cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ЭВОЛЮЦИЯ И ДИНАМИКА РАЗВИТИЯ ТЕРРОРИЗМА
Creators: name: Акиф Марифли
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: террор
терроризм
действия
война
политика
организация
деятельность
идеология
сепаратизм и оккупация.

description: В статье были исследованы причины возникновения терроризма, его исходные формы и стадии развития, исследовались различные и сходные признаки террористических организаций. Одним из интересных качеств статьи, на которое указывается — это связь терроризма с некоторыми религиозными сектами, хронология различных террористических происшествий, ставших причиной большого шума в истории. В статье особо были отмечены заметные общие и специфические признаки возникновения и развития террористических организаций. Здесь также была дана информация об истории возникновения террористических организаций, их цели, был открыт разговор о многочисленных человеческих жертвах, являющихся результатом реализованных операций. Указывается, что известное событие 11 сентября 2001-го года объединила всю международную общественность в создании антитеррористической коалиции и всё страны мира усилили свои меры предосторожности в борьбе с терроризмом. Одной из привлекающих внимание задач то, что иногда в некоторых случаях причиной возникновения террористических организаций в некоторых странах является внутренняя и внешняя политика этих государств. Поэтому, ликвидация человечеством последствий терроризма зависит от универсальных ценностей государств и организаций.
Critical thinking: seven definitions in search of a concept
Creators: name: Moore, Timothy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The article reports a study that investigated ideas about critical thinking as held by academics working in three disciplines: history, philosophy and cultural studies. At least seven definitional strands were identified in the informants' commentaries, namely critical thinking: (i) as judgement; (ii) as skepticism; (iii) as a simple originality; (iv) as sensitive readings; (v) as rationality; (vi) as an activist engagement with knowledge; and (vii) as self-reflexivity. This multiplicity of meanings is thought to have important implications for university teaching and learning. The design of the study and the conclusions drawn from it draw heavily on Wittgenstein's idea of meaning as use.
How Quickly Do Literary Standards Change?
Creators: name: Underwood, Ted
name: Sellers, Jordan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: History
subject: Literature

description: It's hard to generalize meaningfully about the standards that govern literary reception, and even harder to describe how they change. This article tries to get some leverage on this difficult problem by contrasting two different samples of poetry: one group of 360 volumes that was reviewed in prestigious venues between 1820 and 1919, and another that was selected randomly from HathiTrust Digital Library. We train a model to predict reception using only word frequencies from these volumes, and then use that model to draw inferences about the pace and direction of literary change. For instance, how are diachronic changes related to synchronic standards of prestige? The collections of data and metadata that underpin this argument were made possible through grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies. Code, data, and metadata are available at the github repo below.
How Dutch populists (unsuccessfully) try to exploit the Corona Virus
Creators: name: Zuurbier, Merel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Zuurbier, M. (April 13, 2020) How Dutch populists (unsuccessfully) try to exploit the Corona Virus, Istanbul Bilgi University PRIME Youth Website. https://bpy.bilgi.edu.tr/en/blog/how-dutch-populists-unsuccessfully-try-exploit-cor/
Servizi web per dati dei beni culturali Da una "Netflix della cultura" a un'architettura di approvvigionamento
Creators: name: Corsato, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: heritage
GLAM
beni culturali
data management
open business model
italian cultural heritage
COVID-19

description: Servizi web per dati dei beni culturali
 Da una “Netflix della cultura” a un'architettura di approvvigionamento
 Il ministro Franceschini annuncia una piattaforma tipo “Netflix” per offrire a pagamento la cultura italiana. Un’offerta di contenuti passa attraverso un’architettura di dati e servizi web che agevoli i produttori e i fruitori di contenuti, il cui perno sono la qualità dei dati, le competenze delle persone e i modelli di business.
The role of social ties in fostering innovation
Creators: name: Salaran, Mohammad
name: Maritz, Alex
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the importance of social ties in encouraging innovative behaviour. There is limited empirical evidence of the interrelation between these two constructs in current academic literature. This research hypothesizes such relationship in higher academic institutions. To enhance innovativeness of academic staff within universities or R & D institutions, we examined the role of social ties in fostering innovativeness as a main factor in entrepreneurial activities. A survey was sent via a hyperlink to the target sample, facilitated by empirical analysis using correlation and regression analysis. It can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between spending time with social contacts and innovativeness. Limitations and further research are cited to enhance the understanding of the interrelation of the constructs.
