cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Modernisation of Somali Vocabulary, With Particular Reference to the Period From 1972 to the Present.
Creators: name: Caney, John Charles
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: The aim of this thesis is to examine the lexical modernisation of the Somali language, a subject which provides an excellent opportunity to study at first hand the process of accelerated vocabulary expansion. While vocabulary expansion in languages with a long-established written tradition has evolved gradually, allowing time and preference to determine ultimately the acceptance of additions to vocabulary, Somalia has been denied this luxury. Although some vocabulary expansion took place on a limited and informal scale with the introduction in 1943 of radio broadcasts in the Somali language, it was not until 1972 that an official orthography was established - prior to which date no generally accepted written form had existed - and a co-ordinated government programme of vocabulary expansion initiated. It is this new Somali vocabulary which forms the basis of the present study. This thesis seeks to show how the universal principles of vocabulary expansion relate to the specific manifestation in Somali by considering a) the limited number of methods available, with examples taken from a variety of languages b) the speed with which such an expansion can be achieved, since only vocabulary needs to be substantially expanded given that the logical framework of all languages is essentially identical and capable of coping with modem thought c) the freedom of choice within the limitation of methods, and the way in which it has been exercised in Somali. To this end, an examination has been made of the specific methods of vocabulary expansion adopted by the Somali language planners in the creation of a modem vocabulary and incorporated within this examination is a detailed analysis of selected modem Somali vocabulary drawn from available sources, including the Somali press, school text-books and selected extracts from Somali radio broadcasts.
What is Justice?: Coping Methods for Families of Lynching Victims
Creators: name: Storm, Sadie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: FIRE
Visualizing Social Justice
civil rights era
rhetoric
creative writing
archival research

description: In 2007, Congress authorized (re)investigations into racially motivated homicides before 1970. While many of these cases would not see “courtroom justice,” victims and their families deserve to have their stories heard. This research project examines a case from 1960 in Louisiana, when five black men, Earnest McFarland, Albert Pitts, David Pitts, Alfred Marshall, and Charlie Willis, were shot by their white employer, Robert Fuller. Only Willis survived the attack. In reviewing a range of both archival and contemporary sources, I encountered a narrative from Willie Mae Pitts Sallie, sister to two of the victims, explaining why she forgave Fuller for his criminal actions. In an effort to further explore how relatives of lynched persons cope with intergenerational racial trauma, I engage Sallie’s response as an illustrative example of the power of storytelling with regard to the public memory of lynching. Storytelling is widely regarded as an identity-building and constitutive tool; for this project I produced a written anthology of short stories, to promote a broadly accessible retelling of this story, enacting a space to cope with the trauma of this memory, as well bring awareness to the trauma that lynching enacts on a family, community, and region.
The Hera Radio Science Experiment at Didymos
Creators: name: Gramigna, Edoardo
name: Manghi, Riccardo Lasagni
name: Zannoni, Marco
name: Tortora, Paolo
name: Park, Ryan S.
name: Tommei, Giacomo
name: Maistre, Sébastien Le
name: Michel, Patrick
name: Castellini, Francesco
name: Kueppers, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hera represents the European Space Agency's inaugural planetary defense space mission and plays a pivotal role in the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment international collaboration with NASA DART mission that performed the first asteroid deflection experiment using the kinetic impactor techniques. With the primary objective of conducting a detailed post-impact survey of the Didymos binary asteroid following the DART impact on its small moon called Dimorphos, Hera aims to comprehensively assess and characterize the feasibility of the kinetic impactor technique in asteroid deflection while conducting an in-depth investigation of the asteroid binary, including its physical and compositional properties as well as the effect of the impact on the surface and shape of Dimorphos. In this work, we describe the Hera radio science experiment, which will allow us to precisely estimate critical parameters, including the mass, which is required to determine the momentum enhancement resulting from the DART impact, mass distribution, rotational states, relative orbits, and dynamics of the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos. Through a multi-arc covariance analysis, we present the achievable accuracy for these parameters, which consider the full expected asteroid phase and are based on ground radiometric, Hera optical images, and Hera to CubeSats InterSatellite Link radiometric measurements. The expected formal uncertainties for Didymos and Dimorphos GM are better than 0.01% and 0.1%, respectively, while their J2 formal uncertainties are better than 0.1% and 10%, respectively. [...]
title: Zweiundzwanzigste Änderung der Fächerübergreifenden Satzung zur Regelung von Zulassung, Studium und Prüfung der Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin (ZSP-HU)
Creators: name: Präsidium Der Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 378 Hochschulbildung

