cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Efflux-pump inhibitory activity of a gallotannin from Terminalia chebula fruit against multidrug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Anwesa Bag
name: Chattopadhyay, Rabi Ranjan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: This study was carried out to evaluate the possible efflux-pump inhibitory activity of a gallotannin 1,2,6-tri-O-galloyl-β-d-glucopyranose isolated from Terminalia chebula fruit against multidrug-resistant (MDR) uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Susceptibility tests of antibiotics and ethidium bromide in the presence and absence of isolated gallotannin and phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylamide (PAβN) were conducted by using the microbroth dilution assay. Ethidium bromide accumulation and efflux assays were performed spectrofluorometrically to elucidate the possible resistance-modifying activity of isolated gallotanin, if any. Minimum inhibitory concentrations of test antibiotics and ethidium bromide were reduced in the presence of isolated gallotannin and PAβN. The isolated gallotannin also demonstrated efflux-pump inhibitory activity against the studied bacteria as evidenced from ethidium bromide accumulation and efflux assays. The isolated gallotannin, 1,2,6-tri-O-galloyl-β-d-glucopyranose exhibited efflux-pump inhibitory activity which may be one of the possible mechanisms of its antibacterial action against MDR uropathogenic E. coli.
The neural basis of static and dynamic face emotion processing in healthy individuals and individuals with an autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Mayes, Angela Kathryn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis examined the neural correlates of static and dynamic face emotion processing in typically developing individuals displaying varying degrees of autistic traits and individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A similar pattern of brain activation evoked by static and dynamic face and face emotion stimuli was observed in ASD individuals and typically developing individuals reporting high autistic traits. Additionally, high autistic trait individuals displayed a neural processing advantage to dynamic face emotion stimuli compared to low autistic trait individuals. Results from this thesis provide support for an autism spectrum spanning from clinical patients to the normal population.
Modelling diseases with nested structures and delayed reporting using a hierarchical framework.
Creators: name: Halliday, Alba
name: Stoner, Oliver
name: Bastos, Leonardo
name: Economou, Theo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nowcasting, SARI, COVID-19, Unknown delay, Bayesian, Generalised Dirichlet

description: Statistical methods that correct reporting delays are vital in early warning systems for infectious diseases, which enable more effective responses to outbreaks, including reducing loss of life, conserving public health resources and financial savings through changes in policy. Framing correcting delayed reporting as a compositional count time series data problem, we present a general hierarchical modelling framework with a novel structure for systematic variability in the reported proportions. We furthermore extend this framework to allow for nested disease structures and for unknown reporting delays, neither of which have been addressed previously in the literature.

Motivation for this work stems from the operational warning system for severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) in Brazil, where predictions are currently generated independently for the total number of SARI cases and the number of those testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. We present a rolling prediction experiment to demonstrate the potential efficacy of our framework for jointly modelling the two counts together, since reporting information on COVID-positive SARI is less timely and complete than for total SARI. We demonstrate improved prediction performance through including an explicit link between overall SARI incidence and COVID-positive test rates, and through capturing effects of the age distribution of SARI patients.
title: Evaluation projet CAMU-Circulation et adaptation des modèles d’urbanisme en Méditerranée occidentale, XXe et XXIe siècles 2017
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Évaluation projet CAMU-Circulation et adaptation des modèles d’urbanisme en Méditerranée occidentale, XXe et XXIe siècles, réalisée en 2017.
Projet de recherche porté par Angelo Bertoni (TELEMME UMR 7303), dans le cadre du programme APRIMED, initié par le LabexMed.
Macrosiphum rosae
Creators: name: Simbaqueba, Ronald
name: Serna, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Macrosiphum
Macrosiphum rosae

description: Macrosiphum rosae (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 7)
Longitud 1,7 a 4,2 mm; cuerpo piriforme; color verde, rosado, rojo-marrón o magenta; ápices de fémures, tibias y tarsos oscuros, al igual que la cabeza y algunas partes de las antenas (Fig. 7a). Tubérculos antenales desarrollados (Fig. 7b). Antenas igual o ligeramente más largas que el cuerpo, de seis antenómeros; antenómero III en ápteras con diez a 35 rinarios concentrados en base del segmento. Basitarso con tres setas (Fig. 7c). Escleritos pre y postsinfúnculares generalmente presentes; sifúnculos oscuros o negros en su totalidad y reticulados en su 10 a 17% distal (Fig. 7d). Cauda liguliforme más pálida que los sifúnculos, con seis a diez setas (Fig. 7e) (Bustillo y Sánchez 1977, Blackman y Eastop 1994, 2006).
