cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
We Are No Longer the Same: Saudi Female Doctoral Students and Saudi Third Culture Kids Studying in the UK and Returning Home
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: C800 - Psychology

description: This research is the first to investigate the experiences of Saudi female international doctoral students accompanied by their families in the UK. It is also the first study to explore Saudithird culture kids’ (TCKs) and their mothers’ perspectives about their re-entry experiencesin the homeland. Using a qualitative approach and applying models of cross-culturalacculturation and adaptation, cultural dimensions and resilience, the research presents an in?depth exploration of varied aspects of participants’ adaptation and resilience, as well as thoseof their family companions. Also, the consequences of the cross-cultural experiences in the host and home countries were reported. Interviews were conducted in three studies and responses were analysed using thematic analysis. A systematic review of previous research was used to identify the research focus and sample for the first study which explored the experiences of Saudi female doctoral students while studying in the UK. In the second study,Saudi student-mothers shared their experiences of parenting and family life while studying in the UK. In the third study, the experiences of Saudi children after the families’ return to Saudi Arabia were explored through interviews with mothers and their children. Several individual and societal variables influenced the Saudi female students’ and their companions’ experiences in both the host and home countries. Key features across the threestudies were the central role of family, and religion in shaping the women’s adaptation andresilience. Family emerged as a subject of their concerns and challenges in home and host country, while also being perceived as a source of emotional and instrumental support. Religion and religious identity were strongly present in the women’s articulations of their personal strengths and positive experiences, and it aided them in achieving psychological and sociocultural adaptation. Both negative and positive consequences of the adaptation experiences in the host country were identified for the women, their spouses and children. These consequences were more apparent on the children than on their parents. Return to the VIhomeland highlighted the presence of a third culture identity in these children. As returnees, Saudi ‘third culture kids’ experienced several challenges in school as well as in social life. The implications of this research are beneficial to service providers, both in host and home countries, to improve services to support Saudi female students and their adult and child companions before, during, and after their cross-cultural journey.
Monitorização e controlo da amêijoa invasora Corbicula fluminea em indústrias hidro-dependentes
Creators: name: Gabriel, Rita Garrido
name: Ré, Ana
name: Gonçalves, Fernando
name: Costa, Raquel
name: Pereira, Joana Luísa
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2013

description: A amêijoa asiática Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) é um bivalve conhecido por causar problemas de incrustação (atividade geralmente designada de biofouling) nas indústrias consumidoras de água doce, quer como matéria-prima quer como utilidade, no apoio ao processo industrial (indústrias hidro-dependentes). É uma das principais espécies invasoras biofoulers presentes em Portugal. O presente artigo tem como objetivo geral expor os principais problemas provocados por esta espécie em indústrias hidro-dependentes, bem como os métodos de monitorização e as estratégias de controlo atualmente disponíveis em contexto industrial e aplicáveis a infestações ou zonas em perigo de infestação por este bivalve. De uma forma mais específica, pretende-se também veicular a importância da monitorização da dispersão de espécies invasoras e sensibilizar para a necessidade de registar e comunicar devidamente avistamentos das mesmas, utilizando como exemplo o caso da amêijoa asiática em Portugal. Por fim, pretende-se dar a conhecer a metodologia básica utilizada na procura de soluções químicas para o controlo de bivalves invasores em instalações industriais. Neste contexto, são sugeridas duas atividades práticas que poderão ser integradas, por exemplo, no âmbito das aulas de Ciências Naturais e Biologia ao nível do 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Secundário ou no âmbito de projetos não-curriculares: uma sobre a monitorização de populações de amêijoa asiática e outra sobre a avaliação do potencial de um composto químico como agente de controlo da mesma.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 4 n.º 1 (2013)
Diagnóstico sobre equipamentos para a Educação ambiental no Distrito de Lisboa. Aspectos biofísicos e socioculturais nos Projetos educativos
Creators: name: Alves, José
name: Carvalho, Sara
name: Meira-Cartea, Pablo A.
name: Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2013

