cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding organisation culture, leadership, conflict, and change
Creators: name: Drummond, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While many studies have been carried out on organizational culture, leadership, conflict and change, mostly from an instrumentalist perspective, studies have left unanswered the question of how they are related. This thesis employs narrative theory and especially that of Ricoeur together with the social theory of Bourdieu. By considering organization culture (and its sub cultures) as being configured by multiple narratives; leaders as enacting or developing narratives; conflict as the attempt by one or more persons to impose their narratives on others as the correct interpretation of a given situation; and change as the adoption of new narratives it has been possible to impart new understandings to these concepts. Extensions are offered of the narrative theory of Ricoeur and the social theory of Bourdieu (which has strong implications for culture and the operation of power). They are then combined and applied to a narrative presentation of empirical data. This new or extended theory has powerful explanatory value with regard to the relationship between the chosen organisational aspects. Emphasis is given to the dynamic interplay which prevails between the individual (habitus) and the organisation (field).
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Schepers, Stephan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
Coniopteryx (Coniopteryx) pygmea Enderlein 1906
Creators: name: Tillier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Coniopterygidae
Coniopteryx
Coniopteryx pygmea

description: Coniopteryx (Coniopteryx) pygmea Enderlein, 1906
Coniopteryx pygmea Enderlein, 1906: 201.
CATÉGORIE ZOOGÉOGRAPHIQUE. — Espèce polycentrique, méditerranéenne et sibérienne.
MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — M09-BOR2000 T 3-M2 (1 ♂); M09-SES2000 T 1-IN (1 ♂); M09-SES2000 T 2-M1 (1 ♂); M10-CAÏ2000 T 1-M1 (2 ♂); M10-CAÏ2000 T 1-M2 (1 ♂); M10-CAÏ1400 T 2-M2 (1 ♂); M10-CAÏ1400 T 4-M2 (4 ♂); M10-CAÏ1400 T 5-M2 (2 ♂).
DISTRIBUTION DANS LE MERCANTOUR. — Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage, Saorge.
REMARQUE
Espèce nouvelle pour le Mercantour.
description: Published as part of Tillier, Pierre, 2015, Raphidioptera et Neuroptera (Insecta, Neuropterida) du Parc national du Mercantour (France), pp. 581-594 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 590, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5156903
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Timmann, Anke
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
Comprendre les représentations des enseignants de langues à travers des récits visuels
Creators: name: Melo Pfeifer, Silvia Maria
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Teachers’ representations are of paramount importance to understand their situated professional action. Following a discussion of the concept of “representation” and its importance in foreign language education, a revision of the use of visual narratives in this disciplinary field will be presented, focusing on: i) (prospective) foreign language teachers’ representations concerning the target language; ii) their representations regarding teaching and learning methods; iii) teachers’ professional development. Afterwards, an empirical study using visual methods in initial teacher education, before and after a school professional internship, will be presented and discussed, illustrating the professional development of prospective teachers of French.

description: EL.LE
Chancen und Gefahren: Land- und ressourcenbasierte Großinvestitionen in Laos
Creators: name: Menniken, Timo
name: Schönweger, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Ausländischen Direktinvestitionen sind in Laos auf über eine Milliarde US-Dollar in die Höhe geschnellt. Ca. 90 Prozent entfielen auf die Ausbeutung natürlicher Ressourcen, vor allem in den Bereichen Wasserkraft- und Mineraliengewinnung, sowie in die Forst- und Landwirtschaft via großflächiger Landpachten für Monokulturen.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Knappe, Eberhard
name: Wünsch, Susanne
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
Ein Vorbild macht Schule: Das ökonomische Modell Ostasiens in der Mekong-Region
Creators: name: Walsh, John
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Es gibt einige Anhaltspunkte, die darauf hindeuten, dass Laos und Kambodscha zu eigenständigen Varianten des ostasiatischen Wirtschaftsmodells werden.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
The RISE of the Repository Rodeo
Creators: name: Brooke, Danny
name: Walsh, Maureen
name: Salter, John
name: Wilcox, David
name: Renner, Tom
name: Nielsen, Lars Holm
name: Jordan, Mark
name: Dunn, Jon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: OR2020
Repositories
Dataverse
DSpace
EPrints
Fedora
Haplo
Invenio
Islandora
Samvera

description: Dataverse, DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, Haplo, Invenio, Islandora, Samvera: Dataverse: Danny Brooke, Harvard University DSpace: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University EPrints: John Salter, University of Leeds Fedora: David Wilcox, LYRASIS Haplo: Tom Renner, Haplo Invenio: Lars Holm Nielsen, CERN Islandora: Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University Samvera: Jon Dunn, Indiana University Recording at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3873750
Asiatischer Mindestlohn – Ein transnationales Interessennetzwerk kämpft für ein Existenzminimum im Kleidung produzierenden Gewerbe
Creators: name: Tambunan, Rita Olivia
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Einige asiatische Gewerkschaftler und Arbeiter-Aktivistinnen riefen die Vereinigung für eine Lohnuntergrenze in Asien, die Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFW), im Oktober 2007 ins Leben. Die AFW Kampagne wird durch asiatische Mitglieder geleitet, mit zentralen Verwaltungen in Indonesien und Hongkong. Das Ziel ist eine gemeinsame Lohnuntergrenze in Asien.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
Libelloides longicornis
Creators: name: Tillier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Ascalaphidae
Libelloides
Libelloides longicornis

description: Libelloides longicornis (Linnaeus, 1764)
Hemerobius longicornis Linnaeus, 1764: 402.