Programmable mixed-signal circuits
Creators: name: Tappertzhofen, Stefan
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mixed-signal circuits
subject: Transmission gates
subject: Memristive switching
subject: Reconfigurable analog circuits
subject: 620

description: A novel concept for programmable mixed-signal circuits is presented based on programmable transmission gates. For implementation, memristively switching devices are suggested as the most promising candidates for realization of fast and small-footprint signal routing switches with small resistance and capacity. As a proof-of-concept, LT Spice simulations of digital and analogue example circuits implemented by the new concept are demonstrated. It is discussed how important design parameters can be tuned in the circuity. Compared to competing technologies such as Field Programmable Analogue Arrays or Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, the presented concept allows for development of ultra-flexible, reconfigurable, and cheap embedded mixed-signal circuits for applications where only limited space is available or high bandwidth is required.
description: SN applied sciences;5(12)
A computer vision sensor for the parallelization of actively regulated capillary slug flow microreactors
Creators: name: Gladius, Anoj Winston
name: Mylenbusch, Jonas A.
name: Agar, David William
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Slug flow
subject: Flow sensor
subject: Machine learning
subject: Video imaging
subject: Computer vision
subject: Epoxidation
subject: Methyl oleate
subject: Parallelization
subject: Microreactor
subject: 660

description: In this work, a computer vision sensor for the extraction of slug length, slug velocity and phase ratio from capillary liquid–liquid slug flows from video feeds in real-time, including the necessary post-processing algorithms, is developed. The developed sensor is shown to be capable of simultaneously monitoring multiple capillaries and provides reasonable accuracy at less than 3.5% mean relative error. Subsequently, the sensor is used for the control of a parallelized and actively regulated dual-channel slug flow capillary microreactor setup. As a model reaction, the solvent-free epoxidation of methyl oleate with hydrogen peroxide and a phase-transfer catalyst based on tungstophosphoric acid and a quaternary ammonium salt to yield the product 9,10-epoxystearic acid methyl ester is conducted. A space–time yield of 0.679 kg L−1 h−1 is achieved.
description: SN applied sciences;5(10)
Gifts from the world: bringing Dumitru Staniloae in conversation with some prominent themes in majority world theologies
Creators: name: Simpson, Robert A.
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: gft-giving
humanity’s relationship with God
obligation
Dumitru Staniloae
gift theology

description: This thesis engages the theological topic of the “gift” and “gift-giving” that has become popular within Euro-American theological discourse. While the academic discourse is traced back to an anthropological work that highlights the nature of gifts outside the West, the theological conversation remains mostly isolated to Western assumptions, concerns, and questions. I argue that this lacuna in the conversation can be partially attributed to the term “contextual theology.” The term contextual theology is commonplace within contemporary Christian theology. The term possesses both a methodological and a descriptive value, meaning contextual theology is both a way of doing theology and also a way to describe the nature of all theologies as being products of their respective historio-cultural locations. In the twenty-first century, it is not always clear what is different about contextual theology other than it is often used to distinguish theologies developed outside the “Western tradition” (Euro-American). This thesis then argues that the term contextual theology, while at first useful, has now unintentionally assisted in siloing theologies developed in the Majority World from theologies developed in the West. To alleviate this gap, this thesis attempts to undertake a theological experiment at pursuing an intercontextual theology that seeks to treat all theologies explored as equal dialogue partners. To do this, it identifies a gift theology that is both absent from the wider discourse and provides the grounds for theological construction as found in Romanian Orthodox theologian Dumitru Staniloae’s “World as a Gift.” The thesis then explores Staniloae’s World as a Gift and argues that it can be supplemented by placing it in dialogue with various Majority World theologies from a wide variety of geographical contexts due to these theologies’s foci on the particular gifts found within creation due to their deep concerns that arise from particular geographic contexts. These particular gifts of matter, space, and time operate as the three themes around which the dialogue of this thesis takes place. In engaging in this exercise this thesis is able to engage four overarching transcontextual themes: 1) a relatively strong emphasis on human responsibility; 2) the interdependency of all creation; 3) the primacy of the past and present; 4) the lack of a stark division between the spiritual and material. Hence, this thesis moves in the direction of an intercontextual theology that offers the beginnings of a future “global theology” of the World as a Gift. Finally, by leveraging these themes found through dialogue, this thesis attempts to broadly apply these findings to the author’s context of North America.
