cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Acetate platinum(II) compound with 5,7-ditertbutyl-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine that overcomes cisplatin resistance: structural characterization, in vitro cytotoxicity, and kinetic studies
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Kamil
name: Łakomska, Iwona
name: Wiśniewska, Joanna
name: Kaczmarek-Kędziera, Anna
name: Wietrzyk, Joanna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Pharmacology
Cell Biology
Medicine
Engineering
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The reaction of silver acetate with cis-[PtI2(dbtp)2], where dbtp = 5,7-ditertbutyl-1,2,4-triazolo-[1,5-a]pyrimidine, yielded cis-[Pt(OOCCH3)2(dbtp)2]·dmf (1). The complex has been analyzed by multinuclear magnetic resonance (1H, 13C, 15N), IR, and Raman. The compound formed two rotamers in CDCl3 and its spatial structures have been optimized using computational calculation. It was found that head-to-tail rotamer (1a) is more stable than its head-to-head counterpart (1b). In vitro antiproliferative activity against four tumor cell lines (A549, T47D, FaDu, and A2780cis) revealed in all cases significant cytotoxicity (IC50 = 0.26–1.80 μM), possessing IC50 values at least fivefold lower than cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin (except A2780cis). The remarkable in vitro activity against T47D and A2780cis suggested the ability to overcome cisplatin resistance in these types of tumor cells. In addition, in vitro toxicity was evaluated against BALB/3T3 and has shown that the lipophilic platinum(II) complex (1) inhibits cell proliferation weaker than cisplatin and oxaliplatin. Additionally, cis-[Pt(OOCCH3)2(dbtp)2]·dmf exhibited selective activity, in contrast to cisplatin or oxaliplatin.
title: INVESTIGATING THE BRITISH ASYLUM SYSTEM FOR LESBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL ASYLUM-SEEKERS: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAIRNESS
Creators: name: Khan, TY
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The entitlement of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals to claim asylum on the basis of their sexual identities has been a contentious matter, as sexual identity was not a ground of claim explicitly recognised under the 1951 Refugee Convention. Nonetheless, the United Kingdom (UK) has incrementally recognised the ability of LGB asylum-seekers to claim such protection over the last twenty years. This thesis undertakes a socio-legal investigation of the British asylum system from the perspective of LGB asylum-seekers. Using evaluation theory, it examines the fairness with which LGB asylum claims are treated in the UK, and the standards to which they are entitled. As the starting point, this thesis explores the legitimacy of using fairness as its standard, and examines the content of this standard. From this, it advances ‘structural principles’ that are used to examine the British asylum system since the UK Supreme Court’s seminal decision in HJ (Iran). Investigating the British asylum system through the framework provided by the structural principles is supported by qualitative data obtained from interviews conducted with legal practitioners, activists, academics, decision-makers and asylum-seekers, and from replies to the Freedom of Information requests addressed to the Home Office. This has helped to conduct a substantial analysis of the British asylum system, as experienced by LGB asylum-seekers today. It offers tangible praise, critique and recommendations with respect to their treatment regarding matters of procedural fairness, i.e., that relating to the asylum process itself, and substantive fairness, i.e., matters pertaining to the outcome of the claim for protection. This thesis submits that intersectionality and the diversity of sexual identity should be at the core of an asylum system that deals fairly with LGB claims for asylum in the UK. LGB asylum-seekers require access to an asylum system that is sensitive and empathetic to their experiences, and which avoids essentialising sexual identities and conducting ‘single-axis’ analyses. The system must operate with flexibility, in line with the unique needs and experiences of LGB asylum-seekers, and with respect for their fundamental rights.
Molecular characterization influencing metal resistance in the Cupriavidus/Ralstonia genomes
Creators: name: Pratim Chakraborti
name: Rachana Banerjee
name: Roy, Ayan
name: Mandal, Sunanda
name: Subhasish Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biophysics

description: Our environment is stressed with a load of heavy and toxic metals. Microbes, abundant in our environment, are found to adapt well to this metal-stressed condition. A comparative study among five Cupriavidus/Ralstonia genomes can offer a better perception of their evolutionary mechanisms to adapt to these conditions. We have studied codon usage among 1051 genes common to all these organisms and identified 15 optimal codons frequently used in highly expressed genes present within 1051 genes. We found the core genes of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 have a different optimal codon choice for arginine, glycine and alanine in comparison with the other four bacteria. We also found that the synonymous codon usage bias within these 1051 core genes is highly correlated with their gene expression. This supports that translational selection drives synonymous codon usage in the core genes of these genomes. Synonymous codon usage is highly conserved in the core genes of these five genomes. The only exception among them is C. metallidurans CH34. This genomewide shift in synonymous codon choice in C. metallidurans CH34 may have taken place due to the insertion of new genes in its genomes facilitating them to survive in heavy metal containing environment and the co-evolution of the other genes in its genome to achieve a balance in gene expression. Structural studies indicated the presence of a longer N-terminal region containing a copper-binding domain in the cupC proteins of C. metallidurans CH3 that helps it to attain higher binding efficacy with copper in comparison with its orthologs.
