cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ICHMA-ICH JOYLASHGAN VA UMUMIY UCHGA EGA BO'LGAN MUNTAZAM KO'PBURCHAKLARNI IXTIYORIY HADIDAGI TUGUN NUQTALAR SONINI ANIQLASH
Creators: name: Rabbimqulov, Shamshodbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description:   Bu ishda dastlab nuqtadan boshlanib, ichma-ich  joylashgan va umumiy uchga ega boʻlgan bazi  muntazam koʻpburchaklarning ixtiyoriy – hadidagi  tugunlari  sonini  topish haqida so‘z boradi.

           Ketma-ket isbotlashlar natijasida tugunlar sonini topish formulalari keltirib chiqarilgan. Ichma-ich joylashgan muntazam uchburchaklar, to‘rtburchaklar, beshburchaklar, oltiburchaklar va ichma-ich joylashgan yuraklarni – hadidagi tugunlar sonini topish formulalari keltirib chiqarilib, shu kabi muntazam  burchak uchun ham analog tarzda formula keltirib chiqarilgan.
Additional file 6: of Age at menarche and prevention of hypertension through lifestyle in young Chinese adult women: result from project ELEFANT
Creators: name: Guo, Liqiong
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Xu, Hui
name: Wilson, Ander
name: Li, Peng-hui
name: Wang, Hao
name: Liu, Hongbin
name: Shen, Lilin
name: Chen, Xi
name: Qi, Xiuying
name: Tang, Nai-jun
name: Barrow, Timothy
name: Byun, Hyang-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Distribution of age and BMI among undiagnosed hypertension (n = 1654) and diagnosed hypertension (n = 144) in Young ELEFANT. (DOCX 25 kb)
The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Retail: Adoption, Challenges, and Future Prospects
Creators: name: Dr.Karunaker Chiluka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the retail industry by enhancing operational efficiency,customer experience, and decision-making processes. This study examines the impact of AI on retail,focusing on adoption trends, benefits, challenges, and future implications. A mixed-method approach wasemployed, combining primary data from 156 retail professionals and secondary data from academicliterature. Findings indicate that AI applications such as chatbots, demand forecasting, and personalizedmarketing significantly improve inventory management, customer engagement, and cost reduction.However, challenges like high implementation costs, data privacy concerns, and workforce displacementhinder widespread adoption. Regression and correlation analyses reveal that AI positively influencesbusiness efficiency but faces resistance due to integration complexities. The study concludes that while AIoffers transformative potential, retailers must address ethical concerns, invest in employee training, andensure secure data practices to maximize benefits. Future research should explore AI’s long-term economicand social impacts on retail employment and consumer behaviour.
Synthesis of benzofurans and benzopyrans
Creators: name: Mahmood, Raza
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2002
Subjects: Vitamin E Chemistry, Organic Biochemistry

description: Syntheses of 2,3-dihydrobenzofurans and 3,4-dihydrobenzopyrans normally involve several stages, therefore efficient syntheses of these compounds are desirable. A number of 3,4-dihydrobenzopyrans derivatives were prepared in one pot syntheses. The reaction is thought to proceed through cation intermediates, involving allylic cations generated by the reaction of allyl alcohols, 1,3-dienes, or diols in the presence of acids such as trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), or in a solution of glacial acetic and a metal catalyst or glacial acetic acid and sulphuric acid, followed by reaction with nucleophiles such as phenols or hydroquinones. This leads to the formation of allyl aryl ethers which rearrange via a [3,3]-sigmatropic reanangement and acid-catalysed intramolecular cyclisation, to give the conesponding 3,4-dihydrobenzopyrans. 5-Formyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran and 6-formylamino-3,4-dihydrobenzopyran were synthesized by several routes and the isolated products exhibited cis-trans isomerism. It was found that the introduction of an alkyl substituent at carbon-4 in the model benzopyran locks the 2,3,4-alkyl substituents into axial and equatorial orientations. This may influence the peroxyl-radical scavenging activity of these compounds by altering the extent of orbital overlap between the 2p-type lone pair on the pyran oxygen and the aromatic 1t-electron system. 2,3-Dihydrobenzofurans such as 5-hydroxy-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran have been shown to have better antioxidant activity than alpha-tocopherol due to the influence of the smaller, more strained ring, which allows better overlap of the oxygen lone pair and the 1t-electrons in the aromatic system. 5-Hydroxy-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran was efficiently synthesised in an improvement on the yields previously reported in the literature. A series of substituted 2,3-dihydrobenzofurans were synthesised by the reaction of phenols with allylic alcohols or aldehydes in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid or catalytic amounts of sulphmic acid, which also promoted the acid-catalysed intramolecular cyclisation.
