cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Where, when and what do tolerogenic dendritic cells do to T cells?
Creators: name: Dahlstrom, Jennifer Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common autoimmune disease which affects up to 1% of the population. During RA there is a systemic loss of immunological tolerance which results in inflammation in the joints. This leads to progressive and irreversible cartilage and bone erosion. The current treatments for RA involve broad immunosuppression which leave patients at risk of developing infections and cancer. There is a need for more targeted treatments which suppress the pathological immune response while leaving protective immunity intact. Tolerogenic dendritic cells (tol-DCs) have gained interest in recent years as a potential treatment of autoimmunity as they allow a targeted antigen (Ag) specific suppression of the immune response. Tol-DCs have been investigated in multiple clinical trials for the treatment of RA, multiple sclerosis, diabetes type 1, Crohn’s disease and transplantation. Tol-DCs are thought to mainly mediate their effects through CD4+ T cells. The main barriers in advancing this treatment are; tol-DCs exact mechanisms of action on CD4+ T cells still needs to be elucidated, quality control (QC) markers which inform tol-DCs potency as a treatment need to be identified, as well as biomarkers of successful tol-DC therapy in CD4+ T cells which would confirm tolDC therapy had been successful and the injection route which maximises this treatment is unknown. Intradermal, intravenous, intra-articular, intraperitoneal and intranodal injection routes of tol-DCs have been tested in clinical trials. Subcutaneous injection of tol-DCs has not been tested in human clinical trials. It is thought tol-DCs need to migrate to the draining LN (dLN) to induce tolerance. Choosing an injection route which maximises migration to the dLN could therefore enhance the effects of tol-DC treatment. In this thesis, I investigated potential mechanisms of action of tol-DCs, QC markers of tol-DCs and markers of tolerogenicity in CD4+ T cells in human Dexamethasone + Vitamin D3 tol-DCs. In a murine study, Dex+VitD3 tol-DCs were shown to migrate to the dLN after subcutaneous footpad injection. This tol-DC type’s ability to modulate Ag-specific CD4+ T cell activation in vivo was measured and finally subcutaneous footpad injection of tol-DCs was tested in an acute model of inflammatory arthritis. This work will help inform and improve future clinical trials with tol-DCs.
title: Convergence and value in environmental and animal ethics
Creators: name: Zhang, Yunjie
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis concerns the plausibility of arguments that certain normative ethical theories converge on the answer to the practical question of normative ethics (e.g., What (morally) ought I to do?) and the explanatory question of normative ethics (e.g., What explains why certain actions are permissible, required, or forbidden?). I explore different strategies for arguing that normative ethical theories converge on the answer to these questions. I then turn to the prospects of convergence between certain normative ethical theories in environmental ethics and animal ethics. In environmental ethics, I consider the prospects of convergence between Anthropocentrism (i.e., human-centred ethics) and Non-Anthropocentrism. I argue that Bryan Norton’s influential convergence argument fails to show that there is convergence between these two views. I then propose my own version of Anthropocentrism (i.e., “Broad Anthropocentrism”) and argue that it exhibits some degree of convergence with NonAnthropocentrism on the answer to both the practical and the explanatory question of normative ethics. In animal ethics, I consider the prospects of convergence between Utilitarianism and a moral rights-based approach. I argue that a prominent attempt to argue for convergence between these theories fails because it relies on implausible or incomplete versions of a moral rights theory. Finally, I shift focus from convergence on the answer to the practical and explanatory questions to convergence on the question of whether one ought to care about nature and animals. I argue that there is a large amount of convergence between Broad Anthropocentrism and Non-Anthropocentrism on the answer to the questions of “Should one finally care about nature?” and “Why should one finally care about nature?” I also argue that there is a fair amount of convergence between Utilitarianism and a plausible moral rights view on the answer to the questions, “Should I care about animals?” and “Why should I care about animals?”