description: Published as part of Simbaqueba, Ronald & Serna, Francisco, 2021, Áfidos (Hemiptera: Aphididae) de Colombia, con nuevos registros para el norte de Sudamérica, pp. 1-27 in Caldasia 43 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.15446/caldasia.v41n3.77979, http://zenodo.org/record/15265235
title: „Rasse“ im Parlamentarischen Rat und die Dynamik der Gleichheitsidee seit 1776: (Teil II)
Creators: name: Hong, Mathias
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Modelling diseases with nested structures and delayed reporting using a hierarchical framework.
Creators: name: Halliday, Alba
name: Stoner, Oliver
name: Leonardo, Bastos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nowcasting, SARI, COVID-19, Unknown delay, Bayesian, Generalised Dirichlet

description: Disease surveillance systems in Brazil ensure timely and efficient response to the risk of common infectious diseases through nowcasting models that correct for reporting delays. Surveillance in Brazil includes severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), which can be attributed to the virus responsible for the infection, such as COVID-19. However, the additional reporting delay of confirming the COVID-19 positive cases in the context of Brazil is unknown due to manual data records with no time stamp. We tackle this compositional time series data problem by jointly modelling SARI and the nested COVID-19 cases using a general hierarchical approach, whereas previous approaches have only considered them separately.
 Other novel aspects of this work include developing a more flexible version of the current state-of-the-art modelling framework for correcting delayed reporting by introducing a centralised log-ratio transformation link function. We evaluate the performance of our model and its theoretical benefits through a series of rolling prediction experiments, using national and federal unit level data from Brazil.
 The results show that our model can capture the shape of the epidemic curve well for both hospitalisation types, while also allowing for COVID-19 specific covariates such as age demographics.
ON THE CONSISTENCY OF THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
Creators: name: de Morais Ribeiro, Henrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Modern physical theories are beset by the issue of how quantumtheory can be consistent with relativity theory. One aspect of such aconsistency is related by the incompatibility of free will at the foundations ofquantum theory and the stubborn determinism that follows from special relativitytheory. The present paper takes into issue such consistency problemsand is divided into three parts. Firstly, we present the principles of physicaldeterminism that follow from special relativity theory in the Putnam-Rietjikargument for determinism in the very foundations of physics. Secondly, wepresent the elements of the principles of contextuality in the Kochen-Conwayfree will argument..Thirdly, we propose a compatibilist argument the indicatesa way out of the foundational inconsistency indicated in the previous sections.As conclusion, argue that both theories are meant to be compatible and thatcompatibilism is a program for the foundations of physics.
title: „Rasse“ im Parlamentarischen Rat und die Dynamik der Gleichheitsidee seit 1776: (Teil III)
Creators: name: Hong, Mathias
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
M. du Bois-Reymond Goes to Paris
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: This article examines the science of electrophysiology developed by Emil du Bois- Reymond in Berlin in the 1840s. It recounts his major findings, the most significant being his proof of the electrical nature of nerve signals. Du Bois-Reymond went on to detect this same "negative variation," or action current, in live human subjects. In 1850 he travelled to Paris to defend this startling claim. The essay concludes with a discussion of why his demonstration failed to convince his hosts at the French Academy of Sciences.
Reflections on the work of: „ Use the financial health of an organization in financial planning” written by: P. Tomasik, P. Wągrowska, M. Mełeszko
Creators: name: Michał Przybyłkiewicz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics

description: The subject of the review work, which was analyzed by three companies: financial institutions, non-profit organization and production company. The aim of the review is to assess the content contained in the work, the validity of the conclusions and calculations.
"M. du Bois-Reymond goes to Paris." British Journal for the History of Science 36, no. 3 (September 2003): 261-300.
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: This article examines the science of electrophysiology developed by Emil du Bois- Reymond in Berlin in the 1840s. It recounts his major findings, the most significant being his proof of the electrical nature of nerve signals. Du Bois-Reymond went on to detect this same "negative variation," or action current, in live human subjects. In 1850 he travelled to Paris to defend this startling claim. The essay concludes with a discussion of why his demonstration failed to convince his hosts at the French Academy of Sciences.
"M. du Bois-Reymond goes to Paris."