Three-dimensional macro-scale assessment of regional and temporal wall shear stress characteristics on aortic valve leaflets
Creators: name: K. Cao
name: M. BukaČ
name: P. Sucosky
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The aortic valve (AV) achieves unidirectional blood flow between the left ventricle and the aorta. Although hemodynamic stresses have been shown to regulate valvular biology, the native wall shear stress (WSS) experienced by AV leaflets remains largely unknown. The objective of this study was to quantify computationally the macro-scale leaflet WSS environment using fluid–structure interaction modeling. An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian approach was implemented to predict valvular flow and leaflet dynamics in a three-dimensional AV geometry subjected to physiologic transvalvular pressure. Local WSS characteristics were quantified in terms of temporal shear magnitude (TSM), oscillatory shear index (OSI) and temporal shear gradient (TSG). The dominant radial WSS predicted on the leaflets exhibited high amplitude and unidirectionality on the ventricularis (TSM>7.50 dyn/cm2, OSI 325.54 dyn/cm2 s) but low amplitude and bidirectionality on the fibrosa (TSM 2, OSI>0.38, TSG 2 s). The radial WSS component computed in the leaflet base, belly and tip demonstrated strong regional variability (ventricularis TSM: 7.50–22.32 dyn/cm2, fibrosa TSM: 1.26–2.73 dyn/cm2). While the circumferential WSS exhibited similar spatially dependent magnitude (ventricularis TSM: 1.41–3.40 dyn/cm2, fibrosa TSM: 0.42–0.76 dyn/cm2) and side-specific amplitude (ventricularis TSG: 101.73–184.43 dyn/cm2 s, fibrosa TSG: 41.92–54.10 dyn/cm2 s), its temporal variations were consistently bidirectional (OSI>0.25). This study provides new insights into the role played by leaflet–blood flow interactions in valvular function and critical hemodynamic stress data for the assessment of the hemodynamic theory of AV disease.
Three-dimensional macro-scale assessment of regional and temporal wall shear stress characteristics on aortic valve leaflets
Creators: name: K. Cao
name: M. BukaČ
name: P. Sucosky
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The aortic valve (AV) achieves unidirectional blood flow between the left ventricle and the aorta. Although hemodynamic stresses have been shown to regulate valvular biology, the native wall shear stress (WSS) experienced by AV leaflets remains largely unknown. The objective of this study was to quantify computationally the macro-scale leaflet WSS environment using fluid–structure interaction modeling. An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian approach was implemented to predict valvular flow and leaflet dynamics in a three-dimensional AV geometry subjected to physiologic transvalvular pressure. Local WSS characteristics were quantified in terms of temporal shear magnitude (TSM), oscillatory shear index (OSI) and temporal shear gradient (TSG). The dominant radial WSS predicted on the leaflets exhibited high amplitude and unidirectionality on the ventricularis (TSM>7.50 dyn/cm2, OSI 325.54 dyn/cm2 s) but low amplitude and bidirectionality on the fibrosa (TSM 2, OSI>0.38, TSG 2 s). The radial WSS component computed in the leaflet base, belly and tip demonstrated strong regional variability (ventricularis TSM: 7.50–22.32 dyn/cm2, fibrosa TSM: 1.26–2.73 dyn/cm2). While the circumferential WSS exhibited similar spatially dependent magnitude (ventricularis TSM: 1.41–3.40 dyn/cm2, fibrosa TSM: 0.42–0.76 dyn/cm2) and side-specific amplitude (ventricularis TSG: 101.73–184.43 dyn/cm2 s, fibrosa TSG: 41.92–54.10 dyn/cm2 s), its temporal variations were consistently bidirectional (OSI>0.25). This study provides new insights into the role played by leaflet–blood flow interactions in valvular function and critical hemodynamic stress data for the assessment of the hemodynamic theory of AV disease.