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Wind and Wings: Applications of UV Painted Patterns on Wind Turbines
Creators: name: DeVane, Madison
name: Jacobs, Nathan
name: Mayo, Robert
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: Civil and Environmental Engineering
ENGR
ENCE489J
Wind Turbines
Avian

description: Each year, hundreds of thousands of birds are killed by unknowingly flying into spinning wind turbine blades. While the issue of avian deaths is large itself, another problem arises; turbines will need to be shut down for potential maintenance, resulting in a loss of energy. An effective means to minimizing avian collision with turbine blades is to reduce the motion smear created. As avians have the capability to see UV, painting patterns on the blades with UV paint will reduce collisions & increase turbine visibility. The study, Reduction of Motion Smear to Reduce Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines, was performed here at UMD by Dr. Hodos to determine the optimal pattern to paint on wind turbine blades to maximize avian visibility. New wind turbine blades will be painted with UV paint using the ideal pattern to prevent avian collision. Existing turbines may be painted with the pattern, enhancing their environmental safety. Looking at the total cost of a wind turbine, this solution will only represent an increased 0.001% in cost. The thin-stripe staggered, anti-motion-smear pattern had a visibility (µV above noise) of 2.7, which is the most visible tested. Comparatively, the blank blades had a visibility of 0.9. By using UV paint instead of black, the avian visibility increases further as avian photoreceptors are maximally sensitive to UV light; while it will appear invisible to the human eye, preventing distractions. Calcium Sulfide is found in the UV paint, which is toxic to aquatic life. Further research should be performed to prevent the leaching of CaS into the watershed. Including the substitution of CaS with a nontoxic chemical & the durability of a chemical coating.
On the Representational Capacity of Recurrent Neural Language Models
Creators: name: Nowak, Franz
name: Svete, Anej
name: Du, Li
name: Cotterell, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work investigates the computational expressivity of language models (LMs) based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Siegelmann and Sontag (1992) famously showed that RNNs with rational weights and hidden states and unbounded computation time are Turing complete. However, LMs define weightings over strings in addition to just (unweighted) language membership and the analysis of the computational power of RNN LMs (RLMs) should reflect this. We extend the Turing completeness result to the probabilistic case, showing how a rationally weighted RLM with unbounded computation time can simulate any deterministic probabilistic Turing machine (PTM) with rationally weighted transitions. Since, in practice, RLMs work in real-time, processing a symbol at every time step, we treat the above result as an upper bound on the expressivity of RLMs. We also provide a lower bound by showing that under the restriction to real-time computation, such models can simulate deterministic real-time rational PTMs.
description: Added requirement for non-negative probabilities to definitions 2.3 and 3.1, fixed typos
title: Concord and Discord in the World of Literature in Taiwan, 1949-1971: A Selective Study of Writers' Associations, Literary Movements and Controversial Writers.
Creators: name: Lancashire, Edel Marie
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: This thesis does not purport to be an indepth study of the whole literary scene in Taiwan. Nor does it concern itself primarily with the growth and development of various literary genres. Instead, it sets out to look at several writers' associations, their aims and literary activities; their attempts to create a united front against the threat of Communism and their efforts to encourage a literature that is imbued with the spirit of The Three Principles of the People. It sets out also to examine some of the literary movements that were initiated in response to events in mainland China and in the Taiwan Straits. However, the thesis is not concerned solely with the literary scene viewed from the standpoint of government policy. It draws attention to, among things, the "unofficial" poetry societies; the debate surrounding the modernization of literature in the fifties and sixties; the East-West Controversy, 1962 - 1964, and to the episode which resulted in the closure of the literary journal, Wen-hsing (Literary Star). It also covers the Hsin so (The Lock of the Heart) Controversy of 1963, and the Po Yang Case of 1967 - 1968, which led to the incarceration of the well-known novelist and essayist, Kuo I-tung . I have limited my study to the years 1949 - 1971, although references will be made to the literary scene in China prior to 1949, where applicable, as well as to the situation which prevailed during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. 1949 makes a suitable starting-point since it marks the commencement of the Kuomintang government's exile in Taiwan; and 1971 makes a natural cut-off point because the unseating of Nationalist China in the United Nations in that year changed Taiwan's status in the international arena.
Tracing the Rhetorical Boundaries of College Park through Archival Maps
Creators: name: Grenning, Penelope
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: FIRE
Visualizing Social Justice
public memory
archival research
community memory
College Park, MD