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: This article examines the science of electrophysiology developed by Emil du Bois- Reymond in Berlin in the 1840s. It recounts his major findings, the most significant being his proof of the electrical nature of nerve signals. Du Bois-Reymond went on to detect this same "negative variation," or action current, in live human subjects. In 1850 he travelled to Paris to defend this startling claim. The essay concludes with a discussion of why his demonstration failed to convince his hosts at the French Academy of Sciences.
Microparsus brasiliensis
Creators: name: Simbaqueba, Ronald
name: Serna, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Microparsus
Microparsus brasiliensis

description: Microparsus brasiliensis (Moreira, 1925) (Fig. 8)
Longitud 1,6 a 2,3 mm; cuerpo piriforme (Fig. 8a), marrón verdoso, marrón oscuro, o negro. Antenas un poco más largas que el cuerpo; antenómeros I al III espiculados (hileras de pequeñas prominencias cuticulares puntiagudos), similar a la escultura de la cabeza. Ápteras sin rinarios secundarios (Fig. 8b). Aladas con tres a diez rinarios secundarios en el antenómero III (Fig. 8c). Cabeza con pequeñas espículas. Tubérculos antenales divergentes; dando a la frente la apariencia de “W” (Fig. 8d). Rostro sobrepasando las coxas medias. Dorso membranoso, si bien uroterguitos VII y VIII con algunos escleritos tranversales incompletos; con tubérculos marginales sobre terguitos abdominales II-IV. Venas flanqueadas por áreas pigmentarias oscuras (Fig. 8e) (similar a aladas de Pentalonia nigronervosa). Sifúnculos ligeramente claviformes, con reborde apical bien desarrollado. Cauda digitiforme, con seis a ocho setas (Holman 1974, Blackman y Eastop 1994, 2006).
description: Published as part of Simbaqueba, Ronald & Serna, Francisco, 2021, Áfidos (Hemiptera: Aphididae) de Colombia, con nuevos registros para el norte de Sudamérica, pp. 1-27 in Caldasia 43 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.15446/caldasia.v41n3.77979, http://zenodo.org/record/15265235
The Superciliaspididae, a new family of Early Devonian Osteostraci (jawless vertebrates) from northern Canada, with two new genera and three new species
Creators: name: Scott, Bradley R
name: Wilson, Mark V H
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Three new species in two new genera of cornuate Osteostraci are described here based on specimens from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) Man on the Hill (MOTH) locality in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. The new taxa share several characteristics with Superciliaspis gabrielsei. Glabrapelta gen. nov., and its two species, G. cristata sp. nov. and G. minima sp. nov., are based on four previously undescribed specimens. Dentapelta loefflerae gen. et sp. nov. is based on one newly recovered specimen, along with another specimen originally referred by earlier workers to ‘Cephalaspidinae indet.’ Together with Superciliaspis, these new genera are subjected to a phylogenetic analysis, building on earlier work by R. Sansom. The results indicate that all four species in three genera belong to a single clade that is here named as the new family Superciliaspididae. The Superciliaspididae are characterized by a long, narrow median field with a border of raised ridges of fused plates, by narrow and posteriorly pointing cornua, and by orbits close together. A laterally expanded pineal opening and raised orbital rims place the Superciliaspididae as sister to the clade Scolenaspididae + Zenaspididae in the Order Zenaspidida. Internal anatomy of the nasohypophysial opening confirms separate internal nasal and hypophysial ducts. To date, the Superciliaspididae have been found only at the MOTH locality in the Mackenzie Mountains of northern Canada, whereas related taxa are distributed more widely in North America, Spitsbergen and Europe.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F69DDE22-311A-4F2A-9B5D-8E59D13341E2
M. du Bois-Reymond goes to Paris
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: History

description: This article examines the science of electrophysiology developed by Emil du Bois- Reymond in Berlin in the 1840s. It recounts his major findings, the most significant being his proof of the electrical nature of nerve signals. Du Bois-Reymond went on to detect this same "negative variation," or action current, in live human subjects. In 1850 he travelled to Paris to defend this startling claim. The essay concludes with a discussion of why his demonstration failed to convince his hosts at the French Academy of Sciences.
Recent forest expansion in Thailand: a methodological artifact?
