cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Skills for Employment in the Environment Profession: insights from Australia
Creators: name: Thomas, Ian
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2018

description: Like other professionals, the skills expected to be exercised by those working in the professional environment and sustainability sector cover a wide range. There has been considerable discussion given to what this range embraces, and which are the more important of the skills. Also discussed has been the terminology associated with skills; i.e. core skills, generic skills, transferable skills, competencies, capabilities, and more. An electronic survey of environment professionals based in Australia provided the opportunity to explore the skills that a sample of these professionals considered to be important in their professional work. The results indicated that the critical generic skills for being an environmental professional are: communication (written); project management; interpersonal skills; judgment and decision making; scientific approach and application; team work (coordination); initiative and enterprise; and computer skills. Considering others’ work regarding other professions, it appears that many of the skills in this list are also relevant to a range of professions. Further, the broad relevance of these skills is indicated as the survey participants considered them to be important for specific (current) jobs and for working in the sector generally. Surprisingly critical thinking, which is often noted in the literature as a high priority, was considered important for current positions, but not so for working in the sector generally. Also, the participants indicated little appreciation of aspects of ‘normative skills’; suggesting that practitioners are focused on skills needed for ‘getting the job done’, but show little recognition of what the ‘job is and its implications’. The results provide a snap-shot of the profession, and point to areas of research regarding the skills that future environment, and other, professionals will need, and how educational institutions will have to respond; given fast moving climate change, alongside the continuing roll-out of automation in work-places.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 2 (2018)
SP Fig. 1. LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of Carboniferous ash layers in the Cantabrian Zone (N Spain): stratigraphic implications
Creators: name: Merino-Tomé, Oscar
name: Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gabriel
name: Villa, Elisa
name: Fernández-Suárez, Javier
name: Llaneza, Jaime Martín
name: Hofmann, Mandy
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: SP Fig. 1. Synthetic stratigraphic section of the Baleas and Alba Formation in the Las Baleas section with the location of samples BA-1 and BA-2. Conodont zones of the Baleas Formation and the base of the Alba Formation according García-Alcalde (1985). Conodont zones of the Alba Formation according Sánz-López & Blanco-Ferrera (2012).
Estimation of mean sedimentary rates. LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of Carboniferous ash layers in the Cantabrian Zone (N Spain): stratigraphic implications
Creators: name: Merino-Tomé, Oscar
name: Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gabriel
name: Villa, Elisa
name: Fernández-Suárez, Javier
name: Llaneza, Jaime Martín
name: Hofmann, Mandy
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: SP Table 2. Estimation of mean sedimentary rates.
Optimising research ethics review: Combining regulatory support and ethics consultation to enhance efficiency of university research ethics review
Creators: name: Palmer, Nicole Robyn
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2018

description: A significant factor in REC efficiency has been identified as the quality of administrative and regulatory support for researchers making applications to research ethics committees. Incomplete or poorly completed applications can result in significant delays for researchers. Evidence shows that good quality support for applicants prior to submission can facilitate efficient and expeditious review by improving the quality of applications. UK universities are urged to provide adequate resources to support provision of regulatory support and ethics consultancy services to researchers. In turn, this can reduce delays to research, and help ensure that research supported by universities is good quality and safeguards human research participants
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 2 (2018)
Survey 2
Creators: name: Meredith, Laura
name: Youngerman, Connor
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2018
Subjects: CO2
COS
OCS
carbon cycle
carbonyl sulfide
gas flux
redox
soil

description: Survey 2 soils were used for experiments exploring the response of OCS to light. We characterized 12 widely measured properties in Survey 2 that are useful for predictive models including soil C, N, pH, and redox.
ICT Skill Frameworks: Do They Achieve Their Goals and Users' Expectations?
Creators: name: Brown, Jason
name: Parr, Alan
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2018

description: Objective: To analyze critically the features of existing ICT skill frameworks. Methods: First a simple skill framework is introduced based upon the nominal division between hard and soft skills. Then three existing ICT skill frameworks, specifically SFIA, e-CF and SF for ICT, are compared with the simple skill framework and each other to understand and facilitate a critical analysis of their salient features. Results: The existing frameworks differ in a number of significant areas, including the number of hard skills and the treatment of soft skills. Furthermore, all three frameworks surveyed might be considered somewhat complex in terms of defining skill proficiency using multiple attributes and the intricacy of the skill/proficiency mapping. Finally, there is a lack of unambiguous and universal certification criteria, which limits the portability of the frameworks between organizations. Conclusions: The significant differences between and the complexity of existing ICT skill frameworks implies that debate is still required about how an ICT skill framework should be designed to be of maximum use. Furthermore, the lack of unambiguous and universal certification criteria is an inhibiting factor to the more wide scale use of such frameworks because it limits the portability between organizations.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 2 (2018)
Sterilization Mechanism of Nitrogen Gas Plasma Exposure
Creators: name: SciDoc Publishers
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: As already published by Shintani et al, gas plasma sterilization is the alternative sterilization procedures to the existing sterilization procedures due to applicable to the several sensitive healthcare products and attainable both sterility assurance level (SAL) of 10-6 and material/functional compatibility, which authorities and GMP (good manufacturing practice) are required. In addition there was progress in the field of plasma-based sterilization, there are still some questions. The aim of this editorial is to mention briefly some of un-resolved sterilization mechanisms as well as to draw further perspectives of sterilization technique.