Comparative Analgesic Efficacy of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) Versus Intradermal Electrical Stimulation (IDS)
Creators: name: Fernández Dorta, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Estimulación eléctrica intradermal TENS Neuromodulación Dolor crónico Electroterapia Revisión sistemática Metaanálisis Fibra Aβ Citocinas Plasticidad neuronal Neurorehabilitación IDS Modulación glial Sistema nervioso periférico Terapia no farmacológica

description: Este artículo presenta una revisión sistemática y metaanálisis comparativo entre la estimulación nerviosa transcutánea (TENS) y la estimulación eléctrica intradermal (IDS), con el objetivo de analizar su eficacia analgésica en contextos de dolor musculoesquelético y neuropático. Utilizando directrices PRISMA y registros metodológicos predefinidos (RoB2, PEDro, Egger, I², Funnelplot), se evaluaron 26 estudios (21 sobre TENS y 5 sobre IDS), con un total de 2.193 pacientes.

Los resultados confirman la eficacia significativa de ambos métodos, aunque con particular interés en los efectos prolongados de la estimulación intradermal IDS, que muestra una reducción del dolor superior al 30% en varios estudios a largo plazo. Además del análisis cuantitativo, se incluye una interpretación neurofisiológica avanzada del mecanismo de acción, integrando evidencia sobre vías Aβ, glía, citocinas y modulación del sistema nervioso autónomo.

Este artículo constituye la primera síntesis formal de evidencia clínica sobre IDS en comparación directa con TENS, y propone directrices metodológicas claras para futuros ensayos clínicos aleatorizados en el marco de la neuromodulación segmentaria.
Molecular characterization influencing metal resistance in the Cupriavidus/Ralstonia genomes
Creators: name: Pratim Chakraborti
name: Rachana Banerjee
name: Roy, Ayan
name: Mandal, Sunanda
name: Subhasish Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biophysics

description: :Our environment is stressed with a load of heavy and toxic metals. Microbes, abundant in our environment are found to adapt well to this metal stressed condition. A comparative study among five Cupriavidus/Ralstonia genomes, can offer a better perception of their evolutionary mechanisms to adapt to these conditions. We have studied codon usage among 1051 genes common to all these organisms and identified 15 optimal codons frequently used in highly expressed genes present within 1051 genes. We found, the core genes of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 have a different optimal codon choice for Arginine, Glycine and Alanine in comparison to the other four bacteria. We also found that the synonymous codon-usage bias within these 1051 core genes is highly correlated with their gene expression. This supports that translational selection drives synonymous codon usage in the core genes of these genomes. Synonymous Codon usage is highly conserved in the core genes of these five genomes. The only exception among them is Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34. This genome-wide shift in synonymous codon choice in C. metallidurans CH34 may have taken place due to the insertion of new genes in its genomes facilitating them to survive in heavy-metal containing environment and the co-evolution of the other genes in its genome to achieve a balance in gene expression. Structural studies indicated the presence of a longer N-terminal region containing a copper binding domain in the cupC proteins of C. metallidurans CH3 that helps it to attain higher binding efficacy with copper in comparison to its orthologs.
Direct visualization of focusing effect of step corrugated nanoplasmonic slits
Creators: name: Jia, Baohua
name: Shi, Haofei
name: Li, Jiafang
name: Fu, Yongqi
name: Du, Chunlei
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) is employed to directly visualize the focusing and focal depth modulation effect of a step corrugated nanoplasmonic slit fabricated with focused ion beam milling.
Gelation, hydrodynamic limits and uniqueness in cluster coagulation processes
Creators: name: Andreis, Luisa
name: Iyer, Tejas
name: Magnanini, Elena
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cluster coagulation
subject: Marcus-Luschnikov process
subject: Smoluchowski equation
subject: Flory equation
subject: gelation
subject: stochastic gelation
subject: strong gelation
subject: inhomogeneous random graph
subject: 60K35
subject: 35Q70
subject: 82C22
subject: 05C90

description: We consider the problem of gelation in the cluster coagulation model introduced by Norris [Comm. Math. Phys., 209(2):407-435 (2000)]; this model is general enough to incorporate various inhomogenieties in the evolution of clusters, for example, their shape, or their location in space. We derive general, sufficient criteria for stochastic gelation in this model, and for trajectories associated with this process to concentrate among solutions of a generalisation of the Flory equation; thus providing sufficient criteria for the equation to have gelling solutions. As particular cases, we extend results related to the classical Marcus-Lushnikov coagulation process and Smoluchowski coagulation equation, showing that reasonable 'homogenous' coagulation processes with exponent γ larger than 1 yield gelation. In another special case, we prove a law of large numbers for the trajectory of the empirical measure of the stochastic cluster coagulation process, by means of a uniqueness result for the solution of the aforementioned generalised Flory equation. Finally, we use coupling arguments with inhomogeneous random graphs to deduce sufficient criterion for strong gelation (the emergence of a particle of size O(N)).