Creators: name: Jean-Philippe Leblond
name: Pham, Thanh Hai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Several Asian developing countries recently reported a net increase in forest cover. In Thailand, such reports have been vehemently rejected by forest officials, researchers, politicians, and international organizations alike. According to the dominant interpretation, the apparent forest regrowth derives from a methodological artifact. While the determination of the true evolution of forest cover has important implications, this interpretation has never been subject to scrutiny. This article presents a broad range of data and analyses suggesting important flaws in this interpretation. Based notably on (1) a critical review of available forest statistics and the methodology used to produce these statistics, (2) case study material from northern Phetchabun Province, and (3) an analysis of recent sub-national remote-sensing surveys, we reject the dominant interpretation of official statistics and suggest that reforestation has increased in Thailand and plausibly became the overall trend in the late 1990s.
Recent forest expansion in Thailand: a methodological artifact?
Creators: name: Jean-Philippe Leblond
name: Pham, Thanh Hai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Several Asian developing countries recently reported a net increase in forest cover. In Thailand, such reports have been vehemently rejected by forest officials, researchers, politicians, and international organizations alike. According to the dominant interpretation, the apparent forest regrowth derives from a methodological artifact. While the determination of the true evolution of forest cover has important implications, this interpretation has never been subject to scrutiny. This article presents a broad range of data and analyses suggesting important flaws in this interpretation. Based notably on (1) a critical review of available forest statistics and the methodology used to produce these statistics, (2) case study material from northern Phetchabun Province, and (3) an analysis of recent sub-national remote-sensing surveys, we reject the dominant interpretation of official statistics and suggest that reforestation has increased in Thailand and plausibly became the overall trend in the late 1990s.
MPEC 2024-P46 : 2020 HJ10
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Superciliaspididae, a new family of Early Devonian Osteostraci (jawless vertebrates) from northern Canada, with two new genera and three new species
Creators: name: Scott, Bradley R
name: Wilson, Mark V H
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Three new species in two new genera of cornuate Osteostraci are described here based on specimens from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) Man on the Hill (MOTH) locality in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. The new taxa share several characteristics with Superciliaspis gabrielsei. Glabrapelta gen. nov., and its two species, G. cristata sp. nov. and G. minima sp. nov., are based on four previously undescribed specimens. Dentapelta loefflerae gen. et sp. nov. is based on one newly recovered specimen, along with another specimen originally referred by earlier workers to ‘Cephalaspidinae indet.’ Together with Superciliaspis, these new genera are subjected to a phylogenetic analysis, building on earlier work by R. Sansom. The results indicate that all four species in three genera belong to a single clade that is here named as the new family Superciliaspididae. The Superciliaspididae are characterized by a long, narrow median field with a border of raised ridges of fused plates, by narrow and posteriorly pointing cornua, and by orbits close together. A laterally expanded pineal opening and raised orbital rims place the Superciliaspididae as sister to the clade Scolenaspididae + Zenaspididae in the Order Zenaspidida. Internal anatomy of the nasohypophysial opening confirms separate internal nasal and hypophysial ducts. To date, the Superciliaspididae have been found only at the MOTH locality in the Mackenzie Mountains of northern Canada, whereas related taxa are distributed more widely in North America, Spitsbergen and Europe.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: F69DDE22-311A-4F2A-9B5D-8E59D13341E2
Managing demand variability in complex sociotechnical systems: a case for resilience in airline operations control
Creators: name: Igbo, Ejikeme Kenneth
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Kenneth investigated how airline operations controllers respond to uncertainties relating to tactical control demands, and the strategies they employ when renegotiating plans across multiple, semi-autonomous centres of control. Kenneth's findings elucidate how decision-making architectures evolve during dynamic renegotiation of decision authority. Kenneth's thesis further proffers knowledge on how severity of demand shape the way controllers perceive and interpret rule prescriptions, and the way they go about matching 'a changing set of contingent rules to a changing set of situations'. From the perspective of Cognitive Systems Engineering, Kenneth's thesis findings have promising implications for enhancing cognitive interactions that involve humans and machines in complex work systems.
How Does Identity Relate to Attitudes Towards Differentiation? The Cases of France, Germany, Czech Republic and Turkey
Creators: name: Aydın-Düzgit, Senem
name: Kovář, Jan
name: Kratochvíl, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: European Union
Differentiated integration
National identity
France
Germany
Czech Republic
Turkey

description: This paper explores the ways in which national identities shape attitudes towards differentiated integration in two old member states, one relatively new member state and one candidate country – namely France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Turkey. It also observes how the impact of differentiated integration on European identity is perceived in these given countries in terms of preserving European identity (deepening), the dilution of European identity (disintegration) and the territorial/geographic limits of European identity (widening). By employing primary research and discourse analysis, the study finds that there is no single and monolithic national identity which produces a uniform attitude towards differentiated integration in member and candidate states, but rather that competing domestic national identity narratives produce differing attitudes within a state on differentiated integration. These national identity narratives can translate into starkly different policy positions concerning the policy area that is subject to differentiated integration, as well as on how differentiation is expected to impact the future of European integration and European identity.