Inactivation of Bacterial Spore, Endotoxin, Lipid A, Normal Prion and Abnormal Prion by Nitrogen Gas Plasma Exposure
Creators: name: SciDoc Publishers
name: Hideharu Shintani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This review discusses the application of non-equilibrium several sorts of gases plasma discharges for the sterilization and disinfection towards spores or bioburden on/in the healthcare products or biological indicator. The basic properties of electrical discharges are briefly reviewed and thereafter it discusses the interactions of gas plasma with several sorts of biological systems such as bacteria, bacterial spores, endotoxins, lipid A and normal and abnormal prion proteins.
Evaluating the response of the Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer to monoterpene- and isoprene-derived organic nitrate standards
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Masayuki
name: Wang, Yuchen
name: Nault, Benjamin A.
name: Chen, Yunle
name: Canagaratna, Manjula R.
name: Ng, Nga L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: An accurate quantification of organic nitrate (RONO2) is important owing to its contribution to organic aerosol (OA) and its impacts on NOx cycling and ozone formation. Here, we calibrate and evaluate the response of the Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) to synthetic monoterpene- and isoprene-derived RONO2 standards. The dominant fraction of nitrogen is detected as NO2+ and NO+ ions in the AMS with the NOx ratio (NO2+/NO+) being substantially lower than that of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3). The NOx ratio also varies among the RONO2 standards, possibly driven by the proximity of other functional groups to the nitrate group and/or the position to which the nitrate group is attached (aliphatic vs. cyclic). The best match of the nitrogen-containing moiety mass concentrations of particulate RONO2 (pRONO2) between the AMS and a condensation particle counter (CPC) is observed when the CPC-derived concentrations are calculated using a molecular weight of 46 g mol−1 (NO2) rather than commonly assumed 62 g mol−1 (NO3). This result is consistent with the thermal decomposition on the AMS vaporizer predominantly breaking the O–N bond rather than the R–O bond of R–O–NO2 species. The estimation of pRONO2 mass concentration by the AMS depends on the identity of the measured nitrogen-containing moiety of pRONO2, which for the AMS has been historically assumed as NO3 (62 g mol−1) instead of NO2 (46 g mol−1) as found in this study. Therefore, actual pRONO2 mass concentrations as well as their contribution to OA could be higher than previously reported in literature by 35%, further highlighting the prevalence of pRONO2 in ambient environments. Copyright © 2024 American Association for Aerosol Research
Bioequivalence Evaluation of Two Formulations of Celecoxib 200 mg Capsules in Healthy volunteers by using a validated LC/MS/MS method
Creators: name: SciDoc Publishers
name: Sy-Yeuan Ju
name: Chen, Yun-Chun
name: Hsuan-Kai Tzeng
name: Shen-Wei Chen
name: Guei-Tsern Guo
name: Chun-Hsu Juan
name: Jhu-Ting Syu
name: Yeh, Yi-Hui
name: Wen-Kuei Chang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The bioequivalence study to compare a new formulation of celecoxib to its reference formulation was designed as an open-label, randomized, single-dose, two-way crossover, comparative bioavailability study by using a validated LC/MS/MS method. In order to determine the plasma concentrations of celecoxib, a sensitive LC/MS/MS method was developed. The method was validated to possess adequate specificity, linearity, precision, accuracy and stability. The linearity of calibration curve was assessed between the concentration intervals (5–2000 ng/mL) with a correlation coefficient over 0.999. Regarding pharmacokinetic investigation, the mean celecoxib AUC0-t values from the test and reference drug formulations were 7360.44 ± 1714.14 h•ng/mL and 7267.48 ± 2077.68 h•ng/mL, respectively, and the corresponding AUC0-∞ values were 8197.45 ± 2040.31 h•ng/mL and 7905.54 ± 2286.12 h•ng/mL, respectively. The Cmax of the test and reference drugs was 705.30 ± 290.63 ng/mL and 703.86 ± 329.91 ng/mL, respectively, and the corresponding Tmax was 3.4 ± 1.6 h and 2.9 ± 1.4 h. Lastly, the T1/2 values of the test and reference drugs were 13.9 ± 7.9 h and 12.9 ± 7.7 h, respectively. The 90% confidence intervals for AUC0-t, AUC0-∞, and Cmax were 97.00-108.85, 98.01-112.09, and 93.20-116.13, respectively, satisfying the bioequivalence criteria of 80-125% range. In conclusion, these results demonstrated that the bioequivalence of two formulations of celecoxib was established successfully by utilizing present developed LC/MS/MS method.