The relationship between false memory and paranormal belief
Creators: name: Greening, Emma Kate
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2002
Subjects: Imagination inflation, Psychology, Philosophy, Religion

description: The thesis investigates the effects of false memory and belief in the paranormal on reports of events. The first chapter reviews the existing literature on false memory. The main theories of how false memory develops are described and the individual differences of those susceptible to false memories are considered. The paranormal belief literature is then examined, particularly with regard to the cognitive differences between believers and disbelievers. It is concluded that these differences would be suggestive of a relationship between paranormal belief and false memory. The second chapter considers the relationship between imagination inflation, paranormal belief and ESP. No correlation between the factors was found. The third chapter examines whether pre-event suggestion and belief in the paranormal can affect experiences of `ghostly' phenomena in an allegedly haunted location. Evidence for the effect of belief in the paranormal was found, but there was no effect of pre-event suggestion or an interaction between the two factors. The fourth chapter investigates the effects of positive and negative during-event suggestion and paranormal belief on reports of events in the seance room, and the fifth chapter explores the effects of duringevent suggestion on reports of a key bending video. There was some evidence that during-event suggestion is effective in altering reports of events, and the causes for this effect are considered. Paranormal belief was not shown to consistently affect acceptance of suggestion, but may affect reports of phenomena which are judged to be paranormal. The thesis concludes that during-event suggestion and negative suggestion are areas which offer great potential for further research. The relationship between paranormal belief and false memory development has not been demonstrated. However, it has been shown that belief and suggestion can affect the manner in which situations are attended to and interpreted.
Application of the finite difference method to model pH and substrate concentration in a double-chamber microbial fuel cell
Creators: name: Zhang, Liwei
name: Deshusses, Marc
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The purpose of this study was to develop a mathematical model that can describe glucose degradation in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with the use of finite difference approach. The dynamic model can describe both substrate and pH changes in the anode chamber of a double-chamber MFC. It was developed using finite differences and incorporates basic mass transfer concepts. Model simulation results could fit the experimental data for substrate consumption well, while there was a moderate discrepancy (maximum 0.11 pH unit) between the simulated pH and the experimental data. A parametric sensitivity analysis showed that increases in acetate and propionate consumption rates can cause great decrease in chemical oxygen demand (COD) in the anode chamber, while an increase in glucose consumption rate does not result in significant changes of COD reduction. Therefore, the rate limitation steps of glucose degradation are the oxidations of secondary degradation products of glucose (acetate and propionate). Due to the buffering effect of the nutrient solution, the increases in glucose, acetate and propionate consumption rates did not result in much change on pH of the anode chamber.
The Limits of Heidegger’s Earth
Creators: name: Mules, Warwick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Earth is a key concept in Heidegger’s later philosophy, suggesting many things. For instance, philosophers and humanities scholars alike have used it in various ways to think about the human relation to nature and the environment. Earth has also been used to romanticise Heidegger’s philosophy: we can counter the exploitation of nature by modern technology by retreating to special earthly places in harmony with nature. Earth suggests a materialistelement in Heidegger’s thought, as well as a reactionary politics of “blood and soil.” My argument will take a different position from all of these. I will argue that Heidegger’s concept of earth is the “constitutive insufficiency” of modern technology.
A ravelled skein : the silk industry in south west Hertfordshire 1790-1890
Creators: name: Jennings, Sheila Ann
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2002
Subjects: Silk manufacture, History, Textile fabrics, Fibers

description: Cotton and wool have long dominated studies of the English textile industries, relegating silk manufacture to no more than a minor role in the British economy. Regional studies have likewise tended to concentrate upon areas dominated by a single feature or single industry. This thesis aims to address the economic and social impact of a silk industry established in the predominantly rural area of South West Hertfordshire. Here the indigenous population had other opportunities for employment, agricultural labour of various kinds forming the greatest occupational group. The straw plait absorbed female and child labour in the districts of Berkhamsted and St Albans, in direct competition to the silk mills, while the rag factories supplying the paper industry offered competition to the silk mills of Watford and Rickmansworth. Any industry dependent upon imports is especially vulnerable to external pressure, and an overview of the national situation regarding the silk industry in England, and of the particular problems besetting manufacturers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is therefore essential to an understanding of the situation in the rural semi-industrial districts. The chapters of this thesis therefore follow the story of silk production from the wider context of the national industry to the specific mills of Hertfordshire, asking first, why the establishment of an English silk industry was so important. Themes explored in later chapters are already discernible in the early history of the silk industry: the high involvement of women; the apprenticeshipo f children; the interventionist role of government; and the problem of the poor. The extent to which these factors impinged upon the relationship between master, worker, and the local district, and ultimately upon the viability of the Hertfordshire mills, form the central core of this study.