Acetate platinum(II) compound with 5,7-ditertbutyl-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine that overcomes cisplatin resistance: Structural characterization, in vitro cytotoxicity and kinetic studies
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Kamil
name: Łakomska, Iwona
name: Wiśniewska, Joanna
name: Kaczmarek-Kędziera, Anna
name: Wietrzyk, Joanna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Pharmacology
Cell Biology
Medicine
Engineering
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The reaction of silver acetate with cis-[PtI2(dbtp)2], where dbtp = 5,7-ditertbutyl-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine, yielded cis-[Pt(OOCCH3)2(dbtp)2]·dmf (1). The complex has been analyzed by multinuclear magnetic resonance (1H, 13C, 15N), IR and Raman. The compound formed two rotamers in CDCl3 and its spatial structures have been optimized using computational calculation. It was found that head-to-tail rotamer (1a) is more stable than its head-to-head counterpart (1b). In vitro antiproliferative activity against four tumor cell lines (A549, T47D, FaDu and A2780cis) revealed in all cases significant cytotoxicity (IC50 = 0.26–1.80 μM), possessing IC50 values at least five-fold lower than cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin (except A2780cis). The remarkable in vitro activity against T47D and A2780cis suggested the ability to overcome cisplatin-resistance in these type of tumor cells. In addition, in vitro toxicity was evaluated against BALB/3 and have shown that the lipophilic platinum(II) complex (1) inhibits cell proliferation weaker than cisplatin and oxaliplatin. Additionally, cis-[Pt(OOCCH3)2(dbtp)2]·dmf exhibited selective activity, in contrast to cisplatin or oxaliplatin.
title: No Neutral fantasy: women, gender and music in Britain 1880-1920
Creators: name: Bruseker, A
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: This study examines the relationship between an English music hall performer, Vesta Tilley, and her largely female working-class audience through the lens of the Barthesian concept of the Neutral. The primary sources investigated include published autobiographies, but also an important collection of scrapbooks held by the Worcester Archives and Archaeology Service, containing extensive newspaper clippings as well as letters written by fans. An examination of these texts was undertaken alongside genealogical research to add greater depth to the lives of the historical actors investigated here. This analysis shows that Vesta Tilley’s gender performance as a male impersonator, and the success she had in this role, was due to her constant self-positioning and re-positioning as Neutral. This was largely accomplished by appropriating a hybrid gender identity, one which was both male and female. The texts also demonstrate that the Neutral was equally employed by her working-class female audience members to embrace and reproduce the pleasure that the music hall performance brought them. They prioritised the pleasure of the evening entertainment, and ensured the reproduction of these values in their own lives, and also across generations. Far from theoretical, the words written by these women – performer and audience – demonstrate the radicality of the Neutral, and also how radical they themselves were in a time usually understood to restrict the autonomous pleasure of women. Consequently, while Barthes concluded that the Neutral was merely a fantasy, the investigations here demonstrate that it was instead a strategy, a way for those in marginal positions to ‘get away with’ personal autonomy.
Bioassay-guided isolation and POM analyses of a new immunomodulatory polyphenolic constituent from Callistemon viridiflorus
Creators: name: Abdelhady, Mohamed I.S.
name: Kamal, Amel M.
name: Abdur Rauf
name: Mubarak, Mohammad S.
name: Taibi Ben Hadda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Chromatographic separation of 80% EtOH extract of Callistemon viridiflorus leaves led to the isolation of six known constituents (1–6) along with a new polyphenolic compound 7 identified as apigenin 4′-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-(1″′ → 4″)-O-β-d-glucopyranoside. The ethanolic extract of C. viridiflorus leaves and isolated compounds were evaluated for in vitro immunomodulatory activity by means of RAW 264.7 macrophages proliferation (MTT) assay. Ethanolic extract of leaves and compounds 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 caused a significant increase in macrophage proliferation; these findings may suggest that this medicinal plant could be utilised as an excellent source of compounds for immunomodulatory activity.
Enhanced daidzin production from jasmonic and acetyl salicylic acid elicited hairy root cultures of Psoralea corylifolia L. (Fabaceae)
Creators: name: Mohd Zaheer
name: Vudem Dashavantha Reddy
name: Giri, Charu Chandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Daidzin (7-O-glucoside of daidzein) has several pharmacological benefits in herbal remedy, as antioxidant and shown antidipsotropic activity. Hairy root culture of Psoralea corylifolia L. was developed for biomass and enhanced daidzin production using signalling compounds such as jasmonic acid (JA) and acetyl salicylic acid (ASA). Best response of 2.8-fold daidzin (5.09% DW) with 1 μM JA treatment after second week and 7.3-fold (3.43% DW) with 10 μM JA elicitation after 10th week was obtained from hairy roots compared to untreated control. ASA at 10 μM promoted 1.7-fold increase in daidzin (1.49% DW) content after seventh week compared to control (0.83% DW). Addition of 25 μM ASA resulted in 1.44% DW daidzin (1.5-fold increase) with 0.91% DW in control after fifth week and 1.44% DW daidzin (2.3-fold increase) after eighth week when compared to untreated control (0.62% DW). Reduced biomass with increased daidzin content was facilitated by elicited hairy root cultures.
