cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A novel transdermal drug delivery system based on self-adhesive Janus nanofibrous film with high breathability and monodirectional water-penetration
Creators: name: Shi, Yongli
name: Li, Yue
name: Wu, Jianming
name: Wang, Weiguo
name: Dong, Anjie
name: Zhang, Jianhua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDS) had achieved significant success in medical practice, but still suffered from adhesion failure and skin reaction due to the occlusive properties of hydrophobic pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs). In order to solve these problems, a novel TDDS patch based on self-adhesive Janus nanofibrous film was prepared by a multilayered electrospinning. This multifunctional patch was a bilayer structure. The subjacent layer was a hydrophobic and adhesive fibrous layer electrospun from polyacrylate PSA (HPSA), and the upper backing layer was a hydrophilic cross-linked poly (vinyl alcohol) (c-PVA) nanofibrous film. The structures of the HPSA/c-PVA composite fibrous films were characterized and their application properties, including adherence performance, water vapor permeability, water-penetration, release characteristics, and skin irritation were evaluated. The results indicated that the HPSA/c-PVA composite fibrous films could provide suitable adhesive properties for TDDS application, excellent capacity for drug loading and release, aesthetical appearance and high safety for use on the skin. Especially, due to the nanofibrous network structures and the hydrophobic–hydrophilic wettability gradient from hydrophobic HPSA layer to the hydrophilic c-PVA layer, the Janus films possessed high breathability and monodirectional water-penetration. Water could penetrate from the hydrophobic to the hydrophilic side, but could not permeate through in the opposite direction. This may provide a feasible solution to the problems caused by the water, sweat, or wound exudate on the skin, when the hydrophobic PSAs were used as matrix for TDDS and wound dressing patches.
Identification of vulnerability to psychological difficulties in second generation South Asian women
Creators: name: Patel, Kajal
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2003

description: Existing studies suggest that the high rates of mental health problems among second generation or UK born Asians are due to "culture conflict", that is, the idea that individuals are stuck between two incompatible cultures. The aim of this study was to explore how the experience of being raised in both Asian and native British culture impacts upon the mental health of second generation Asian women. Thirty women participated in this study and were categorised into two groups (clinical vs. non-clinical) according to 'caseness', which was determined on the basis of a screening questionnaire, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ- 12; Goldberg, 1972). A more detailed psychological profile of participants was provided using the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI; Derogatis and Melisaratos, 1983). These groups were compared on a range of identity parameters drawn from Identity Structure Analysis (ISA; Weinreich, 1979,1980), which is a meta-theoretical framework designed to investigate cultural identity and acculturation. The results indicated that both the clinical and non-clinical groups identified closely with Asian and native British culture, which suggests that both groups viewed themselves as being bicultural. There were no differences between the groups in the extent to which they wished to dissociate from the values of their parents and representatives of Asian culture. The clinical group were significantly more likely to view fathers and first generation Asian females as having some qualities which they identified with and some which they wished to dissociate from, thereby creating a conflictual state (identification conflicts), than the non-clinical group. When these identification conflicts were considered across a range of significant others (identity diffusion), there was no difference between the groups. Identity diffusion was positively correlated with some of the BSI symptom dimensions for the clinical group and negatively correlated for the non-clinical group. The results imply that even women who consider themselves to be bicultural experience psychological distress, which is in contrast with much of the literature. The results also suggest that potential psychological stressors include the experience of integrating the conflicting demands of home and wider society. When identifications with a range of significant others were highly conflictual in nature this was associated with a negative effect on one's sense of well-being, however when this was experienced to a milder degree it appeared to serve as a trigger for identity development.
Flipped Classroom Model as an Instructional Tool for Effective Teaching and Learning of Leatherwork
Creators: name: DICKSON ADOM
name: Mensah, Cecilia Pokua
name: Akwasi Yeboah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Students found in Senior High Schools located in the cities are faced with the difficulty of not having any foreknowledge on most of the practices involved in either obtaining a pelt or its treatment. This is largely due to the fact that treated leather is exposed to the leather work students in the cities. As such, the students are not previewed to the production processes of leather. Owing to this, leather work teachers in the city are also seriously challenged in getting to build on student’s relevant previous knowledge. In order to use the Flipped Classroom model salvage this difficulty, we adopted both qualitative and quantitative research methods and instruments to elicit the needed data from a target population of 55 respondents comprising one head of Visual Arts Department, 2 Leatherwork teachers and 52 second year students with interview, observation, and questionnaire administration to examine teaching and learning of leather work in a selected public Senior High Schools in Kumasi metropolis. It was revealed that the flipped classroom model facilitates communication between the teachers and students and aided in the provision of an easy access to information which has sort to promote the use of data and real-world applications to enhance the teaching of theoretical and new lessons. This has also aided in the provision of an easy access to information which has sort to promote the use of data and real-world applications to enhance the teaching of theoretical and new lessons. The results of this study suggest beneficial effects of implementing the flipped classroom model for the teaching of all practically related art subjects.
