and do not fall comfortably into one or the other. The decision to deem a journey as "within the employer's responsibility", is therefore a policy choice - and it is a choice that goes to the heart of the question of who should shoulder the burden of injured workers in society. In 1989 the Liberal Government of this state made such a decision, and enacted section 10 (1 A): to firmly demarcate the sphere of employer responsibility to the workplace, and to those journey accidents that could be considered "an act of God". In doing so the Government made a policy decision that was based firmly in liberal ideology, and firmly in favour of employers and the economic "bottom line". Yet perhaps what Parliament has not accounted for is the way in which law, and indeed social policy, can be changed or softened through the powers of judicial interpretation and discretion. In what I can only describe as a "muted protest", the judiciary of New South Wales has reacted violently to the inclusion of fault within a system of workers' compensation, and through the adoption of the negligent standard, has circumvented the harshness of this legislation by enabling workers who are "at fault" to succeed in their claims for compensation. The recent judicial history of section 10 (1 A) raises questions that go to the very heart of social policy. The whole issue of fault and the artificial construction of "employer's realm of responsibility" really asks us to consider what should our workers compensation legislation be attempting to achieve, and whose interests does the present system serve?
title: Notes about polyclassism, historicism and social movement
title: Notes sur le polyclassisme, l'historicité, le mouvement social
title: مذكّرات حول تعدّد الطبقات والتاريخية والحركة الاجتماعية
Creators: name: Seurat, Michel
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/FileId-2994
Dialogue, New Media and Children's Intellectual Development: Re-Thinking Malaysian Teaching and Learning Approaches
Creators: name: Noor, Myzan
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: cognitive development
children’s learning
new media
talk
dialogue

description: This thesis examines the extent to which ‘Talk or Dialogue’ contributes to children’s cognitive and psychological development when it is experienced through technological devices. The work analyzes some of the sociocultural theories of children’s speech, cognitive learning, psychological functions, sociocultural learning context, dialogic teaching and learning approaches in the classroom, social interaction and the use of social tools. The theory of speech is built on the Vygotskian notion of language as the prime cultural and psychological tool for children’s learning development in a sociocultural environment. Lev S. Vygotsky emphasised that the development of cognitive processes in children includes thinking, reasoning and understanding of a conceptualised social interaction. These processes are core to children’s intellectual learning. Vygotsky and the neo-Vygotskians emphasised the use of Speech, Talk or Dialogue and the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) concept in children’s learning development. In the UK, it was evident that the Talk teaching and learning approach (Mercer & Littleton, 2007) contributed effectively to children’s learning achievements. This approach reinforces Talk or Dialogue collaboratively in the classroom with the ZPD concept. The significance of the Talk teaching approach has encouraged this study to examine further children’s speech and the use of technological devices. Hence, a theoretical discourse methodology on children’s Talk or Dialogue was examined for the research outcomes. The aim is to devise a new teaching and learning approach that contributes to the Malaysian children’s intellectual development inside and outside the classroom through the use of Talk or Dialogue. As a result, a Dialogic framework is articulated based on four existing educational theories of children’s speech and learning. This framework is vital to contribute directly to the Malaysia Education Department Blueprint 2013-2025 in promoting children’s intellectual development. For that reason, two approaches are proposed which emphasise children’s psychological functions of perception, attention, sensory motor-operations and memory through the use of Talk and technological devices. These approaches accentuate the ZPD concept between the teachers and children for learning and activity games. This is the study’s contribution to new knowledge.
Darwinian Evolutionary Ideas in Business Economics and Organization Studies
Creators: name: Dollimore, Denise E.