CATÉGORIE ZOOGÉOGRAPHIQUE. — Espèce atlanto-méditerranéenne.
DISTRIBUTION DANS LE MERCANTOUR. — Saint-Martin-Vésubie (Luquet 1985); Bayasse (Leraut 1992c).
description: Published as part of Tillier, Pierre, 2015, Raphidioptera et Neuroptera (Insecta, Neuropterida) du Parc national du Mercantour (France), pp. 581-594 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 592, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5156903
Orbit prediction and analysis for space situational awareness.
Creators: name: Gondelach, David J.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: The continuation of space activities is at risk due to the growing number of uncontrolled objects, called space debris, which can collide with operational spacecraft. In addition, debris can fall back to the Earth causing risks to the population. Therefore, space agencies have started space situational awareness (SSA) programs and taken space debris mitigation measures to reduce the risks caused by uncontrolled objects and prevent the generation of new debris. A fundamental need for SSA is the capability to predict, design and analyse orbits. In this work, new techniques for orbit prediction are developed that are suitable for SSA in terms of accuracy, efficiency and ability to deal with uncertainties and are applied for re-entry prediction, end-of-life disposal, ADR mission design and long-term orbit prediction. The performance of high-order Poincaré mapping of perturbed orbits is improved by introducing a new set of orbital elements and the method is applied for orbit propagation and analysis of quasi-periodic orbits. Two new Lambert problem solvers are developed to compute perturbed rendezvous trajectories with hundreds of revolutions for the design of active debris removal missions. The computation of the effect of drag for semi-analytical propagation is speed up by using high-order Taylor expansions to evaluate the mean element rates efficiently. In addition, the high-order expansion of the flow through semi-analytical propagation is enabled using differential algebra to allow efficient propagation of initial conditions. The predictability of Galileo disposal orbits was investigated using chaos indicators and sensitivity analysis. The study showed that the orbits are predictable and that chaos indicators are not unsuitable for predictability analysis. Finally, to improve the re-entry prediction of rocket bodies based on two-line element data, ballistic coefficient and state estimation methods are enhanced. Using the developed approach, the re-entry prediction using only a ballistic coefficient estimate was found to be as accurate as re-entry prediction after full state estimation.
A thesis of clinical research and practice: Part A: What components are included in group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy interventions for postnatal depression? A systematic review; Part B: “Do you have to go to work today?” A thematic analysis of the experiences of Child and Family Social Worker parents during the COVID-19 pandemic; Part C: Clinical Experience and Assessments Summary
Creators: name: Parsons, Tamara
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: Postnatal depression is the most common mental health complication of childbirth worldwide and effects up to one fifth of new mothers in the United Kingdom. Part A of this portfolio presents a systematic review of research evaluating the effectiveness of group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for postnatal depression. The paper identifies and synthesises the components, or active ingredients, of these group interventions. The findings indicate that whilst there are several common features across interventions, there is also a wide degree of variation in duration, facilitation, techniques used and topics covered. The paper also highlights the need for clearer and more detailed reporting of interventions in published studies, and suggests future research could seek to assess the effectiveness of different composite parts of these interventions, to inform high quality clinical practice.

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description: Part B of this portfolio presents a qualitative study exploring the experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic of Child and Family Social Workers who are parents. These are two already highly demanding roles which saw new and additional pressures during the pandemic. Three themes and four subthemes were generated from the interviews, capturing the participants’ challenges in adjusting to a new way of working alongside their strengths and successes. The findings highlight some of the unique experiences of this group in balancing the demands of work and home, as well as the coping skills and personal qualities that were drawn upon. The findings of this study have implications for social work employers in relation to workforce, recruitment and retention policy development.