Polybius' characterisation of Hannibal. A study on personality, character and narrative identity in the Histories
Creators: name: Mazloum, Gladys
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Polybius
Polybius’ literary style
Hannibal Barca
narrative technique
community identity
collective memory
narratology
historiography

description: This research offers a re-evaluation of Polybius’ literary style through an analysis of his characterisations. Using narratology, psychology, and philosophy I study the depiction of Hannibal Barca to illustrate some of the complexities of Polybius’ writing technique in the Histories. My research aims to move beyond the historical analysis of the text and instead examine its literary features. I have studied the characterisation of Hannibal since he is one of the most prominent individuals in the Histories especially in the surviving books. The study of the characterisation of Hannibal will be based on the portrayal of three essential concepts, personality, character, and narrative identity as the complex of psychological features that combine innate traits with the learned behaviour and customs of the historical agents. The thesis is divided into six chapters: Chapter 1 introduces the topic and explores Polybius’ use of characterisation in books 1 and 2 (known as Prokataskeue). The emphasis here is on the stylistic and thematic differences between these first books and the main narrative of the Histories, particularly in the characterisation of significant historical figures. Chapter 2 explores Polybius’ initial characterisation of the Barcid clan (Hamilcar, Hasdrubal and Hannibal) and the central themes of the Second Punic War. Additionally, I examine the ‘inherited war’ theme to which Polybius refers on several occasions. Chapter 3 analyses emotions in the narrative of the Histories as a way of understanding the characterisation of the historical agents; particular emphasis will be placed on the relationship between emotions, character and personality as a mark of characterisation. Chapter 4 treats the use of viewpoint and focalisation to explore the interiority of the agents; I shall argue that Polybius interchanges the viewpoint and focalisation of the narrative not only to add dynamism to the narrative but also to explore the psychology of the historical agents. Chapter 5 deals with speeches and how they reflect the character and personality of the speakers. Finally, chapter 6 deals with the concept of narrative identity and how the agents define themselves based on the memories of their past experiences. Polybius’ writing has much to offer to narratological and literary studies, the object of my research is to contribute with an interdisciplinary approach to Polybian scholarship. Via a combination of narratology, philosophy and psychology I aim to shed light on the Histories as a text whose literary significance is equivalent to the historical. Polybius’ characterisations are full of enargeia, of vividness. My research hopes to illustrate how Polybius’ writing style seeks to reflect the complexities of human psychology and how it affected the history of the Mediterranean.
Marketing of postgraduate education in Taiwan: issues for foreign universities
Creators: name: Muthaly, Siva
name: Lobo, Antonio
name: Jen-yuan, Jimmy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors which influence Taiwanese students' destination choice for their overseas postgraduate studies. Constructs elicited from the literature were overall perception of education quality, available information, country characteristics and accrual of potential benefits. Design/methodology/approach: The paper takes the form of a literature review, from which the authors identified four constructs: quality of available information; overseas country characteristics; potential benefits; and perceptions of overall education quality. The data required for this research were collected by means of a consumer-type survey. A questionnaire was developed with 40 items adapted from previously validated scales. A non-probabilistic sampling procedure, i.e. convenience sampling, was adopted owing to the unavailability of a satisfactory sampling frame. Final-year undergraduate students from four universities in Taiwan were targeted. There was upfront a screening question which eliminated students who were not knowledgeable about overseas postgraduate education from continuing the survey. A total of 312 survey questionnaires were administered by trained interviewers, during a two-week period, and 301 completed questionnaires were collected. Findings: The research findings revealed that the overall perception of education quality in host country influences the choice of the destination country. Path analysis has shown the catalytic need for intermediation by potential benefits accrued. Postgraduate Taiwanese students, having a better appreciation of western acculturation and potential migration and job prospects, together with the constructs of quality of information and country characteristics, have a better overall perception of education quality of destination country. Research limitations/implications: Universities targeting Taiwanese postgraduate students need to highlight aspects of potential benefits in their marketing literature and promotional materials. The results of this study will certainly benefit overseas educational institutions and their marketing departments. Originality/value: This is one of the very few studies which uses partial least squares to address a complex situation associated with the hierarchy of determinants in the selection of a foreign university.
A STUDY ON PRINCIPALS' COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KHORRAMABAD CITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015
Creators: name: Afrasiabpour, Manijeh
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Communication Skills
Social Growth
Verbal Skills
Hearing Skills
Feedback Skills.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 8, 1009-1016
Deriving systems level security properties of component based composite systems
Creators: name: Khan, Khaled M.
name: Han, Jun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper proposes an approach of defining systems-level security properties of component-based composite systems. It argues that the security properties of a composite system can be viewed either from the end-users’ point of view, or from the software integrators’ point of view. End users look more for the ultimate security goals achieved in the composite system, whereas software integrators are more interested in the compositional security properties of the system in terms of the required and ensured properties. Software integrators need to know how a composite system could be assembled further as a coarse-grained component with other applications. It is equally important for the end user of the system to know the actual security objectives achieved at the systems-level.