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2006

description: This thesis is a study of the use of Darwinian evolutionary ideas in business economics and organization studies. Mindful of the explosion of evolutionary rhetoric in the socio-economic domain over the last three decades and informed by the modern generalized Darwinian perspective, the research has been focused on the evaluation of the precise nature and extent of use of Darwinian ideas in three of the most influential evolutionary accounts in these disciplines. Notably, Nelson and Winter’s Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982), Hannan and Freeman’s Organizational Ecology (1989), and Howard Aldrich’s Organizations Evolving (1999). It is a work of comparative theory. Also since 1980, theoretical and conceptual advances in evolutionary theory confirmed the generic nature of Darwinian theory and provided generalized terms for its articulation. Whilst some major criticisms of Darwinism are easily dismissed, significantly scholars have shown that Lamarckian acquired character inheritance must be accommodated within the meta-theoretical framework of Darwinism. This study shows that whilst the damaging rhetoric of ‘Social Darwinism’ continues to discourage widespread active engagement with Darwinian theory, the pervasive implicit or ‘covert’ adoption of Darwinian ideas by social scientists nevertheless clearly endorses its general nature, confirms a Darwinian social ontology and underlines the inevitability of Darwinism in the socio-cultural domain. Following a detailed exposition of general Darwinism, this study presents a forensic comparative evaluation of the evolutionary theories under study, highlighting theoretical gaps and inconsistencies, and demonstrating their resolution within the Darwinian framework. Through the systematic application and dissection of these disparate theories, one of which is labelled ‘Lamarckian’, the analysis shows the deep extent to which they all are Darwinian. And furthermore, underlining the promise of the Darwinian system for yielding further results, the study clearly illustrates the importance of the explicit adoption of modern Darwinian concepts for helping scholars to understand the complex evolutionary processes they seek to explain
Two new bicyclic sesquiterpenes from the stems of Kadsura heteroclita
Creators: name: Su, Wei
name: Zhao, Jian-Ping
name: Hu, Jian
name: Yang, Min
name: Jacob, Melissa
name: Cai, Xiong
name: Zeng, Rong
name: Chen, Sheng-Huang
name: Huang, Hui-Yong
name: Khan, Ikhlas
name: Guo, De-An
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two new bicyclic sesquiterpenes, namely 6α,9α-dihydroxycadinan-4-en-3-one (1) and guai-3-en-10α-ol (2), together with one known sesquiterpene were isolated from the stems of Kadsura heteroclita, which is a Tujia ethnomedicine called ‘Xue Tong’. Their structures were elucidated by using spectroscopic analyses and by comparing the NMR data with those reported previously.
Starch digestibility and glycaemic index of selected Indian traditional foods: Effects of added ingredients
Creators: name: Shital Giri
name: Banerji, Anamika
name: S. S. Lele
name: Ananthanarayan, Laxmi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly across the world, particularly in Asian countries. This has necessitated the development of hypoglycaemic foods. In this study, the effect of selected ingredients such as barley, oats, gluten, and guar gum on in vitro starch digestibility and in vitro glycaemic index (GI) of four Indian traditional foods (idli, dosa, upma, and chapatti) was investigated. Barley and oats were added at levels of 1–9 g/100 g flour, while gluten and guar gum were added at levels of 1–5 g/100 g flour. An increase in the content of all the four ingredients increased the slowly digestible and resistant starch while decreasing the rapidly digestible starch in all the products under study. A linear decrease in GI was observed with an increase in the levels of added ingredients. Oats and guar gum were more effective in reducing starch digestibility and GI. Oats at 9 g/100 g flour and guar gum at 5 g/100 g flour decreased the GI of idli by 22.67 and 15.82%, of dosa by 17.79 and 17.76%, of upma by 15.43 and 16.59%, and of chapatti by 19.88 and 18.08%, respectively. A strong positive correlation was observed between GI and RDS, while GI showed a strong negative correlation with SDS and RS.
Ice Particle Size and Roughness from Novel Techniques - In Situ Measurements and Validation
Creators: name: Thornton, Jenna Louise
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cloud microphysics
ice particles
aircraft observation
ice particle roughness
instrumentation

description: The roughness of ice crystals, defined by small-scale surface roughness and large scale complexity, in high-altitude cloud, has been studied due to its important influence on the radiative properties of ice cloud. The Small Ice Detector 3 (SID-3) created at the University of Hertfordshire was used to measure the characteristics of individual ice crystals in situ. These are supplemented by a range of meteorological in situ measurements, including temperature, relative humidity, and wind velocity to investigate the influence of atmospheric conditions on ice crystal roughness/complexity. Since the method of roughness retrieval was novel, for atmospheric ice particles, laboratory experiments were setup to test and improve the characterization techniques. Criteria were set as a result of the laboratory experiments which data was expected to meet for it to be deemed reliable. These criteria and techniques were applied to data collected in situ on research aircraft. A range of degrees of ice crystal roughness were observed over five flights from two campaigns based out of Scotland in 2012 and 2015 (PIKNMIX and CIRCCREX). When all the flights were combined the majority of particles (51%) were categorised as lightly rough; the second most common roughness type was moderately rough (39%). Smooth particles made up 10% of the total particles, and <0.02% were classed as severely rough. When considering a wave-cloud case separately, a similar range of roughness values were seen, however, smooth particles were only observed at the cloud leading-edge where nucleation was expected to occur during the only straight level run of the aircraft to probe this region. During the same wave-cloud flight smooth particles were more common in supersaturated regions and moderately rough crystals were more common in subsaturated regions, suggesting that crystals are more likely to tend towards rougher values when observed in subsaturated environments (a statistical T-test showed this hypothesis to be statistically significant). It was found that due to limitations associated with instantaneous measurements, it was challenging to observe how ice particle roughness evolved in situ, since the history of the individual crystals was unknown in most cases. Orographic cloud, however, was found to provide a more robust estimation of crystal evolution as a consequence of having sharp-leading edges where nucleation events were expected to occur, and since crystals then follow streamlines, the distance from the sharp-leading edge can act as a proxy for time since nucleation.