Context-dependent reconfigurations in brain state topology and dynamics
Creators: name: Kurtin, Danielle Lauren
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: A generalisable understanding of brain function would enable the more effective delivery of neuromodulatory therapies, but interindividual variability and context-dependent neural processes make such an understanding difficult to achieve. This thesis aimed to characterise context-dependent reconfigurations in brain state topology and dynamics that generalise across participants using dynamic functional connectivity and information theoretic methods that capture properties of the brain’s dynamical, complex nature.

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description: To this end, Chapter 3 systematically evaluates factors that influence the performance of a dynamic functional connectivity technique, Leading Eigenvector Dynamic Analyses (LEiDA), applied in Chapters 4 and 6 of this thesis to identify recurrent brain states. Chapter 4 uses LEiDA to identify the shared brain states among four cognitive tasks, and evaluates the task-dependent differences in brain state dynamics, as well as how these metrics of brain state dynamics relate to cognitive ability. Chapter 5 explores how brain state topology reconfigures during a single task, identifying relationships between condition-dependent reconfigurations in brain state topology and behavioural performance. Chapter 6 investigates whether resting state topology and dynamics are influenced by a noninvasive deep brain stimulation technique, Temporal Interference. While Chapters 4, 5, and 6 present studies that observe condition-dependent reconfigurations in brain state topology and/or dynamics, Chapter 7 proposes that computational modelling might offer a more efficient method of developing a mechanistic and predictive understanding of brain function. Chapter 7 describes common generative models of brain function, how they answer mechanistic or predictive questions about the effects of brain stimulation, and with a series of studies intended to advance modelling work from describing brain function to generating data-driven stimulation hypothesis intended for empirical testing.

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description: In summary, this work provides a compelling case that the brain reconfigures its topology and dynamics in line with endogenous mentation and exogenously influenced conditions. Metrics of these reconfigurations relate to trait characteristics, task performance, and brain stimulation condition, encouraging their use in future work.
Eliten: Aufstieg und Gefahren – Die eigenartige Verflechtung von Unternehmen, Partei, Militär und Bildung
Creators: name: Schneider, Henrique
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: »Petronas«: Viele Menschen haben kein umfassendes Wissen über Malaysia, aber eines ist bekannt, nämlich die Marke Petronas. Oft weiß man nicht einmal, was hinter dem Namen steckt, aber der »Brand« ist da. Spätestens wenn man ein Bild von den Zwillingstürmen in Kuala Lumpur oder ein blitzschnelles FormeI-1 Auto sieht, fällt der Name »Petronas« wieder ein.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (2010): Big is beautiful - Großkonzerne oder: Wer regiert das Land?
»The women and the generals« gibt den Opfern der Suharto-Diktatur eine Stimme und ein Gesicht
Creators: name: Keller, Anett
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Filmrezension von: Maj Wechselman, The women and the generals. Schweden 2010, 84 Min.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Streiflichter von den Philippinen
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Rezension von: Wolfgang Bethge, Streiflichter von den Philippinen – vom Palmendieb, dem Sauersack und Padre Damaso. Shaker Media, 2012, 283 S.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Detecting asthma, heart rate and blood pressure from rested breathing with a Pitot-boosting flowmeter
Creators: name: Harvey, David Philip
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: Spirometers are medical devices that diagnose and monitor respiratory diseases from forced breathing manoeuvres in patients. It has recently been highlighted in the US and UK that spirometers are not always able to detect or monitor certain respiratory diseases, recommending that more accurate and more sensitive spirometers need to be developed. This coincides with a proposal from clinical researchers to find alternative modes to forced breathing manoeuvres for clinical observations. One potential solution to each of these demands is the development of a highly sensitive and highly accurate flowmeter, the RMK device, designed to measure rested breathing. Five multidisciplinary studies were undertaken to explore the measurement uncertainty (studies 1 to 3) and measurement capabilities (studies 4 & 5) of the RMK device as a potential spirometer. Study 1 investigated accuracy and repeatability, study 2 investigated validity and study 3 investigated stability of the RMK device, each against spirometry measurement standards. The findings across these studies were that the RMK device has a full-scale error of 0.25%, meets repeatability and validity requirements and can maintain accuracy under different flow conditions. Study 4 examined if the RMK device can distinguish between tidal breathing from an asthma cohort and control cohort in the time and frequency domain. These results found that in the time domain the RMK device can identify breathing characteristics that significantly differ between cohorts, but frequency domain results were less conclusive. Finally, study 5 investigated signals detected at low frequency (< 2Hz) from tidal breathing, observing them to be heart rate, which also with correlated with systolic blood pressure. The overall findings of this thesis support that the RMK device is the most accurate device designed for spirometry with potentially new diagnostic and monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, it has demonstrated that tidal breathing can offer clinical insights, so the use of forced breathing manoeuvres might not always be required in spirometry. These results were only possible with a more sensitive and accurate spirometer.
