cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Flow-induced vibration of circular and square cylinder with low mass and damping
Creators: name: Zhao, Jisheng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates cross-flow flow-induced vibration of elastically mounted rigid circular and square cylinders with low mass and damping ratio over a range of low and vibration parameters. In particular, two typical body oscillator phenomena of flow-induced vibration, vortex-induced vibration and galloping, are studied experimentally. Thus, the study consists of two main parts. The first part, using simultaneous displacement, force and vorticity measurements, investigates the dynamic response of a circular cylinder undergoing transverse free vortex-induced vibrations and controlled trajectory-following vibrations. The second part characterises the amplitude and frequency responses of a square cylinder with angle of attack variation. Despite extensive work has been undertaken to understand the fundamental characteristics of free and forced vibrations of a circular cylinder, there are still a number of unresolved questions in the literature concerning the similarities and differences between the free and forced vibration cases. In order to directly compare these two vibration cases, a low-friction air-bearing rig and a real-time feedback control system were therefore designed and implemented in experiments. The major results obtained show that the transverse lift force and the decomposed vortex force experienced by a cylinder forced to follow the trajectory of free VIV are identical to the free vibration case, when both the total phase and the vortex phase relative to the body motion are constantly stable. However, significant differences between the two vibration cases are found at a reduced velocity located in the middle upper branch of VIV where largest-scale body vibration occur with complex switching phenomena in the total phase and the vortex phase. The results from the second part, flow-induced vibration of a square cylinder with angle of attack variation, show that the cylinder, as expected, experiences galloping at the zero angle of attack orientation (0 degree) and vortex-induced vibration at the diamond orientation (45 degree). As the angle of attack is varied from 45 degree to 0 degree, the body can undergo combinations of both vortex-induced vibration and galloping in a mixed response region. In this region, the oscillation amplitude response exhibits a new branch that exceeds the responses resulting from the two body-oscillator phenomena independently. For velocities above this resonant region, the body oscillation frequency splits into two diverging branches. Further, analysis of the amplitude reveals that the transition between galloping and vortex-induced vibrations occurs over a narrow range of angle of incidence. Despite the rich set of states found in the parameter space the vortex shedding modes remain very similar to those found previously in vortex-induced vibration.
title: Predictive fluvial facies models: Huesca Distributive Fluvial System, Spain
Creators: name: Martin, Ben
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geology, Geoscience, Sedimentary, Sedimentology, Fluvial, Fluvial System, DFS, Distributive, System, Huesca, Spain, River, Source, Okavango, Salt Wash

description: Recent research of modern aggradational continental sedimentary basins has highlighted that sedimentation is dominated by distributive fluvial systems (DFSs). Only one outcrop-based, fully quantified rock record example is currently available within literature (Salt Wash Member of The Jurassic Morrison Formation) which highlights expected trends within conceptual DFS models. This study based on the Oligocene-Miocene Huesca Fluvial System within the Ebro Basin, northern Spain aims to characterise facies across the system, analyse predicted trends using a conceptual DFS model and determine whether these expected trends are scalable across both system and basin-scale studies. The results of this study will be compared with other DFS studies, namely with the Late Jurassic Salt Wash. Proximal-todistal trends show that channel thicknesses across the system decrease from 20.2 m to 0.4 m alongside channel percentage decreases from 66% at the most proximal region to 4% in the most distal locality. Storey thicknesses also decrease downstream from 11.4 m proximally to 0.4 m in the most distal locality with storey frequency at a maximum of 4 in the proximal region. Downstream shifts in architecture are also noted across the system from massive, highly amalgamated channel-body sandstones dominating the proximal regions to isolated or offset-stacked, lesser amalgamated channel-body dominating distal region. This data compares well with that of the Salt Wash study which is directly comparable despite differences in the size of these systems. This study provides quantified data for an ancient DFS on a system scale that is directly comparable with other quantified DFSs from both previous and future works, regardless of scale. The data from this study will also aid resource exploration in the future alongside help to create a more accurate, quantified, conceptual DFS model.
title: Performing human rights: artistic interventions into European asylum
Creators: name: Marschall, Anika
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: political theatre, intervention, activism, migration, asylum, human rights, refugees, statelessness, Centre for Political Beauty, Monica Ross, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Jonas Staal.