description: Tendo presente o papel dos Equipamentos para a Educação Ambiental (EqEA) no campo da Educação Ambiental (EA) não formal, pretendeu-se diagnosticar iniciativas desenvolvidas por EqEA no distrito de Lisboa. Estas iniciativas foram observadas à luz dos modelos/correntes genéricos de EA e do critério “impacto social”, considerando os elementos-recursos de um EqEA (instalações; recursos metodológicos; recursos humanos; sistema de avaliação, projeto educativo) e os níveis de integração de aspetos socioculturais nos projetos educativos. Deteta-se uma prevalência por práticas de EA com tendência conservacionista/naturalista e atitudinal/comportamental, centrados em temáticas como conservação da natureza/biodiversidade, poluição, alterações climáticas e resíduos urbanos em detrimento de outras práticas de modelos bioregionalistas e sociocríticos. Nestes, as temáticas envolvem mais as questões sociais, a qualidade de vida, a própria atividade económica, a nossa relação com a natureza, num equilíbrio/sustentabilidade socioambiental local, regional e global.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 4 n.º 1 (2013)
Efeitos de alterações ambientais em populações de invertebrados: uma abordagem prática
Creators: name: Loureiro, Cláudia
name: Gonçalves, Fernando
name: Pedrosa, Maria Arminda
name: Pereira, Joana Luísa
name: Antunes, Sara Cristina
name: Castro, Bruno Branco
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2013

description: Mudanças climáticas podem alterar a dinâmica de ecossistemas e, sendo um problema que atualmente motiva preocupações, tem integrado agendas internacionais, designadamente no âmbito das Nações Unidas e da União Europeia. Numa perspetiva de Educação para Desenvolvimento Sustentável (EDS), importa promover o desenvolvimento de competências necessárias à compreensão de dimensões sociais e económicas de mudanças ambientais globais, em particular as relacionadas com comportamentos quotidianos necessários para implementar estratégias de resolução ou mitigação de problemas ambientais. Neste texto apresentam-se e discutem-se atividades realizadas com alunos do Ensino Secundário, no âmbito do programa de Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias 2010, em se procurou envolvê-los na aprendizagem de conceitos estruturantes em Biologia, abordando problemas globais atuais, associados a alterações climáticas (e.g. salinização de lagoas costeiras de água doce e aumento de temperatura). As atividades práticas realizadas incluíram um design experimental: duas espécies de cladóceros de água doce (Daphnia longispina e Daphnia magna) foram sujeitas a agentes de stress abióticos – salinidade e temperatura. Verificou-se que a salinidade, em conjunto com a temperatura, pode causar perturbações em populações das espécies de cladóceros estudadas e, consequentemente, alterar a sua função na regulação das teias tróficas, e.g. num lago, comprometendo todo o ecossistema. Com base na observação dos desempenhos dos alunos e na análise das suas respostas a um questionário de avaliação, verificou-se que as atividades práticas realizadas fomentaram o desenvolvimento de competências necessárias para tratar e interpretar dados, assim como para estabelecer relações entre os resultados obtidos e problemas ambientais.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 4 n.º 1 (2013)
Biossensores com nanotubos de carbono para aplicações clínicas: avanços tecnológicos
Creators: name: Justino, Celine I. L.
name: Rocha-Santos, Teresa A. P.
name: Duarte, Armando C.
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2013

description: A associação entre nanotecnologia e cuidados de saúde tem vindo a proporcionar o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias mais eficientes, rápidas e úteis no diagnóstico, tratamento e prevenção de qualquer doença. Nesta gama de tecnologias, os biossensores com nanotubos de carbono são dispositivos que têm sido desenvolvidos e utilizados nos últimos anos, nomeadamente devido à sua alta sensibilidade, especificidade molecular, rapidez de análise, baixo custo e facilidade de utilização. Este trabalho pretende divulgar, numa visão geral e atualizada, algumas tecnologias emergentes sob a forma de biossensores com nanotubos de carbono que são implementadas na área clínica, principalmente para a deteção de marcadores tumorais e de glucose (analitos associados a duas das doenças mais comuns no mundo, cancro e diabetes). Para além disso, conceitos associados ao tema discutido são esclarecidos com enquadramento na síntese, propriedades e áreas de aplicação dos nanotubos de carbono.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 4 n.º 1 (2013)
Os montados – conciliação entre Homem e Natureza
Creators: name: Reis, Daniel G.
name: Calafate, Luís C.
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2013