Study 329 : Why is it so important?
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 101 explores the reanalysis of Study 329 by the Restoring Invisibile and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) Initiative. Conclusions: Independent analysis of Study 329 demonstrated serious harms and a lack of efficacy for acute and longer-term use of paroxetine and imipramine for adolescents with major depression. This example of the RIAT initiative reveals that the current methods of trial conduct, analysis and publication are unacceptable. Published conclusions about efficacy and safety of drugs without independent analysis cannot be accepted as trustworthy. It is essential that primary trial data and protocols for all clinical trials be made available for independent analysis.
Libelloides lacteus
Creators: name: Tillier, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Ascalaphidae
Libelloides
Libelloides lacteus

description: Libelloides lacteus (Brullé, 1832)
Ascalaphus lacteus Brullé, 1832: 278.
CATÉGORIE ZOOGÉOGRAPHIQUE. — Espèce ponto-méditerranéenne.
DISTRIBUTION DANS LE MERCANTOUR. — Saint-Martin-Vésubie (Séméria & Berland 1988).
description: Published as part of Tillier, Pierre, 2015, Raphidioptera et Neuroptera (Insecta, Neuropterida) du Parc national du Mercantour (France), pp. 581-594 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on pages 591-592, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5156903
Die Erleuchteten
Creators: name: Hafner, Gabriele
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Rezension von: Miguel Syjuco, Die Erleuchteten. Klett-Cotta, 2011, 446 S.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Porträt einer Menschenrechtsaktivistin
Creators: name: Gerstlacher, Anna
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Rezension von: Zoya Phan und Damien Lewis, Tochter des Dschungels. Aus dem Englischen von Maja Ueberle-Pfaff. Knaur Verlag, München, 2012, 303 S.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
»The Lady« – Ein geteiltes Herz
Creators: name: Fox, Mandy
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Filmrezension von: Luc Besson, The Lady – ein geteiltes Herz, F/UK 2011,134 Min.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Light transport modelling of pulse shape discrimination within plastic scintillators.
Creators: name: Hubbard, Michael W. J.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Plastic scintillators are used in scenarios where gamma-ray identification is necessary and can be scaled to large sizes for use in applications such as particle physics and nuclear security. In particular, modern plastic materials with the ability to detect neutrons via Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) are providing exciting new avenues of research for the field. The pulse shapes for these materials have characteristic decay time constants based on the radiation interaction causing scintillation emission. The materials exhibit this capability with volumes of a few cubic centimetres, but when scaled to larger volumes, the PSD performance diminishes. By identifying the cause of this deterioration, methods can be determined and implemented to increase PSD performance. Through the course of the work reported on, methods for increasing the performance are identified. In one instance, the detector configuration should be chosen based upon the application. The accompanying PSD algorithm should be selected based on the configuration and application environment to achieve maximum performance. When designing the detector configuration, simulations should be used as a tool to help maximise performance. The simulations presented in this thesis have identified that pulse shapes change based on many aspects of the scintillation system. By modelling the light transport, it has been found that the emission direction of scintillation light alters the pulse shape decay times. The light arrives in different distributions based on the directionality. Moreover, these distributions change based on reflector type, the percentage reflectivity and location of the scintillation emission. PSD relies on differences in the decay time constants of pulse shapes. These factors outlined lead to additional time constants being convolved with the pulse shape. This creates variation in the PSD parameter calculated in the algorithms. This variation increases with the scintillator volume and is the cause of reduced performance with large-sized plastic scintillators.
Human ecology, process philosophy and the global ecological crisis
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: According to the most advanced studies of global warming and its effects, 'Large swaths of the planet will be plunged into misery by climate change in the next 50 years, with many millions ravaged by hunger, water shortages and flooding... [P]arts of the Amazon rainforest will turn into desert by 2050, threatening the world with an unstoppable greenhouse effect.... Land temperatures will go up 6oC by the end of the next century.' (Brown, 1998). How can we explain a civilization able to generate such destruction? [Introduction]
Towards a Buruli Ulcer Drug Discovery Assay: Efficient Synthesis of Mycolactone A/B Southern Side Chain
Creators: name: MAVROGIANNAKI, EFTYCHIA MARIA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: Mycolactone A/B (MycA/B) is reportedly the sole virulence factor of Mycobacterium ulcerans which causes the neglected tropical disease Buruli ulcer. This disease involves tissue destruction and suppression of local inflammation. Simmonds has recently discovered a mechanism of action which may encompass almost all effects and mechanisms reported to date; MycA/B inhibits protein translocation - the passage of newly-translated polypeptides across or into endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes. This is mediated through inhibition of the Sec61 translocon, an ER transmembrane pore which permits passage of polypeptide chains. It is hypothesized that binding of mycolactone to Sec61 could be inhibited, with a small molecule, without affecting natural translocation. Discovery of such a molecule requires the development of an assay to test the extent to which mycolactone is binding to Sec61 and this is the aim of this project. It requires synthesis of a fluorophore-conjugated version of MycA/B.