description: Through the investigations of archival maps, this research project examines the changes in the College Park cultural landscape over time. Although the fire of 1912 destroyed many documents, remaining materials help to illustrate how the university and city have shaped each other over time. Through archived maps of what we now know as College Park, detail the changes over time, including changes in environment and use of space, as well as the ways in which the relationship between the university and the town has evolved over time. Relying on accessible primary documents, this research project looks at influential events in College Park history, such as the founding era of “College Lawn,” the eventual incorporation of the City of College Park, and the devastation of the Lakeland community.
title: The Conception of Karma and Reincarnation in Hindu Religion and Philosophy.
Creators: name: Yevtic, Paul
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1926

description: Hindu religious and philosophical activity is as complex as the European. The ideas underlying the karma notion are manifold and buried in ceremonial and sometimes obscure terminology. Nevertheless, several concepts appear to be forerunners of karma: rta (in the Rig-Veda), Yajna and re-death in the Brahmanas; devayana and pitryana are corollaries of the foregoing conecpts. Dharma is not probably of identical meaning with karma. Upanishadie thought already contains the karma doctraine but not elaborated. Buddhism definitely introduces karma as the groundplan of its teaching, the latter idea being based on causation it gives a definite and central place to indian thought. In later writings of the Indians, karma is modified, due to the inrush of new ideas, but substantlally it preserves its original meaning. From among the five chief commentators of the Brahmasutra, Sankara and Ramanija have made an attempt to give it a metaphysical background. The former succeeded in including karma in his system, but had to split knowlwdge into metaphysical and empirical. The latter was in some senses a complement to sankara. The surya-gita deals with the problem of karma as an accepted fact. Nevertheless, trying to solve the relation between Erahma, Isvara and jiva on a logical ground, implies difficulties. The possibility of conceiving the karma doctrine as an universal law of causation, as understood by the Hindus, in connection with the idea of heredity, environment, fate etc. several aspects of understanding karma in its bearing on life- biological, psychological, ethical and metaphysical.
Wait what? The interaction Between Some Cognitive Abilities and Context Benefit
Creators: name: Avenilla, Seren M.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: Sentence context, working memory, inhibition ability, context reliance

description: When listening to spoken sentences in noisy settings, the brain may rely on surrounding sentence context to aid in understanding the meaning of a sentence. Existing research suggests that variation in the ability to use cognitive processes, specifically inhibition and working memory, may predict a listener's reliance on sentence context. Research also suggests that the position of a missing or unclear word within a sentence may interact with inhibition and working memory ability to predict the listener’s use of sentence context. In this experiment, participants with normal hearing listened to sentences containing a degraded target word. Each sentence context either predicted the target word “deer,” the target word “tear,” or neither target word. The target word was presented at either the beginning or end of the context sentence. Target words were distorted by adding background noise. Participants indicated whether they believed they heard the target word “deer” or “tear.” Participant scores on the NIH Word List Sort Working Memory and Stroop Color-Word Assessments were compared to their reliance on sentence context across both target word position conditions. It was hypothesized that weak inhibition ability and weak working memory will increase reliance on context. The results showed that neither working memory nor inhibition abilities can completely explain listeners’ reliance on sentence context. Future research should explore other cognitive abilities, such as processing speed, that may better predict listeners’ use of sentence context in noisy environments.
Supplemental Material, New_insights_into_how_robots_will_change_frontline_services - Replaced by a Robot: Service Implications in the Age of the Machine
Creators: name: McLeay, Fraser
name: Osburg, Victoria Sophie
name: Vignesh Yoganathan
name: Patterson, Anthony
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material, New_insights_into_how_robots_will_change_frontline_services for Replaced by a Robot: Service Implications in the Age of the Machine by Fraser McLeay, Victoria Sophie Osburg, Vignesh Yoganathan and Anthony Patterson in Journal of Service Research
Assembly History and Internal Structure of Cluster Cold Dark Matter Haloes
Creators: name: Chen, Qingxiang
name: Liao, Shihong
name: Wang, Jie
name: Gao, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Phoenix simulations to study the mass assembly history and internal structures of cluster dark matter haloes ($M_{200} \gtrsim 5\times 10^{14} h^{-1}{\rm M}_\odot$). We confirm that cluster haloes grow inside-out, similar to galactic haloes. Major merger events dominate the growth of the internal region and minor mergers/diffuse accretion shape the outskirts. However, compared to galactic haloes, cluster haloes tend to have a younger and more actively evolving inner region. On average, the majority of mass (> 80%) in the inner region ($R< 0.1 r_{200}$) of Phoenix haloes is accreted after $z = 3$, while for galactic haloes, most mass in the central region has already been accreted before $z=6$. The density profiles of cluster haloes are less stable than those of galactic haloes over different radii. The enclosed mass within $50$ or $150$ kpc of all Phoenix haloes evolves substantially in the past ${\sim} 7$ Gyr, while galactic haloes remained stable during the same period. We suggest that the relatively younger and more active state explains the various observations of cluster haloes, especially in central regions.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: The Political and Constitutional Evolution of Burma From 1923 to 1936.
Creators: name: Ram, Asha
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1962