Neural networks for image coding: a review
Creators: name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Palaniswami, Marimuthu
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Images are forming an increasingly large part of modern communications, bringing the need for efficient and effective compression. This survey aims to give the reader a feel for the wide range of ways in which neural network technology has been applied to image compression. Many variants of vector quantisation are presented which use the topology preservation of the self-organising map in a variety of ways. Image coding using neural networks to guide a classical coding technique have been largely overlooked. Some promising contributions in this area are also discussed. Finally, a range of transform and predictive coding techniques are described.
MPEC 2024-P47 : 2024 JL12
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
MPEC 2024-P48 : 2024 NE4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Providing guidelines for first year assessment tasks as a means of developing core graduate attributes: nurturing or spoon feeding?
Creators: name: Levin, Elizabeth
name: Tempone, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Developing written and oral communication skills is an impot1ant part of the first-year university experience as this is the time to set the tone and standards for later years. This paper will describe the rationale for providing thorough instructions, desired learning outcomes, and assessment criteria to firstyear students enrolled in a core business subject - with the objective of guiding students into deep approaches to learning.
Synthesis of new wide nematic diaryl-diacetylenes containing thiophene-based heteromonocyclic and heterobicyclic structures, and their birefringence properties
Creators: name: Arakawa, Yuki
name: Sungmin Kang
name: Shunpei Nakajima
name: Sakajiri, Koichi
name: Kawauchi, Susumu
name: Watanabe, Junji
name: Gen-Ichi Konishi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: New monocyclic and bicyclic thiophene-based diaryl-diacetylene liquid crystal (LC) materials were synthesised and demonstrated to exhibit wide enantiotropic nematic phases. One thiophenyl-benzene derivative, in particular, displayed a stable nematic phase across a temperature range of over 100°C. The birefringence properties of the compounds were measured using a multiple-beam interference (MBI) method, with the highest value found to be for the same thiophenyl-benzene molecule (Δn = 0.57, 550 nm) at 10°C above the crystal-to-nematic transition temperature. Furthermore, the effects of the cyclic structure on the mesomorphic behaviours, transition temperatures, and birefringence properties were investigated in detail from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints.
Split allegiances: cultural Muslims and the tension between religious and national identity in multicultural societies
Creators: name: Hopkins, Liza
name: McAuliffe, Cameron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Second generation Australians from a Muslim background have appeared on the political radar recently as a group at risk of disengagement due to their potentially split allegiances. For these young Australians, the traditional tension over diasporic allegiances between the homeland and the country in which they live is further complicated by religious identity. This paper offers two case studies of the second generation of two mainly Islamic, but otherwise very different, ethnonational communities in Australia, Turkish and Iranian. It examines the responses of these groups to the rising essentialisation and ethnicisation of Islam, at the expense of ethnic and sociocultural difference. In particular, the paper focuses on the way secular practice and religious identity converge into 'cultural Islam'. We use the term cultural Islam as a way of describing those, particularly of the second and third generations in Australia, who proudly claim their Islamic heritage while choosing not to participate actively in religious life.
Synthesis and characterisation of laterally substituted noncentrosymmetric main chain hydrogen-bonded polymers
Creators: name: Wolf, Jeremy R.
name: Tongfeng Zhao
name: Landorf, Christopher
name: Dyer, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A series of laterally substituted noncentrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers which incorporate stilbazole acceptor units, alkyl or ethylene glycol linkers units, and benzoic acid or phenol donor units were prepared and investigated for their hydrogen bonding behaviour and phase transitions. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) indicated that these polymers possess strong intermolecular donor–acceptor hydrogen bonding. These polymers have lower melting points than their non-substituted analogue, and some of the polymers are mesomorphic.