description: The shortest published synthesis of MycA/B to date requires at least 19 steps for the core, 18 for the fatty acid tail and 2-3 more for their coupling and deprotection. Taking into consideration the slow and hazardous growth of M. ulcerans impeding isolation of MycA/B, it is currently not available in sufficient quantities for a feasible study of the proposed bioassay. In order to solve this problem, a novel semi-synthesis of MycA/B must be developed, and this must be amenable to conjugation with a fluorophore for use in a bioassay. In this work, efforts towards the novel synthesis of MycA/B pentaenoate side chain and eventually the semi-synthesis of MycA/B are reported.
Rewriting Arthurian Female Identity by Twentieth-Century Female Authors: Sampson, Hollick, and Miles
Creators: name: AL-GHORAIBI, NEJWA ABDULLAH
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the re-creation of female roles in twentieth-century Arthurian fiction written by women, examining the radical changes to the way the myth is rewritten in three versions of the legend: Daughter of Tintagel by Fay Sampson; the Pendragon series by Helen Hollick; and the Guenevere series by Rosalind Miles. The Introduction presents a brief background study of feminism and a review of the literary background to the Arthurian legend, focusing on two female archetypes employed by the key authors – the queen and the enchantress. Chapter One provides a literary survey exploring the existing Arthurian novels written by women spanning the years between 1900 to 2001. It offers an analysis of twentieth-century novels written from a woman’s viewpoint, exploring how these authors diverged from the accepted Arthurian traditions. The chapter is divided into two sections, investigating the literary boundaries to women’s writing, and focusing on the literary techniques used to expand these limitations. Chapter Two explores Fay Sampson’s use of metafiction and first-person narrators to tell Morgan’s story and how the author undercuts her narrators’ accounts of the legend through her implication that all speakers are unreliable. Chapter Three examines Helen Hollick’s use of historical fiction and her creation of complex female characters who reject traditional passive stereotypes, aspiring to acquire personal power as well as the inherent associations with violence while seeking power. Chapter Four reviews the use paratext and the inversion of the historical romance genre by Rosalind Miles to support her vision of female empowerment through the Arthurian narrative. The Conclusion gathers up the various threads drawn in the different chapters, revealing how the selected three women novelists re-create Arthurian female identity in their novels and how their versions play a significant role in altering the conventionally-accepted stereotypes of Arthurian women.
Non-Abelian T-Duality in Superspace
Creators: name: Bielli, Daniele
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: In this thesis we take a superspace perspective on T-duality, focusing on sigma models defined on
description: background geometries that are constructed in terms of Lie supergroups. We briefly review Abelian
description: bosonic and fermionic T-duality and the derivation of Buscher’s rules, moving then to the dualisation of principal chiral models on group manifolds. Extension of the latter to the case of supergroup manifolds represents the starting point of our analysis, which features an extended discussion about the explicit dualisation of the supergroup OSp(1|2). While the initial model represents an appropriate three-dimensional supergravity background, the T-dual one hints in the opposite direction, as the ansatz adopted to construct the dual veilbeine fails to satisfy the supergravity torsion constraints. Such result, together with the complexity of the ansatz-based approach, suggests that a more abstract and general point of view should be taken on the dualisation procedure. This represents the next step of our analysis and allows a simpler dualisation of principal chiral models and a clearer argument that the above T-dual model falls outside the class of three-dimensional supergravity backgrounds. Extension of the dualisation procedure to symmetric and semi-symmetric coset space sigma models based on Lie supergroups G/H is also favored by the more abstract perspective, which allows to recover the well-known exchange of equations of motion and Maurer-Cartan equations typically observed in purely bosonic settings, hence leading to the construction of a dual Lax connection and ensuring preservation of classical integrability. While dualisation of principal chiral models can be performed in full generality, for coset models the procedure might be affected by impediments appearing in the process of integrating out the gauge fields in favor of the dual variables, and thus requires a case by case analysis. We proceed by solving those gauge fields equations of motion that allow for a general solution, thus confining the potential obstruction to a single equation, whose solvability depends on the invertibility of two linear operators. We conclude by discussing two explicit examples in which dualisation goes through, the first based on the symmetric space S3 = SO(4)/SO(3), well-known for its dualisability, the second on the semi-symmetric space OSp(1|2)/SO(1, 1), already approached in the literature from the point of view of holography and representing a Green-Schwarz-like sigma model satisfying the supergravity torsion constraints.