description: The Dyarchical reforms introduced in Burma in 1923 were the result of the influence of the nationalist movement which, for the first time in 1917, assumed political form. This movement was the result of internal socio-economic conditions created by British rule and of subsequent external factors such as the First World War and the Indian national movement. The introduction of reforms led to a split between the moderate and extremist wings of the nationalist movement. The cooperation of the Moderates with the Government produced certain positive results such as improvement in law and order and the Burmanisation of services and institutions. But by the end of the period of the First Council there arose a conflict of interest between the two leading to the appointment of pro-Government Ministers. This affected the political and economic condition of the country and, along with the constitutional controversy which started after the appointment of the Simon Commission and in conjunction with the economic crisis, led to race riots and rebellion. On the issue of the separation of Burma from. India the Extremists also entered the legislature. This was the beginning of their constitutionalist approach which ended in their acceptance of office. Despite their majority in the Council, the Extremists failed to prevent the separation of Burma from India because there were powerful British and Burmese interests behind the move, but they, along with other nationalists who formed an absolute majority in the last Council, succeeded in getting more liberal reforms together with certain other political and economic concessions for the country. Within the national movement the Extremists, as well as the Moderates, played their roles but, as nationalism grew stronger, it affected the Interests of the minorities which drifted away from it. During the 1920's the pongyis supplied the only element of popular leadership in the national movement but, after the Saya San rebellion, their role declined and gave way to a new political force in touch with the people - the Thakins.
Supplemental Material, Table_B3 - Challenges and Opportunities to Regional Renewal in the European Union
Creators: name: Pontarollo, Nicola
name: Serpieri, Carolina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental Material, Table_B3 for Challenges and Opportunities to Regional Renewal in the European Union by Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri in International Regional Science Review
The Relation Between Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Language Outcomes
Creators: name: Trout, Makena
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: EDUC
Language Development
Child Psychology

description: Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament classified as fearful reactions or withdrawal from unfamiliar situations. BI can be detected as early as four months, and it has been found to lead to many negative developmental outcomes. Children who exhibit BI tend to have limited formative interactions, which could hinder development. There is a significant amount of research regarding how early BI can predict socioemotional outcomes, such as social anxiety disorder; however, there is less information on how early BI may affect other developmental processes, such as language development. To address this gap in research, this project assessed the relation between BI at age 3 and language outcomes at ages 3 and 7. The data for this research project were obtained through the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS), a longitudinal study investigating the individual and environmental factors associated with social development from infancy through childhood. Correlation matrices were performed to analyze the relation between the reported levels of BI at age 3 and the language scores from the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory at age 3 and the Woodcock-Johnson-IV at age 7. The results from these analyses indicated a statistically significant correlation between BI and Sentence Complexity scores at age 3, which suggests a potential relation between BI and expressive language outcomes in the short term.
Mesh deformation-based single-view 3D reconstruction of thin eyeglasses frames with differentiable rendering
Creators: name: Zhang, Fan
name: Ji, Ziyue
name: Kang, Weiguang
name: Li, Weiqing
name: Su, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the support of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies, the 3D virtual eyeglasses try-on application is well on its way to becoming a new trending solution that offers a "try on" option to select the perfect pair of eyeglasses at the comfort of your own home. Reconstructing eyeglasses frames from a single image with traditional depth and image-based methods is extremely difficult due to their unique characteristics such as lack of sufficient texture features, thin elements, and severe self-occlusions. In this paper, we propose the first mesh deformation-based reconstruction framework for recovering high-precision 3D full-frame eyeglasses models from a single RGB image, leveraging prior and domain-specific knowledge. Specifically, based on the construction of a synthetic eyeglasses frame dataset, we first define a class-specific eyeglasses frame template with pre-defined keypoints. Then, given an input eyeglasses frame image with thin structure and few texture features, we design a keypoint detector and refiner to detect predefined keypoints in a coarse-to-fine manner to estimate the camera pose accurately. After that, using differentiable rendering, we propose a novel optimization approach for producing correct geometry by progressively performing free-form deformation (FFD) on the template mesh. We define a series of loss functions to enforce consistency between the rendered result and the corresponding RGB input, utilizing constraints from inherent structure, silhouettes, keypoints, per-pixel shading information, and so on. Experimental results on both the synthetic dataset and real images demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
title: The Minorities in Ceylon, 1926-1931 With Special Reference to the Donoughmore Commission.
Creators: name: Fernando, Quintus Godfrey
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1973