Learning from foster carers : the experience of fostering and mental health service provision
Creators: name: Mary, Joanna Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2003

description: The current study used a grounded theory approach to better understand the experiences of foster carers with regards to how they understood and coped with the emotional and behavioural problems of children in their care and what types of support they required from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Background: In recent years, there has been an increasing research interest in the qualitative experiences of foster carers, given the demands they face in the current context of child-care policy. Previous studies have focused on narrative accounts and specific aspects of experience, such as dealing with difficulties and support. There is, however, a lack of research using grounded theory to explore their experiences in detail. Over the last two years, following the government's "Quality Protects" initiative, new specialist mental health services for looked after children and their carers have been set up around the country. Given these recent service developments and limited research into their role with foster carers as yet, foster carers' views and experiences of CAMHS are valuable in informing future service provision for this client group. Method: In-depth, subjective accounts of eight foster carers from six foster families employed in one local authority were obtained through interviews. Results: Four major and inter-linking categories emerged from the interviews relating to ambivalent relationships with the children in their care, the children's parents and wider services, including CAMHS. However, one core category subsumed all of these categories and was referred to as the inherent contradiction in the foster carers' role - that of being a parent, but at the same time being a professional. Discussion: The themes that emerged from the interviews with the foster carers related to previous literature on their experiences and issues of support. The findings had implications in terms of specialist psychological support and consultation to foster carers.
Gender Characterisation Of Basic School Dropout In Rural Ghana
Creators: name: DICKSON ADOM
name: SAEED ADAM
name: M.I. Mordzeh-Ekpampo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Gender disparity continues as an unsolved concern for decades in Ghana particularly in rural Ghana, which has a bigger problem for children not completing the full cycle of basic education, especially for the girl child. This paper therefore critically reviews the gender characteristics of basic school dropout concerning issues of gender equity in the educational system of rural Ghana. The study was based on both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection which include observation, individual interview, focus group interview (discussion) and questionnaire with children as primary respondents followed by head teachers and education administrators. The study found out that most of the dropout students in the district were females and males form the minority group as buttressed by the field survey. The study further revealed that there is a relatively higher percentage of dropouts among girls than boys especially after grade 4. The accompanying proposals were made on the premise of those discoveries and conclusion; Poverty Reduction Initiatives, likewise, the District Education Directorate in conjunction with different partners of instruction ought to proceed with the customary battles in the different groups to teach guardians, watchmen and the whole groups to develop the consciousness of the requirement for young lady tyke training and education. Furthermore, national education policies and dropout Prevention Project must be introduced by the government since most of the dropouts happen to be from state schools, national policy on re-admission for teenage mothers must also be introduced and follow-up programmes should be arranged to bring back dropouts.
Age and provenance of the Ergunahe Group and the Wubinaobao Formation, northeastern Inner Mongolia, NE China: implications for tectonic setting of the Erguna Massif
Creators: name: Xu, Wen-Liang
name: Tang, Jie
name: Wang, Feng
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhang, Yi-Han
name: Xu, Mei-Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Here, we present the results of U–Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Ergunahe Group and the Wubinaobao Formation, within northeastern Inner Mongolia, NE China, with the aim of constraining the tectonic setting of the Erguna Massif. The majority of detrital zircons from five samples collected from the Ergunahe Group and the Wubinaobao Formation are magmatic, although some zircons have metamorphic growth rims. Zircons in two mica schists and in feldspar–quartz sandstone from the Ergunahe Group yield age populations that cluster around 738, 760, 792, 837, 890, 964, and 1050 Ma, whereas zircons from two quartz sandstones within the Wubinaobao Formation yield age populations that cluster at 466, 484, 515, 738, 795, 837, and 894 Ma. These data, combined with detrital zircon age populations (ca. 712 Ma) from the adjacent Xinghuadukou Group, and the fact that the Ergunahe Group intruded by Caledonian gabbros is overlain by upper Silurian units, indicate that the Ergunahe Group formed at 738–712 Ma (i.e. during the Neoproterozoic). In addition, the Wubinaobao Formation is subdivided into two units: a calcareous siltstone unit within the western part of the study area and a quartz sandstone within the eastern part. The calcareous siltstone formed at 712–795 Ma, similar to the Ergunahe Group, whereas the quartz sandstone formed between the 466 Ma and late Silurian. The age spectra of detrital zircons from the Ergunahe Group and the Wubinaobao Formation indicate that sediment in both of these units was derived from terranes that outcrop around the basin. The widespread occurrence of Neoproterozoic detrital zircons within both the Ergunahe Group and the Wubinaobao Formation suggests that Precambrian terranes are present within the Erguna Massif and that the massif has an affinity to the Siberian Craton.