Using artificial intelligence to discovery RNA viral dark matter
Creators: name: 侯新(Xin Hou)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Assembly
Metagenomic assembly
Environment

description: Current metagenomic tools can fail to identify highly divergent RNA viruses. We developed a deep learning algorithm, termed LucaProt, to discover highly divergent RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) sequences in 10,487 metatranscriptomes generated from diverse global ecosystems. LucaProt integrates both sequence and predicted structural information, enabling the accurate detection of RdRP sequences. Using this approach we identified 161,979 potential RNA virus species and 180 RNA virus supergroups, including many previously poorly studied groups, as well as the longest RNA virus genome (nido-like virus) documented to date, at 47,250 nucleotides. A subset of these novel RNA viruses were confirmed by RT-PCR and RNA/DNA sequencing. Newly discovered RNA viruses were present in diverse environments, including air, hot springs and hydrothermal vents, and both virus diversity and abundance varying substantially among ecosystems. The study advances virus discovery, highlights the scale of the virosphere, and provides computational tools to better document the global RNA virome.
Additional file 1 of FAK activates AKT-mTOR signaling to promote the growth and progression of MMTV-Wnt1-driven basal-like mammary tumors
Creators: name: Ritama Paul
name: Luo, Ming
name: Xueying Mo
name: Lu, Jason
name: Syn Kok Yeo
name: Guan, Jun-Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. a. Bar chart showing percentage of mice with metastasis. b. Quantification of area of metastatic nodule normalized to area of the lung. c. Representative images from H&E staining of metastatic nodules in the lung. Fig. S2. a. Immunohistochemistry for phosphoEIF2α of tumor sections from the three genotypes. b. Quantification of a. Fig. S3. a. Dose response curves from Alamar Blue assay of iCtrl-Wnt (Red) and iKO-Wnt cells (Blue) treated with PF271 and PP242 for 72 h, n = 9, triplicates from three independent repeats. One-way ANOVA (iCtrl-Wnt vs iKO-Wnt), ** denotes p
Additional file 1 of The MYB transcription factor CiMYB42 regulates limonoids biosynthesis in citrus
Creators: name: Zhang, Pan
name: Xiaofeng Liu
name: Xu, Xin
name: Fusheng Wang
name: Junhong Long
name: Wanxia Shen
name: Jiang, Dong
name: Xiaochun Zhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers and probes used in this study.
Keine goldenen Zeiten: Eine Studienreise zum Thema Bergbau und den Auswirkungen auf Umwelt und Menschenrechte
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: »Wir haben das Recht, hier Bergbau zu betreiben«, sagt Misah Blando, ein Small Scale Miner (Kleinschürfer) in Licuan-Baay (Abra-Provinz) und ergänzt: »Wir sind zwar arm, aber glücklich.« Im Osten der Provinz Abra (Nord-Luzon) wird überwiegend im Small Scale Verfahren Gold abgebaut. Kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg machten die Bewohner/innen durch Abra Mining Industrial Corporation Erfahrung mit großflächigem Abbau (Large Scale Mining), für den es jetzt aufgrund steigender Rohstoffpreise erneut Interessenten gibt. Ellen, eine Bewohnerin von Licuan-Baay, dazu: »Wenn Large Scale Mining zurück kommt, werden wir dagegen kämpfen. Dies ist unser Land! Wir haben einst Erfahrungen mit Large Scale Mining gemacht, aber außer dem Manager von Abra Mining hat niemand davon profitiert.«
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
At the cocktail party: noise, hearing, listening and the classical musician's ear
Creators: name: Hansford, Ruth
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024

description: Professional classical musicians develop their craft over many years so that they can perform consistently at the highest level. As their craft develops, their hearing inevitably deteriorates chiefly, but not solely, through the ageing process and exposure to high levels of sound over time. Yet musicians do continue performing. As their sense of hearing deteriorates their skill of listening develops; exposure to loud sounds is not always a predictor of hearing state, nor are hearing-test results linked to ability to earn a living in music.

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description: I conducted extended semi-structured interviews with 13 musicians who tell of their exposure to noise inside and outside the workplace, and their changing relationship with their ears. I carried out an extensive review of relevant medical-science and policy literature, and explored the frameworks, particularly oral history, that have shaped my analysis of the stories musicians tell about this complex, often controversial and constantly evolving subject.