description: The purpose of this study is to shed light on the behaviour of the ethnic, caste and religious minority groups in Ceylon during the five years of investigations, consultations and debates that culminated in the Donoughmore Constitution of 1931; and also to inquire whether communalism - the political form of the minority problem - was actually aggravated during this period. Based on criteria of ancestral origin, social organisation and religious belief, which are the chief sources of division of society in Ceylon, and, for that matter, in South Asia generally, the study considers the following minorities: the Kandyan Sinhalese, the Tamils, Indians, Muslims (Moors and Malays), Burghers and Europeans as ethnic minorities; all the non-Goyigama and non-Vellala caste groups as caste minorities; and the Christians as a religious minority. As a preamble to a detailed study of the period under review, this work also considers briefly the years 1912-1925 which witnessed the political stirrings of a new Western-educated elite, drawn from virtually all the communities, and the Government's decision to expand and strengthen communal representation. This raises a question how far separate representation encouraged the growth of communalism by providing wider opportunities for the political elite to appeal to the latent communal feelings of their communities. A major question is the extent to which the activities of the Donoughmore Commission provided a forum for, or even provoked, a struggle between communal groups seeking advantage for themselves. A corollary is the degree to which the background and disposition of the Commissioners were significant: Lord Donoughmore, the Irishman, believing that the Irish issue should be 'settled by consent' rather than by force of arms; the Cornishman Butler thinking that the Duchy of Cornwall was 'completely separate from England'; and Shiels, the Scottish Fabian, fervently believing that Scotland should have a separate existence. It may be questioned whether the deep awareness of their own minority condition was not reflected in their investigation and analysis of the minority problems in Ceylon, Attention is paid to the evidence offered to the Commission and the interest groups which presented it, as a basis for grasping the nature of Ceylonese communalism; and for establishing a possible correlation between the nature of Ceylonese elites and the minority problem. Finally the question is asked why, when the Commissioners' diagnosis, that communalism was the malaise of Ceylonese society, was similar to that of Montagu and Chelmsford in India they should have chosen unlike the Indian Reformers to abolish communal representation and to introduce universal suffrage. Besides the written and oral evidence before the commission, the materials for this study were drawn from official sources, private papers and diaries, and contemporary newspapers and journals.
title: The European Impact Upon Northern Tswana Chiefdoms, 1850-1910.
Creators: name: Chirenje, J. M.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1973