COLD-TOLERANCE OF SOME AUTOCHTHONOUS AND IMPORTED COMMERCIAL SEEDLESS GRAPEVINE (Vitis Vinifera) CULTIVARS IN IRAN
Creators: name: Hamed Doulati Baneh, Mohammad Aslanpour
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cold stress
Electrolyte leakage
Cold index
Cambium cold index
Cane electrolyte leakage
Bud electrolyte leakage
Cane cold index.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 8, 1017-1027
ORGANIZATION INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL: ESSENTIAL CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Creators: name: A.N. Semin, M.I. Lukinyk
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Russia IP
Competitive potential
Rate of tangible assets
IP infrastructure.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 8, 1029-1039
Assessing the mechanical properties of concrete due to alkali silica reaction
Creators: name: Abdullah, S.
name: Shayan, Ahmad
name: Al-Mahaidi, Riadh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this paper is to examine and validate the mechanical properties of concrete damaged by Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR). ASR was initiated by using fused silica as a reactive aggregate and increasing the alkali level of the concrete. The concrete was stored under controlled environment of 38°C and 100% RH for a period of one year. Over this time period, the strength of ASR concrete decreased by 40%, and the modulus of elasticity and modulus of rupture by 77% from their initial values. The expansion of the ASR concrete affects its mechanical properties which deteriorate as the concrete expands, and stabilised when the concrete ceases to expand. The initial properties of ASR concrete were validated by examining separately the effect of individual ASR-inducing parameters on the properties of normal concrete. It was confirmed that adding alkali in the normal concrete mixture reduces the initial strength of the concrete, but it increases the modulus of elasticity. Fused silica did not affect the initial strength of normal concrete, but the modulus of elasticity was affected by the amount of fused silica present in the concrete. Neither fused silica nor additional alkali affects the modulus of rupture of the normal concrete.
THE MEDIATION OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BETWEEN TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND GROUP MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF ACADEMICIANS IN HEIs OF KPK, PAKISTAN
Creators: name: Muhammad Siddique, Allah Nawaz
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Negotiation skills (NS)
Motivation skills (MS)
Change-management skills (CMS)
Communication skills (CS)
TRS
TRF.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 8, 1041-1051
title: Visualization as Defamiliarization. Mixed-Methods Approaches to Historical Book Reviews
Creators: name: Brodén, Daniel
name: Ingvarsson, Jonas
name: Samuelsson, Lina
name: Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: This paper employs a dialectical mixed methods approach to revisit a
previous study in comparative literature on discourses in literary criticism, using
data visualizations to analyze the original material, 700 digitized literary book
reviews from the years 1906, 1956, and 2006. The aim is to explore alternative
ways of understanding the review material by comparatively examining visualizations
on word and sentence levels, publication years, and genre categorizations.
In the paper, we discuss significant patterns that emerge in the visualizations
and how a combination of computational and interpretative analysis provide
complementary perspectives on the text collection. Furthermore, drawing upon
Russian formalist Viktor Shklovksy, we suggest the notion of ”defamiliarization”
as a conceptual framework for the process of looking at familiar research material
anew through the lens of visualization, potentially uncovering previously
overlooked aspects of the data. We conclude by stressing the criticality of a
contextual sensibility for understanding the visualizations.
Cd(II) and Cu(II) coordination polymers based on a multidentate N-donor ligand: syntheses, crystal structures, optical band gaps, and photoluminescence
Creators: name: Kan, Wei-Qiu
name: Wen, Shi-Zheng
name: Hua-You Hu
name: Kan, Yu-He
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Four Cd(II)- and Cu(II)-containing coordination polymers (CPs) based on a multidentate N-donor ligand and varied dicarboxylate anions, [Cd(3,3′-tmbpt)(p-bdc)]·2.5H2O (1), [Cd(3,3′-tmbpt)(m-bdc)]·2H2O (2), [Cu(3,3′-tmbpt)(m-bdc)]·H2O (3), and [Cu(3,3′-tmbpt)(p-bdc)]·2H2O (4), where 3,3′-tmbpt = 1 − ((1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methyl)-3,5-bis(3-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole, p-H2bdc = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid, and m-H2bdc = 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid, have been prepared hydrothermally. The structures of the compounds were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses and further characterized by infrared spectra and elemental analyses. Compound 1 exhibits a 3-D twofold interpenetrating framework with a 65·8 CdSO4 topology. Compound 2 is a 2-D layer containing meso-helical chains with a 44·62 sql topology. Compound 3 shows a 1-D → 3-D interdigitated architecture while 4 displays a 2-D → 3-D interdigitated architecture. The structural differences of the compounds indicate that the dicarboxylate anions and the central metal ions play important roles in the resulting structures of CPs. Optical band gaps and solid-state photoluminescent properties have also been studied.