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description: This project has two sources of inspiration. Beethoven writes, in his Heiligenstadt Testament (1802), of his despair, social isolation and frustration with doctors, but also his determination to keep going as a musician. Walter Benjamin in his essay The Storyteller (1936) describes storytelling as an “artisan form of communication”.

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description: Musicians are consummate artisans, highly specialised and collaborative, working in an art form characterised by tradition and community. I explored what it means to have a musician’s ear over a long career by listening to musicians’ stories about noise, hearing, and listening to words and music. I found echoes of Beethoven’s resilience in the face of intractable physical challenges. I found that noise is less tolerable if employers are not addressing it, and that audiometry results are of less interest to musicians than the challenges of listening to speech in background noise – cocktail parties – as audiometry has a focus on speech rather than expert listening to music.
Philippinische Entertainerinnen: Über die prekäre Situation der Frauen im »Entertainment-Gewerbe«
Creators: name: Arenz, Frank
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Philippinen sind der weltweit größte Exporteur von Arbeitskräften. Japan ist dabei ein großer und wichtiger Markt für Arbeit suchende Filipinas. Sie migrieren oft als ausgebildete Showtänzerinnen oder Sängerinnen, um dort in Kabaretts, Theatern oder anders titulierten Kulturstätten zu arbeiten.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
The Stokes structure and connection coefficients for Airy equation
Creators: name: Gurarii, Vladimir P.
name: Lucy, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Following the methodology outlined in the series of papers 'The Stokes structure in asymptotic analysis', we present some features of the Airy equation which are not generally available in the classical literature on transcendental functions and asymptotic analysis.
Shahrazad's storytelling as postcolonial feminine writing in the novels of Hanan al-Shaykh and Elif Shafak.
Creators: name: Sevinc, Mine
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This thesis explores how contemporary postcolonial women writers reclaim a new position of writing that I define as postcolonial feminine writing, which mirrors and transcends the storytelling of Shahrazad in terms of theme and structure. Postcolonial feminine writing as a concept is drawn out of Frantz Fanon’s ‘Algeria Unveiled’, Hélène Cixous’s ‘The Laugh of Medusa’ and Shahrazad’s storytelling. The intersection of these theories and narrative styles allows for an interrogation into how it is not only possible for women writers to operate within patriarchal narrative discourse, but also how it is possible to undo and re-imagine the very norms of the patriarchal discourse from within. Thus, this concept offers an alternative to colonial and patriarchal discourses by questioning how non-Western women are denied access to voice as well as different power structures such as honour and the gaze and by seeking ways to move beyond these restrictions. I question the extent to which Shahrazad is employed as a liberating figure in contemporary postcolonial women’s narratives. The following chapters locate the potential of Shahrazadean narrative in Hanan al- Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights (2011), Elif Shafak’s The Gaze (2006), and Honour (2012) in order to challenge and re-imagine societal norms and structures. I argue that postcolonial feminine writing enables Shafak and al-Shaykh to re-create liberating spaces and rethink patriarchal literary discourses as embodied. By demonstrating how Shahrazad uses her body to access a narrative voice and intertwines narrative desire with sexual desire, I trace the potential of voice to the body through postcolonial feminine writing. Then, I identify how postcolonial feminine writing enables multiple and fluid gazing positions, allowing marginalised figures to be subjects of the gaze and re-define their gender and societal identities. By questioning the patriarchal binary oppositions of voice/silence and honour/shame, I explore how it is also possible for silence and shame to be alternative forms of communication. Consequently, I argue that postcolonial feminine writing enables temporary interventions into patriarchal and colonial discourses. It is the repetition of these interventions, albeit temporary, that undermines patriarchal power structures whilst re- inventing more subversive and liberating discourses as well as embodied potentialities.
“The pain, that’s the injury, the day-to-day living with it” - experiences of living with Spinal Cord Injury and Chronic Pain in the Community
Creators: name: BOUTIN, LINDA TERESA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Chronic Pain (CP) following Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) (CP-post-SCI) was found to be a distressing combination, with CP adding to the disabling effects of SCI and being one of the hardest aspects to manage due to its relentless, unpredictable and uncontrollable nature. Current literature in CP post-SCI is predominantly from a biomedical model focusing on causality and cure and in a hospital setting. Few studies have explored the lived experience of this phenomenon. The current research addresses these gaps by researching the experience of 8 people who have CP post-SCI between 4 to 47 years. Semi-structured interviews focused on the experience of CP post-SCI. The transcribed interview data, analysed using Thematic Analysis (TA), revealed four themes on living with CP post-SCI: consequences on all aspects of life; not coping; reaching the last resort; and coping. The key findings are: the traumatic nature of SCI; the experience of having a double burden; CP is considered harder to live with than SCI; a sense of feeling let down by the medical profession; and little awareness of how psychological interventions may help. The results are linked to CP theory and sociocultural factors, including disability studies, showing the impact of discrimination and inaccessibility on CP intensity. There was a lack of understanding about psychological interventions despite them being used successfully in general CP; with suicide being considered before psychological interventions. There was a lack of psychological support for CP post-SCI in the community. The findings highlight the need for psychological education for people with CP post-SCI and professionals working with them, and for a range of psychological interventions. Limitations of the research and further research are considered.