Recruitment, consent, notifications
Creators: name: Sarnecka, Barbara W.
name: Goldstein, Rena Beatrice
name: Coon, Jeffrey
name: Silva, Paulina Nicole
name: Vickers, Darby
name: Rouder, Jeffrey N.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2019

description: Materials used in recruiting and obtaining consent from participants, and notifying or reminding them of events in the study.
Carbon and nitrogen forms in soil organic matter influenced by incorporated wheat and corn residues
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Mao, Alice
name: Zhang, Yajie
name: Zhang, Ligan
name: Chang, Jiang
name: Gao, Hongjian
name: Thompson, Michael L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: We have investigated molecular-scale changes in soil organic matter (SOM) as incorporated wheat and corn residues decompose and whether those changes are correlated with soil nitrogen forms. The ‘initial litter quality hypothesis’ that compositional variations in plant residues may persist during decomposition of these residues as they are transformed to SOM was tested. We studied soils in 6-year field experiments of a double-cropped corn–wheat rotation system designed with the following treatments: no crop residue and no chemical fertilizer, chemical fertilizer alone, wheat straw + chemical fertilizer, corn stover + chemical fertilizer, and corn plus wheat residue + chemical fertilizer. Organic carbon and nitrogen forms were assessed, and SOM chemical structures were examined by Fourier transform infrared and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. We found that concentrations of organic-N in corn residues plus fertilizer treatment were significantly larger than those in wheat straw plus fertilizer treatment. In addition, concentrations of amide groups and NCH in SOM with corn residue treatment were larger than those in SOM with wheat residue treatment. Incorporation of both corn and wheat residues led to an increase in carbohydrate-derived components of SOM. Compared with the check treatment, aromaticity, alkyl C/O-alkyl C, and hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity indices of the SOM were lower with addition of residue. Aromaticity was greater in corn residue treatment than in wheat residue treatment. This study provides support for the hypothesis that the variation in chemical composition of SOM reflected the incorporation of distinct chemical structures in wheat and corn straw residues.
One-way ANOVA within-subjects
Creators: name: Oh, Hyuntaek
name: Custead, Rebecca
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Barlow, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: An fMRI group data set (One-way ANOVA) used in "Neural encoding of saltatory pneumotactile velocity in human glabrous hand"
title: Essays on matchings and contests
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Rohan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is composed of two parts. Part I contributes to the matching literature and Part II contributes to the contest literature. Part I: A set of indivisible objects must be allocated among a group of agents, or agents from one side of the market must be matched to agents on the other. Each agent has their own preference over these objects, or over the agents on the other side. These preferences exhibit an underlying structure, motivated by real-world examples such as the refugee settlement problem, the job rotation problem and others. We study design of procedures to match agents to objects/agents, without resorting to randomization devices or monetary transfers. Three concerns play a central role in this design: incentive compatibility, efficiency and fairness. For each setting we consider, we appropriately formalise what we mean by these terms. Part II: A competitive league coach (team manager) must manage the energy pool of players in the team over the course of the entire season. High energy usage increases the chance of winning the current game, but also increases the risk of developing accumulated fatigue or injuries in later games. We explore this “winning in the short term” vs “saving energy for the future” dilemma that the coach faces over a long season.
Trade Patterns of Bangladesh with India and China: An Empirical Evidence of the PPP Theory
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: Abstract The paper examines the existence of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory for both Bangladesh and its two important trading partners- India and China. The PPP theory is an attempt to explain and perhaps more importantly measure statistically, the equilibrium rate of exchange and its variation by means of the price levels and their variations in different countries. The main purpose of the study is to get a comparative picture of trade balance between Bangladesh (home country) and two major trade partners, i.e. India and China (foreign countries) over a given period of time by using the PPP . The empirical results of the study provides an explanation of how relative inflation rates (changes of price level) between two countries can influence an exchange rate and also critically focuses on the degree of deviation between countries which may help to draw a forecast long-run movements in exchange rates. Finally the results also specify about the trade patterns among the countries and fairly conclude the efficient and beneficial trade partner in respect of Bangladesh with India and China.