Dynamic grid adaptation applied to large eddy simulation turbulence modelling
Creators: name: With, Govert De
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2001
Subjects: Aerodynamics, Fluid mechanics

description: At present a large number of fluid dynamics applications are found in aerospace, civil and automotive engineering, as well as medical related fields. In many applications the flow field is turbulent and the computational modelling of such flows remains a difficult task. To resolve all turbulent flow phenomena for flow problems where turbulence is of key interest is a priori not feasible in a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) investigation with a conventional mesh. The use of a Dynamic Grid Adaptation (DGA) algorithm in a turbulent unsteady flow field is an appealing technique which can reduce the computational costs of a CFD investigation. A refinement of the numerical domain with a DGA algorithm requires reliable criteria for mesh refinement which reflect the complex flow processes. At present not much work has been done to obtain reliable refinement criteria for turbulent unsteady flow. The purpose of the work presented in this thesis is to use both a DGA algorithm and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence model for predicting turbulent unsteady flow. The criteria for mesh refinement used in this work are derived from the equation for turbulent viscosity in the LES turbulence model. By using a modification to the turbulent viscosity as a refinement variable there is a link between both DGA algorithm and turbulence model. The smaller scale turbulence is modelled via the LES turbulence model, while the larger scales are resolved. In comparison with the simulations using a conventional mesh, substantial reduction in mesh size has been obtained with the use of a DGA algorithm. The reduction in mesh size is obtained without a decay in the quality of the prediction. It is shown that the use of a DGA algorithm in the context of turbulence modelling is a suitable tool which can be used as a next step in an attempt to resolve turbulence more realistically.
‘But as a Form in Wax’: An Ecofeminist Reading of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Creators: name: Schumann, Angela
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Carolyn Merchant’s 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution is widely considered to be one of the founding texts—if not the foundational text—for the articulation of ecofeminism in theU.S. academy. Ecofeminism, at its most fundamental, can be defined as “a range of perspectives that consider the links between the social organisation of gender and the ways in which societies are organised with respect to ‘nature.’” At the heart of ecofeminism, as propounded by Merchant, lies the link between the domination of women and the domination of nature which is underpinned by the world view of a sciencethat reconceptualises reality as a machine rather than a living organism. Merchant relates a history of the ways in which nature has been anthropomorphised as female throughout Western and non-Western cultures, expounding the patriarchal mind-set in which "like wild chaotic nature, women needed to be subdued and kept in their place."
O rei e os deuses nos anais assírios
Creators: name: Carreira, José Nunes
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: Apesar das diferenças de concepções do exercício do poder e da narrativa dos sucessos, é ponto assente para Egípcios, Hititas e Assírios que as guerras se ganham por ajuda divina. Os Assírios têm fama de ser dos primeiros e mais sangrentos a praticar a «guerra santa», com os deuses por principais actores e beneficiários das guerras de conquista. Em inúmeras passagens dos chamados Anais, parece que a guerra é tarefa exclusiva dos deuses. Mas as mesmas expressões ocorrem com o rei por sujeito. O «terror do esplendor de Assur» coexiste com o terror do rei; as armas de Assur resplandecem nas armas do rei. Com toda esta simbiose de causalidades e valores divino-humanos há que falar em sinergismo entre os deuses e o rei. A função legitimadora e propagandística dos Anais não suprimiu a evidente intervenção da vontade humana. Não se prova a existência de «guerra santa» distinta de guerra profana e o mesmo deve valer para Israel e para todo o Antigo Oriente, se não mesmo para toda a antiguidade. Distinguir o «religioso» e o «profano» na vida social desses tempos representa um insustentável anacronismo.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Performance and membrane fouling characteristics of a combined biofilm and membrane bioreactor for treatment of fluorescent whitening agent wastewater
Creators: name: Liang, Zhiwei
name: Du, Ping
name: Yang, Shangyuan
name: Li, Xin
name: Qian, Yichao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: A full-scale system, composed of one anoxic fixed biofilm reactor, four oxic fixed biofilm reactors and an activated sludge membrane bioreactor, was used to treat heavily organic loaded, high toxic and saline fluorescent whitening agent wastewater. This system was running steady during the experimental period of three months. Treatment performance and membrane fouling characteristics were investigated. The concentrations of chemical oxygen demand (COD), , and total nitrogen (TN) in effluent were 447, 27, 14 and 114 mg L−1, corresponding to the removal rates of 89%, 76%, 68% and 64%, respectively. A series of analyses, including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and protein and polysaccharide concentration measurements, represented that the sludge layer formed on the membrane surface contained both organic and inorganic foulants. Polysaccharides in bound extracellullar polymeric substances in mixed liquor were the main contributor to membrane fouling. Off-line tap water rinsing was proved to be a cost-effective method of fouling control.