Kinder kriegen Kinder
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Diskussion um das Gesundheitsgesetz ist nicht neu. Frauen- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen sowie entwicklungspolitische Gruppen versuchen seit 2001 die aktuelle Fassung der Reproductive Health Bill (kurz: RH Bill) zur Abstimmung in den Kongress zu bringen. Vor allem eine Institution kämpft dagegen: die katholische Kirche und viele ihrer Bischöfe.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
Effect of movies on mental health awareness
Creators: name: Sharma, Shwetal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Research indicates that media has an impact on people’s opinions. We hypothesized that the release of a movie featuring a protagonist with Asperger’s syndrome would lead to an increase in searches related to the condition. The results of our analyses supported this hypothesis. There was a significant increase in google searches for “Asperger’s” and “autism” following the release of the movie in February 2010.
Die Qual der Wahl? Was junge Filipinas in der Gestaltung der persönlichen Zukunft beeinflusst
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Nora
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Spätestens seit den 1970er Jahren wird in den Philippinen die Debatte um das »Frau sein« kontrovers geführt. Neben denen, die eine Gleichstellung von Mann und Frau im öffentlichen und privaten Bereich befürworten, stehen die Stimmen der Traditionalisten, nach deren Meinung ein Mädchen schüchtern und zurückhaltend sein soll – mahinhin. Die populären globalen Medien vermitteln das Bild des individuellen Entscheidungs- und Entfaltungsspielraumes. Tatsächlich ist dieser Entfaltungsspielraum für viele Akteure in den Philippinen durch Armut und andere strukturelle Bedingungen ein geschränkt.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?
No association between HIV status and risk of non-fatal overdose among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Escudero, Daniel J.
name: Marshall, Brandon David Lewis
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Feng, Cindy X.
name: Guillemi, Silvia A.
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
name: Milloy, M-J
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2018

description: Background: The evidence to date on whether HIV infection increases the risk of accidental drug overdose among people who inject drugs (PWID) is equivocal. Thus, we sought to estimate the effect of HIV infection on risk of non-fatal overdose among two parallel cohorts of HIV-positive and –negative PWID. Methods: Data were collected from a prospective cohort of PWID in Vancouver, Canada between 2006 and 2013. During biannual follow-up assessments, non-fatal overdose within the previous 6 months was assessed. Bivariable and multivariable generalized mixed-effects regression models were used to determine the unadjusted and adjusted associations between HIV status, plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load, and likelihood of non-fatal overdose. Results: A total of 1760 eligible participants (67% male, median age = 42, and 42% HIV-positive at baseline) were included. Among 15,070 unique observations, 649 (4.3%) included a report of a non-fatal overdose within the previous 6 months (4.4% among seropositive and 4.3% among seronegative individuals). We did not observe a difference in the likelihood of overdose by HIV serostatus in crude (odds ratio [OR]: 1.05, p = 0.853) analyses or analyses adjusted for known overdose risk factors (adjusted OR [AOR]: 1.19, p = 0.474). In a secondary analysis, among HIV-positive PWID, we did not observe an association between having a detectable viral load and overdose (AOR: 1.03, p = 0.862). Conclusions: Despite the evidence that HIV infection is a risk factor for fatal overdose, we found no evidence for a relationship between HIV disease and non-fatal overdose. However, overdose remains high among PWID, indicating the need for ongoing policy addressing this problem, and research into understanding modifiable risk factors that predict non-fatal overdose.
»Wir arbeiten noch daran«: Aktivismus philippinischer Frauen in der Öffentlichkeit
Creators: name: Reese, Niklas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Filipin@s sind bekannt für ihre breit gefächerte bürgerliche Gesellschaft und ihre massiven Straßenproteste, die zum Untergang von bislang zwei Präsidenten führten. Philippinische Frauen spielen eine herausragende Rolle in sozialen Bewegungen, doch die traditionellen Rollenbilder sind sowohl in männlichen als auch in weiblichen Köpfen noch stark verankert.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2012): Frauen: Das zweite Geschlecht?