Caracterización ambiental del Ecoparque ``Ojo de Agua El Cardón'', municipio Miranda, estado Zulia
Creators: name: Ferrer-Paris, José R.
name: Stachowicz, Izabela
name: Lisandro Morán
name: Leinny González
name: Sánchez-Mercado, Ada Y.
name: Lozano, Cecilia
name: Villalobos, José Alberto Soto
name: Cardozo-Urdaneta, Arlene
name: Thayma Vargas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Geography
subject: Botany
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Zoology

description: Informe técnico generado por el laboratorio de Ecología Espacial del Centro de Estudios Botánicos y Agroforestales del Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, con resultados parciales y preliminares para su libre difusión. El informe incluye información sobre la caracterización del clima, uso de la tierra, vegetación y la exploración de la diversidad biológica del Ecoparque "Ojo de Agua El Cardón", en el estado Zulia. Para generar el informe se utilizaron imágenes de satélite y bases de datos electrónicas, además se incluyen datos de la revisión de la literatura disponible. Con este documento el laboratorio de Ecología Espacial busca contribuir a mejorar el conocimiento de la diversidad biológica de la zona para el mejor aprovechamiento de los beneficios y recursos que ofrecen las zonas protegidas en el estado Zulia.
Position yourself as a research leader: open access
Creators: name: Buys, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper provides a review of the Open Access debate within the context of bibliometrics, citation analysis and the peer-review process. It builds a simple methodology for researchers to go about publishing in Open Access publications whilst ensuring they “position themselves as research leaders” in the global research landscape.
Cd(II) and Cu(II) coordination polymers based on a multidentate N-donor ligand: Syntheses, crystal structures, optical band gaps and photoluminescence
Creators: name: Kan, Wei-Qiu
name: Wen, Shi-Zheng
name: Hua-You Hu
name: Kan, Yu-He
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Four Cd(II) and Cu(II)-containing coordination polymers based on a multidentate N-donor ligand and varied dicarboxylate anions, [Cd(3,3’-tmbpt)(p-bdc)]·2.5H2O (1), [Cd(3,3’-tmbpt)(m-bdc)]·2H2O (2), [Cu(3,3’-tmbpt)(m-bdc)]·H2O (3) and [Cu(3,3’-tmbpt)(p-bdc)]·2H2O (4), where 3,3’-tmbpt = 1-((1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methyl)-3,5-bis(3-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole, p-H2bdc = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid and m-H2bdc = 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid, have been prepared hydrothermally. The structures of the compounds were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses and further characterized by infrared spectra (IR) and elemental analyses. Compound 1 exhibits a 3D 2-fold interpenetrating framework with a 65·8 CdSO4 topology. Compound 2 is a 2D layer containing meso-helical chains with a 44·62 sql topology. Compound 3 shows a 1D → 3D interdigitated architecture while 4 displays a 2D → 3D interdigitated architecture. The structural differences of the compounds indicate that the dicarboxylate anions and the central metal ions play important roles in the resulting structures of coordination polymers. Optical band gaps and solid-state photoluminescent properties have also been studied.
Mechanistic investigation of the reaction of thiourea with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates: a theoretical study
Creators: name: Zakarianezhad, Mohammad
name: Dadi, Parisa Mohammad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: In this work, mechanistic investigation of the addition–cyclization reaction between thiourea (TU) and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DAAD) was made theoretically with the B3LYP method using a 6-311++G(2d,2p) basis set. In order to investigate the effect of substituted alkyl groups, the reaction was evaluated in the presence of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate and di-tert-butyl acetylenedicarboxylate. To evaluate the effect of structure and dielectric constant of the solvent, all structures were optimized in different solvent phases such as dichloromethane and acetone at the B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,2p) level of theory. Different orientations of alkyl groups make different kinetic paths. Results indicated that the reaction mechanism did not change with different orientations of COOMe, COOEt or COOtBu groups, but caused significant changes in the potential energy surfaces of the reaction coordinate. The reaction product (alkyl E-2-(2-imino-4-oxo-1,3-thiazolane-5-yliden) acetates) can be converted to different tautomeric forms in two proton transfer processes. So, in order to investigate the effect of different substituted alkyl groups, intermolecular proton transfer in the product was investigated both in gas phase and in the presence of methanol, ethanol and tert-butanol molecules as a bridge to facilitate the proton transfer process.