Consent is Sexy: Gender, Sexual Identity and Sex Positivism in MTV’s Young Adult Television Series Teen Wolf (2011–)
Creators: name: Kendal, Zachary
name: Kendal, Evie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The dominance of sexual violence and gender inequality in young adult paranormal series, including Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga (2005–2008) and Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series (2007–2010), reflects a disturbing trend in the way issues of sex and gender are communicatedin popular culture. MTV’s television series Teen Wolf (2011–), on the other hand, is noteworthy for its positive representation of healthy sexual relationships. In this article we will explore how Teen Wolf functions as a feminist and queer-friendly text, paying particular attention to how it deals with issues of consent, gender equality and sexual identity. In doing this, we will explore how the characters in the series approach conversations about consent without “killing the mood” and how youth sexuality is discussed without imposing conservative, heteronormative rhetoric or resorting to “slut-shaming.”
O desafio do agnosticismo
Creators: name: Miranda, Mario De França
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: O artigo constitui uma reflexão sobre a problemática atual sobre Deus, mais precisamente sobre o acesso a Deus. Inicialmente são examinadas algumas razões para certo agnosticismo presente, sobretudo no meio acadêmico. Em seguida o texto aborda a fragmentação da razão clássica numa pluralidade de “racionalidades” que acabam por condicionar o conhecimento humano (horizontes de compreensão) e, consequentemente, seu acesso ao Transcendente. A terceira parte do artigo propugna uma maior unidade de fé e razão, de teologia e filosofia e busca recuperar a verdade da clássica teologia negativa ou apofática. Finalmente, a partir de uma teologia trinitária da criação e numa perspectiva agostiniana, se defende o acesso existencial a Deus, que deveria ser mais valorizado na teologia e na pastoral.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
‘One Loses One’s Classics’: Samuel Beckett and the Counter-canonical Use of Canon
Creators: name: Arka Chattopadhyay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This article seeks to examine Samuel Beckett’s subversive and countercanonical use of the canonical literary intertext by studying some of the diverse instances of his variable, playful and deliberately erroneous citations from early to late works, cutting across genres and media. I want to contextualize this discussion with Harold Bloom and Maurice Blanchot’s mutually contesting claims about Beckett as a preserver of the literary high canon or as a counter-canonical writer. I would argue for a trajectory in the Beckettcanon where the references gradually disappear from the textual surface into the depths of speech itself, which is increasingly perceived as a ventriloquist’s conjuring of Other’s words and voices. If this internalisation marks the inter-subjective nature of the field of speech, taking my departure from this point I will read Blanchot’s favourite Beckett text How It Is and highlight the way it subverts the canonicity of knowledge formation and its disciplinary inculcation. This approach involves a deepening of Beckett’scomplex relation with the intertextual practice of citation as the author challenges the fundamental property at the heart of citation i.e. knowledge in its always already canonised status.