Utilization of Alizarin Red Sulphonate (ARS) as Chromogenic Reagent for Determination of 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid pesticide (2,4-D) Residues
Creators: name: SciDoc Publishers
name: Fatta KA
name: Elobeid HA
name: Elbashir AA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Spectrophotometric method has been developed and validated for the determination of 2,4-D residues in water and tomato. The proposed method is based on the derivatization of 2,4-D pesticide with Alizarin Red Sulphonate (ARS) as chromogenic reagent. In slightly acidic medium pH 6, a dark Purple – colored product exhibiting maximum absorption peak (λmax) at 563 nm was formed. The variables that affected the reaction such as pH, temperature, reaction time and the amount of ARS reagent and buffer were carefully studied and optimized. Under the optimum conditions, Beer’s law is obeyed in the range 3- 40 μg/mL of 2,4-D at maximum wavelength of 563 nm. The linear regression equation of the calibration curve is A= 0.0795 + 0.0212 c (μg/mL), with a linear regression correlation coefficient of 0.9995. The molar absorptivity was 6.35X103 L/mol cm .The limits of detection (LOD) , limit of quantification (LOQ) and Sandell sensitivity were 0.8911 μg/ mL , 2.7003 μg/mL and 0.0348 ug/cm2 respectively. The recovery in the range of 97.33 - 102.89 % was obtained. The proposed method has been successfully applied to the determination of 2,4-D pesticide residues in tomato and water samples with good accuracy and precision.
Syntheses, structures and properties of four second-sphere coordination complexes via metal halide anion and naphthalene-based ligand
Creators: name: Li, Lei
name: Duan, Wen-Long
name: Tong, Jian
name: Fu, Yan-Qing
name: Zhang, Rong-Rong
name: Jiang, Ren-Wang
name: Guo, Fang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Second-sphere coordination refers to any intermolecular interactions with the ligands directly bound to the primary coordination sphere of a metal ion. Four supramolecular complexes, 0.5[L·2H]2+·0.5[MCl4]2−·[CH3OH]·0.5[CH2Cl2] (M = Co, crystal 1; M = Mn, crystal 2), 0.5[L·2H]2+·0.5[ZnBr4]2−·[CH3OH]·0.5[CH2Cl2] (crystal 3), and 0.5[L·2H]2+·0.5[Cu2Br4]2−·H2O (crystal 4), based on naphthalene-based ligand N,N,N′,N′-tetra-p-methylnaphthyl-ethanediamine (L), have been synthesized. X-ray analysis reveals that 1–3 are isostructural, in which the methanol molecules are bridges, connecting the protonated L and metal chloride anions via N–H⋯O and O–H⋯Cl (Br) interactions to construct the host framework, and forming X-shaped cavity accessible for the inclusion of weakly polar guest molecules of dichloromethane. Dichloromethane is connected with the host framework through van der Waals forces. In 4, a dinuclear anion [Cu2Br4]2− is connected with the ligand through N–H⋯Br interactions, in which the water molecules are accommodated between chains formed by the ligand and [Cu2Br4]2−. Structure stability, thermal analysis, and photoluminescent properties were studied for 1–4.