description: This thesis argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing. It unfolds its argument through three substantial case studies which respond to the politics of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe since 2015: the radical performance collective Centre for Political Beauty based in Germany, the Jordanian–British sound artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan based at the Forensic Architecture Agency in the UK, and the Dutch visual artist Jonas Staal and his international artist organisation New World Summit. This thesis examines how these three European artists have enacted political changes and shaped alternative socio-political conditions in regard to asylum: including perilous border crossings and/or arrival, the legal procedures of asylum seeking processes as well as the notion of statelessness. It argues that asylum and human rights is an ever-increasing nexus, which binds together powerful transnational institutions, law, state policies, activism and – crucially – aesthetics and creative world-making. This thesis applies a mixed-methods approach that focuses equally on performance analyses and on political philosophy, critical legal studies and art history. In its holistic approach to the performing of human rights, the overall aim of this thesis is to advance the study of political theatre and performance by identifying three different emerging modes of aesthetics: the distributed, the forensic and the institutional, and by exploring how a sustained political engagement in the arts helps us negotiate meaningful solidarity. The findings have potential merit for theatre-makers and artists seeking new forms for critical art making about asylum and human rights.
title: The pre-depositional history of the Applecross Formation, Northwest Highlands, Scotland
Creators: name: Holmes, Samuel John
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Detrital, zircon, u-pb, la-icp-ms, geochronology, fluvial, provenance, Scotland, Applecross, Torridon Group, Torridonian, sedimentology, planform, depositional style.

description: The provenance of Applecross Formation sedimentary rocks (Torridon Group, Northwest Scotland) is a topic of significant debate owing to difficulties in clearly correlating various datasets for the region (detrital mineral studies, sedimentology, and palinspastic restorations) to create an accepted palaeogeographic reconstruction. This study aims to elucidate the source area of Applecross sedimentary rocks and modes of deposition and transportation. LA-ICP-MS 206Pb/238U dating of detrital zircon samples from various stratigraphic levels within the Applecross Formation type area is utilised to assess variations in the source over time. Sampling is spread through ~2000m of stratigraphy, along a ~15km outcrop parallel transect between Applecross and Loch Kishorn. Data reduction is undertaken using Iolite data reduction software. U-Pb detrital zircon peaks of Mesoproterozoic (1280-1520Ma) and late Palaeoproterozoic (1680-1980Ma) age are dominant throughout the Applecross Formation. Minor early Palaeoproterozoic (2191-2265Ma) and Archean components up to 3346±43Ma are present. These data are in broad agreement with detrital zircon data from elsewhere in the Applecross Formation presented by Rainbird, Hamilton and Young (2001) and Krabbendam et al. (2017), suggesting a uniform input of well mixed sediment from a single source. Terranes in the foreland basin of the Grenville Orogen are favoured as source areas, with transport in an orogen axial foreland trunk system. Detrital Zircon U-Pb geochronology is combined with sedimentological context to determine depositional style. Deposition is interpreted to occur in a large scale distributive system similar to the Okavango Delta, Botswana, with unconfinement occurring during an extensional phase of the Grenville Orogen associated with rotation of Baltica relative to Laurentia at the time of deposition (see Rivers, 1997; Cawood et al., 2007). This proposal correlates known detrital mineral and sedimentological datasets. Further work is required to support the model; additional detrital zircon datasets are required to confirm the validity of a single sediment input. Further evidence for localised extension in the Applecross region is required to substantiate unconfinement of an established foreland trunk river system.
title: Litreachas na Gàidhlig à Sealann Nuadh
Creators: name: Marker, Viktoria
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: litreachas na Gàidhlig, Sealann Nuadh, irisean, bàrdachd, litrichean, colbhan Gàidhlig.