Ciência da cruz ou experiência mística?: a propósito de Edith Stein e Jean Baruzi sobre Juan de la Cruz
Creators: name: Silva, Carlos Henrique Do Carmo
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: Este estudo pretende fazer reflectir sobre as perspectivas teológicas e filosóficas de um tema que, desde S. Paulo, vem caracterizada pela scientia crucis, no contexto da mística e de S. João da Cruz. Após preliminar equacionamento das perspectivas metodológicas em questão, no que se refere ao porte inteligível da experiência espiritual e à indispensável mediação de Cristo numa teologia da perfeição, ainda estimulante para a radicalidade da interrogação filosófica, consideram-se os contributos da linguagem relacional e da sua performance em termos da intelligentia fidei. Aborda-se, então, em S. João da Cruz o enquadramento da via mística e do cristocentrismo, confrontando duas perspectivas, quase contemporâneas [do filósofo de linhagem bergsoniana, Jean Baruzi, Saint Jean de la Croix et le problème de l’expérience mystique (19241;19312…) e na filósofa judia, discípula de Husserl e depois carmelita, mártir e canonizada, Edith Stein, na Kreuzeswissenschaft (1941-42)]. Tal análise comparativa revela paradoxalmente que à espiritual carmelita convém mais uma leitura intelectual e como ciência da Cruz, enquanto ao filósofo, quase agnóstico no seu método, acaba por se impor a transcendência da experiência mística numa lição de metamorfose antropológica. Em conclusão, reconverte-se desse paradoxo à indispensável dimensão incarnacional da espiritualidade cristã, exigida ainda pela meditação crucial de Edith Stein, não esquecendo o carácter da mística apofática e o ressalto diferencial de um encontro com outra radicalidade da experiência cristã.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
La figure du Père selon François-Xavier Durrwell: un profil
Creators: name: Tremblay, Réal
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: F.-X. Durrwell escreveu uma obra importante sobre o mistério de Deus Pai. Nela, ele retoma, aprofunda e dá uma forma acabada a ideias muitas vezes presentes nas suas obras anteriores. É impensável apresentar em poucas páginas a riqueza do pensamento ‘durrwelliano’ sobre o assunto. Neste artigo de homenagem, encontrar-se-á o estudo de certas ideias mestras da obra referida, tais como o sentido da expressão “Pai essencial”, a maneira de o Pai exercer a sua paternidade no mundo, algumas reflexões sobre o lugar do Pai na taxis trinitária, enfim, a descrição de dois traços particularmente significativos do “rosto” do Pai que resplandecem na face do seu Filho encarnado.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Shortcut nitrification–denitrification in a sequencing batch reactor by controlling aeration duration based on hydrogen ion production rate online monitoring
Creators: name: Zhang, Xin
name: Zhang, Daijun
name: He, Qiang
name: Ai, Hainan
name: Lu, Peili
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The hydrogen ion production rate (HPR) and the pH of the aeration phase in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) were simultaneously measured by a novel respirometric–titrimetric instrument. The results showed that HPR could indicate the end of ammonia oxidation with a greater accuracy and sensitivity than pH. An SBR was used to treat synthetic wastewater containing 360 mg/L chemical oxygen demand (COD) and 40 mg/L at 20°C with dissolved oxygen (DO) lower than 2.0 mg/L. Controlling the aeration duration based on HPR online monitoring, shortcut nitrification–denitrification was successfully performed for approximately two months with a stable nitrite accumulation rate (NAR) above 88%, and the COD and removal ratios were both higher than 90%. Based on the HPR online monitoring data, the estimated concentrations in nitrification were closely related to the measured concentrations, with a correlation coefficient of 0.9722, and the estimated values were lower than the measured values mainly because of the titration delay at the beginning of the aeration phase.
The Finding of Voice: Kant’s Philosophy of History
Creators: name: Kent, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Kant's philosophy of history is not explicit. History, according to Kant, being the “idiotic course of all things human” is not worthy of a sustained and coherent philosophical critique.2 Kant's philosophy did, however, contain a notion pertaining to the nature of human progress and, thus, through a carefulreading of Kant, an implicit philosophy of history emerges.
Editorial and front matter: Colloquy, Issue 29, July 2015
Creators: name: Colloquy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: COLLOQUY text theory critiqueIssue 29, July 2015--Issue twenty-nine of Colloquy: text, theory, critique is a general issue and has three articles, an original work of creative writing, a review article and three book reviews. The breadth of these works demonstrates Colloquy’s versatility and aim to be a platform for postgraduate, early career researchers and more established academics.