description: Homem e ambiente são frequentemente encarados como esferas inconciliáveis, mas não tem de ser necessariamente assim. A noção de Ecologia da Reconciliação foi introduzida recentemente para designar o estudo das modificações a operar nos ambientes antrópicos, de modo a poderem suportar uma grande biodiversidade, sem que, com isso, o Homem tenha que reduzir drasticamente as suas atividades. Desde modo, continua a ser possível o desenvolvimento económico e a melhoria das condições de vida de uma população mundial crescente. Em Portugal, a conservação segundo esta perspetiva é aqui exemplificada pelos montados – um sistema agrossilvopastoril, multifuncional e seminatural. Nos montados são exploradas diversas valências, de forma extensiva, com vista à obtenção de produtos de interesse económico. Ao mesmo tempo, estas práticas agrárias têm um efeito positivo nos índices de biodiversidade, assegurando alimentação, refúgio e local de reprodução para muitas espécies. Prestam também serviços ambientais imprescindíveis ao nível da preservação do solo e da regulação hídrica. Conclui-se assim que economia e ecologia estão em íntima associação nos montados, beneficiando-se mutuamente, e que é bastante importante assegurar a sua conservação. Tal pode passar pela implementação de políticas agroambientais de estímulo aos proprietários.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 4 n.º 1 (2013)
An Improved Minimum-Distance Texture Estimator for Speckled Data Under the $$\mathscr {G}^0$$ Model
Creators: name: Cassetti, Julia
name: Frery, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computation Theory and Mathematics

description: No description supplied
A critical evaluation of the International Criminal Court’s new jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression
Creators: name: Claxton, Suzanne Jeanette
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: M130 - Public international law

description: The 2010 Kampala definition of the Crime of Aggression represents an historic milestone in the attempt by the international community, beginning at Nuremberg, to define, enable prosecution of and eradicate the ‘supreme international crime’ of aggression.? The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court was finally activated as of 17 July 2018, some 20 years after its inclusion as an undefined crime in the Rome Statute 1998.This thesis critically evaluates the challenges the International Criminal Court faces in exercising its new jurisdiction over this ‘supreme’ crime, in light of the near debilitating limitations placed on that jurisdiction. These challenges arise, in the first instance, fromthe highly restrictive definition itself, raising problems of a very high gravity threshold, limitation of prosecution to political and military leaders only, restriction to state-on-state aggression and a finite list of state acts, which are potentially outdated. Modern types of warfare, including cyberwarfare and aggression committed by non-state actors are currently not included. The second area of difficulty for the Court is posed by the extraordinarily restrictive jurisdictional conditions. Thus, the Court is subject to intense Security Council scrutiny, as well as a significantly reinforced requirement of consent by individual States to jurisdiction, even if they are signatories to the Rome Statute. The examination involves a critical assessment of these features and considers whether, in light of the restrictions placed on the Court’s determination powers, effective prosecution and jurisdiction over the crime is possible. It will also suggest alternative approaches and potential solutions as to how the Court’s reach over the crime of aggression could be widened. These range from judicial extension by close analogy and a re-write of the definition to a re?interpretation of States’ right to consent as a duty, as well as the exercise of universal jurisdiction. It is contended that, without extension of jurisdiction through these means, the criminalisation and prosecution of aggression is in danger of irrelevance from the outset, allowing for elective impunity. Extending jurisdiction of the Court through the suggested means, on the other hand, would strengthen the prohibition of the use of force and contribute to the eradication of one of the most serious international crimes, furthering the aims of the Rome Statute and the UN Charter itself.
title: An investigation into Vibratory Grinding of hard-to Machine Aerospace Materials
Creators: name: Ibrahim, E
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2020

description: There is an increased demand for high surface finishes and tight tolerances, especially in high value manufacturing processes. However, progress in materials science has led to the development of new materials especially in the aerospace industry, where high heat resistance materials are preferred such as Ti-6Al-4V. These new materials have different mechanical properties from conventional ones. This makes their machinability very unusual when compared to that of conventional materials. Consequently machining these materials poses a significant challenge to industry. Since this alloy has got low density, high strength to weight ratio and also high temperature strength, it is used for aerospace, civil and military aircraft turbine engine compressor blades manufacturing. This research programme sets up an investigation into vibration assisted grinding in a range of frequencies and amplitudes combined with various process parameters in the attempt to grind advanced aerospace materials. Such a novel approach called “Resonance machining” also depends on the Taguchi experimental design method, with the aim of improving the grinding quality and efficiency. The novelty of this new approach is that the vibration assisted resonance was implemented in the axial direction of the grinding feed rate, using an aluminium oxide grinding wheel, with the application of coolant fluid to enhance grinding difficult to machine aerospace materials, this approach is considered to be an alternative to the usage of super abrasive wheels such as CBN and diamond wheels currently been used, with negative effect where damage to the workpiece surface and subsurface crack have been reported. However, the advantages of vibration assisted grinding as a new technique are the reduction of wheel wear and cutting forces. Through over this study it has been proven that vibration assisted grinding allows the wheel to cut in two directions and that will increase the material removal rate reduce the wheel wear, cutting forces and also the power consumption. The purpose of this research is to achieve an optimum performance of vibration assisted grinding processes using difficult-to-machine advanced aerospace materials. The first step in this investigation is to identify the material under investigation. Therefore, the above mentioned aerospace materials have been tested. Initial hardness testing was carried out on two types of materials involved this study, namely Nickel alloy (Inconel 718) and Ti-6Al-4V. This was followed by a chemical element content analysis undertaken on the scanning electron microscope with X-Ray setup. However, this work investigates the grinding performance of titanium and nickel alloys using aluminium oxide (Al2 O3) grinding wheel. Hence, experiments were carried out in wet conditions with/without vibration grinding and the results are provided to confirm the effectiveness of this approach.
title: 02_1054
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: LaMOP