Selection of drought-tolerant tef (Eragrostis tef) genotypes using drought tolerance indices
Creators: name: Mizan Tesfay Abraha
name: Shimelis, Hussein A
name: Laing, Mark D
name: Kebebew Assefa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Drought stress is one of the major abiotic constraints affecting production and productivity of tef (Eragrostis tef). Genetic resources and selection methodologies are among the prerequisites to improve the efficiency of breeding for drought tolerance. The objectives of this study were to determine the principal selection indices and to identify promising genetic resources of tef for drought tolerance breeding. A total of 144 tef genotypes were evaluated using a simple lattice design with two replications. Genotypes showed highly significant (p ≤ 0.01) differences for 10 drought tolerance indices. Principal component and correlation analyses revealed mean productivity, harmonic mean, geometric mean productivity and stress tolerance index as the principal indices highly correlated with grain yield in the stressed and non-stressed environments, indicating their suitability for identifying superior tef genotypes. Genotypes 215678 (g25) and Dschanger (g133) were adaptable to both stressed and non-stressed environments, which could be useful for drought stress tolerance breeding. Genotypes DZ-Cr-387 (g1), 9403 (g4), 205896 (g48) and 9415 (g122) were selected for their higher grain yield under the non-stressed condition. Genotypes DZ-Cr-385 (g22) and DZ-Cr-37 (g28) were selected for their lower yield reduction under moisture stress, intermediate grain yield performance in the non-stressed environment and high grain yield potential in the moisture-stressed environment.
Cultivating Innovation: The Rise of Agri startups in Modern Agriculture
Creators: name: Dr. T. Nivetha
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: Startup India is a flagship initiative launched by the Government of India to build a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and startups in the country which will drive economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. Agri startup concentrates only on agri produce. They provide solutions to farmers through different business models like: Supply chain-E-distributor, Marketplace, Logistics, and Warehousing. Sources of funding for start-ups Personal investment, Angel investors, Accelerators, Crowd funding, Micro venture capital firms, corporate venture capital (CVC), Venture debt funds, Government grants and Banks. By continuous support, monitoring and evaluation Indian start-ups can help define the future of Indian agriculture.
Crystal structure, optical properties, and theory study of a 1-D bromoplumbate stabilized by in situ generated N-alkylated DABCO cation
Creators: name: Hua-Nan Tong
name: Jian-Di Lin
name: Rong, Cheng
name: Li, Jing-Min
name: Wang, Yu-Lin
name: Guo-Cong Guo
name: Lv, Ri-Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: We report the exploration of the stabilization effect of the in situ generated N-alkylated DABCO (DABCO = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane) cation in the family of bromoplumbates and a 1-D bromoplumbate, (Et2DABCO)2n(Pb3Br10)n (1), has been prepared by solvothermal conditions. Optical diffuse reflectance determination shows the band gap of 1 is 3.69 eV, which manifests that 1 is a wide band gap semiconductor. Compared with the band gap of bulk PbBr2 (3.84 eV), 1 exhibits 0.15 eV red shift of absorption edge. While for the reported iodo analogs of this compound, (MPDA)2n(Pb3I10)n and (Et2DABCO)2n(Pb3I10)n, they exhibit 0.53 and 0.47 eV blue shift of the energy gaps compared with the measured value of 2.30 eV for bulk PbI2, respectively. The photoluminescent study of 1 shows that it exhibits a broad emission band centered at 697 nm upon photoexcitation by 345 nm (amount to 3.59 eV). The calculated density of states manifests the theoretical value of the band gap of 1 is 3.422 eV and the origination of photoluminescence can be ascribed to the transition of bonding electrons of Br– anion to the empty orbits of Pb(II) ion.