description: Geàrr-chunntas Tha an rannsachadh seo a’ sgrùdadh eilthireachd agus tuineachadh ann an Sealann Nuadh eadar 1850 agus 1914 tro phrosbaig Ghàidhealach. Thathar a’ cleachdadh phrìomh-thùsan Gàidhlig à Sealann Nuadh airson anailis a dhèanamh air fèin-fhiosrachadh nan Gàidheal ann a bhith a’ siubhal gu, a’ tuineachadh ann an Sealann Nuadh. Chaidh prìomh-thùsan a chleachdadh a ghabhas cruth colbhan irisean, litrichean, leabhranan, agus cairt-phuist. Gus dealbh iomlan fhaighinn air an litreachas Gàidhlig a tha ann agus so-ruigsinneach ann an Sealann Nuadh, thèid sùil a thoirt air na culaidhean-brosnachaidh a tha air cùl stèidheachadh a’ chorpais-litreachais. Tha susbaint an litreachais ga mheasadh a thaobh na buaidhe a bha aig an t-seann dùthaich, buaidh na dùthcha ùire, agus buaidh eilthireachd air inntinn nan Gàidheal. Tha an dòigh-obrach sin ga dhèanamh comasach amas an litreachais a sgrùdadh. Cuirear gu deuchainn trì coltachdan; ’s i a’ chiad dhiubh gun deach litreachas Gàidhlig a chruthachadh ann an Sealann Nuadh mar thoradh air iomairt mearachdan agus aimhreit a bha air èirigh ann am Breatainn tron 18mh agus 19mh linn a sheachnadh; tha an dàrna coltachd a’ cur mun aire gum b’ i an dùthaich ùr, freagarrachd a h-àrainneachd agus pailteas a goireasan nàdarra, a thug an t-saorsa do na Gàidheil litreachas a chruthachadh agus am fèin-aithne a dhaingneachadh; mu dheireadh thall, thathar a’ deasbad gur e eilthireachd, thairis air a h-uile factar eile, a dheimhinnich stèidheachadh agus cuspair litreachas na Gàidhlig ann an Sealann Nuadh.
title: Environmentally conscious global citizens: an evolution from environmental education to education for sustainable development in Pakistan
Creators: name: Khanum, Asma
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sustainable development, education, Pakistan.

description: At the age when the environmental issues are forefront in the government policies in Pakistan, this research study documents to identify how sustainable development education is integrating into primary school education and in initial teacher education in Pakistan. Education for sustainable development, a UN initiative is an emerging field and a movement supporting the reorientation of educationtrying to engage young people with the life style compatible with environment protection and social and economic development in a sustainable way (UNESCO, 2005). The broad objective of the study was achieved by adopting a methodology based on interpretative/phenomenology paradigm which leads towards a direction that educational phenomenon can be understood through different viewpoints. Therefore this study has been divided in to four parts. In the first part Pakistani educational system was examined and the curriculum was analysed for primary school education and ITE (B.Ed Honours) to have an idea of how and what context the concept of sustainable development is used. The empirical part of the study consists of a questionnaire survey directed to primary schools teachers and student teacher and comprised of interviews directed to the head teachers of primary schools in Pakistan. It highlights the nature of support provided to teachers, the constraints that hinder the adoption of ESD as a regular teaching tool and their own ideas, suggestions and plans to promote ESD in their teaching and learning activities. These results are not in line with the claims of UN that the focus in education about sustainable development has moved towards education for sustainable development. This means more focus on changing pedagogy and learning vision, instead of focusing merely on content. As a result of the study a range of recommendations have been identified through literature and field survey which mainly focused on the reforms in the policymaking, planning, implementation strategy for the inclusion of ESD, well-resourced institutions, teachers’ capacity building for establishing coherent interdisciplinary approach based on student centred interactive strategies and reforms in assessment system accordingly. The information and insights gained would help in evolving a progressive, creative, dynamic, effective and practical strategy with regards to ESD in Pakistan, in line with the global requirements.
The synthesis method and sequence of the peptide used in this study from Investigation of the antibiofilm capacity of peptide-modified stainless steel
Creators: name: Cao, Pan
name: Li, Wen-Wu
name: R. Morris, Andrew
name: Horrocks, Paul D.
name: Yuan, Cheng-Qing
name: Yang, Ying
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: Figure 1 The sequence and spatial structure of peptide 1 (P1). The sequence of the peptide is ACTSNADNKYLPKTCQT (disulfide 2-15) with purity of 95%.
title: Investigating the impact of intestinal stem cell dynamics on tumour initiation
Creators: name: Hodder, Michael C.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Colorectal cancer, Wnt, intestine, stem cells, tumourigenesis, APC, MCL1, apoptosis, tumour prevention.