description: Recent works on Tswana history have tended to be preoccupied with political history, with the result that the gamut of forces that have shaped the history of Botswana (until 1966 known as Bechuanaland Protectorate) have only been partially revealed. This thesis seeks to shed more light on the history of northern Bechuanaland by taking into account some of the social and economic processes that beset that region in the nineteenth century. From about the middle of the nineteenth century up to the turn of the twentieth century a host of external factors, in varying degrees, impinged upon social and economic institutions of the Tswana. And of these factors the advent of Europeans was the most significant; Europeans brought new ideas that interacted with those of the Tswana. The white newcomers also had tendencies to expand the British sphere of influence throughout southern Africa, a trend that resulted in the annexation of northern Bechuanaland in 1885. By 1910 British rule in Bechuanaland had become firmly entrenched, A special feature of the interaction between the Tswana and the Europeans was that the latter group introduced its religious and secular ideas to the Tswana with an enthusiasm that was matched by Tswana reticence to abandon their traditional way of life in favour of an alien culture. Yet, in spite of their conservatism, the Tswana felt the impact of European ideas. Even in a study that tries to reconstruct a social and economic history of northern Bechuanaland, it has been found necessary to include Chapter Four, which deals with the creation of the Protectorate and indicates government intervention in some aspects of Tswana life and how the latter group responded to some measures introduced by the new rulers. It is hoped that Chapter Four, though largely dealing with political history, should enhance an understanding of Tswana history as too often Tswana responses to government intervention mirrored the kind of responses that were evinced by the new social and economic ideas.
JPE_BronchExperiences_SupplementaryMaterial_InterviewGuide - Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Campbell, Alyson
name: Hartling, Lisa
name: Louie-Poon, Samantha
name: Scott, Shannon D
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine

description: JPE_BronchExperiences_SupplementaryMaterial_InterviewGuide for Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study by Alyson Campbell, Lisa Hartling, Samantha Louie-Poon and Shannon D Scott in Journal of Patient Experience
Rev_1_MAS_Supplementary_Tables_1-4 - Finding the Mating Gear: The Development and Validation of a Mate Access Scale
Creators: name: C. Walldén
name: M. Westerlund
name: A. Gunst
name: P. Santtila
name: J. Antfolk
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Rev_1_MAS_Supplementary_Tables_1-4 for Finding the Mating Gear: The Development and Validation of a Mate Access Scale by C. Walldén, M. Westerlund, A. Gunst, P. Santtila and J. Antfolk in Evolutionary Psychology
title: The Opium Question in China 1860-1887.
Creators: name: Waung, William Sui King
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1972

description: The Opium Question in China from 1360 to 1887 was composed of three inter-related aspects: the taxation of foreign opium; Chinese customs blockade of Hong Kong (and Macao); and the growth of native (Chinese) opium. The Question arose as a result of the legalization of the opium trade in 1860. During the period that this Question was in existences attempts were made by the Chinese and British, governments to reach an agreement over the taxation of foreign opium and to devise means to put an end to smuggling from Hong Kong so that the blockade could be lifted. The Alcock Convention of 1869 and the Chefoo convention of 1876 contained stipulations that would, provide solutions to these out-standing problems. Their rejection by the British government meant that negotiations had to be continued, both at Peking and. London, and on the local scene, at Hong Kong and Canton. Signing of the Additional Article to the Chefoo Convention in 1885 provided settlement of the taxation issue; and promulgation of the Ordinance on opium in 1887 by the Hong Kong government solved the blockade issue. During this period, the growth of native opium Greatly increased and it competed successfully with the Indian import in China. This fact, together with the increasing activity of the Anti-opium society in Britain, contributed much to the agreement of 1885. This dissertation is concerned with an analysis of the Opium Question briefly explained in the preceding paragraph. It also analyses the various governments and personalities involved. For Britain, these included the Home government with its Foreign, colonial and India Offices; the Hong Kong and. Indian governments; and the diplomatic service in China and the Governors of Hong Kong. For China, these included the Imperial and provincial Governments, the Foreign Inspectorate, and responsible officials such as Li Hung-chang, Tso Tsung-t'ang and Tseng Chi-tse. A more astute understanding of Sino-British relations during this period, both diplomatic and commercial, is reached by such analyses.
Investigating the effect of biofilm pathways on Bacillus subtilis anti-termination
Creators: name: Robertello, Nathan
name: Tran, Thao
name: Jenkins, Conor
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bacillus subtilis
subject: Antitermination
subject: Processive antitermination
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Regulation
subject: Microbiology
subject: Transcription
subject: Biofilm
subject: exopolysaccharide associated RNA (EAR)