EVALUATING THE ABSORPTION RATE OF MACRO AND MICROELEMENTS IN THE LEAF OF GRAPE Sefid Bidaneh cv. UNDER DROUGHT CONDITIONS
Creators: name: Mohammad Aslanpour (Mohammad Omar Aziz), Hamed Doulati Baneh, Ali Tehranifar, Mahmoud Shoor
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Water stress condition
Sefid Bidaneh Grape
Drought resistance
Mycorrhiza plant
Glomus fungi
Horticulture
Grapevine.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 4, 515-525
HOW DOES THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION COME FROM? A MULTILEVEL FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Arhad Abbasi, Mahmoud Motavasseli
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Innovation occurrence
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Human needs
Innovation product
Innovation process
Source of new product.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 4, 527-550
METAL-CERAMIC ENCLOSURE FOR SURFACE MOUNTING
Creators: name: Svetlana A. Mikayeva, Maxim I. Boichuk
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Digital temperature compensated crystal oscillators
Solder joint
Eutectic tin-lead solder
Metal-ceramic enclosures
Electronic industry.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 4, 551-558
title: United in Difficulty: The European Unionʼs Use of Shared Problems as a Way to Encourage Unity
Creators: name: Cleary, Grace
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2012

description: Since the European Union's inception, it has invested considerable resources into cultural programs aimed at fostering a sense of shared European heritage. However, these efforts have always been balanced alongside the need to leave space for diversity within and across EU nations. In this paper, which highlights the findings of my MA thesis, I examine the European Capital of Culture (ECC), which I studied in Córdoba, Spain during the spring of 2011. I look at how European identity is being defined in a specific context, and in particular how the contest is refocusing on new forms of shared heritage by looking at common European problems and how cities are working to solve them. I argue that both unity and diversity are encouraged, but that initiatives such as the ECC delineate and construct the acceptable boundaries of shared cultural expressions and cultural difference. I argue that the EU's focus on the methods and attitudes for dealing with shared problems is becoming an important part of European identity; one that allows countries to maintain certain kinds of marketable difference, like food or music, while also encouraging a common outlook on handling problems. While shared history, religion, nationality and/or language once served to unify people within a country's borders, these characteristics no longer provide an adequate bond within the supranational EU. In shifting the 2 contest’s unifying function to include common problems, the contest is drawing on shared European narratives and anxieties, and through the contest, the EU is monitoring how these 'challenges' are defined and dealt with.
Polarisation characterisation in the focal region of a high numerical aperture objective under radial polarisation illumination
Creators: name: Kang, Hong
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Polarisation characteristics in the focal region of a high numerical aperture objective illuminated with a radially polarised beam have been investigated with both full aperture illumination and annular illumination.
Untypical ageing off-flavour and masking effects due to long-term nitrogen fertilization
Creators: name: Linsenmeier, A.
name: Rauhut, D.
name: Kürbel, H.
name: Löhnertz, O.
name: Schubert, S.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The off-flavour UTA (untypical ageing) of wines produced from the vintages 1996-1999 within the scope of a long-term N fertilization experiment was compared to the o-aminoacetophenone (AAP) concentrations found in these wines. The wines were made of plants treated with 0, 60 and 150 kg N ha-1·N fertilization led to higher UTA intensities and AAP concentrations in aged wines; due to stronger fruity aromas with increasing N fertilization, young wines were able to mask AAP. Controls had a stronger masking effect in older wines, caused by antioxidants (phenols) and possibly higher alcohols. Moreover, at the same AAP level, wines from the vintages 1996 and 1998 exhibited lower UTA intensity than wines from 1997 and 1999. This is influenced by N supply, yield and time of harvest which can not be separated from each other.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 46 No. 1 (2007): Vitis
Metabolic activity and interactions between two strains, Saccharomyces cerevisiae r.f. bayanus (SBC2) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae r.f. uvarum (S6u), in pure and mixed culture fermentations
Creators: name: Favale, S.
name: Pietromarchi, P.