description: In the intestines of mammals, crypt structures are known to house the intestinal Stem Cells (SCs). These intestinal SCs compete with each other at the base of each crypt, and consequently the parameters of SC competition determine the accumulation of mutations within the intestinal tract. I used genetically engineered mouse models to investigate the functional impact of SC competition on tumour formation and propose that SC competition can be targeted as a tumour preventative strategy. Hyper-activated Wnt signalling is a common occurrence in Colorectal Cancer (CRC) with mutations in Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC), a negative regulator of the Wnt signalling pathway, occurring in 60-70% of CRC patients. In chapter III of this thesis I discuss the robustness of current methods to quantify intestinal SC dynamics, and propose a new method to trace Apc mutant SCs. Additionally, I functionally demonstrate that intestinal SC dynamics influences the efficiency of tumour formation in the Intestinal Epithelium (IE). In chapter IV I propose that SC competition represents a bottleneck in the tumourigenesis process, and that this initial stage of tumourigenesis could be targeted therapeutically. I describe the effect of multiple drug treatments upon Apc mutant SC competition and the ability of these cells to form tumours in the IE. Furthermore, I define the window of opportunity for targeting of Apc mutant intestinal SCs. Chapter V discusses the role of the anti-apoptotic protein MCL1 in intestinal SC survival and tumour formation. I discuss how MCL1 is vital for a number of intestinal cell lineages and demonstrate a lineage specific dependency upon MCL1. Overall, I demonstrate that the parameters of intestinal SC dynamics are essential for dictating the efficacy of tumour formation from intestinal SCs. I provide proof of concept data that demonstrate mutant intestinal SCs can be targeted by xenobiotics. Finally I demonstrate that different intestinal cell lineages are differentially dependent upon MCL1.
Statistical data of robustness assay from Investigation of the antibiofilm capacity of peptide-modified stainless steel
Creators: name: Cao, Pan
name: Li, Wen-Wu
name: R. Morris, Andrew
name: Horrocks, Paul D.
name: Yuan, Cheng-Qing
name: Yang, Ying
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: Table 1 P values of the OD values for the peptide-treated samples after different treatment duration.
An experimental investigation on waves and coherent structures in a three-dimensional open cavity flow
Creators: name: Basley, Jeremy Clement Daniel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A space-time study of a three-dimensional nonlinearly saturated open cavity flow is undertaken using time-resolved space-extended experimental data, acquired in both cross-stream and spanwise planes, in incompressible air and water flows. Through multiple modal decompositions in time and space, the waves and coherent structures composing the dynamics in the permanent regime are identified and characterised with respect to the instabilities arising in the flow. Effects of nonlinearities are thoroughly investigated in the impinging shear layer, regarding the self-sustained oscillations and their interactions with the inner-flow. In particular, the analysis conducted throughout the parameter space enlightens a global connection between the selection of locked-on modes and the amplitude modulation at the impingement and the mode switching phenomenon. Furthermore, observations of low frequencies interacting drastically with the shear layer flapping motion underline the existence of intrinsic coherent three-dimensional dynamics inside the cavity in spite of the shear layer disturbances. Linear stability analyses have demonstrated the onset of centrifugal instabilities along the main recirculation. In the present investigation, we focus on the dynamics after saturation occurred. It reveals numerous space-time coherent structures, whose properties are quantified and classified with respect to the underlying instabilities. We observe travelling or standing spanwise waves, as well as steady structures. Finally, some patterns exhibited by the saturated structures suggest that the nonlinear mechanisms governing the mutations of the flow after the linear regime could gain more insight in the frame of amplitude equations. Thesis submitted to obtain the joint degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Université Paris-Sud Département de Physique Ecole Doctorale MIPEGE and Monash University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Preparation of porous carbon from palm shell using phosphoric acid activation: process optimisation, adsorption, reagent recovery and reuseability
Creators: name: Lim, Wah Ching
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The objective of present work is to develop chemically activated carbons from palm shell using H3PO4 via optimisation on the process parameters such as impregnation ratio, activation temperature and activation time, with the aim of achieving high yield and well developed pore structure. The process optimisations have been conducted utilising the optimisation tool Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Various issues associated with chemical activation process such as the activation in inert media/self-generated atmosphere (SGA) and activation with reclaimed reagent were also been addressed. The kinetics of the H3PO4 activation and significance of SGA have been assessed using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The activated carbon have been characterised for (i) pore size distribution, average pore size and the surface area using the BET surface area analyser, (ii) the surface textures and structure of the pores using SEM, FT-IR and XRD. Based on the pore structure and the surface area, suitability of the PSAC for adsorption on specific macromolecules, Methylene Blue (MB) and dairy COD have been developed. Effectiveness of an adsorbent is assessed by the equilibrium adsorption capacity and the rate of adsorption of the adsorbent. Experiments on adsorption isotherm and kinetics of the mentioned adsorbates have been established. The recovery and reusability of H3PO4 for subsequent activation of palm shell under identical experimental conditions were also being thoroughly investigated. PSAC with BET surface area exceed 2000m /g has been developed, coupled with high carbon yield of approximately 50%. The good adsorption value on MB and dairy COD correspond with high mesopore content in PSAC, a unique character of the carbon. The significance of SGA has been demonstrated from TGA analysis. The reclaimed H3PO4 is found to have almost similar activation capability as that fresh acid in terms of yield and textural characteristics.