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Aggregation-driven, re-entrant isotropic phase in a smectic liquid crystal material
Creators: name: Fernsler, Jonathan G.
name: Glaser, Matthew A.
name: Renfan Shao
name: Coleman, David A.
name: Maclennan, Joseph E.
name: Link, Darren R.
name: Chang, Catherine
name: Lanham, Kenneth
name: Walba, David
name: Boyer, Cecile
name: Zasadzinski, Joseph A.
name: Clark, Noel A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: An azobenzene-core chiral mesogen designed for a photoactive ferroelectric liquid crystal system with switchable polarisation displays a highly unusual phase sequence, with a re-entrant, optically isotropic, fluid phase found below smectic phases in mixtures with high enantiomeric purity. The re-entrant isotropic phase is found on the basis of X-ray scattering and freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy experiments not to be a cubic or other highly ordered phase but instead a translationally disordered liquid. The material also forms a gel under a wide range of concentrations in 50:50 ethanol/chloroform solutions. Ultraviolet/visible and infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemistry calculations suggest that the primary unit in the re-entrant isotropic and gel phases is a dimer composed of molecules crossed by about 90°, which hinders the formation of crystal phases and forms tubules of helical aggregates in the gel phase.
Waist circumference to height ratio predicts inflammatory risk in children
Creators: name: Mendes, Edmar Lacerda
name: Alynne Christian Ribeiro Andaki
name: Brito, Ciro José
name: Guedes, Juliano Magalhães
name: Santos, Maria Paula Maia
name: Mota, Jorge
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background: The increase in obesity, especially the increase of visceral fat, has been directly associated with health risk. Additionally, a waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) (0.5) has been proposed as an indicator of early health risk. Aims: To test the association between anthropometric measurements and inflammatory mRNA expression and to evaluate the effectiveness of WHtR to predict inflammatory risk in children. Subjects and methods: Anthropometric measurements and fasting blood samples were collected in 94 Brazilian children (46 boys) aged 9–11 years. Children were identified as being at inflammatory risk based on cytokine mRNA expression levels at and above the 75th percentile. Inflammatory cytokine mRNA expression levels were determined through buff-coat using real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results: Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and WHtR showed moderate-to-strong association with inflammatory cytokine mRNA gene expression. WHtR = 0.51 was the most accurate cut-off point in distinguishing children at inflammatory risk. Compared with children with WHtR <0.51, children with a WHtR ≥0.51 presented an odds ratio of 2.643 (95% CI = 1.749–3.994) for both diagnosed IL-6 and MCP-1 above the 75th percentile and 2.796 (95% CI = 1.802–4.338) for TNF-α above the 75th percentile. WHtR = 0.50 presented the same values of sensitivity and odds ratio and ∼7% lower specificity compared to WHtR = 0.51. Conclusion: Anthropometric measurements have shown a moderate-to-strong association with the mRNA expression of inflammatory genes and a WHtR of 0.5 could serve as a cut-off point, suggesting increased risk of inflammatory responses.
Secure and Energy-Efficient Communication for Internet of Drones Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Creators: name: Aboueleneen, Noor
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Internet of Drones (IoD)-aided wireless networks are proving their efficiency in various commercial and military applications, such as object recognition, surveillance, and data acquisition. IoD networks employ several drones to acquire data from ground entities and transmit this data to a gateway agent for further analysis. However, IoD-aided wireless networks face various challenges. The first challenge originates from the IoD networks' line-of-sight and broadcast wireless communication nature, which raises significant security issues. The second challenge is energy efficiency, where battery capabilities highly constrain IoD networks. This Thesis investigates drone-to-ground communication subject to eavesdroppers in urban environments. We aim to provide secure communication utilizing physical layer security by increasing network secrecy rates while reducing energy consumption. This is achieved by optimizing drones' transmitting and jamming power and employing energy harvesting techniques to charge drones wirelessly. We formulate Our optimization problem utilizing Markov decision process (MDP), and to solve our problem we propose a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm. The extensive simulations show that our proposed algorithm is able to solve the optimization problem to achieve the maximum average secrecy rate while minimum energy consumption is used.
A critical evaluation of the International Criminal Court’s new jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: M130 - Public international law