description: Biofilms are communities of bacteria ensconced in a blanket of exopolysaccharides and proteins. They can form in a variety of clinically important contexts such as the surfaces of teeth, contact lenses, and medical implants. Biofilm communities are more resistant to antibiotics than planktonic cells. Hence, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms which promote biofilm formation. Bacillus subtilis is an important model system for studying biofilm-synthesis genes. The biosynthetic genes for B. subtilis exopolysaccharide are found in one, unusually long, operon (eps). A previously discovered processive anti-termination (PA) mechanism promotes readthrough of transcription termination sites within this operon. PA occurs when regulatory factor(s) modify the transcription elongation complex (TEC) such that it becomes resistant to downstream termination events. The PA mechanism of the eps operon requires a highly conserved RNA element called eps-associated RNA (EAR). It is not currently known how EAR exerts its influence on the TEC. The eps operon itself is only one of many biosynthetic genes necessary to biofilm formation and maintenance. In this study, we investigate the impact of a few key regulatory pathways on EAR anti-termination. We combined deletions of genes involved in these pathways with a genetic reporter assay for EAR anti-termination activity. Our preliminary data do not support a connection between these genes and the PA efficiency of EAR. These data suggest that anti-termination of the eps operon is not necessarily coupled to other known biofilm-regulatory pathways.
title: Indian Politics and the Elections of 1937.
Creators: name: Taylor, David Denis
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1971

description: The thesis consists of a preliminary examination of the development of Indian politics in the mid-1930s, especially their reaction to the Government of India Act, 1935, the consequent provincial elections of 1937. The period has recently been opened to research through the availability of official records and private and party papers in India and England. Newspapers and secondary sources have also been used. Chapter 1 looks at the way in which British policy towards the elections and electoral arrangements formulated, and at whether there were specific attempts to influence their outcome. Working from an ideal type of a nationalist party as a bourgeois-led consensus movement, chapter 2 analyses the composition of the Indian National Congress and other parties, their relations to other political and social structures, their policies, their relations with each other, and the effect on them of contesting elections. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between Congress and communal groups. The themes of the previous chapter are developed in chapter 3 by focussing on the election campaign as a time when existing problems had to be resolved and new ones were created. Chapter 4 presents the results of a study of the socio-economic and political backgrounds of the successful candidates. This supplements the conclusions reached in the previous two chapters. Chapter 5 attempts to present the election results as fully and as accurately as possible.
title: The Home Government of India, 1834-53.
Creators: name: Tate, Robert Franklin Stuart
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1972

description: This thesis is a study of the impact of British politics on Indian policy during the twenty year period which followed the renewal of the East India Company's Charter in 1833. The view taken is that the policy of the Home Government of India is inseparable from that of the Ministry generally. Within the 'dual' system of the Home Government the Cabinet Minister for India, the President of the Board of Control, is seen to exercise a dominant role while the Court of Directors of the East India Company, a body of Indian experience, act, with a varying degree of success, the part of a check upon his authority. The changes centering around the Reform of Parliament in 1832 redefined the basis of British politics and gave rise to a "precocious development of party politics" with an accompanying alternation of party governments which continued throughout the twenty years under review. Owing to this development two sets of Indian policy emerge during this period, one proper to the years of Whig administration and one associated with those of Sir Robert Peel's Conservative Ministries. The pervasive influence of Ministry and party extends even to the highest offices in the Indian administration at this time for, starting with Auckland, the Governors General are selected from their respective Cabinets and go out to India in the full knowledge of the views of the British Government. The determining role of British history on Indian development is therefore observed as it acts through the work of the Cabinet Minister for India in association with the Ministry's appointee, the Governor General, The twenty years over which this study extends provide a sufficiently long time to trace the development of significant aspects of Indian policy in four principal areas, those of finance, foreign affairs, the native states and law reform.
title: Trade and Economic Change on the Gold Coast 1807-1874.
Creators: name: Reynolds, Edward
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1971

description: By the beginning of the nineteenth century the Atlantic slave trade had already made inroads into the traditional subsistence economy of the Gold Coast and elements of a modern economy had begun to emerge; but the interdiction of this trade in 1807 rendered the bulk of the existing commerce illegal. Consequently, other products had to be found by stimulating the export of old staples like gold and ivory and by encouraging the cultivation of agricultural produce in exchange for European goods. This meant a process of commercial and economic change, but wars often interrupted this evolution. The peace and security the country enjoyed between 1830 and 1850, social and cultural changes effected by Christianity and education, and increased opportunities for entering trade made these decades a key period of economic change. By 1850 this transformation has led to the rise of a class of African merchants who were sensitive to new commercial opportunities and who had the ability and initiative to exploit new avenues of trade. As these African merchants attained more wealth and influence, they began to assume a position and acquire a power that had once been occupied and held by the traditional rulers, whose social and economic position had been declining since abolition. Conflicts in the wake of the Asante invation of the coast in 1863 and wars in the Volta area affected the country and the trade and commercial operations of the African merchants. This, and the prevailing system of credit led to a number of bankruptcies and to the ruin of many indigenous traders. Although the economy grew, diversified, and made considerable progress towards a modern economy during this period, the formal declaration of the Gold Coast as a Protectorate in 1874 paved the way for a more complete integration of the country's trade into the modern world economy and marked the decline of African initiative in trading enterprises as well as the emergence of a foreign dominated oligopolistic regime. This crucial period of trade and economic change between 1807 and 1874 is an important transitional era that links the economy of the Gold Coast based on slaves with that of the modern based on natural produce.
The Role of Lipid Packing in the Fusion Domain of SARS-CoV-2 on Fusion
Creators: name: Guiyab, Lijon
name: Birtles, Daniel
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
CMNS
COVID-19
Membrane fusion