A simple approach to constructing antibacterial and anti-biofouling nanofibrous membranes
Creators: name: Mei, Yan
name: Yao, Chen
name: Li, Xinsong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: In this work, antibacterial and anti-adhesive polymeric thin films were constructed on polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous membranes in order to extend their applications. Polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride (PHGH) as an antibacterial agent and heparin (HP) as an anti-adhesive agent have been successfully coated onto the membranes via a layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly technique confirmed by attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The antibacterial properties of LBL-functionalized PAN nanofibrous membranes were evaluated using the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and the Gram-negative Escherichia coli. Furthermore, the dependence of the antibacterial activity and anti-biofouling performance on the number of layers in the LBL films was investigated quantitatively. It was found that these LBL-modified nanofibrous membranes possessed high antibacterial activities, easy-cleaning properties and stability under physiological conditions, thus qualifying them as candidates for anti-biofouling coatings.
Making Sense of a Sense of Place
Creators: name: Spittles, Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The term “sense of place” has become a ubiquitous piece of phraseology in contemporary Western culture; however its meanings are as diverse as its use is common. The primary aim of this paper is to clarify more precisely what the term “sense of place” actually means, in response to the drivingthesis that its present multifarious use renders the term so amorphous in meaning, that its power of meaning is lost. First, to corroborate this supposition, examples of the term’s multiple uses are portrayed, including its conflation with the related terms “spirit of place” and genius loci. Next agenealogical examination of the term ”sense of place” is undertaken, beginning with its roots in the Roman terms genius and genius loci. The historical circumstances relating to the introduction of the term genius into the English language during the 14th century and genius loci during the 18th century are then appraised. The next phase of appraisal is the late 19th century emergence of the terms “sense of place” and “spirit of place” within British and American literature, and their ostensible connections andconflations with genius and genius loci. Beyond this, a post-1900 linguistic shift is investigated whereby the older terms of genius and genius loci are gradually superseded by sense of place and spirit of place. The final section proposes some practical ramifications in being more precise in the use ofeach of these terms and distinct definitions are suggested for each to demonstrate that such clarifying differentiation and precision of meaning is possible.
Diane J. Raynor and André Lardinois Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. [Review Article]
Creators: name: Hodge, Siobhan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Sappho was born over two thousand years ago, but we are still disputing almost everything we know about her. An aristocrat from the isle of Lesbos, Sappho was celebrated for her poetic prowess both during her own lifetime and beyond. She has been conscripted into a variety of roles throughouther chequered reception in different time periods and places: cast as a dutiful wife and mother; a charismatic cult leader; a moralistic educator of young women, celebrating music, poetry and dance, as well as all things beautiful; and an outspoken lesbian outcast. These prevailing views havedeveloped according to fashionable social beliefs of the times surrounding the rights and roles of women, and so too have particular translations of the poet cycled in and out of favour. Overly embellished versions produced in the eighteenth century by translators such as John Addison, Ambrose Philips, Francis Fawkes, and Edward Barnaby Greene read as almost laughably inaccurate today.
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Hamlet
Creators: name: Douglass, Anna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: “Hamlet?”On top of vast expanses, I stand. The world sprawled before me. The sky translucent above, and the smell of salt thrown into the air by the ocean below. Here, I stand. I can see out to the horizon and beyond in every direction, and I feel a sense of mastery. A sense that everything is within reach, that I can grasp at anything I see, wrap my fingers around it and name it as my own. I chase the sun with my eyes as it slowly sinks beneath the ocean, burning the sky its descent touches, and the sky is left singed a painful red-orange. I do not reach for the sun; I do not want to be burned. But I am pleased to think that, if I was more reckless, I could grasp the sun, turn it and search it as I please. But I am not Icarus. I leave the sun be and it does me the same respect. But the sky is not so lucky and its burnt shades of red set the world ablaze. Everything is tinted shades of fire, lighted by the burning light, burning out.
Julio Cortázar. Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia. Trans. David Kurnick. Los Angeles, C.A.: Semiotext(e), 2014. [Book Review]
Creators: name: Kendal, Evie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Originally written in 1975 by Argentine novelist and essayist Julio Cortázar, the half-novella, half-graphic novel Fantomas versus the multinational vampires has now been translated into English for the first time. The text is accompanied by an afterword by translator David Kurnick and includes anappendix containing excerpts from the Second Russell Tribunal, a.k.a. the International War Crimes Tribunal (1973-1975), of which Cortázar was a member. The tribunal was tasked with investigating human rights violations in Latin America, particularly against the people of Brazil, Chile and Argentina. It is following his experiences on this tribunal that Cortázar begins his narration in Fantomas.