description: The 2010 Kampala definition of the Crime of Aggression represents an historic milestone in the attempt by the international community, beginning at Nuremberg, to define, enable prosecution of and eradicate the ‘supreme international crime’ of aggression.? The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court was finally activated as of 17 July 2018, some 20 years after its inclusion as an undefined crime in the Rome Statute 1998.This thesis critically evaluates the challenges the International Criminal Court faces in exercising its new jurisdiction over this ‘supreme’ crime, in light of the near debilitating limitations placed on that jurisdiction. These challenges arise, in the first instance, fromthe highly restrictive definition itself, raising problems of a very high gravity threshold, limitation of prosecution to political and military leaders only, restriction to state-on-state aggression and a finite list of state acts, which are potentially outdated. Modern types of warfare, including cyberwarfare and aggression committed by non-state actors are currently not included. The second area of difficulty for the Court is posed by the extraordinarily restrictive jurisdictional conditions. Thus, the Court is subject to intense Security Council scrutiny, as well as a significantly reinforced requirement of consent by individual States to jurisdiction, even if they are signatories to the Rome Statute. The examination involves a critical assessment of these features and considers whether, in light of the restrictions placed on the Court’s determination powers, effective prosecution and jurisdiction over the crime is possible. It will also suggest alternative approaches and potential solutions as to how the Court’s reach over the crime of aggression could be widened. These range from judicial extension by close analogy and a re-write of the definition to a re?interpretation of States’ right to consent as a duty, as well as the exercise of universal jurisdiction. It is contended that, without extension of jurisdiction through these means, the criminalisation and prosecution of aggression is in danger of irrelevance from the outset, allowing for elective impunity. Extending jurisdiction of the Court through the suggested means, on the other hand, would strengthen the prohibition of the use of force and contribute to the eradication of one of the most serious international crimes, furthering the aims of the Rome Statute and the UN Charter itself.
Becoming Older, Being Well An Empirical Study in a Village Community in the English East Midlands
Creators: name: Gray, John Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: L990 - Social studies not elsewhere classified

description: The research documented in this thesis, Becoming Older, Being Well : An Empirical Study in a Village Community in the English East Midlands, was conducted in North Muskham, the village I have lived in since 1983. The village is referred to throughout the thesis as the'locale’ (p.80). The research project was presented locally as the ‘Beyond 60’ projectand its shorthand reference, ‘B60’, is used throughout the thesis. The research set out to answer two top-level research questions:-Becoming Older, RQ1 What is it like to retire and become older in our village?Being Well, RQ2 How do we learn from, and feel about, 60+ life?The research fieldwork was conducted through a single instance case study in which the principal data collection instrument was a substantial all-households questionnaire. The 311 village residents aged 60 or over (60+) in 2015 are referred to as the ‘NM60+'group. There were 101 respondents to the main questionnaire distributed in late 2015. Of these, 76 (43 women and 33 men) met the twin criteria for inclusion in the study sample, being resident in one of the village's three Census Output Areas and aged 60 or over at the time of the questionnaire’s distribution. A majority of this group, referred to as the ‘B60+’ group, were born during the post-war 'baby boom' years. Adopting a realist philosophy and aspiring to provide findings of use to the local community, B60 used qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis tools.The main dataset was that collected from the 76 B60+ respondents (24% of the 60+ population of the village in 2015), and there were a number of other data sources:27 follow-up interviews, publicly available ELSA (English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing) material, and data from a local COVID-prompted subsidiary questionnaire in late 2020, in which 29 of the original B60+ group participated, with 64 others new to the research. A number of research hypotheses were tested to arrive at findings linked to RQ1 and RQ2, revealing a high level of wellbeing across the B60+ group's ‘Young-Old’ (modal age group 65-69) majority and male/female ratio of 0.72. Respondents reported enjoying retirement, and generally positive feelings about their community, but had concerns about housing, mobility and access to support in time of need. Comparison of CASP-19 scores before and during COVID indicates overall deterioration in subjective wellbeing during COVID and a change in focus from ‘Pleasure’ to ‘Self-Realisation’ in respondents’ CASP-19 domain level scores.
Changes in Communication Patterns and Lifestyles of the Sama-Bajaus in Cabanatuan City
Creators: name: Gamboa, Maria Alex Zandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sama-Bajau
Convergent Parallel Mixed Method
Cabanatuan
CoVid 19 pandemic
communication patterns