Stochastic modelling and analysis of a deteriorating serial production–inventory network
Creators: name: Vlastos, Spyros I.
name: Xanthopoulos, A. S.
name: Koulouriotis, D. E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Hematology

description: This study focuses on the stochastic modelling and analysis of a serial production network consisting of two manufacturing stations operating under a make-to-stock inventory policy. The outcome is a single type of product and every manufacturing station includes a machine and an output buffer. Both machines are gradually deteriorating during their operation. Deterioration results in a reduced production rate. Continuous-time Markov chain was used to model all the possible states the network transits over time due to the occurrence of certain events, such as client arrival, deterioration failure, production or repair completion. The structure of the Markov chain was thoroughly studied providing useful information, supporting the effort of numerical solving to determine the steady-state probabilities enabling the calculation of useful performance metrics like equipment availability, down time, idle time, utilisation and average inventory. Through a series of numerical experiments, the behaviour of the serial production network was examined while alternating its parameters. Interesting conclusions emerged regarding the factors affecting the operation of such production systems subjected to gradual deterioration.
Inventory management for stockout-based substitutable products under centralised and competitive settings
Creators: name: Koren, Michal
name: Perlman, Yael
name: Shnaiderman, Matan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Inventory planning in fashion markets is highly challenging, owing to uncertain demand; yet, in making inventory decisions, retailers may be able to capitalise on high substitutability between products. This research develops single-period inventory-management models describing a market with two substitutable products, under stockout-based substitution; i.e. when a customer’s preferred product is out-of-stock, s/he may choose to purchase the substitute. Two settings are considered: centralised (a single retailer who sells both products) and competitive (two retailers, each selling one product). For each setting, we derive closed-form analytical solutions for the inventory levels that maximise expected profit. The model is further enriched with sales data from an online apparel retailer offering substitutable products (a sneaker in different colours), and we analyse the sensitivity of the optimal inventory levels and profits to parameter values. Key findings include the following: (i) Under competitive conditions, both retailers always order positive inventory so as not to lose customers. However, in a single-retailer setting, there are situations in which the retailer orders inventory for only one product. (ii) The optimal inventory levels and corresponding profits are highly sensitive to consumers’ willingness to substitute between products. These findings provide concrete insights that can guide fashion brands’ inventory-management decisions.
Characterization of Particulate Matter Morphology and Volatility from a Compression-Ignition Natural-Gas Direct-Injection Engine
Creators: name: Graves, Brian
name: Olfert, Jason
name: Patychuk, Bronson
name: Dastanpour, Ramin
name: Rogak, Steven
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The particulate matter (PM) emitted from a single-cylinder compression-ignition, natural-gas engine fitted with a High-Pressure Direct-Injection (HPDI) system distinctly different from a duel fuel engine was investigated, and characterized by size distribution, morphology, mass-mobility exponent, effective density, volatility, mixing state, and primary particle size using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and tandem measurements from differential mobility analyzers (DMA) and a centrifugal particle mass analyzer (CPMA). Six engine conditions were selected with varying load, speed, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) fraction, and fuel delivery strategy. An increase in engine load increased both the number concentration and the geometric mean diameter of the particulate. The fraction of the number of purely volatile particles to total number of particles (number volatile fraction, NVF) was found to decrease as load increased, although at the lower speed, partially premixed mode, the lowest NVF. All size distributions were also found to be unimodal. The size-segregated ratio of the mass of internally mixed volatile material to total particle mass (mass volatile fraction, MVF) decreased with load and with particle mobility-equivalent diameter. A roughly constant amount of volatile material is likely produced at each engine mode, and the decrease in MVF is due to the increase in PM number with load. Effective density and mass-mobility exponent of the non-volatile soot at the different engine loads were the same or slightly higher than soot from traditional diesel engines. Denuded effective density trends were observed to collapse to approximately the same line, although engine modes with higher MVFs had slightly higher effective densities suggesting that the soot structures have collapsed into more dense shapes—a suspicion that is confirmed with TEM images. TEM results also indicated that primary particle size first decreases from low to medium load, then increases from medium to high load. An increase in EGR was also seen to increase primary particle size. Coefficients were determined for a relation that gives primary particle diameter as a function of projected area equivalent diameter. A decrease in load or speed results in a stronger correlation.Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research
Informal economies in international communications: connecting parallel debates
Creators: name: Lobato, Ramon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Public policy is typically focused on reducing and containing shadow trade, yet it is also useful to understand why such activities exist and how they connect with the formal economy. This is of particular relevance to the current discussion about intellectual property rights. Tracing some connections between the shadow economies debate and the 'global piracy' debate, I show how today's communications environment is characterised by different but intersecting modes of economic organization. The formalized consumption patterns underpinning international IP trade are not the natural state of affairs from which shadow economies depart, but rather a historically specific market environment that has been politically produced and must be constantly maintained.