One sample t-test. (5cm/s > No stimulus)
Creators: name: Oh, Hyuntaek
name: Custead, Rebecca
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Barlow, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: An fMRI group data set (one sample t-test. 5cm/s > No stimulus) used in "Neural encoding of saltatory pneumotactile velocity in human glabrous hand"
title: ALLOc : Pampelonne : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
Import Inflows of Bangladesh: The Gravity Model Approach
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract Bangladesh suffers from a chronic deficit in her trade balance. The paper is an attempt to explore the imports of Bangladesh which is one of the most significant factors responsible for unfavorable trade balance of the country. The aim of the study is to intend some initiatives for an attempt to ultimately reshaping the trade balance of Bangladesh with her foreign trade partners. The paper examines the existence of the gravity theory for the imports of Bangladesh with its eight major trading partner countries- India, China, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, USA and Malaysia. The data set consists of yearly data from 1985 to 2003 in a panel approach. The paper comes across with the findings that the gravity theory is consistent with the imports of Bangladesh. That is, the geographical distance of Bangladesh with its partner countries has significant impacts on its imports. But in near future this may change because of different factors such as profitability, easy trade procedures, product delivery time etc. that influence the imports decision more than does the geographical distance. This paper finds mixed relationship between the GDP and imports of Bangladesh. It also shows that the imports of Bangladesh influence the domestic production very little because Bangladesh mostly imports consumer goods rather than capital goods. Moreover, the population of Bangladesh has significant impacts on imports which in turn implies that Bangladesh is not capable of producing adequate consumer goods to meet the increased demand resulted from high population growth. It also shows that partner countries’ GDP has significant positive impacts and partner countries’ population has mixed impact on imports of Bangladesh. This paper concludes that it will be an alarming situation for trade balance of Bangladesh if the imports continue to increase in such a pattern that the rate increases five to eight times more in respect of population increases and at the same time the ratio of capital goods in proportion of total imports decreases.
Relationship between Interest Rate and Stock Price: Empirical Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factors of economic growth of a country. The impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important implications for monitory policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation and government policy towards financial markets. This study seeks evidence supporting the existence of share market efficiency based on the monthly data from January 1988 to March 2003 and also shows empirical relationship between stock index and interest rate for fifteen developed and developing countries- Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippine, S. Africa, Spain, and Venezuela. Stationarity of market return is tested and found none of this stock market follows random walk model, means not efficient in weak form. To investigate the reasons of market inefficiency, relationship between share price and interest rate, and changes of share price and changes of interest rate were determined through both time series and panel regressions. For all of the countries it is found that interest rate has significant negative relationship with share price and for six countries it is found that changes of interest rate has significant negative relationship with changes of share price. So, if the interest rate is considerably controlled for these countries, it will be the great benefit of these countries’ stock exchange through demand pull way of more investors in share market, and supply push way of more extensional investment of companies.
Advancing COVID-19 diagnosis with privacy-preserving collaboration in artificial intelligence
Creators: name: Bai, Xiang
name: Wang, Hanchen
name: Ma, Liya
name: Xu, Yongchao
name: Gan, Jiefeng
name: Fan, Ziwei
name: Yang, Fan
name: Ma, Ke
name: Yang, Jiehua
name: Bai, Song
name: Shu, Chang
name: Zou, Xinyu
name: Huang, Renhao
name: Zhang, Changzheng
name: Liu, Xiaowu
name: Tu, Dandan
name: Xu, Chuou
name: Zhang, Wenqing
name: Wang, Xi
name: Chen, Anguo
name: Zeng, Yu
name: Yang, Dehua
name: Wang, Ming-Wei
name: Holalkere, Nagaraj
name: Halin, Neil J.
name: Kamel, Ihab R.
name: Wu, Jia
name: Peng, Xuehua
name: Wang, Xiang
name: Shao, Jianbo
name: Mongkolwat, Pattanasak
name: Zhang, Jianjun
name: Liu, Weiyang
name: Roberts, Michael
name: Teng, Zhongzhao
name: Beer, Lucian
name: Sanchez, Lorena E.