History, historiography, historicism, legacy
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
name: Smith, Owen F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This essay examines issues that typify Fluxus work and thinking through reflections on historiography, hermeneutics and historicism. Because Fluxus actively engenders possibilities and futures, it activates the question of legacy. Generating futures entails a dialog with the past. This dialog with history requires historiography, articulate reflection on how we make and write history---and articulate reflection on how we understand it. While such an understanding is necessary for historians who seek to understand the past of a phenomenon such as Fluxus, it was of central import to the artists, architects, composers and designers who created Fluxus and to those who desire to actively continue the Fluxus traditions. This conversation transcends the art world to embrace larger social and cultural aspirations. This key to understanding Fluxus has often been overlooked, and it partly explains the failure of mainstream art historians to understand Fluxus. The first developments that became Fluxus reveal a community of artists, architects, composers and designers with an articulate awareness of history in all its many dimensions. Throughout its history, Fluxus has continued this multidimensional dialog between past, present and future.
Synthesis and characterisation of laterally substituted noncentrosymmetric main chain hydrogen-bonded polymers
Creators: name: Wolf, Jeremy R.
name: Tongfeng Zhao
name: Landorf, Christopher
name: Dyer, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A series of laterally substituted noncentrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers which incorporate stilbazole acceptor units, alkyl or ethylene glycol linkers units, and benzoic acid or phenol donor units were prepared and investigated for their hydrogen bonding behaviour and phase transitions. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) indicated that these polymers possess strong intermolecular donor–acceptor hydrogen bonding. These polymers have lower melting points than their non-substituted analogue, and some of the polymers are mesomorphic.
MPEC 2024-V42 : 2024 UP16
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 UP16

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Controlling Many-Body Quantum Chaos: Bose-Hubbard systems
Creators: name: Beringer, Lukas
name: Steinhuber, Mathias
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Richter, Klaus
name: Tomsovic, Steven
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Control, Quantum Chaos, Ultra-cold atom gases, Bose Hubbard
subject: 530 Physik

description: This work develops a quantum control application of many-body quantum chaos for ultracold bosonic gases trapped in optical lattices. It is long known how to harness exponential sensitivity to changes in initial conditions for control purposes in classically chaotic systems. In the technique known as targeting, instead of a hindrance to control, the instability becomes a resource. Recently, this classical targeting has been generalized to quantum systems either by periodically countering the inevitable quantum state spreading or by introducing a control Hamiltonian, where both enable localized states to be guided along special chaotic trajectories toward any of a broad variety of desired target states. Only strictly unitary dynamics are involved; i.e., it gives a coherent quantum targeting. In this paper, the introduction of a control Hamiltonian is applied to Bose-Hubbard systems in chaotic dynamical regimes. Properly selected unstable mean field solutions can be followed quite rapidly to states possessing precise phase relationships and occupancies. In essence, the method generates a quantum simulation technique that can access rather special states. The protocol reduces to a time-dependent control of the chemical potentials, opening up the possibility for application in optical lattice experiments. Explicit applications to custom state preparation and stabilization of quantum many-body scars are presented in one- and two-dimensional lattices (three-dimensional applications are similarly possible).
Synthesis of new wide nematic diaryl-diacetylenes containing thiophene-based heteromonocyclic and heterobicyclic structures, and their birefringence properties
Creators: name: Arakawa, Yuki
name: Sungmin Kang
name: Shunpei Nakajima
name: Sakajiri, Koichi
name: Kawauchi, Susumu
name: Watanabe, Junji
name: Gen-Ichi Konishi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: New monocyclic and bicyclic thiophene-based diaryl-diacetylene liquid crystal (LC) materials were synthesised and demonstrated to exhibit wide enantiotropic nematic phases. One thiophenyl-benzene derivative, in particular, displayed a stable nematic phase across a temperature range of over 100°C. The birefringence properties of the compounds were measured using a multiple-beam interference (MBI) method, with the highest value found to be for the same thiophenyl-benzene molecule (Δn = 0.57, 550 nm) at 10°C above the crystal-to-nematic transition temperature. Furthermore, the effects of the cyclic structure on the mesomorphic behaviours, transition temperatures, and birefringence properties were investigated in detail from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints.
Neotoxoptera formosana
Creators: name: Simbaqueba, Ronald
name: Serna, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Neotoxoptera
Neotoxoptera formosana

description: Neotoxoptera formosana (Takahashi, 1921) (Fig. 9)
Longitud 1,6 a 2,3 mm; cuerpo piriforme (Fig.9a), de color rojo-magenta brillante, marrón oscuro o casi negro. Alados rojo intenso a casi negro. Antenas de seis antenómeros; antenómeros I y II oscuros al igual que las partes distales de los fémures. Cabeza con pequeñas espículas. Tubérculos antenales bien desarrollados (Fig. 9b). Venación negra, con una pigmentación oscura a lo largo de las márgenes (similar a las alas de Microparsus brasiliensis). Sifúnculos ensanchados desde la parte media hacia su ápice, dando la apariencia de ser ligeramente claviformes, con reborde apical bien definido (Fig. 9c). Cauda triangular (Fig. 9d) (Blackman y Eastop 1994, 2006).