Syntheses, structures and properties of four second-sphere coordination complexes via metal halide anion and naphthalene-based ligand
Creators: name: Li, Lei
name: Duan, Wen-Long
name: Tong, Jian
name: Fu, Yan-Qing
name: Zhang, Rong-Rong
name: Jiang, Ren-Wang
name: Guo, Fang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Second-sphere coordination refers to any intermolecular interactions with the ligands directly bound to the primary coordination sphere of a metal ion. Four supramolecular complexes, 0.5[L·2H]2+·0.5[MCl4]2−·[CH3OH]·0.5[CH2Cl2] (M = Co, crystal 1; M = Mn, crystal 2), 0.5[L·2H]2+·0.5[ZnBr4]2−·[CH3OH]·0.5[CH2Cl2] (crystal 3) and 0.5[L·2H]2+·0.5[Cu2Br4]2−·H2O (crystal 4), based on naphthalene-based ligand N,N,N′,N′-tetra-p-methylnaphthyl-ethanediamine (L), have been synthesized. X-ray analysis reveals that 1-3 are isostructural, in which the methanol molecules are bridges, connecting the protonated L and metal chloride anions via N-H···O and O-H···Cl (Br) interactions to construct the host framework, and forming X-shaped cavity accessible for the inclusion of weakly polar guest molecules of dichloromethane. Dichloromethane is connected with the host framework through van der Waals forces. In 4, a dinuclear anion [Cu2Br4]2− is connected with the ligand through N-H···Br interactions, in which the water molecules are accommodated between chains formed by the ligand and [Cu2Br4]2-. Structure stability, thermal analysis and photoluminescent properties were studied for 1-4.
Two-Dimensional, Three-Dimensional and n-Dimensional Recurrence Relations of Jacobsthal
Creators: name: dos Santos Mangueira, M.C.
name: Machado Vieria, R.P.
name: Vieira Alves, F.G.
name: Machado Cruz Catarino, P.M.
name: de Sousa, R.T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: See the abstract in the attached pdf.
General Supplementary Information from Big city Bombus: using natural history and land-use history to find significant environmental drivers in bumble-bee declines in urban development
Creators: name: Glaum, Paul
name: Maria-Carolina Simao
name: Chatura Vaidya
name: Fitch, Gordon
name: Iulinao, Benjamin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting detail on data collection and statistical analysis
Cloning and differential expression of Na,K-ATPase in Penaeus vannamei
Creators: name: Sun, Hongyan
name: Dong, Junde
name: Ren, Chunhua
name: Zhang, Lvping
name: Dan, Xueming
name: Chen, Chang
name: Zhang, Yuanzhou
name: Hu, Chaoqun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: To better understand the adaptive strategies of osmotic and ionic regulation in Penaeus vannamei, a full-length cDNA sequence encoding the Na,K-ATPase alpha subunit was isolated and characterized by rapid amplification of the cDNA ends (RACE). The nucleotide sequence was 3953 bp in length and included a 300 bp 5′ untranslated region (UTR), 536 bp 3′ UTR with an AATAA canonical polyadenylation signal sequence and poly (A) tail, and a 3117 bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding a 1038 amino acid protein. The calculated molecular weight of the protein was 115.4 kDa with an estimated pI of 5.29. This sequence was submitted to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank under accession number KF765670. A phenetic analysis showed that the Na,K-ATPase α-subunit of P. vannamei shared a high degree of identity with other species. The relevant mRNA was detected in all of the tissues examined by fluorescent quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. The expression level was higher in the gills and hepatopancreas, and lower in the guts, muscles and epithelia. Increased expression of Na,K-ATPase mRNA levels was observed in all of the tissues examined in response to salinity exposure, and there was a significant difference in the tissues of the gills and hepatopancreas (P < 0.05); however, no statistical difference was observed in the epithelia, guts and muscles compared with the controls (P > 0.05). The findings demonstrated that the Na,K-ATPase α-subunit is highly conserved in crustaceans, and differential expression in different tissues of P. vannamei was observed, indicating that the gene might have multiple functions in the shrimp.
Supplementary document for Multiplicative-noise-multiplexing holography with ultrahigh capacity and low crosstalk - 6878039.pdf
Creators: name: Tang, Wenhao
name: Yuan, Huan
name: Zhong, Zheqiang
name: Zhang, Bin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Reflective Practice and Professional Development
Creators: name: Minton, Ann
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: The book aims to encourage readers to reflect on their professional teaching practice, drawing on a range of models and techniques. It discusses a range of approaches to reflective practice, contextualising these to the classroom and discussing ways in which the effectiveness of reflection can be enhanced. It goes on to discuss ways in which reflective practice can improve the achievements of staff and students. The book is approachable and engaging, containing a range of case studies and examples from practice in primary schools and Initial Teacher Education, together with a range of useful resources and tools.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Supervision in the Helping Professions
Creators: name: Nice, Terence L.