name: Sala, Evis
name: Rubin, Daniel L.
name: Weller, Adrian
name: Lasenby, Joan
name: Zheng, Chuansheng
name: Wang, Jianming
name: Li, Zhen
name: Schönlieb, Carola
name: Xia, Tian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
/4000/4008
/692/700
/639/705/1042
/631/326/596/4130
article

description: Abstract: Artificial intelligence provides a promising solution for streamlining COVID-19 diagnoses; however, concerns surrounding security and trustworthiness impede the collection of large-scale representative medical data, posing a considerable challenge for training a well-generalized model in clinical practices. To address this, we launch the Unified CT-COVID AI Diagnostic Initiative (UCADI), where the artificial intelligence (AI) model can be distributedly trained and independently executed at each host institution under a federated learning framework without data sharing. Here we show that our federated learning framework model considerably outperformed all of the local models (with a test sensitivity/specificity of 0.973/0.951 in China and 0.730/0.942 in the United Kingdom), achieving comparable performance with a panel of professional radiologists. We further evaluated the model on the hold-out (collected from another two hospitals without the federated learning framework) and heterogeneous (acquired with contrast materials) data, provided visual explanations for decisions made by the model, and analysed the trade-offs between the model performance and the communication costs in the federated training process. Our study is based on 9,573 chest computed tomography scans from 3,336 patients collected from 23 hospitals located in China and the United Kingdom. Collectively, our work advanced the prospects of utilizing federated learning for privacy-preserving AI in digital health.
Data Table of Cheung Ek Neutron Activation Analysis [Structured Data from Open Context]
Creators: name: Peter Grave
name: Lisa Kealhofer
name: Miriam Stark
name: Darith Ea
name: Kaseka Phon
name: Piphal Heng
name: Miriam Stark
name: Rachna Chhay
name: Darith Ea
name: Gary P Marriner
name: Peter Grave
name: Lisa Kealhofer
name: Ben Marsh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Context
Data Publication
Structured Data
GeoJSON
JSON-LD
CSV

description: This deposit archives structured-data files associated with the Data Table of Cheung Ek Neutron Activation Analysis Data Table resource published by Open Context.
In general, Open Context is a dynamic and frequently updated database that integrates research data from a growing number of sources. However, Open Context also stores some static and unchanging, externally stored "Data Table" files. Unless otherwise indicated, the content of Data Table files (such as the resource deposited here) will not change even after updates to the Open Context database.
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JSON: The 165-data-table-of-cheung-ek-neutron-activation-analysis.json provides additional metadata about the tabular data content for this resource in a JSON-LD format.
Open Context is an open-source Python application built with the Django framework (see source code and Docker deployment code). To manage a wide variety of archaeological and related data, Open Context organizes information using a very abstract, graph-based schema. Open Context implements this schema using a Postgres relational database and the Django "Object Relational Model" (ORM).
Because Open Context internally maintains data using a very abstract schema, data dumps directly from this schema would be difficult to understand and use. Therefore, Open Context makes select datasets (like this) available in more easily understood tabular expressions. A considerable amount of application logic in Open Context generated the more expressive tabular representation of data. This tabular data output from Open Context is meant to be considered as a static and unchanging "snapshot" of data selected for output at a specific time.