'The community will kill you': policing and vigilantism in Zandspruit
Creators: name: Martin, James Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Vigilantism is a practice that is encountered relatively infrequently in the affluent states of the Global North. However, in many other regions that are inadequately serviced by state security, vigilantism is perceived by many locals as offering the only meaningful response to crime and social deviance. The Zandspruit Informal Settlement, located on the northern outskirts of Johannesburg, is one such area. Amidst an appallingly high rate of violent crime, the residents of this densely populated shantytown regularly witness and indeed participate in vigilante attacks. Despite its persistence, local attitudes towards vigilantism are complex and range from outright opposition and horror to grim acceptance and sanguinary enthusiasm. By analysing semi-structured interview data taken from 43 residents and workers in the Zandspruit area, this thesis seeks to explore and articulate the various local perspectives of this normalised but highly destructive social phenomena.
In situ health monitoring of fuel weep holes using ultrasonic guided waves
Creators: name: Doherty, Cain
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis presents an investigation into the scattering of the fundamental Lamb, shear horizontal and edge-guided Rayleigh-type wave modes from sub-surface and hard-to-inspect damage on cavities representative of fuel weep holes in integral stiffeners. Detection, localisation and characterisation of scattered elastic guided wave fields can assist with improving the reliability and probability of detection of health monitoring systems through informed placement of actuators and sensors. The combination of the experimental-computational-analytical approach gives rise to new insights and guidance for the quantification of defects located in hard-to-inspect regions with actuators and sensors placed in easily accessible locations. Three-dimensional laser vibrometry is used to confirm that ultrasonic guided plate waves, generated by permanently bonded low-profile surface-mounted piezoceramic disc transducers, are able to form edge-guided Rayleigh-type waves on the free surface of open cavities. The behaviour of the propagating ultrasonic guided waves around cavities and their interaction with simulated fatigue damage emanating from the cavities is visualised. In situ non-destructive evaluation of the airframe stiffener is shown to be viable using symmetric guided waves given that the strength of the characteristic scattered spiralling guided wave field maintains its form and grows in amplitude as the damage length in increased. In contrast to the high frequency bulk-wave wedge transducer methodology traditionally used for weep hole inspection, the length-scales of the in situ technique are such that the wavelength of the incident guided waves are comparable with the hole diameter, and larger than the defect length. The monitoring of upward growing hidden damage from circular weep holes in integral stiffeners using symmetric guided waves is unique in that the received energy, that is the measured surface velocity on the accessible surface, monotonically increases with respect to increasing damage length. A series of computational studies with a three-dimensional finite element model is conducted to understand how and why scattered plate waves from the defect can be detected on the accessible surface. The ability to accurately model acousto-ultrasonic elastic wave dynamics is crucial for future developments in this research field. The computational results are compared with the experimental laser vibrometry data for model validation. It is concluded that the boundary conditions for wave scattering from the hidden notch are a complex combination of the incident wave field and the dispersive edge-guided Rayleigh-type wave that is formed on the free surface of the cavity.
Who are they? national identities of young people living in Australia.
Creators: name: Lohm, Davina Bina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The national identities of thirty-six young adults who reside in Melbourne, Australia were examined. Aided by qualitative data, this study shows that young people in Australia have developed a complex understanding of their national identities. Through the influence of family, place, education, language and appearance the respondents reflexively (Giddens, 1991: 53) constructed their national identities. Many of their national identities were hybrid (Nederveen Pieterse, 1994, 2001) recognizing their residence in multicultural Australia as well as their diverse heritages. These hybrid national identities were varied as the respondents’ attachment to their heritage national identity existed along a continuum (Nederveen Pieterse, 1994: 172). The respondents’ national identities were also fluid (Noble, Poynting and Tabar, 1999: 42) as the respondents adjusted and modified them to adapt to the circumstances in which they found themselves. Yet these hybrid and fluid national identities are not indicative of fractured and unstable national identities. Rather the respondents’ national identities appear to be solidly constructed and they have a strong sense of who they are. The fluidity and hybridity of the national identities allowed them the flexibility to combine the disparate aspects of their national identities and utilize them to serve them effectively in various situations. The respondents’ fluid, hybrid identities are indicative of contemporary Australia where the population is made up of people with heritages from all areas of the globe who live together in a multicultural society. However Australia’s past including its White Australia and assimilation policies retain some resonance. Social constructions of Australian national identity as being white and Anglo and the expectation that migrants ‘fit into Australian society’ remain. Whilst people from any background were perceived by the respondents to have access to an Australian national identity, a hierarchy (Hage, 1998) was evident where those with more social capital had preferential access to this identity. The respondents noted social activities and political values as making up this social capital. However the most valuable form of cultural capital for recognition of an Australian national identity was a white-Anglo appearance.