description: Despite living in the Philippine soil for most of their lives, the Sama-Bajaus, -like most of the indigenous groups- are still underprivileged as a Filipino community. This study entitled; “Changes in Communication Patterns and Lifestyles of the Sama-Bajaus in Cabanatuan City” dealt with the analysis of the interacting lifestyle of the Sama-Bajaus and Cabanatueños using the Convergent Parallel Mixed Method by Creswell; focusing on the impact of sustainable living in the evident diversity of culture in Nueva Ecija; in comparison to the documentary made by this study of the said Sama Bajaus in Cabanatuan City, NE. This study analyzed the communication patterns and behaviors of the Sama- Bajaus as observed by 100 Cabanatueños from the documentary video of the City Tourism Office of Cabanatuan.

Also, to substantiate the said observations, this study interviewed the head of the City Social Welfare Development Office where she was able to gather information about the recent development in the lifestyle and livelihood of the Sama-Bajaus in Brgy. Bakod Bayan, Cabanatuan City, NE.

Upon analysis, the following conclusions were drawn; (1) The Sama-Bajaus have much improved in terms of communication patterns and behaviors since they were given a place to settle in Cabanatuan; (2) Two major barriers in communication continue to remain among the Sama- Bajaus- language, and culture; (3) Several lifestyle interactions between the Sama-Bajaus and Cabanatueños have been observed after the outbreak of the CoVid 19 pandemic; and, (4) The implication of these changes may bring both the ascension of the Sama- Bajaus as an ethnic group or their destruction.

Therefore, this study recommends that;(1) communicative competence must be the primary goal of the government to continue to diminish the barriers of communication among the Sama-Bajaus and the Cabanatueños; (2) the local government may also encourage the Cabanatueños to learn the mother tongue of the Sama-Bajaus so there will be a more interactive lifestyle between the two cultures; (3) the Cabanatueños must consider and respect the difference in language and culture when speaking with the Sama-Bajaus; and, (4) the Sama-Bajaus and the Cabanatueños must continue to learn to adapt the culture and communication patterns of each other to be able to be understood.
Becoming Older, Being Well An Empirical Study in a Village Community in the English East Midlands
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: L990 - Social studies not elsewhere classified

description: The research documented in this thesis, Becoming Older, Being Well : An Empirical Study in a Village Community in the English East Midlands, was conducted in North Muskham, the village I have lived in since 1983. The village is referred to throughout the thesis as the'locale’ (p.80). The research project was presented locally as the ‘Beyond 60’ projectand its shorthand reference, ‘B60’, is used throughout the thesis. The research set out to answer two top-level research questions:-Becoming Older, RQ1 What is it like to retire and become older in our village?Being Well, RQ2 How do we learn from, and feel about, 60+ life?The research fieldwork was conducted through a single instance case study in which the principal data collection instrument was a substantial all-households questionnaire. The 311 village residents aged 60 or over (60+) in 2015 are referred to as the ‘NM60+'group. There were 101 respondents to the main questionnaire distributed in late 2015. Of these, 76 (43 women and 33 men) met the twin criteria for inclusion in the study sample, being resident in one of the village's three Census Output Areas and aged 60 or over at the time of the questionnaire’s distribution. A majority of this group, referred to as the ‘B60+’ group, were born during the post-war 'baby boom' years. Adopting a realist philosophy and aspiring to provide findings of use to the local community, B60 used qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis tools.The main dataset was that collected from the 76 B60+ respondents (24% of the 60+ population of the village in 2015), and there were a number of other data sources:27 follow-up interviews, publicly available ELSA (English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing) material, and data from a local COVID-prompted subsidiary questionnaire in late 2020, in which 29 of the original B60+ group participated, with 64 others new to the research. A number of research hypotheses were tested to arrive at findings linked to RQ1 and RQ2, revealing a high level of wellbeing across the B60+ group's ‘Young-Old’ (modal age group 65-69) majority and male/female ratio of 0.72. Respondents reported enjoying retirement, and generally positive feelings about their community, but had concerns about housing, mobility and access to support in time of need. Comparison of CASP-19 scores before and during COVID indicates overall deterioration in subjective wellbeing during COVID and a change in focus from ‘Pleasure’ to ‘Self-Realisation’ in respondents’ CASP-19 domain level scores.
Investigating Individual Differences in Acute Psychosocial Stress Reactivity and Evaluation of Wearable Devices for Heart Rate Variability Measurement
Creators: name: Youngs, Molly Anna
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: C800 - Psychology