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title: 03_0625
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: Segregating neuronal and glial membrane injury in an anti-GM1 antibody-mediated neuropathy
Creators: name: Campbell, Clare Ile
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: Guillain-Barré syndrome is a post-infectious autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. Broadly, it presents as acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) and acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP). Although segmental demyelination is the predominant characteristic of AIDP, secondary bystander axonal injury can occur and is associated with poor prognosis. The pathogenesis of AIDP and secondary bystander axonal injury are poorly understood in comparison to the established mechanisms involved in primary axonal degeneration in AMAN. The most common preceding infection is with Campylobacter jejuni which is associated with anti-GM1 ganglioside autoantibodies. GM1 antibodies primarily bind to the motor axolemma but have also been demonstrated to bind to the paranodal Schwann cell loops. It is currently unknown whether the pathological phenotype mediated by anti-GM1 antibodies arises from injury to one or other, or both membranes in AMAN and AIDP. Current animal models are unable to segregate primary injury from the consequences of cell-specific membrane injury because GM1 is expressed on both neural membranes. To address this, we used GalNAc-T-/--Tg(neuronal) and GalNAc-T-/--Tg(glial) mice to selectively target the axonal and glial membrane, respectively, with a single anti-GM1 antibody. We investigated the effects of complement-mediated injury at the distal motor neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and distal node of Ranvier (NoR). Results demonstrated that injury to the axonal membrane in GalNAc-T-/--Tg(neuronal) mice resulted in a significant reduction of axonal integrity at the NMJ and disruption to voltage gated sodium channels at the NoR. In contrast, it was established that targeted injury to the glial membrane caused significant impairment to the axo-glial junction at the paranode, resulting in disruption to the paranodal loops. Complement inhibition attenuated injury to the paranodal loops, suggesting that targeting the complement pathway therapeutically would be effective in treating demyelinating neuropathies. Furthermore, targeted injury to the glial membrane subsequently led to secondary injury to the axon at the distal NoR. Overall, these transgenic mice offer many potential roles in the investigation of anti-ganglioside antibody mediated binding and injury at specific membrane sites; particularly to study the downstream mechanism(s) of primary and secondary axonal degeneration to help inform the development of targeted treatments.
One sample t-test. (25cm/s > No stimulus)
Creators: name: Oh, Hyuntaek
name: Custead, Rebecca
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Barlow, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: An fMRI group data set (one sample t-test. 25cm/s > No stimulus) used in "Neural encoding of saltatory pneumotactile velocity in human glabrous hand"
title: ALLOc : Fauch : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
Questioning Bangladesh's Microcredit
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract The microcredit (MC) program of Bangladesh has been a well-known success story for generation of self-employment, and poverty alleviation. Variants of this MC model are being implemented in more than 60 different countries of the world. It has become almost a universal antidote for poverty especially from 2006 when Professor Muhammad Yunus the founder of the Grameen Bank (GB) and the bank itself shared the Nobel peace prize. Although the GB is the pioneer of MC program in Bangladesh, there are many other nongovernmental organizations (NGO)s that offer the same program in Bangladesh in different forms and names. The providers of MCs claim that the overwhelming majority of the borrowers are using the loan funds profitably for productive purposes, repaying the loans and interest regularly, and thus improving their socio-economic conditions steadily.The findings of the present study are somewhat contrary and disturbing to the claim of the MC programs. This study finds that a bulk of the MC is borrowed for non productive purposes. About one quarter of the borrowers use the credit exclusively for consumption and debt repayment purposes. Nearly half of them use the credits entirely for investment purposes. For all, the return on investment is very meager. About two-third of the borrowers, on average have an impressive 83% net return on investment available for payment of interest and dividend in addition to the principal. But in case of as high as one third of them, average return on investment is not enough even to cover the most minimum or tolerance level of wages for family labors, let alone paying any interest and making any profit after keeping aside the principal.