The Emergent Author: Affective Response to a Friend of a “Very Special, Artificial Kind”
Creators: name: Blake, Megan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: An author may merely be a projection we insert into the text, but this interpretive reality does not feel so banal and ephemeral when we are doing it. Nor does it prevent us, though, however sophisticated our reading practices may be, from being influenced in our analysis by the special image we have of the person behind the pen and the feelings, warm or cool, that they excite in us.
Brian Upton. The Aesthetic of Play. Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2015. [Book Review]
Creators: name: McLeod, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In The Aesthetic of Play, veteran videogame designer Brian Upton sets out to create a critical framework through which game designers and academics alike can approach the notion of play. For Upton, “play” is not limited simply to the sphere of video games but, rather, encompasses a host of activities, from board games and sport to make-believe and theatre. Beyond what we generally understand as “playing,” Upton argues, there are elements of play operating below the surface of almost all activities that requireinterpretation and communication. From this rather broad base, Upton’s study traces a winding path through phenomenology, linguistics, and neuroscience, before concluding with a quick overview of meta-criticismand an explanation of the weaknesses of Derridean deconstruction when viewed through his own framework, all punctuated by hundreds of references to videogames, films, literature, and popular culture.
Samuel Beckett and the Presence of Memory
Creators: name: Brown, Kevin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Lois Oppenheim approaches the work of Samuel Beckett from a psychoanalytic point of view in the article “A Preoccupation With Object Representation: The Beckett–Bion Case Revisited.” Oppenheim asks, “why would an author endowed with as rich a visual memory as Beckett’s place the preoccupation with memory, the anxiety of remembrance, at the forefront of his art? . . . To what extent, more precisely, might there be a disturbance in object representation deriving from pathology in the writer’s own inner representational world?” In order to answer this question, Oppenheim brings Wilfred Bion, Beckett’s psychiatrist, to the forefront.
Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Sex, or, the Unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. [Book Review]
Creators: name: Durham, Jessica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman’s Sex, or the unbearable is an experimental work of queer-theory-inflected psychoanalytic cultural criticism, a collaborative dialogue “in which theory, politics, and close textual analysis encounter the pedagogical necessity of responding to the provocations of otherness” (ix). The text forms a dialogic exploration of multimedia representations of sex, loosely understood as a scene of relationality—the experiences and events by which we encounter otherness and experience ourselves,including processes of negotiation, the unbearable, hopes, anxieties, the abject, etc. (viii). The authors ask and explore how “sex in the absence of optimism” could be thought, desired, or conceptualised."
Enhancement of germination in native woody species with particular reference to Rosa corymbifera Laxa.
Creators: name: Morpeth, David Robert
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 1998
Subjects: Native tree production, Germination, Tree seed, Botany, Agronomy, Plant diseases, Horticulture

description: Commercial production of native tree and shrub species from seed can be unpredictable. Rosa corymbifera 'Laxa' is one such species of commercial importance as a rootstock, and is characteristic of the Rosaceae family. During the investigation, a standard commercial pretreatment was used to determine the unpredictable nature of this species with regard to germination. It was found that germination varied from as low as 2% in one year to a high of 63% in a subsequent year. The average germination was 26% over this period. This presents a very real dilemma to the grower with respect to meeting demand from highly unpredictable species. This dilemma is inherent in native tree production from seed. Germination became high and predictable with the addition of a compost maker, Garotta. During the same five year period the lowest germination achieved was 75% and the highest 99%. The average germination was 89%. Germination was vastly increased in percentage terms as well as becoming reliable from year to year. The benefits to the grower in using this technique are potentially great in terms of time and resources. Not only is this pretreatment highly predictable, it is safe and easy to apply, unlike alternatives such as the use of concentrated sulphuric acid to burn off the seed coat. During the pretreatment of Rosa corymbifera'Laxa' the influence of microorganisms was assessed. Microbes were found within the pretreatment and their presence was established as being required to overcome the dormancy of the seeds. Low microbial numbers and activity were found in the commercial pretreatment, resulting in low germination. High microbial numbers and activity were found in the Garotta pretreatment, resulting in high and predictable germination. Total absence of microbes was found to result in zero germination.