Examination of School Counselors' Statewide Listserv Interactions
Creators: name: Dogan, Sabri
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: School counselors are responsible for a myriad of different tasks. The purpose of this study is to provide insights into topics that counselors ask for information or advice on a statewide listserv called CounselorTalk. The database for this study is a two-year, 1,600+ person listserv on the State of Indiana school counselors, counselor educators as well as those interested in counseling who do outreach activities related to school counseling. There's been much ambiguity regarding counselors' role as well as internal debates concerning the appropriate role of school counselors as their daily activities are described. Little has been done to examine what counselors deem important enough to request information about. Data from the listserv was archived by month and placed in a digital file coded by topic, school level and time period. After initial coding categories were collapsed into ten unique groups and discussed.
Dependent variables
Creators: name: Dastjerdi, Helen Maryam Khorrami
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024

description: DV1: Evaluation of outgroup (attitudes). Participants will be asked to evaluate the outgroup they just imagined having contact with (or a randomly assigned outgroup in the control condition). We ask people to rate statements using a thermometer measure (e.g., "How warm do you feel towards the social group?", "How trustworthy do you think the social group is?"). DV2: Behavioural intention measure. The participant is asked to indicate on a 4-point Likert scale how likely it is that they would seek contact with someone from an outgroup by attending a living library event ("If there was a Living Library event in Nijmegen the coming weekend (and you had time), how likely is it that you would go and meet someone new?"). DV3: behavioural measure 1 - taking a flyer. We will record who takes a flyer for more information on the Living Library. DV4: behavioural measure 2 - scanning QR code and entering participant code. We will record who scans the QR code to actually seek more information. DV5: behavioural measure 3 - clicking the link to get to the Living Library website. We will record who clicks on the link to head to the LL website.
Screening and Characterization of Lactobacillus sp. from the Water of Cassava’s Fermentation for Selection as Probiotics
Creators: name: Marius, Foko Kouam Edith
name: François, Zambou Ngoufack
name: Marie, Kaktcham Pierre
name: Yan, Wang Rui
name: Taicheng, Zhu
name: Li, Yin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The present study aimed to evaluate selected probiotic properties of Lactobacilli isolated from the water of submerged cassava fermentation. Following Lactobacilli isolation, isolates were screened for their antimicrobial activity. Acid and bile tolerances, bile salt hydrolase (Bsh) activity spectrum were assessed. Among the 113 isolates obtained, 16 showed a broad antimicrobial activity spectrum against the indicator microorganisms. From these 16, 12 were found acid and bile resistant. They hydrolyzed glycoconjugated or tauroconjugated bile salts. From the four bile Bsh genes screened, only Bsh-Lp1 was found in five isolates. They identified as Lactobacillus paraplantarum, Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacillus brevis, and Lactobacillus plantarum. Based on the principal component analysis, L. paracasei 62L, L. plantarum 85L and 86L were selected as the most promising strains. These results suggest that water from submerged cassava fermentation can be a source of Lactobacilli with high probiotic potential.