One sample t-test. (65cm/s > No stimulus)
Creators: name: Oh, Hyuntaek
name: Custead, Rebecca
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Barlow, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: An fMRI group data set (one sample t-test. 65cm/s > No stimulus) used in "Neural encoding of saltatory pneumotactile velocity in human glabrous hand"
title: What does it mean that God is ‘Father’ and ‘Lord’? A textual analysis of liturgical elements in the Scottish Liturgy 1982 and a feminist response
Creators: name: Browell, Naomi R.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: The words ‘Lord’ and ‘Father’ punctuate most elements of the Scottish Liturgy 1982, the most recent eucharistic liturgy authorised by the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC). By undertaking a textual analysis of two aspects of the liturgy, the Confession & Absolution (C&A) and the Sanctus & Benedictus (S&B), this study explores the question: should the Scottish Episcopal Church consider abandoning these particular metaphors in their new eucharistic liturgy, or supplementing them with others (either neutral or female), or should the SEC remain steadfast in its use of the ancient metaphors which have for so long shaped the church’s language and theology? In seeking an answer to this question, research was conducted into the history of the use of the terms ‘Lord’ and ‘Father’ in the liturgy, with particular attention to their biblical roots. Following a grounding in the history of the terms, the work of feminist theology is reviewed with particular attention to the language used for God. Understandings of ‘liturgy’ and its purpose, as presented by liturgical theologians in the twenty-first century are then explored. Part II of the study turns to textual analysis of the SEC 1982 liturgy more generally, and of these two liturgical elements more specifically. This is complemented by a feminist critical response to the findings of the textual analyses, which gives rise to four categories to assist in developing missional liturgy, liturgy which is attentive to the needs of the contemporary Scottish context and also coherent with the principles of feminist theology. The liturgical revisions of other English-speaking Anglican provinces is then considered, with particular attention to how they have altered the use of the words ‘Lord’ and ‘Father’ in their more recent liturgies. Finally, the four categories of feminist approach to the liturgy are used to propose potential new liturgical prayers which might replace the SEC’s C&A and the S&B.
Carbon nanotube membranes to predict skin permeability of compounds
Creators: name: Ilbasmis-Tamer, Sibel
name: Fatmanur Tugcu-Demiroz
name: Degim, Ismail Tuncer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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

description: In the present study, carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes were prepared to predict skin penetration properties of compounds. A series of penetration experiments using Franz diffusion cells were performed with 16 different membrane compositions for model chemicals. Similar experiments were also carried out with same model molecules using five different commercially available synthetic membranes and human skins for the comparison. Model chemicals were selected as diclofenac, dexketoprofen and salicylic acid. Their permeability coefficients and flux values were calculated. Correlations between permeability values of model compounds for human skins and developed model membranes were investigated. Good correlations were obtained for CNT membrane, isopropyl myristate-treated CNT membrane (IM-CNT membrane) and bovine serum albumin-cholesterol, dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl choline-treated membrane (BSA-Cholesterol-DPPC-IM-CNT membrane). An artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed using some molecular properties and penetration coefficients from pristine CNT membranes to predict skin permeability values and quite good predictions were made.
title: ALLOc : Moulayrès : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
FarFish Tutor-web training activities
Creators: name: Stefansson, Gunnar
name: Lentin, Jamie
name: Viðarsson, Jónas R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Capacity building
Training
Fisheries management
e-learning
Stock assessment
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA)

description: Training and capacity building are important components of the FarFish project, and one of the project’s products are e-learning courses that are intended to educate stakeholders and scientist in the basics of fisheries management and stock assessment. The courses are made available at www.tutor-web.net. This report provides an overview of the e-learning component of the project, the tutor-web tool and the training activities facilitated by FarFish to promote uptake and use of the tool. The setup and content of the FarFish material available on Tutor-web has previously been reported on in previous FarFish reports but is briefly reviewed in the report to provide insight into why this platform is important and relevant for the FarFish project.
 The Tutor-web training activities as originally planned included an in-country demonstration giving short local courses in the FarFish case study countries on the use of the tool, leaving expertise on how to teach fisheries management and stock assessments using personalized educational technology. The training activities were intended to constitute a proof of concept where the FarFish experts would travel on-site to the Seychelles to demonstrate the applicability of the solution. This plan was however disrupted by Covid 19, as travel to the Seychelles (or any of the other case study countries) by the European experts was considered irresponsible and unsafe. The proof of concept was as results incorporated into the UNESCO-GRO Fisheries Training Programme, where 28 fellows from 17 countries (including representatives from all of the FarFish case studies) attended. The training demonstrated the relevance of the FarFish Tutor-web component, where the students can learn about the basics of fisheries management and stock assessment with the e-learning materials. The training activity also provided indications that the platform would be used by the fellows to become the teachers and advocates of the Tutor-web platform when returning home.