description: SARS-CoV-2 and its spike glycoprotein are responsible for the devastation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using its spike glycoprotein, the virus delivers its genetic information into the targeted cells by membrane fusion in a process initiated by its fusion domain (FD). It is understood that the FD preferentially prompts fusion in an environment resembling the late endosomal membrane due to the presence of the anionic lipid, BMP, and a low pH. How this would translate to the interactions between the protein and organ-relevant lipid membranes would increase insight of viral tropism. First, the WT FD was purified via denaturing conditions, Ni-NTA affinity and finally, by size exclusion chromatography (SEC). Next, using a FRET-based lipid mixing assay, we monitored fusion activity for the WT with different cell line lipid extracts like the brain, heart, and liver to understand the interactions between the proteins and complex lipid compositions. Then, using C-Laurdan as a fluorescent probe, the lipid packing of the cell lines was monitored which determined the liver cell type with the least amount of packing. It was shown that the liver lipid composition displayed the most fusion and the lowest amount of lipid picking. Interestingly, the brain lipid compositions displayed less membrane fusion than the liver despite a higher anionic lipid concentration. In conclusion, there is an inverse relationship between lipid packing and membrane fusion mediated by the FD with a preference for lipid packing more than anionic lipid concentration for membrane fusion. This has implications for which systems in the body are more at risk and for greater caution in preventing future infection.
Author_Response_2 – Supplemental material for Reclassifying severity after 48 hours could better predict mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Creators: name: Chiu, Li-Chung
name: Shih-Wei Lin
name: Liu, Pi-Hua
name: Li-Pang Chuang
name: Chih-Hao Chang
name: Chen-Yiu Hung
name: Shih-Hong Li
name: Chung-Shu Lee
name: Huang-Pin Wu
name: Huang, Chung-Chi
name: Hsin-Hsien Li
name: Kuo-Chin Kao
name: Han-Chung Hu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Author_Response_2 for Reclassifying severity after 48 hours could better predict mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome by Li-Chung Chiu, Shih-Wei Lin, Pi-Hua Liu, Li-Pang Chuang, Chih-Hao Chang, Chen-Yiu Hung, Shih-Hong Li, Chung-Shu Lee, Huang-Pin Wu, Chung-Chi Huang, Hsin-Hsien Li, Kuo-Chin Kao and Han-Chung Hu in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Supplemental Material, Supp._Material - Assessing, Consulting, Reporting Heuristics in Professional Decision-Making Regarding Suspected Child Maltreatment in Community Healthcare Services
Creators: name: Enosh, Guy
name: Alfandari, Ravit
name: Nouman, Hani
name: Dolev, Lilach
name: Dascal-Weichhendler, Hagit
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material, Supp._Material for Assessing, Consulting, Reporting Heuristics in Professional Decision-Making Regarding Suspected Child Maltreatment in Community Healthcare Services by Guy Enosh, Ravit Alfandari, Hani Nouman, Lilach Dolev and Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler in Child Maltreatment
Strategies to Increase Health Insurance Coverage in the United States
Creators: name: Lufulwabo, Aime
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This Health Policy Memo outlines strategies to increase health insurance coverage in the United States. It highlights the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which reduced the uninsured population significantly but acknowledges persistent challenges, especially among low-income and minority groups. The memo proposes alternatives such as adopting a single-payer healthcare system to ensure universal coverage, encouraging medical consumerism to reduce costs and improve quality, leveraging social capital to address socio-economic health disparities, and enhancing provider availability through technological and recruitment solutions. Addressing these issues is crucial for improving national health and economic prosperity.