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: Hawkins and Shohet (2012) have surveyed and concisely mapped the developing and changing landscape of supervision, including the recognition and impact of new technologies including e-supervision. They have added new chapters and ideas, with the second edition including a chapter on diversity. The latest edition recognises the importance of complex ethical challenges and working with cultural difference in the milieu of transcultural supervision. The authors interrogate the economic, demographic and ecological crises that irrevocably face humanity in the context of an exponentially growing population, diminishing resources and global economic disruption. Hawkins and Shohet (2012) reason that supervision in the helping professions will have its part to play in mediating what they describe as ‘the Great Disruption’ (Gilding, 2011). The purpose of the book is to assist supervisors and supervisees in developing an integrated and relationally based supervisory approach, combining the essential elements of development, support, reflection and qualitative evaluation.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
A new potent immunosuppressive isoflavanonol from Campylotropis hirtella
Creators: name: Xuan, Bixia
name: Du, Xing
name: Li, Xiaoping
name: Shen, Zhengwu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Four new flavonoids were isolated from Campylotropis hirtella and these are a chromone and a 2H-chromene, an isoflavone and an isoflavanonol. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic measurements. All of the compounds were assessed for immunosuppressive activity. Compound 4 showed very strong T lymphocyte suppression activity (IC50: 0.13 μM) and potent B lymphocyte suppression activity (IC50: 0.26 μM). Due to its potent immunosuppressive activity and lower cytotoxicity, further structure–activity studies will be pursued on this compound.
Distance Learning: Can Telesupervision Facilitate GP Educator Supervision?
Creators: name: Sharma, Purnima
name: Parkin, Claire
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Distance learning involving both time-synchronous (telephone) and asynchronous media (email, podcasts) has been used successfully in education and supervision of allied medical specialties over the years. However the poor social presence afforded by such electronic interfaces has, until recently, limited the application of distance learning to post- graduate medical education. High-quality real-time audio-visual communication software is now widely available and being used increasingly for social communication by more and more people. Could this technology be used to facilitate the educational development of remote learners? This paper offers the experience of senior GP Educators using remote, time-synchronous, audio- visual technology (namely Skype) to provide distance supervision to a peer educator.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Is there Gender Bias in Key Stage 3 Science Textbooks?: Content Analysis Using the Gender Bias 14 (GB14) Measurement Tool.
Creators: name: Parkin, Claire L.
name: Mackenzie, Sharron
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background: In recent times, there has been much interest in the worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) over why a gender gap exists. The gap exists from as early as infancy and continues onwards through to secondary school where it has been shown to influence choice of A-Level’s. The result of this gender gap is therefore thought to influence future career options and the longer term career trajectory. The objective of this study was to develop an instrument that measures overall gender bias, or genderness, within key stage 3 textbooks; Textbooks which may be exerting an influence on an individual’s choice of A level study, and their subsequent career. Methods: Using descriptors that reflect different aspects of genderness, the Gender Bias 14 (GB14) tool was developed, piloted and tested for inter-rater reliability. The tool was then used to analyse the content of Key Stage 3 textbooks for genderness and a genderness score was generated for each chapter. Results: With high rater-reliability, the GB14 tool was used to analyse the content of all key stage three science textbooks for gender bias and a genderness score was generated. Results have demonstrated that of the 18 chapters across the entire Key Stage 3 Science curriculum textbooks, 16 of those chapters were highly male biased. Overall, there were more male images, more male role-models, more male pronouns, more male-gendered words and more occasions where the ‘status’ of the male was ‘improved’ compared to the female measured status. Conclusion: The GB14 analysis tool has determined that the Collins Textbooks for Key Stage 3 Science are very highly gendered and have a strong bias towards males which, whilst the impact has not been directly measured here, has the potential to severely disadvantage females students within the classroom. This further adds to the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ which reportedly influences students future life choices (Wren, 1999; Blumberg, 2008; Michalec, 2011). The GB14 fulfils modern measurement tool requirements for content validity and provides a global score of genderness severity present within textbooks.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Editorial
Creators: name: Parkin, Claire L.