 The Tutor-web task within FarFish has in addition delivered three peer-reviewed journal articles, which are briefly discussed in this report.
title: ALLOc : Cadalen : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
Candidis lectoribvs S. ... In sacris literis ... In vtroqve ivre ... In medicina ... In libera libvs disciplinis ... In lingvis; 1548
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2006

description: Vorlesungverzeichnis der Universität Ingolstadt
One sample t-test. (5cm/s > All ON)
Creators: name: Oh, Hyuntaek
name: Custead, Rebecca
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Barlow, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: An fMRI group data set (one sample t-test. 5cm/s > All ON) used in "Neural encoding of saltatory pneumotactile velocity in human glabrous hand"
Carnet nº 22, commencé à Haiphong (p. 22)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 16-8-1931
Coordination modes of 2-mercapto-1,3-benzothiazolate in gallium and indium complexes
Creators: name: Basiak, Dariusz
name: Ziemkowska, Wanda
name: Paweł Socha
name: Łukasz Dobrzycki
name: Ochal, Zbigniew
name: Pindelska, Edyta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
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: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: 2-Mercapto-1,3-benzothiazole (mbztH) may act as a chelating or bridging ligand. In this study, reactions of mbztH with Me3Ga and Me3In were examined. The products were characterized by NMR spectroscopy, elemental analyses, melting point, and molecular weight determinations. Formation of mononuclear chelating complexes Me2M(mbzt) (M = Ga, In) was observed in solutions. Crystallization of Me2M(mbzt) yielded uncommon non-symmetrical dinuclear complexes Me4M2(mbzt)2, in which one metal is bonded to two sulfurs and the other to two nitrogens.
title: ‘Ramsay’s women’: Gender and genre in the works of Allan Ramsay
Creators: name: McManus, Megan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation examines the representation of the female character across all genres in the work of Allan Ramsay. In the genres of poetry, drama, and song, the role of the Scottish female is examined in relation to the preservation and dissemination of Scottish cultural modes and traditions. This is explored within the context of the progression of Scotland as a nation in the early eighteenth century. This thesis argues that Ramsay presents the Scottish female as playing a vital role in the development of Scotland as a polite nation through her use of Scottish cultural modes, and that he champions his female characters as worthy and competent in performing this function.
title: Configurations and stability of thin films of nematic liquid crystal
Creators: name: Al Ghabshi, Bushra
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: Liquid crystals are unique materials exist between the solid phase and liquid phase, and in certain ranges of temperature they show different arrangements of the molecules. Depending on the amount of order in the material, there are many different types of liquid crystal states. The nematic liquid crystals are an example of a material that has no positional order but has local orientational order, this gives rise to textures (patterns in the material) that are attractive to study. Nematic liquid crystal is an example of a material that has orientational order and no long-range positional order, this gives rise to textures (patterns in the material) that are attractive to study. This thesis concerns liquid crystals in thin films and their configurations and stability. The aim of this thesis to to explore minimum energy configurations for thin liquid shells, coupled with surface energy and curvature effects. In particular we study a thin film of liquid crystal spanning two coaxial rings, where we use the energy derived in [66] for a thin nematic liquid crystal and study the nematic film within the Landau-de Gennes model which is described through the Q-tensor theory. This thesis consists of a study of two main problems. The first is the study of the equilibrium of open surfaces (with a boundary) and involves a careful derivation of natural boundary conditions associated with minimising a general surface energy. We prove a number of results about the equations and also derive a framework to study the stability of the solutions to the equilibrium by considering the incremental equations. We demonstrate this approach in some simple examples. The second main problem is a study of the equilibrium of a thin film of liquid crystal suspended between two coaxial rings. We use the results developed in the first part of the thesis to derive the equilibrium equations and boundary conditions and solve these equations numerically for a range of dimensionless parameters related to the thin film. We perform our numerical study using two different, but related, parameterisations of the order tensor. We specialise to consider axisymmetric solutions. Finally we study the stability of the isotropic distribution (state) on a fixed catenoidal geometry, we demonstrate the emergence of defects of charge -1/2 at the onset of nematic order. We study the nonlinear equations numerically using a nonlinear Jacobi iteration.