description: Published as part of Simbaqueba, Ronald & Serna, Francisco, 2021, Áfidos (Hemiptera: Aphididae) de Colombia, con nuevos registros para el norte de Sudamérica, pp. 1-27 in Caldasia 43 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.15446/caldasia.v41n3.77979, http://zenodo.org/record/15265235
Electron wave and quantum optics in graphene
Creators: name: Chakraborti, Himadri
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Knothe, Angelika
name: Liu, Ming-Hao
name: Makk, Péter
name: Parmentier, Francois D.
name: Perconte, David
name: Richter, Klaus
name: Roulleau, Preden
name: Sacépé, Benjamin
name: Schönenberger, Christian
name: Yang, Wenmin
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Review, Graphene, Quantum optics
subject: 530 Physik

description: In the last decade, graphene has become an exciting platform for electron optical experiments, in some aspects superior to conventional two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). A major advantage, besides the ultra-large mobilities, is the fine control over the electrostatics, which gives the possibility of realising gap-less and compact p-n interfaces with high precision. The latter host non-trivial states, e.g., snake states in moderate magnetic fields, and serve as building blocks of complex electron interferometers. Thanks to the Dirac spectrum and its non-trivial Berry phase, the internal (valley and sublattice) degrees of freedom, and the possibility to tailor the band structure using proximity effects, such interferometers open up a completely new playground based on novel device architectures. In this review, we introduce the theoretical background of graphene electron optics, fabrication methods used to realise electron-optical devices, and techniques for corresponding numerical simulations. Based on this, we give a comprehensive review of ballistic transport experiments and simple building blocks of electron optical devices both in single and bilayer graphene, highlighting the novel physics that is brought in compared to conventional 2DEGs. After describing the different magnetic field regimes in graphene p-n junctions and nanostructures, we conclude by discussing the state of the art in graphene-based Mach-Zender and Fabry-Perot interferometers.
A marketing study relating to the long term sustainability of recently established mortgage management organisations
Creators: name: Samarakoon, Arjuna
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The first section of the report sets the outline and the scene for the project. The introduction provides the readers with a synopsis of the journey to be undertaken and the key objectives to be achieved. Furthermore the first chapter outlines the rationale and the organization of the entire study. The next section looks at the secondary research and familiarizes the reader with the Mortgage Management and real property mortgage industry. This section looks at the banking and finance sector, the role of government within the industry and provides us with an outlook from an empirical perspective on the direction of the marketplace as well as the consumer and product base. The author provides the reader with an understanding of the key terms and buzz words within the industry as well. This is followed by the research methodology. The study uses mainly secondary sources as well as the experiential data provided by the author through his knowledge of the industry and sector. Chapter four examines the Mortgage Manager in detail. This section looks at the placement of the vocation within the industry and outlines the key barriers as well as competitive factors facing Mortgage Managers. This section also identifies the critical success factors and provides the backdrop for the key strategy that is outlined within this chapter. The final section provides a summary discussion and highlights the limitations as well as opportunities for future research created by this report. This section also emphasizes the importance of clearly identified goals as well as flexible strategic direction with key distribution channels and partners.
Highly Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of N-Alkyl Sulfonamides from Alcohols Using N-(p-Toluenesulfonyl) Imidazole (Tsim)
Creators: name: Rad, Mohammad Navid Soltani
name: Somayeh Behrouz
name: Abdo-Reza Nekoei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A facile and efficient method for one-pot synthesis of N-alkyl sulfonamides from alcohols using N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)imidazole (TsIm) is described. In this protocol, treatment of various potassium sulfonylamide salts and alcohols in the presence of TsIm and triethylamine in refluxing DMF furnishes the corresponding N-alkyl sulfonamides in good to excellent yields. This methodology is highly efficient for reaction of various structurally diverse primary and secondary alcohols as well as potassium sulfonylamides. Also, the density functional theoretical calculations are employed to mechanistically study this protocol. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements for the following free supplemental files: Additional text and figures.]