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: The Advanced Journal of Professional Practice (AJPP) has been established as a portal for new knowledge created for the advancement of Professional Practice. This journal will host contemporary research articles, narrative reflections on practice as well as creative and innovative papers. The journal also welcomes submissions of an untraditional nature, but which demonstrate translational work-related professional practice application.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Influential Journey’s Through Dental Communities of Practice: A Phenomenological Based Enquiry Approach
Creators: name: Reed, Debbie
name: Woodruff, Helen
name: Hopper, Tania
name: Nicholls, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: Objective: To identify meaningful factors influencing the dental professional’s transit within Communities of Practice (CoPs). Methods: A phenomenological methodology approach was taken to conduct interviews with 7 dental elites (plus 1 pilot interview) identified through purposive sampling; all had held central positions of influence within dental CoPs; all had journeyed to those positions from the periphery of the Community of Practice (CoP). A semi-structured phenomenological based interview schedule was utilised for data collection and thematic analysis was employed for data analysis. Results:Coding led to the identification of four progressive and interlinked emergent themes related to the meanings that the individual participants placed on their journeys undertaken from peripheral participation to the centre: Self Awareness; Social Awareness; Cultural Awareness and Transformatory Awareness. Conclusion: The journeys undertaken by individuals navigating their own trajectory within a dental CoP require a significant undertaking of awareness development across a number of significant areas. Successful negotiation of those sites requires a preparedness for growth, adaption and evolution. The implications for practice and suggestions for other research are included.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Caminhos de fogo: da transmutação à "invenção do oxigênio" - Como a História da Química pode contribuir para um ensino que privilegie o "saber pensar"
Creators: name: Silva Júnior, Aroldo da
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1998
Subjects: Ensino de Química; História da Química.

description: Este trabalho envolve a História da Química, a Filosofia da Ciência e o Ensino de Química em torno da Revolução Química do século XVIII, do Princípio de Conservação das Massas e da Teoria do Oxigênio, abordando o desenvolvimento do pensamento químico a partir de uma das mais elementares reações químicas: a combustão. A intenção é propiciar elementos capazes de mostrar, ou pelo menos indicar, a Química enquanto processo criativo, essencialmente humano e de construção permanente, que se dá a partir de tentativas, conflitos de ideias, rupturas, avanços, retrocessos, e não reduzida a um mero produto cumulativo, como se fosse resultado de uma regularidade linear e ascendente dos degraus de uma escada, onde apenas mentes privilegiadas poderiam avançar.
 O cientista virou um mito. E todo mito é perigoso, porque ele induz o comportamento e inibe o pensamento. (...) existe uma classe especializada em pensar de maneira correta (os cientistas), os outros indivíduos são liberados da obrigação de pensar e podem simplesmente fazer o que os cientistas mandam. (...) Afinal de contas, para que serve a nossa cabeça? Ainda podemos pensar? Adianta pensar? Antes de mais nada é necessário acabar com o mito de que o cientista é uma pessoa que pensa melhor do que as outras (Alves, R. A., 1995, p. 11).
description: Monografia/Especialização/"A Química e suas aplicações"/UEM-PR.
Supplementary Methods and Results: Phylogenetic Analysis, Model Performance, and Sampling Bias from Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics
Creators: name: Slater, Graham J.
name: Goldbogen, Jeremy
name: Pyenson, Nicholas D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology

description: Vertebrates have evolved to gigantic sizes repeatedly over the past 250 Myr, reaching their extreme in today's baleen whales (Mysticeti). Hypotheses for the evolution of exceptionally large size in mysticetes range from niche partitioning to predator avoidance, but there has been no quantitative examination of body size evolutionary dynamics in this clade and it remains unclear when, why or how gigantism evolved. By fitting phylogenetic macroevolutionary models to a dataset consisting of living and extinct species, we show that mysticetes underwent a clade-wide shift in their mode of body size evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene. This transition, from Brownian motion-like dynamics to a trended random walk towards larger size, is temporally linked to the onset of seasonally intensified upwelling along coastal ecosystems. High prey densities resulting from wind-driven upwelling, rather than abundant resources alone, are the primary determinant of efficient foraging in extant mysticetes and Late Pliocene changes in ocean dynamics may have provided an ecological pathway to gigantism in multiple independent lineages.
Telesupervision in General Practice Training: A Case Study
Creators: name: Brunet, Martin
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: While recruitment to General Practice (GP) is a Government priority (NHS England, 2016), matching trainees to available trainers can be challenging. Remote supervision using Digital Video Conferencing (DVC) technology (telesupervision) has proven to be a workable solution to overcome this problem (Dudding, 2009; Brandoff and Lombardi, 2012) since supervisors can engage in effective supervision even when geographically distant from the supervisee. However, this has not been studied in GP training. The use of telesupervision in GP training adds an extra dimension, since trainees require clinical supervision in their placement practice as well as educational supervision from a qualified GP trainer. Such a model therefore would depend upon a triad of relationships between the trainee and clinical supervisor in one location, and an educational supervisor operating remotely. This Reflection on Practice paper presents a case study of Telesupervision, from the perspective of a GP educational supervisor (ES). It is presented as a real world exploration of the issues that would be encountered in such a model, and explores both the technical aspects of setting up effective telesupervision and the experience of coaching across a DVC platform in the particular context of GP training. Fundamental to the effectiveness of such a model would be the clear demarcation of the roles and responsibilities of the clinical and educational supervisors and their working relationship with the trainee.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Lasiodiplodins from mangrove endophytic fungus Lasiodiplodia sp. 318#
Creators: name: Li, Jing
name: Xue, Yanyu
name: Yuan, Jie
name: Lu, Yongjun
name: Zhu, Xun
name: Lin, Yongcheng
name: Liu, Lan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Four new lasiodiplodins (1–4), together with three known analogues, have been isolated from a mangrove endophytic fungus, Lasiodiplodia sp. 318#. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic techniques. Cytotoxic activities of compounds 1–7 were evaluated in vitro against human cancer lines THP1, MDA-MB-435, A549, HepG2 and HCT-116. Compound 4 exhibited moderate cytotoxic activities.