One sample t-test. (25cm/s > All on)
Creators: name: Oh, Hyuntaek
name: Custead, Rebecca
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Barlow, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: An fMRI group data set (one sample t-test. 25cm/s > All ON) used in "Neural encoding of saltatory pneumotactile velocity in human glabrous hand"
title: A study on the systemic transmission of cellular senescence and its role in acute liver failure
Creators: name: Kiourtis, Christos
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: Cellular senescence is a stress response observed in a wide range of pathologies. Its cytostatic properties make senescence an inhibitor of normal repair and regeneration after tissue injury. Senescence has been reported to have a negative effect on several diseases of the liver including acute liver failure, a rare but deadly disease. In this disease, senescence has been shown to block proper regeneration following acute liver injury and this has been associated with a worse prognosis. Acute liver failure is a syndrome that also affects numerous extra hepatic organs, including the kidneys, the brain and the lung. This multi-organ failure presents a clinical challenge as it occurs in more than 50% of acute liver failure patients, its etiology remains largely unknown and supportive care, using organ support e.g. ventilation and haemofiltration, is the main way of managing it. Senescent cells produce and secrete a diverse set of factors that can have various effects on the microenvironment of these cells. One effect of these factors is the transmission of senescence to nearby healthy cells, resulting in the propagation of the senescent phenotype. This phenomenon has been described both in cell culture as well as in mouse models. More specifically, work by us has revealed that senescent hepatocytes are able to induce a senescent phenotype to neighbouring non-senescent hepatocytes in a paracrine, TGFβ-dependent manner. Given the development of hepatic senescence and multi-organ failure during acute liver failure, in my project I sought to investigate a potential systemic transmission of senescence from the liver to other organs, particularly in the extra-hepatic organs affected during acute liver failure. To do this I first characterised a mouse model of hepatocyte-specific induction of senescence. After establishing widespread liver senescence in this model, I then examined whether systemic transmission of senescence occurs in this model. I observed the development of renal, brain and lung senescence, accompanied by elements of renal dysfunction, repair and reprogramming following the induction of liver senescence. Further investigation using other mouse models as well as in vitro approaches revealed that systemic transmission of senescence is dependent on an active TGFβ signalling pathway. Inhibition of this pathway resulted in the prevention of senescence transmission both in vitro and in vivo, reduced the degree of renal repair and reprogramming in vivo and improved organ function. In conclusion, these data provide evidence for the in vivo spread of senescence between organs. To our knowledge, this is the first time this phenotype is reported using a highly specific model of senescence induction. In the long term, this work may benefit the treatment of acute liver failure patients by providing potential new therapies for this disease.
title: Essays on hope and economic development
Creators: name: Bhan, Prateek Chandra
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis aims to introduce the economics of hope in an attempt to study the role of hope in economic development. It pertains to offering experimental evidence on the measurement, malleability and significance of hope in the process of improving academic achievement of primary school students in India. The thesis comprises of six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of hope in the context of aspirations, internal constraints and education. Chapter 2 is a broad literature review underlining the need for treatment interventions that foster hope. Chapter 3 and 4 focus on the experimental set-up. Starting with the relationship between hope, effort and achievement, chapter 3 provides a theory of change and a proposition in which, hope increases effort. It also includes an exhaustive research protocol deviced to explain the data collection plan in the field. After discussing the theoretical underpinnings, Chapter 4 describes the research design and the empirical strategy employed to make causal inferences. In the process, I elaborate the survey instruments used to capture information on the various outcome variables, whilst stating the main hypothesis. Chapter 5 presents the main results of the Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). Along with the available heterogeneity in the findings, pre-meditated robustness checks are also incorporated in this chapter. The results from chapter 5, their cost-effectiveness and implications on developmental policies are discussed in detail in Chapter 6. Potential extensions and the avenues of future research are also included in this chapter. It concludes by revisiting the main findings of the RCT and its contribution towards future developmental policy-making.