description: The stress response has been demonstrated to vary considerably between individuals, with maladaptive responses found to put people at increased risk for development of psychiatric disorders. The personality organisation of schizotypy and the rs1006737 (A/G) single nucleotide polymorphism within the CACNA1C genotype have been strongly implicated in mental health vulnerability. This research aimed to investigate the interaction between the gene variant and schizotypy with stress response and recovery, utilising physiological and self-report measures. The use of wearable devices to measure heart rate variability was introduced, keeping up with recent research. As the use of wearable devices is a recent development, a second study aimed to investigate the reliability of wearable devices for heart rate variability measurement, directly exploring the influence of movement. Salivary cortisol, heart rate variability, electrodermal activity and self-reported stress, anxiety and insecurity were recorded in 22 females during a laboratory based acute psychosocial stressor. In the second study, 12 participants completed a series of movements at varying levels of intensity whilst wearing the Empatica E4 and Polar H10. High level schizotypy individuals were found to report increased perceived stress both leading up to the experiment and at multiple points during it. In the second study, the Empatica E4 was consistently associated with increased movement artefacts, in a range of movement intensities. This study provides evidence for the influence of schizotypy on perceived and subjective stress on individuals. Results from the rs1006737 single nucleotide polymorphism suggested a potential influence of rs1006737 on cortisol release pattern, warranting future studies to further investigate this.
title: DEVELOPMENT OF MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPIC RESONANT SENSOR FOR APPLICATION IN EDIBLE AND WASTE OIL VERIFICATION
Creators: name: Osman, SB
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2022

description: ABSTRACT This work is a contribution and value addition to edible oil verification and the waste oil recovery process. It comprised the development of a sensing technique that will primarily enable the ability to probe different oils and establish their differences for authentication, and in addition test free fatty acid levels in waste cooking oils, and methanol levels in the oil recovery process. It does so in real time and in a cost-effective manner. Various techniques that have been applied to this so far, have proven to be either too sophisticated and require specialised trained persons to employ, or are too expensive for large scale implementation. Microwave spectroscopy is used to develop the sensor. Experiments were carried out using samples of different edible oils to probe and verify their differences, as a result each sample presented different signal spectra. To verify the authenticity of extra virgin olive oil diluted with sunflower oil, samples were mixed in different percentages of concentration, 0 to 50% of sunflower in extra virgin olive oil. The results were regressed and attained a value of correlation coefficient of 0.9739. To probe the levels of free fatty acid and methanol in oil, 0 to 17.5% of free fatty acid was mixed with vegetable oil, and the results attained a regression coefficient value of 0.9942. Levels 0 to 17.5% of free fatty acid were mixed with methanol and attained 0.9944. Levels 30 to 50% mixed with methanol gave a value of 0.9846. Using the results of the experiments, computer aided models were evolved, which were simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics software. The simulated work produced results that were favourably comparable to the laboratory experiments. The design of a new conceptual industry model of the microwave spectroscopic resonant sensor for waste oil recovery was carried out and scaled out of the laboratory model. Finally, the industry model with a Q-factor of 7856 and resonant frequency of 2.3562 GHz was attained as a result.
Investigating Individual Differences in Acute Psychosocial Stress Reactivity and Evaluation of Wearable Devices for Heart Rate Variability Measurement
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: C800 - Psychology