Novel oral anticoagulants in oral and maxillofacial surgery: a comparison with warfarin between 2012-2014
Creators: name: Din, Nazia
name: Andrew, Barrett
name: Eaton, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2017

description: The records of anticoagulated patients who attended a maxillofacial surgical unit between 2012 and 2014 were reviewed. Data on 319 procedures performed on 249 patients were retrieved. During this period only seven patients (2.8%) were taking novel anticoagulants (NOACs) compared with 242 (97.2%) on warfarin. The seven patients underwent 11 surgical procedures. None of the seven were seen in 2012, three were seen in January 2013, the remaining four in 2014. Twenty-four (7.5%) of the 319 episodes were followed by prolonged bleeding; all occurred in patients taking warfarin. The seven NOAC patients’ hospital notes contained no recorded documentation of renal function, specifically the creatinine clearance or estimated glomerular filtration rate.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 1 No 1 (2017)
Pretreatment, Analysis, Identification and Preparation of Toxic Compounds Eluted into Body Fluids from Medical and Dental Devices
Creators: name: SciDoc Publishers
name: Hideharu Shintani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Selective analysis of toxic compounds in complicated matrix such as body fluids is extremely difficult. This is because unexpected interference admixtures with almost identical retention time in chromatography may co-elute with overlapping. 1t is essential to remove admixtures byappropriate pretreatment procedures. For that purpose there may be several sorts of pretreatment methods such as liquid-liquid extraction or solid phase extraction (SPE) using column, membrane dialysis filtration ultra-filtration super fluid critical extraction SFE or adsorption using charcoal or other appropriate adsorbents. It has been reported several pretreatment methods for acidic, basic and neutral compounds in biological fluids. Body fluids direct injection column is also available in the market, however this column has restriction of concentration of organic solvent in the eluent up to 20% of methanol (18% of acetonitrile), thus resulting in poor or no elution of strongly hydrophobic compounds on reverse phase. The reason of restriction is prevention of coagulation of denaturated protein in the reversed phase column. Artifact formation must also be considered during pretreatment methods. Artifact formation may cause lower recovery of the compound of interest and may also cause misunderstanding to the researcher, which they may extract unexpected highly strong toxic compound. According to the recent advancement of analytical column fabrication technology, several new columns based on innovated technology are now commercially available. Some of them can be resulted in incompletely residual silanol column, so common ion addition is required for strongly basic or acidic compounds analysis or ion-pair method is required. Ion-pair method is so popular but it often causes to shorten column life by retaining and spoiling the column with ion paring reagent. These columns are also described by comparing conventional columns in this paper.
Isolation and identification of polyphenols from Marsilea quadrifolia with antioxidant properties in vitro and in vivo
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuan
name: Tian, Hai-Yan
name: Tan, Ya-Fang
name: Wong, Yuk-Lau
name: Yan Wu, Hoi
name: Jia, Jun-Feng
name: Wang, Guo-En
name: Gao, Jing-Jing
name: Li, Yi-Fang
name: Kurihara, Hiroshi
name: Shaw, Pang-Chui
name: Jiang, Ren-Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Marsilea quadrifolia is an edible aquatic medicinal plant used as a traditional health food in Asia. Four new polyphenols including kaempferol 3-O-(2″-O-E-caffeoyl)-β-d-glucopyranoside (1), kaempferol 3-O-(3″-O-E-caffeoyl)-α-l-arabinopyranoside (3), 4-methy-3′-hydroxypsilotinin (4) and (±)-(E)-4b-methoxy-3b,5b-dihydroxyscirpusin A (18) together with 14 known ones (2, 5–17) were isolated from the ethanol extract of M. quadrifolia. Structures of the new compounds were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analyses. In DPPH and oxygen radical absorbance capacity antioxidant assays, some compounds showed stronger antioxidant activities and quercetin (9) was the most potent antioxidant in both assays. In a restraint-induced oxidative stress model in mice, quercetin significantly attenuated the increase in plasma ALT and AST levels as well as liver MDA content of restrained mice. Liver SOD activity was also significantly increased by quercetin, indicating a significant in vivo antioxidant activity. As a rich source of polyphenols with strong antioxidant activities, M. quadrifolia may be developed to a product for relieving oxidative stress.