DFT study on the conformational and vibrational properties of 3'-deoxycytidine and its analogues
Creators: name: Ahmed, Marawan
name: Yu, Aimin
name: Wang, Feng
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340799
subject: Theoretical and computational chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Impact of saturation of the sugar C(3')=C(4') bond of acytidine nucleoside derivative, 3', 4'-didehydro-3'-deoxycytidine (I) is revealed usingsimulated vibrational spectra, with respect to 3'-deoxycytidine. The density functional theory based calculations found that the C(3')=C(4') double bondrestricts the sugar flexibility and affects the sugar-base intramolecular hydrogen bond network. For 3'-dC, two minimal energy conformers are identified on the potential energy surface. The first conformer (IIA) takes anO4'-endo and gauche-gauche (gg) orientation whereas the second (IIB) has a C3'-exo and gauche-trans (gt) orientation in gas phase. The two conformers which have been observed previously in the crystal structure are separated by a low energy barrier. The carbon double bond in the sugar moiety of I confines the pseudorotation of the pentagon ring to be significantly flatter than that of the sugar ring in IIA and IIB. The simulated vibrational spectra, both in gas phase and in solutions, report such structural caused spectral changes with red and blue vibrational frequency shifts.The firsthydration shell of 3'-dC has been also investigated applying hybrid QM/MM molecular dynamic simulation.
Questions & Answers & Tweets
Creators: name: Given, Jock
name: Radywyl, Natalia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article reports on the integration of Twitter messages into the live television broadcast of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) weekly public affairs discussion program, Q&A. The program first went to air in May 2008; Twitter integration began two years later. Twitter integration is an evolving example of 'participation television', but not one that involves the kind of remote-control/set-top-box interactivity that digital television promised. Q&A integrates broadcast and online content in a way the program makers thought would serve the animating purpose of the television program: to increase public engagement in politics. It is an attempt to use the internet to make television better rather than to concede its eclipse, by marrying brief fragments of online speech with the one-way, single-channel authority of a television program broadcast live across a nation by a public service broadcaster. The research draws on data about Twitter use supplied by the ABC and its contractor TweeVee TV, OzTAM television ratings data, interviews and email correspondence with ABC staff and others conducted by the two authors between June and October 2011, and observations on the making of the episode of the show in Sydney on 29 May 2011.
Classification-tree restructuring methodologies: A new perspective
Creators: name: Chen, Tsong
name: Poon, P. L.
name: Tse, T. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The classification-tree method developed by Grochtmann et al. provided a useful approach for constructing test cases from functional specifications. It was automated by Chen and Poou through their tree construction methodology. In a follow-up study, Chen and Poon found that the cffectiveness of constructing lcgitimate test cases could be improved under certain circumstances via a classification-tree restructuring algorithm. We develop another tree restructuring algorithm to cater for other situations not covered previously. The algorithms complement each other. We also compare the relative effectiveness of these algorithms and provide guidelines on applying them in practice.
Entrepreneurship education: the case for adopting the team-based learning approach
Creators: name: Rushworth, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Entrepreneurship education makes extensive use of experiential learning, but the experiential activities are often not underpinned by established theory, or rely on a narrow base of theory informed by the research interests of the teaching staff (Fiet, 2000a). Students often resist theory classes, perceiving them as boring and irrelevant (Fiet, 2000b). Fiet argued for teaching through a combination of theory and activity, where the relevance of theory is clearly demonstrated through activities based on problems the theory purports to explain or solve. The Team-Based Learning approach (Michaelson, 2002) is a specific technique that facilitates this process, and yet has not been widely adopted by entrepreneurship educators apart from Michaelson himself. This discussion paper compares the TBL process with the pedagogical principles outlined by Fiet (and supported by other research in entrepreneurship education), reports a specific experience of using TBL in an integrative business unit, and calls for wider adoption of TBL in entrepreneurship teaching.