Caroline Petit
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 1 fichier (39 pages)
description: Autre destinataire : Charlotte Lessana
description: Pièces jointes : diaporama sur l'origine de l'épidémie de sida ; texte de J. Leibowitch "Un demi non juif obscur né en France "
An effective technique for multi-modal image registration
Creators: name: Hossain, Md Tanvir
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Image registration brings two images into alignment despite any initial misalignment. Multi-modal image registration is a special type of registration problem where complexity is added, due to images being captured by different types of imaging devices. For decades, researchers have continued to work on multi-modal image registration. Yet limited attention has been paid to developing local feature descriptors for multi-modal registration, despite their useful performance in general registration problems. We would argue that multi-modal registration can therefore benefit from qualities that are inherent in local techniques. In this thesis, we focus on developing a new multi-modal image registration technique based on local descriptors. We study a range of local feature description techniques, acquire an in-depth understanding of relevant sub-procedures and propose a novel modality invariant feature description technique that can be effectively applied to multi-modal image registration. The proposed technique has four components which are carefully designed to cater for variations in image properties caused by multi-modality as well as to enable finding correspondences with high accuracy under a wide range of transformations. We identify certain properties of multi-modal images, namely gradient and region reversal, which must be addressed appropriately in order to register multi-modal images. The first component of our proposed technique overcomes problems with existing local multi-modal techniques in addressing these properties. The second component comprises strategies to encode gradient profiles that are appropriate for multi-modal registration applications. The third component employs a robust and powerful data fitting technique, namely Hough Transform, in order to achieve high accuracy in multi-modal registration. Our proposed solution is simple, but effective, and enables seamless integration of Hough Transform by overcoming existing technical limitations. The final component incorporates special methodologies to cater for local rotations in input images. Besides evaluating our technique in terms of the accuracy of identified correspondences, we also show that the proposed technique results in less registration error when compared with existing techniques.
An improved scheme to suppress spurious orographic resonance in semi-lagrangian models
Creators: name: Lerrahn, Christian Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Semi-Lagrangian schemes, as are widely used in numerical weather prediction, exhibit a spurious resonance for time steps that result in Courant numbers C > 1. The spurious resonance is caused by orographic forcing and can be removed by off-centring the discretised equations in time. This approach leads to increased numerical damping everywhere in the domain and may adversely affect accuracy even in regions of little orography. In this thesis, the off-centring approach is revisited and the traditional off-centring scheme validated. In an attempt to reduce the additional numerical damping while maintaining stability, the traditional scheme is then modified by limiting the off-centring to a subset of equations. After extensive numerical tests in a shallow water model, the schemes are then further modified to vary the additional damping across the computational domain as a function of the orography. Based on the findings in the shallow water model, a new scheme is implemented in a global climate model (GCM) and the impact of the new scheme assessed in detail.
Functional characterization of zinc transport genes in drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Lye, Jessica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The heavy metal zinc is an essential component of the human diet and is incorporated as a structural component in up to 10% of all mammalian proteins. The physiological importance of zinc homeostasis at the cellular level and the molecular mechanisms involved in this process has become topics of increasing interest in recent years. Using the Gal4-UAS system to carry out both ubiquitous and targeted over expression and suppression studies, I have performed a systematic functional characterization of thirteen out of the seventeen putative Drosophila Zip (SCL39) and ZnT (SLC30) zinc transport genes identified to date. Results from this analysis suggest that that at least six of these thirteen genes are essential for fly viability. In addition, my findings reaffirm the previously proposed function of dZnT63C (dZnT1, CG17723: FBgn005432) as an important zinc efflux protein and indicate that the fly homolog of hZip1, dZip42Cα (CG9428: FBgn0033096), is a strong zinc importer in Drosophila. By combining over expression of dZip42Cα with suppression of dZnT63C in targeted tissues, easily identifiable zinc toxicosis phenotypes were generated. These phenotypes could be rescued or worsened by modifying dietary zinc content. My findings show that a genetically based zinc toxicosis situation can be therapeutically treated or exacerbated by modifications to the diet. In addition, these zinc sensitive modifiable phenotypes were used to further characterize the zinc transporting abilities of other Drosophila zinc transport genes. The results of these phenotypic analyses was supplemented by localization studies, whereby tissue targeted ectopic expression of eGFP fused zinc transport proteins was used to assign general sub-cellular localization patterns to each zinc transporter analyzed. Finally, phenotypic and localization results were taken together to form basic interpretations of Drosophila zinc transporter function and to predict a preliminary model for zinc homeostasis in Drosophila cells.