name: Ciolfi, G.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: We have studied the metabolic activity of and interactions between two strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae r.f. bayanus (SBC2) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae r.f. uvarum (S6u), fermenting in a synthetic must medium in pure culture, co-inoculation and sequential inoculation. The second strain was added with or without sterile filtration. We monitored the rate of fermentation; at the end, total and viable cells, percentage of each strain, alcohol, volatile acidity, total sulphur dioxide, glycerol, acetaldehyde and volatile compounds were determined. The rate of alcohol production was different during fermentation: at the onset, S6u was faster than SBC2, while lateron it was inverse. When fermentation was stopped simultaneously, S6u showed the highest total cell number when grown in pure culture and the highest percentage of viable cells in mixed culture fermentation. Moreover, S6u produced low amounts of alcohol, but more glycerol and volatile compounds (i.e. 2-phenylethanol, acetates, ethyl esters, and fatty acids) than SBC2. The co-inoculated and the sequentially inoculated sample, in which S6u was the first strain, gave values similar to the pure S6u culture. Hence, we conclude that S6u prevails over SBC2 when both strains ferment in a medium. It seems that sequential inoculation of SBC2 as the second strain is of advantage only with regard to the relatively fast ethanol production.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 46 No. 1 (2007): Vitis
A simple and highly efficient protocol for somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from proembryonic mass suspension culture in 'Autumn Royal Seedless'
Creators: name: Jittayasothorn, Y.
name: Lu, J.
name: Xu, X.
name: Thipyapong, P.
name: Boonkerd, N.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Research Note
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 46 No. 1 (2007): Vitis
Low chilling trait of Vitis ficifolia var. Ganebu and its introduction into Vitis vinifera by cross breeding
Creators: name: Poudel, P. R.
name: Katoaka, I.
name: Mochioka, R.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Research Note
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 46 No. 1 (2007): Vitis
Identification of Xiphinema index in an Austrian vineyard
Creators: name: Leopold, S.
name: Borroto-Fernández, E.
name: Schartl, A.
name: Laimer, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Research Note
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 46 No. 1 (2007): Vitis
A memristor-based unified PUF and TRNG chip with concealable ability for advanced edge security
Creators: name: Li, Xueqi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: UI_code is the code for the UI interface of the upper unit, which communicates with the lower unit via UART.

FPGA_code is the code for the lower FPGA, which controls the PCB and the unified PUF and TRNG chip on the PCB.
Core/shell quantum dots embedded within 3D PCs towards LDOS imaging
Creators: name: Ventura, M. J.
name: Van Embden, J.
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we report on a method to map the three-dimensional local density of states deep within a three-dimensional polymer photonic crystal using core/shell quantum dots as point sources.
title: The Spillover of Misery: A critical investigation into the social purpose of European integration using the case study of migration management
Creators: name: Köpping Athanasopoulos, H
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Irregular migrants, being defined as asylum seekers, refugees and clandestinos (people in the EU without a valid residency permit), live as a subaltern group at the fringes of European society. They are materially deprived and excluded from regular political culture. In part, this condition stems from the institutions of European integration, such as the Dublin Regulation. This dissertation attempts to understand irregular migrant subalternity by exploring its structural causes. Irregular migration and its management is used as a case study to contribute towards a deeper understanding of the social purpose of European integration. Methodologically, this thesis relies on Critical Grounded Theory. This novel approach is rooted in critical realism and thus rejects the tabula rasa-view of traditional Grounded Theory, maintaining that empirics and theory should continuously inform one another. The Gramscian concept of hegemony is employed to contextualise European integration within neofunctionalism as an ideological practice and neoliberalism as a hegemonic agenda. Vulgar neofunctionalism postulates that integration occurs as the result of spillover of one policy area into another and that European integration is pushed forward by technocratic elites. To illustrate the relationship between neofunctionalism and neoliberalism, to lay bare the consequences of neoliberal and neofunctionalist practices, and to further capture the social purpose of European integration, fieldwork was carried out in five locations (Brussels, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Germany) with different groups of interviewees (European Commission staff, national public officials, asylum seekers, clandestinos, fruit farm workers, asylum accommodation staff). It was found that neoliberal neofunctionalism has generated a common outlook on migratory movements which has resulted in the partial harmonisation of asylum legislation and the simultaneous fortification of the EU’s external border. This has had a significant impact on the lives of irregular migrants, who are exposed to reification, commodification, biopolitics, the state of exception, xenophobia and lacking recognition. The emergence of group consciousness is undermined, preventing them from overcoming subalternity. The social purpose of European integration is identified as the (increasingly authoritarian) neoliberal restructuration of the EU which relies on neofunctionalism as its vehicle and justification. This restructuration is self-contradictory as it aims at neoliberalism while producing nationalism, biopolitics and the EU’s deepening internal division. Within the context of the European Union’s democratic deficit and the weakness of social democracy, nationalism may represent an alternative to neoliberalism, speeding up the EU’s disintegration.