An empirical investigation into cooperation amongst family businesses in New Zealand
Creators: name: Woodfield, Paul
name: Nel, Pieter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Family business is a fast growing area of research in western countries and is also gaining recognition towards being a distinct discipline. In Germany it was noted that the discipline is gaining ground fast because of the proportion of family owned businesses. It is also common knowledge that issues surrounding the behaviour of such a business and the succession planning required to maintain the family ownership, has much relevance within the business world. It is recognised that 80% of German businesses are indeed family businesses (ebs, 2005). Studies in the United States suggest that 40-60% of their gross national product is from family businesses. Greater recognition is now being given to family businesses as major contributors to job generation and wealth creation and as such they are spawning greater interest about their existence. Klein (2000) states that the percentage of family businesses in the UK ranged from 15% to 78.5% in the year 2000. This depended on the criteria being used for a family business. The Ministry of Economic development in New Zealand does not clearly show what proportions of New Zealand businesses are family-owned, but empirical evidence suggests that a large number of small businesses are centred around the family. New Zealand is however not dissimilar regarding its family business statistics to many other countries in the world. It is also recognised that there is a lack of research in particular industries with regard to family business, notably the wine industry in New Zealand. According to Kets de Vries (1993), about 3 out of 10 family businesses survive past the first generation and only 1 in 10 make it through the third generation. These issues become important when considering recent developments in the New Zealand wine industry. Getz et al. (2004) argue that the only way for family businesses to overcome limitations in size and resource is to engage in cooperative activity of some description, such as 'product clubs' or marketing consortia. Some of the advantages of cooperative marketing include networking; achieving greater economies of scale; obtaining professional advice; access to better technology; support for training and education; and pooling of resources. The research reported in this paper focuses on family businesses in New Zealand in order to determine what problems exist in co-operation between different families and suggestions are then made for solutions via entrepreneurial initiatives.
Work integrated learning and the humanities: possibilities and future directions
Creators: name: Pocknee, Catherine
name: Pretto, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 2008, in response to government, industry and community demand, Australia completed its first large scale scoping study of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) curriculum in contemporary Australian higher education. The aim of the WIL project was to document and scope current WIL practices nationally, and identify ways to improve the educational experience of students, in order to produce more industry focused, work ready graduates (Patrick et al., 2008). The project, which was government funded and included 37 of Australia's 39 universities, found that all of those who participated in the study saw real value in adopting a more industry focused curricula, however, it also revealed that many were still grappling with selecting from the range of options available, and finding the most appropriate way of integrating them into courses. Traditional disciplines such as nursing, medicine, education and engineering have always had an embedded work integrated learning component in their curriculum, usually in the form of industry placements, but many disciplines, in non-traditional areas such as the liberal arts, were new to this concept of WIL and unsure of how to customise programs to meet the needs of their particular discipline. To address this issue, a series of narratives or vignettes were developed and compiled to provide insight into not only to the diverse range of pedagogical practices in the area, but also offer practical advice on how to establish, develop and manage programs in an innovative and sustainable way. This paper analyses more closely the Australian research on embedding WIL in non-traditional areas and highlights a number of key vignettes that offer significant insights into possible future directions for the Humanities as they come to terms with this challenge.
The Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemical Investigation of Novel Thio- and Alkoxy-Substituted Benzoquinone Derivatives
Creators: name: Ibis, Cemil
name: Ayla, Sibel Sahınler
name: Yavuz, Senol
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Novel thio- and alkoxy-substituted benzoquinone derivatives were synthesized from the reactions of p-chloranil (1) and related nucleophiles in a sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) solution of acetonitrile or in chloroform with Et3N. The structures of novel compounds were characterized by using microanalysis, FTIR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, MS, CV, and fluorescence spectroscopy. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements for the following free supplemental files: Additional text and figures.]
Highly Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of N-Alkyl Sulfonamides from Alcohols Using N-(p-Toluenesulfonyl) Imidazole (Tsim)
Creators: name: Rad, Mohammad Navid Soltani
name: Somayeh Behrouz
name: Abdo-Reza Nekoei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A facile and efficient method for one-pot synthesis of N-alkyl sulfonamides from alcohols using N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)imidazole (TsIm) is described. In this protocol, treatment of various potassium sulfonylamide salts and alcohols in the presence of TsIm and triethylamine in refluxing DMF furnishes the corresponding N-alkyl sulfonamides in good to excellent yields. This methodology is highly efficient for reaction of various structurally diverse primary and secondary alcohols as well as potassium sulfonylamides. Also, the density functional theoretical calculations are employed to mechanistically study this protocol. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements for the following free supplemental files: Additional text and figures.]