Modelling of desiccation crack depths in clay soils
Creators: name: Wijesooriya, Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Sasika Dilrukshi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Desiccation cracking is a major problem in many fields. In addition to introducing speedy pathways for water ingress, cracks can also compromise the structural integrity of the geo structures. In this regard, prediction of the depth of cracking is an important aspect in evaluating system performance. Modelling of desiccation cracks is a major concern for the past few decades. Despite the numerous attempts to model the crack depths, no comprehensive modelling method is available. In this study, an attempt has been made to model the desiccation crack depths using analytical and numerical approaches. The thesis presents a review of the literature identifying the gaps of the knowledge in this field, numerical modelling of desiccation crack depths under various conditions for different soils and laboratory experimentation to support the numerical model. The existing theoretical methods used to analyse desiccation crack depths and new methods have been developed to describe the predictions from the numerical program. Further the cyclic change of climate conditions are considered for developing the numerical model. Finally a new approach is used to predict the crack depths in which moisture content change was used instead of suction. Finally a more rigorous approach of predicting crack depths incorporating cohesive properties at the crack is presented using the computer program UDEC. The results from the numerical approach are presented and discussed in the thesis. The crack depths are compared with either theoretical results or a bench-mark model, highlighting pros and cons of current approaches. More accurate crack depths agreeing with the published field observation data can be predicted when using the moisture content change instead of suction as a model parameter. Furthermore, cohesive properties of the crack should be considered for fracture modelling provided that soils are not subjected to extreme dry conditions. However, it is recommended to conduct comprehensive field experimentation to measure the desiccation crack depths and compare the results with the numerical modelling predictions of the same soil in same field conditions to draw fully validated conclusions.
The Learner’s learning evironment: three drivers that impact on its construction and use
Creators: name: Ellis, Ainslie Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: With universities adopting a learner-centered, constructivist approach to learning and greater use of technology, combined with the pressures of 21st century living and the increasing number of people taking up tertiary study, there is a greater need than ever to determine how a learner constructs and uses his/her learning environment, and what drives that process of construction and use. This thesis investigates the learner’s learning environment from the learner’s perspective. Through the analysis of semi-structured interviews, and personality type as determined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, it identified three drivers that impact upon the construction and use of the learner’s learning environment. These three drivers are: 1) the learner’s impetus to learn; 2) the self-perceived technology ability of the learner; and 3) the personality type of the learner. This thesis looks at the construction of the learner’s learning environment as part of constructivist theory, recognizing that, as in the construction of new, individual representations of knowledge, each learner forms new, individual representations of his/her own learning environment, determined by the drivers that impact on this construction and use. The thesis also examines the learner’s learning environment in light of the provided environment for the unit of study they are enrolled in. It shows that pedagogical approaches, learning environment design and choice of elements included in the provided environment, may be at odds with the learner’s drivers and the way in which they construct their learning environment. As a consequence, the educator cannot guarantee the learner will use the provided environment as intended or envisaged, which may impact on the learning outcomes for the learner. These findings therefore, provide insights into the ways in which a learner incorporates the provided environment into his/her own unique learning environment, offering practical information for the design and development of the provided environment.
Construction of a magnetic chiral coordination polymer based on a semi-rigid carboxylic acid
Creators: name: Cui, Lin
name: Wang, Qin-Hui
name: Duan, Jin-Wei
name: Wang, Kang
name: Wang, Yao-Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: A 2-D chiral entangled coordination polymer, {Mn3(2,2′-bpy)2(3-cpta)2·H2O}n (1) (3-H3cpta=3-(3′-carboxyphenoxy)phthalic acid, 2,2′-bpy=2,2′-bipyridine), has been synthesized via the solvothermal method. X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that 1 consists of one right-handed helical chain and one wavelike 2-D plane, which are connected with each other through hydrogen bonds and π···π interactions to generate a 3-D supra-molecule. Thermal gravimetric analysis shows that 1 possesses good thermal stability. Temperature dependent magnetic susceptibilities have also been measured from 1.8 to 300 K, which shows 1 to be anti-ferromagnetic.
Policy mixes for more vital legume value chains
Creators: name: Kaljonen, Minna
name: Ott, Anna
name: Huttunen, Suvi
name: Kuusela, Assi-Jutta
name: Lonkela, Annika
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022

description: Legumes receive increasing attention in sustainability transition research as they can contribute to more sustainable food systems. Previous research has established the need for policies relating to both production and consumption to tackle the marginalisation of legumes in European cropping systems and diets. In this paper, we apply the policy mix framework to food system transition and develop it further into an interpretive policy mix framework to evaluate policy mixes for more vital legume value chains. The interpretive policy mix framework facilitates a better understanding of competing policy frames in designing more consistent, coherent, and comprehensive policy mixes for transitions. The paper analyses three competing policy frames promoted by the food system actors, who are engaged in the development of legume production and consumption in Finland. A comparative analysis of the frames highlights that the policy objectives do not align well; currently, there is no shared understanding among food system actors of what kind of policy mix is needed for more vital legume value chains. The results emphasise networking as a key element in building more coherent policy mixes. The paper shows how the interpretive policy mix framework can support in this endeavour by unveiling conflict lines and possible compromises between the different policy frames.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 27 No. 2 (2021): Regular Issue