Altered expression of alternatively spliced isoforms of the mRNA NMDAR1 receptor in the visual cortex of strabismic cats
Creators: name: Yin, Zheng Qin
name: Deng, Ze Min
name: Crewther, Sheila G.
name: Crewther, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: PURPOSE: Although much has been written about the role of the NMDA receptor's role in experience dependent visual plasticity, the function of the NMDAR1 receptor subunit in the post-plasticity stage of development is still not well understood. However, in the well studied model of strabismic amblyopia where binocularity is reduced, but where most primary visual cortex neurons can be driven by one or other eye, the density of expression of NMDAR1 receptor protein is significantly reduced, compared to normals. This study aims to identify which of eight isoforms of the spliced heterogeneous variants of the NMDAR1 mRNA receptor gene are associated with this decrease in expression as a means of elucidating possible function. METHODS: A series of digoxygenin-labelled oligonucleotide probes based on the human gene sequence have been used for in situ hybridization (ISH) of sections from the striate cortex of four adult cats. The probes were used to uniquely detect the expression of alternatively spliced mRNA variants in 66,487 cells from sections from the area centralis projection of two normal cats and two cats made esotropic as kittens by tenotomy at two weeks of age. RESULTS: As expected, total NMDAR1 mRNA isoform expression was significantly lower in the striate cortex of strabismic compared to normal cats. The proportion of cortical cells expressing the R1-a, R1-b, and R1-1 isoforms in strabismic animals was decreased while the proportion expressing R1-3 was increased, especially in layers V and VI. No significant difference in expression of the R1-2 and R1-4 isoforms was seen comparing strabismic and normal cats. CONCLUSIONS: These results confirm our previous findings and suggest that transcriptional inhibition of specific isoforms of NMDAR1 mRNA may underlie the change in receptor expression. This preferential reduction in the proportion of neurons bearing particular NMDAR1 isoforms, i.e. isoforms R1-a and b, and R1-1 with partial compensation through the expression of the R1-3 isoform, is more likely related to lowered proportion of binocularly activated neurons in the strabismic cat than to changes in eye dominance or the presence of amblyopia in one eye.
Трансформация института прокуратуры в период Октябрьской революции 1917 г. и Гражданской войны 1918–1922 гг. в России
Creators: name: Д. Р. Зайнутдинов
Publisher: name: Пенитенциарная наука
Year: 2020
Subjects: прокуратура; прокурорский надзор; прокурорско-надзорное право; Временное правительство; Октябрьская революция 1917 г.; Гражданская война 1917–1922 гг

description: В статье рассматривается проблема развития института прокуратуры и прокурорско-надзорного права в период Октябрьской революции 1917 г. и Гражданской войны 1918–1922 гг. на территориях антибольшевистского правосоциалистического режима (деятельность комитета членов Всероссийского Учредительного собрания). Целью работы является исследование процесса трансформации института прокуратуры. В качестве основного частноправового метода был использован сравнительно-правовой метод, который позволил сопоставить воззрения правосоциалистических лидеров с позицией сторонников советской власти по вопросу о развитии института прокуратуры, а также метод юридической герменевтики, который позволил проанализировать юридические тексты (законодательство Российской империи, нормативно-правовые акты Советской России, Комитета членов Всероссийского Учредительного собрания) как источники, отражающие конкретную идеологию. Новизна исследования заключается в том, что рассмотрен определенный период становления современного прокурорско-надзорного права, который ранее не затрагивался в теоретико-правовых изысканиях. В результате был сделан вывод, что прокурорский надзор выступает необходимым институтом обеспечения законности, ее восстановления в случае нарушения, а также пресечения попыток незаконного лишения свободы вне зависимости от социально-политического положения в стране (революционная обстановка, война). Развитие прокурорско-надзорного права должно гарантировать совершенствование существующих и возникновение новых механизмов защиты прав и свобод личности. Автором установлено, что в условиях глубоких общественных перемен 1917–1922 гг. институт прокуратуры не смог должным образом осуществить трансформацию от обвинительно-надзорного к надзорно-обвинительному типу.
404 Not Found: Discoverability and User Consumption of Open Access Material
Creators: name: Molls, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Using the 2015 Library Publishing Directory, I have created a list of OA "campus-based faculty-driven journal" titles and cross-referenced this list with the title contents of the Directory of Open Access journals. This 24x7 presentation will present my findings of gaps within DOAJ and look for answers as to why titles are not found in both directories. Secondly, the original set of OA titles was cross-referenced in ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) to compare the number of matching records. Finally, the list of OA journal titles was also searched within one library's discovery tool to determine the level of discoverability in a non-Google setting for a specific user group. The goal of this presentation is to begin a conversation of where OA materials are indexed, but more importantly, to think more about how users are (or are not) finding the OA material using indexes.