Change in organisations : identifying sources of resistance to change and exploring the impact of the consultancy process used
Creators: name: Hambleton, Linda Mary
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2001
Subjects: Management & business studies Management

description: The aim of this research is to identify sources of resistance to change in organisations and to explore the impact of the consultancy process used to bring about change through the authority structures of organisations.The research was conducted using a process consultancy model with a focus on the process of how to bring about change rather than what the change will be. The model is based on an action research method and applies principles from psychoanalytic and systems theory. The guiding theory for the research was that a psychological source of resistance to change is that people use the social system in organisations as a defence against anxiety (Jaques, 1955, Menzies, 1959, Miller & Gwynne, 1972). The first research case study involved a group of employees in the National Health Service (NHS). Evidence from the cases study was used to identify conscious and unconscious sources of resistance to change and to build on the guiding theory that the social system was used as a defence against anxiety. It emerged that there were four different ways that people responded to change, which ranged from a `sycophant' to a `saboteur' response. People also had different levels of learning during change, ranging from `resistant to learning' to `internalised learning'. There was evidence that the existential primary task, i. e. the meaning that people have in their work life, can be a source of resistance to change. Two new working hypotheses were subsequently developed from these findings, which were explored further in a Bank case study. These are firstly that the existential primary task can also be a source of resistance to change and secondly that the process consultancy model can help to a) identify and understand how people respond to change; b) identify situations when the existential primary task can be a source of resistance; and c) develop people to reach a level of internalised learning. These working hypotheses were developed further based on the findings from both case studies. The conclusion is that the social defence system and the existential primary task can both be psychological sources of resistance to change. Two models were developed from the findings. One to represent a Continuum of Responses to Change and the other to represent the Dimensions of Responses to Change, which relates to an individual's capacity for personal change, their level of support for change and their response. Finally, the application of these conclusions to develop the process consultancy model and ideas for further research are discussed.
Influence of hydraulic retention time on partial nitrification of continuous-flow aerobic granular-sludge reactor
Creators: name: Wan, Chunli
name: Yang, Xue
name: Lee, Duu-Jong
name: Sun, Supu
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Zhang, Peng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: This study investigated the effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT) at 12 h, 7.2 h and 2.4 h on partial nitrification efficiency of continuous-flow aerobic granular reactors (CFAGRs) with mature aerobic granules (500±20 mg l−1). At HRT 12 h and 7.2 h, the removal efficiency of both ammonia–nitrogen (NH 4+−N) and nitrite accumulation rate were exceeding 90%. At HRT 2.4 h, NH 4+−N removal efficiency was reduced but most of the conversion efficiency to nitrite was only slightly reduced. At HRT<2.4 h, washout of aerobic granules occurred. In all tests conducted herein, the chemical oxygen demand removal efficiencies exceeded 90%. The clone library results noted the presence of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria belonged to β -Proteobacteria subclass, including 94% of Nitrosomonas europaea and 6% of Nitrosomonas sp. The polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis results suggested that Alpha proteobacterium, Pseudoxanthomonas mexicana strain, Sphaerotilus natans and Uncultured gamma proteobacterium were responsible for the aerobic granular stability and processing performance. The present CFAGR successfully implemented continuous partial nitrification using aerobic granules at low HRT.
Matthew Gandy. The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014 and Ruth A Morgan. Running Out?: Water in Western Australia. Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing, 2015. [Book Review]
Creators: name: McFarlane., Rosalind
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Two books published recently, Matthew Gandy’s The Fabric of Space and Ruth Morgan’s Running Out?, both use a focus on water to examine wider conditions of how people relate to their environment. Coming from a geographicalperspective, Gandy’s book is located amongst new work toemerge on water in urban studies and examines six different cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles and London. Each city forms a different chapter and focuses on a different point in time to ask questions about how people relate to water in a city environment, and what this revealsabout cultural values. Running Out? in contrast focuses on just one area, Western Australia, but follows this state from the invasion of British colonisers to the present day, documenting the relationship different people had to the land and its water. This work takes as its specific focus hydroresilience, and documents the ways in which the Aboriginal peoples’ relationship to this land demonstrated such hydroresilience, however, the colonisers did not respect this and their attitudes, actions, and decisions, contributedto the considerable risk of the colonisers running out of water.
Conformational studies of monocyclic and linear analogues of endothelin by NMR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Coles., Murray
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 340407
subject: Proteins and peptides
classificationCode: 321499
subject: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences not elsewhere classified

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