description: The stress response has been demonstrated to vary considerably between individuals, with maladaptive responses found to put people at increased risk for development of psychiatric disorders. The personality organisation of schizotypy and the rs1006737 (A/G) single nucleotide polymorphism within the CACNA1C genotype have been strongly implicated in mental health vulnerability. This research aimed to investigate the interaction between the gene variant and schizotypy with stress response and recovery, utilising physiological and self-report measures. The use of wearable devices to measure heart rate variability was introduced, keeping up with recent research. As the use of wearable devices is a recent development, a second study aimed to investigate the reliability of wearable devices for heart rate variability measurement, directly exploring the influence of movement. Salivary cortisol, heart rate variability, electrodermal activity and self-reported stress, anxiety and insecurity were recorded in 22 females during a laboratory based acute psychosocial stressor. In the second study, 12 participants completed a series of movements at varying levels of intensity whilst wearing the Empatica E4 and Polar H10. High level schizotypy individuals were found to report increased perceived stress both leading up to the experiment and at multiple points during it. In the second study, the Empatica E4 was consistently associated with increased movement artefacts, in a range of movement intensities. This study provides evidence for the influence of schizotypy on perceived and subjective stress on individuals. Results from the rs1006737 single nucleotide polymorphism suggested a potential influence of rs1006737 on cortisol release pattern, warranting future studies to further investigate this.
The Reinvention of the Nitrous Gas Eudiometrical Test in the Context of Dalton’s Law on the Multiple Proportions of Combination
Creators: name: Grapi-Vilumara, Pere
Publisher: name: Substantia
Year: 2020

description: Dalton’s chemical atomism was inspired by his physical fascination with gases and developed through his chemical investigation. In regard to the latter, Dalton’s very first chemical experiments on nitrogen oxides enabled him to identify the first verifiable case of multiple proportions of combination, as well as playing a significant role in the process of establishing the basis for the reinvention of the nitrous gas eudiometer. Nevertheless, the eudiometrical background of Dalton’s trials on the oxides of nitrogen is yet to be elucidated. His interest in the nitrous gas test was in principle concerned with the justification of his statement on the multiple combining proportions, rather than with the improvement of the test as a eudiometrical method for verifying the oxygen content in common air. On the whole, after passing through Dalton’s hands, the nitrous gas test was returned to eudiometrists as a simpler type of the eudiometrical test than those performed with the latest nitrous gas eudiometers. In 1809, in line with Dalton’s suggestions, Gay-Lussac was eventually able to deliver a reshaped version of the nitrous gas eudiometer.
description: Substantia, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020)
Biological dosage forms: the application of crystal engineering
Creators: name: Lucaiolo, Paolo
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: B230 - Pharmacy

description: This thesis describes the novel multicomponent crystals obtained through a cocrystallisation screening with L-Leucine peptides synthesised through Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis. The aim of the project was to investigate the ability of short hydrophobic peptides to generate crystalline systems with a wide range of coformers, and to study the intermolecular interactions involved in such structures. In this sense, the Cambridge Structural Database and literature show a lack of systematic studies. Moreover, the peptides used for this project did not undergo the typical purification stage to remove the trifluoroacetate (TFA)contamination deriving from the cleavage steps. This process is routinely performed through chromatography and ion exchange reaction, inevitably leading to consistent loss in peptide yields. For the first time, crystal engineering concepts have been used as a proof of concept for an alternative method of purification, exploiting the differential crystallisation pathways established during the crystallisation.The structures described in the present work are part of a wide landscape of outcomes with different composition and framework features. Both TFA-free and TFA-contaminated multicomponent crystals are herein analysed and described, in a first attempt to study theimpact of the contaminating agent on the crystallisation process of non-purified freshly synthesised peptide. Several unexpected crystallisation products are included to show the complexity and unpredictable behaviour of the various species involved in the cocrystallisation process.
Biological dosage forms: the application of crystal engineering
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: B230 - Pharmacy

description: This thesis describes the novel multicomponent crystals obtained through a cocrystallisation screening with L-Leucine peptides synthesised through Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis. The aim of the project was to investigate the ability of short hydrophobic peptides to generate crystalline systems with a wide range of coformers, and to study the intermolecular interactions involved in such structures. In this sense, the Cambridge Structural Database and literature show a lack of systematic studies. Moreover, the peptides used for this project did not undergo the typical purification stage to remove the trifluoroacetate (TFA)contamination deriving from the cleavage steps. This process is routinely performed through chromatography and ion exchange reaction, inevitably leading to consistent loss in peptide yields. For the first time, crystal engineering concepts have been used as a proof of concept for an alternative method of purification, exploiting the differential crystallisation pathways established during the crystallisation.The structures described in the present work are part of a wide landscape of outcomes with different composition and framework features. Both TFA-free and TFA-contaminated multicomponent crystals are herein analysed and described, in a first attempt to study theimpact of the contaminating agent on the crystallisation process of non-purified freshly synthesised peptide. Several unexpected crystallisation products are included to show the complexity and unpredictable behaviour of the various species involved in the cocrystallisation process.