C21 Steroidal Glycosides from Prunella vulgaris
Creators: name: Pan, Jie
name: Zheng, Shan
name: Pan, Wei-Dong
name: Lou, Hua-Yong
name: Yao, Jia-Ning
name: Liu, Ya-Zhou
name: Liang, Guang-Yi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Synthesis of D-Sorbose and D-Psicose by Recombinant Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Cai, Li
name: Li, Zijie
name: He, Beibei
name: Gao, Yahui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Development and validation of multi-residue method for determination of 412 pesticide residues in cotton fiber using GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS
Creators: name: Attallah, Emad R.
name: Abdelwahed, Mahmoud Hamdy
name: M. M. Abo-Aly
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The new global concept is to care about textiles and clothes safety to improve the protection of the human health and the environment from the harmful pesticide residues. Very few articles have been published for determination of several pesticide classes in cotton fibers in one multi-residue method. A simple, efficient, sensitive, accurate, and reliable multi-residue method was developed for the determination of 412 residual pesticides in cotton fibers using modified QuEChERS method with Liquid and Gas Chromatography coupled to Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (LC-MS/MS & GC-MS/MS) for qualitative and quantitative analysis according to the international standards concepts. The developed method covered several pesticide classes, including 43 carbamates, 16 pyrethroids, 27 organochlorines (OCs), 54 organophosphorus (Ops), 31 urea derivatives, 7 Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), 6 Neonicotinoid, and 228 other pesticides. Most of the target pesticides were listed in Oeko-Tex Standards, the EU Ecolabel for textile products, and the Egyptian recommendations of the Agricultural Pesticide Committee (APC-Egypt). The method optimization and validation were carried out according to the EU guidelines. The results were shown to be reliable where the corresponding average recoveries within the acceptable range of 70–120%; the relative standard deviations were less than 20%. The limit of quantitation (LOQ) of this method is 0.01 mg kg−1 all pesticides except for 3 GC-compounds and 19 LC-compounds which have LOQ of 0.05 mg kg−1.
RIPK1 regulates survival of human melanoma cells upon endoplasmic reticulum stress through autophagy
Creators: name: Luan, Qi
name: Jin, Lei
name: Chen Jiang, Chen
name: Hong Tay, Kwang
name: Lai, Fritz
name: Ying Liu, Xiao
name: Lun Liu, Yi
name: Tang Guo, Su
name: Ying Li, Chun
name: Guang Yan, Xu
name: Tseng, Hsin-Yi
name: Dong Zhang, Xu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Although RIPK1 (receptor [TNFRSF]-interacting protein kinase 1) is emerging as a critical determinant of cell fate in response to cellular stress resulting from activation of death receptors and DNA damage, its potential role in cell response to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress remains undefined. Here we report that RIPK1 functions as an important prosurvival mechanism in melanoma cells undergoing pharmacological ER stress induced by tunicamycin (TM) or thapsigargin (TG) through activation of autophagy. While treatment with TM or TG upregulated RIPK1 and triggered autophagy in melanoma cells, knockdown of RIPK1 inhibited autophagy and rendered the cells sensitive to killing by TM or TG, recapitulating the effect of inhibition of autophagy. Consistently, overexpression of RIPK1 enhanced induction of autophagy and conferred resistance of melanoma cells to TM- or TG-induced cell death. Activation of MAPK8/JNK1 or MAPK9/JNK2, which phosphorylated BCL2L11/BIM leading to its dissociation from BECN1/Beclin 1, was involved in TM- or TG-induced, RIPK1-mediated activation of autophagy; whereas, activation of the transcription factor HSF1 (heat shock factor protein 1) downstream of the ERN1/IRE1-XBP1 axis of the unfolded protein response was responsible for the increase in RIPK1 in melanoma cells undergoing pharmacological ER stress. Collectively, these results identify upregulation of RIPK1 as an important resistance mechanism of melanoma cells to TM- or TG-induced ER stress by protecting against cell death through activation of autophagy, and suggest that targeting the autophagy-activating mechanism of RIPK1 may be a useful strategy to enhance sensitivity of melanoma cells to therapeutic agents that induce ER stress.