A Falange intelectual: a Falange excepcional
Creators: name: Vieira, Inês Espada
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: Burgos, Espanha, 1938. Em plena Guerra Civil (1936-1939), o chefe dos militares sublevados contra a ordem constitucional republicana, Francisco Franco, forma o seu primeiro governo e nomeia ministro do Interior Serrano Suñer, que se encarregou de unificar os serviços de imprensa e propaganda sob a sua alçada. Para chefiar o gabinete de propaganda, Serrano Suñer chamou o jovem de 25 anos com quem travara amizade no ano anterior, Dionisio Ridruejo. O presente trabalho acompanha o percurso de Ridruejo e dos seus companheiros do «Grupo de Burgos», inserindo-os também na chamada «geração de 1936». O ensaio salienta a importância da sua intervenção ideológica na imprensa afecta ao Movimiento, situando-os como responsáveis pela invenção da vida cultural durante o primeiro franquismo e assinalando a sua evolução posterior de puros intelectuais falangistas para posições liberais, sempre consentâneas com a sua consciência.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Human Amnion Epithelial Cells: A Potential Cell Source for Pulp Regeneration?
Creators: name: Bucchi, Cristina
name: Ohlsson, Ella
name: Anta, Josep Maria de
name: Woelflick, Melanie
name: Galler, Kerstin M.
name: Manzanares-Cespedes, María Cristina
name: Widbiller, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: human amnion epithelial cells; dental pulp stem cells; dentin matrix proteins; odontoblastic differentiation; revitalization
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The aim of this study was to analyze the suitability of pluripotent stem cells derived from the amnion (hAECs) as a potential cell source for revitalization in vitro. hAECs were isolated from human placentas, and dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs) and dentin matrix proteins (eDMPs) were obtained from human teeth. Both hAECs and hDPSCs were cultured with 10% FBS, eDMPs and an osteogenic differentiation medium (StemPro). Viability was assessed by MTT and cell adherence to dentin was evaluated by scanning electron microscopy. Furthermore, the expression of mineralization-, odontogenic differentiation- and epithelial–mesenchymal transition-associated genes was analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR, and mineralization was evaluated through Alizarin Red staining. The viability of hAECs was significantly lower compared with hDPSCs in all groups and at all time points. Both hAECs and hDPSCs adhered to dentin and were homogeneously distributed. The regulation of odontoblast differentiation- and mineralization-associated genes showed the lack of transition of hAECs into an odontoblastic phenotype; however, genes associated with epithelial–mesenchymal transition were significantly upregulated in hAECs. hAECs showed small amounts of calcium deposition after osteogenic differentiation with StemPro. Pluripotent hAECs adhere on dentin and possess the capacity to mineralize. However, they presented an unfavorable proliferation behavior and failed to undergo odontoblastic transition.
Manuel Maria Múrias: um «intelectual orgânico» na RTP ao tempo de Salazar
Creators: name: Cádima, Francisco Rui
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: Ao longo de boa parte dos anos 60, a informação da RTP é dirigida por Manuel Maria Múrias, que surge então com um duplo estatuto, quer de comissário do regime na informação televisiva, quer de «intelectual orgânico» panfletário e radical, delineando uma estratégia e um estilo adequados à crise colonial e ao crescendo de insatisfação e resistência perante o regime. Como «político funcional» e indefectível de Salazar, Múrias manteve a sombra do ditador sempre presente na RTP, procurando «ilustrar» obsessivamente a ditadura com a demagogia e a propaganda, nomeadamente nos seus comentários de abertura de telejornais e nos seus editoriais relativos às «efemérides» do regime.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Crystal structure, optical properties and theory study of a 1-D bromoplumbate stabilized by in situ generated N-alkylated DABCO cation
Creators: name: Hua-Nan Tong
name: Jian-Di Lin
name: Rong, Cheng
name: Li, Jing-Min
name: Wang, Yu-Lin
name: Guo-Cong Guo
name: Lv, Ri-Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: We report the exploration of the stabilization effect of the in situ generated N-alkylated DABCO (DABCO = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane) cation in the family of bromoplumbates and a 1-D bromoplumbate, (Et2DABCO)2n(Pb3Br10)n (1), has been prepared by solvothermal conditions. Optical diffuse reflectance determination shows the band gap of 1 is 3.69 eV, which manifests that 1 is a wide-band-gap semiconductor. Compared with the band gap of bulk PbBr2 (3.84 eV) [1, 2], 1 exhibits 0.15 eV red shift of absorption edge. While for the reported iodo analogs of this compound, (MPDA)2n(Pb3I10)n and (Et2DABCO)2n(Pb3I10)n [3], they exhibit 0.53 and 0.47 eV blue shift of the energy gaps compared with the measured value of 2.30 eV for bulk PbI2, respectively. The photoluminescent study of 1 shows that it exhibits a broad emission band centered at 697 nm upon photoexcitation by 345 nm (amount to 3.59 eV). The calculated density of states manifests the theoretical value of the band gap of 1 is 3.422 eV and the origination of photoluminescence can be ascribed to the transition of bonding electrons of Br– anion to the empty orbits of Pb(II) ion.