Nonlinear nanocomposites for three-dimensional photonic crystals using two-photon polymerization
Creators: name: Jia, Baohua
name: Buso, Dario
name: Li, Jiafang
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We developed a novel nanocomposite consisting of an organic-inorganic hybrid polymer modified with PbS quantum dots. The uniformally dispersed nanocomposite has high third-order nonlinearity and has been proven to be suitable for photonic crystal fabrication. © 2010 Optical Society of America.
Fast parallel fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals using the dynamic laser printing technique
Creators: name: Lin, Han
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Parallel femtosecond laser fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals using the dynamic laser printing technique is demonstrated. Combining a spatial light modulator with a versatile direct laser writing setup, the dynamic laser printing system is able to produce two-dimensional spot arrays in a single shot. High quality three-dimensional polymeric photonic crystals with 90% void uniformity and 60% suppression in transmission were generated. This technique dramatically reduces the fabrication time by two orders of magnitude, compared with the direct laser writing technique.
title: Measuring Patient-Centred Care: Common data sets for acupuncture trials across women’s lifespan
Creators: name: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3784-4648
Publisher: name: https://ror.org/02stey378
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02stey378
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This study is proposing a method for establishing a common outcome sets (COS) for acupuncture trials for women’s health across the lifespan. Using the methods described by the COMET Initiative (https://www.comet-initiative.org/), where common outcome measures are established in various health conditions, following a set process.
This study aims to present a method for establishing common outcome sets (COS) for acupuncture for women’s health across the lifespan. We will describe a method for consultation and consensus using the process described by the COMET Initiative, where researchers, clinicians and consumers contribute to the creation a set of relevant outcome measures, meaningful to researchers, practitioners, and consumers for trials of interventions, which in this case is acupuncture trials in women’s health.
title: The Novel and the Short Story in Ireland: Readership, Society and Fiction, 1922-1965
Creators: name: Halpen, A
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: This thesis considers the novel and the short story in the decades following the achievement of Irish independence from Britain in 1922. During these years, many Irish practitioners of the short story achieved both national and international acclaim, such that 'the Irish Short Story' was recognised as virtually a discrete genre. Writers and critics debated why Irish fiction-writers could have such success in the short story, but not similar success with their novels. Henry James had noticed a similar situation in the United |States of America in the early nineteenth century. James decided the problem was that America's society was still forming - that the society was too 'thin' to support successful novel-writing. Irish writers and critics applied his arguments to the newly-independent Ireland, concluding that Irish society was indeed the explanation. Irish society was depicted as so unstructured and fragmented that it was inimical to the novel but nurtured the short story. Ireland was described variously: "broken and insecure" (Colm Tóibín), "often bigoted, cowardly, philistine and spiritually crippled" (John McGahern) and marked by "inward-looking stagnation" (Dermot Bolger). This study examines the validity of these assertions about Irish society, considering whether day-to-day life in Ireland was so exceptionally different to other contemporary states where the novel did prosper. The conclusion from the evidence is that Ireland was different but not unique. One chapter examines literacy and the reading traditions in Ireland, and it is clear that there was a skilled audience for the novels and an effective book trade. The novel in Ireland is discussed and three case studies (Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien and Liam O'Flaherty) are discussed. The study concludes with the confirmation, through two case studies (Séan O'Faolain and Frank O'Connor), that the short story continued to be widely acclaimed and widely practised by many Irish writers. The conclusion reached is that Irish society was not as popularly depicted nor was it exceptional. It was a matter of writers' talents not society's failings.
Synchronized somatic embryo development in embryogenic suspensions of grapevine Muscadinia rotundifolia (Michx.) Small
Creators: name: Colova, V. M.
name: Bordallo, P. N.
name: Phills, B. R.
name: Bausher, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: High-frequency, synchronous embryogenic systems in liquid culture facilitate plant regeneration and can be used as an essential model for performing functional genomics studies and understanding molecular aspect of the ontogenesis of higher plants. In the present study, synchronous somatic embryogenic cultures were developed for Muscadinia rotundifolia cv. Darlene and Vitis vinifera cv. Velika. High cell density and presence of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) proved to be essential for the establishment of the suspension cultures. Low cell density and continuous availability of auxin (2,4-D) was crucial for maintenance of suspension cultures. High cell density and withdrawal of 2,4-D is sufficient to advance somatic embryo development toward embryo differentiation and plantlets regeneration. Cells and cell clusters fractionation by density gradient centrifugation in Ficoll solution demonstrated to be a suitable method for separation of subpopulations with various potential for embryo development. The high frequency of synchronous development and differentiation of somatic embryos was attained essentially for the heaviest (at 16-18 % and >18 % Ficoll layer) cell population.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 46 No. 1 (2007): Vitis