Comparative Analysis of Betalain Content in Stenocereus Stellatus Fruits and Other Cactus Fruits Using Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Pérez-Loredo, María Guadalupe
name: García-Ochoa, Felipe
name: Barragán-Huerta, Blanca E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine

description: Stenocereus stellatus fruits from Puebla, Mexico, with red, purple, yellow, and white pulp were characterized regarding their total betalain content, and physicochemical properties. The total betalain content was 856.07–2968 µg per gram of pulp dry weight. Using principal component analysis, the levels of pigments in S. stellatus fruits were compared with 32 samples from other cactus fruits. As a result, three confidence intervals for total betalain content (μg g−1) were calculated: low (<1208), medium (2935–3288), and high (4488–9248). Thus, the cactus fruits can be categorized as a poor, good, and excellent source of betalain pigments.
A quantitative analysis of tissue development: understanding the role of two mutually repressing transcription factors, Irx3 and Olig2, in the developing spinal cord
Creators: name: Garcia-Perez, Lorena Belen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The plasticity required to form a multicellular organism is frequently manifested in cells switching between different gene expression programmes during development. One mechanism underpinning this is the genetic toggle switch, which is composed of cross-repressing transcriptional determinants that ensure discrete and robust cell fate transitions. Thus, a detailed molecular understanding of how genetic switches operate is important. To address this, I focused on the transcription factors Irx3 and Olig2, which form a genetic switch controlled by the Shh morphogen that determines the generation of V2 interneuron and motor neuron progenitors in the vertebrate neural tube. The relative molecular abundance of Irx3 and Olig2 was measured, both at the mRNA and protein levels, in the mouse embryonic spinal cord. In addition, their corresponding absolute abundances were determined using an in vitro system of neural differentiation. Olig2 expression proved to be several times higher than Irx3 expression. However, Olig2 protein stability was found to be less than half of Irx3 stability. To explore the influence of molecular stability and abundance, Irx3 protein stability was selectively decreased, which concomitantly reduced Irx3 protein copy number per cell. This perturbation altered the transition path from Irx3 to Olig2 expressing cells and lead to a faster Irx3-to-Olig2 transition. Moreover, it increased the probability, amplitude and variability of Olig2 transcription, and affected another Shh-responsive gene, Gli1. Finally, the transcriptional effects of the reduced Irx3 protein stability and copy number resembled those seen in cells lacking the Irx3 protein. Overall this work provides insight into the intrinsic molecular properties that determine aspects of cell fate transitions, such as their start and end points, rate and variability. Furthermore, the quantitative molecular measurements presented here can be used to constrain mathematical models of gene expression and make predictions about genetic switches in other scenarios.
'I'd grown up as a child amongst natives': Ruth Heathcock (1901-1995): disrupting settler-colonial orthodoxy through friendship and cross-cultural literacy in creolised spaces of the Australian contact zone
Creators: name: Hughes, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 450107
subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history

description: Growing up in the small River Murray town of Wellington, South Australia as the twentieth century turned, Henrietta (Ruth) Sabina Heathcock (nee Rayney) enjoyed a childhood shaped as much by Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal friends and elders, as by her close-knit Anglo-Irish family. The Rayney family lived on the eastern, Aboriginal, side of town, where Ngarrindjeri had lived for millennia, and where, in the 1880s, a group of Ngarrindjeri families from nearby Point McLeay Mission had been granted hard-won title to farm the land and raise their families (Jenkin 1979, 229-231). Wellington, indeed, was one of a number of pockets across colonial Australia where lived processes of negotiation and exchange between Aboriginal peoples and newcomers blurred social boundaries and mapped dynamic inter-cultural terrains on the frontier (see for example Hughes 2012, Balint 2012, Ryan 2011, Landon and Tonkin 1999, Yu 1994). Reflecting on her childhood friendships forged at Wellington in the first two decades of the 1900s, Ruth Heathcock recalled, 'I went to school with Aboriginal children. Skin colour? It was all the same to me. I didn't even know it existed' (Hughes 1986). In the following article I explore continuities in the nature of cross-cultural intimacy over time by examining the friendships that Ruth Heathcock sustained with Aboriginal people at Wellington, and later across a range of other sites. These played out against a backdrop of restrictive race-based legislation that attempted to foreclose possibilities for such connectivity in early and mid-twentieth century Australia.