The Experiences of Parents of Children who have Engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Creators: name: Archer, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: harmful sexual behaviour
sexual offending
parent
child
sexual abuse
family treatment

description: Background and Aims: The importance of the involvement of parents in treatment approaches for Children and Young People (CYP) who have engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) has been consistently highlighted within the literature. Given that HSB arises in a family context, parents are considered key agents for change where CYP remain in their care. Professionals may work with them as a means of improving the CYP’s therapeutic outcomes. Despite this, little is known about their personal lived experiences and representations of meaning, which remain largely unexplored. The current study aimed to address this gap and gain a rich understanding of the experiences of parents, from their own perspective. Methodology: Semi-structured interviews were used with six biological parents who were recruited via purposive sampling from a specialist service working with CYP who have engaged in HSB and their families. During interviews, four broad areas of interest were explored: the personal psychological impact of their child engaging in HSB; the impact on the parent-child relationship; wider familial and community responses; and parental coping. Interviews were audio-recorded and their verbatim transcripts analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Findings and Conclusions: The analysis produced four main themes; ‘A devastated and overwhelmed life’; ‘Threatened and trying to feel safer’; ‘A challenged relationship with son’; and ‘Space for hope in the face of hopelessness?’. It was highlighted that parents’ experiences and meaning-making appeared intimately woven with a complex web of powerful relational and socially constructed factors. The research outcomes provide valuable insights for professionals working with young people who have engaged in HSB and their families. In learning more about what it is like to be the parent of a CYP who has engaged in HSB, it is hoped that professionals will have a richer framework from which to provide support to both the parent and to their child. Implications for clinical practice, the strengths and limitations of the methodology and directions for future research are discussed.
Effective Instructional Methods and Strategies for Teaching Art History
Creators: name: DICKSON ADOM
name: OSAFO AGYEMANG
name: SAEED ADAM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education

description: The performances of students in Art History evaluation and external examinations show a great decline in scores attained in various Second Cycle and Tertiary institutions across Africa. The interest in the study of Art History on the part of learners has dwindled and this canker has even found itself among some tutors of the subject. The study was therefore carried out to find the causes of the decline in
the interest and performances of students in Art History with the view of developing and recommending some time-tested instructional methods and strategies that can boost both the interest and performances of students in Art History. The researchers obtained the data for the research via semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation and under the qualitative research approach. Descriptive research method and Document Analysis were the research methods utilized in this study. The Data analysis spiral was adopted for analyzing the data accrued. The study thus contends that effective instructional methods and strategies for teaching art history can boost the interest of teachers and students in Art history while reflecting positively on learning outcomes.
COVID-19 severity in asthma patients: a multi-center matched cohort study
Creators: name: Robinson, Lacey B.
name: Wang, Liqin
name: Fu, Xiaoqing
name: Wallace, Zachary S.
name: Long, Aidan A.
name: Zhang, Yuqing
name: Camargo, Carlos A.
name: Blumenthal, Kimberly G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The evidence pertaining to the effects of asthma on Coronavirus disease 2019 outcomes has been unclear. To improve our understanding of the clinically important association of asthma and Coronavirus disease 2019. A matched cohort study was performed using data from the Mass General Brigham Health Care System (Boston, MA). Adult (age ≥18 years) patients with confirmed Coronavirus disease 2019 and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, or interstitial lung disease between March 4, 2020 and July 2, 2020 were analyzed. Up to five non-asthma comparators were matched to each asthma patient based on age (within 5 years), sex, and date of positive test (within 7 days). The primary outcomes were hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and death, using multivariable Cox-proportional hazards models accounting for competing risk of death, when appropriate. Patients were followed for these outcomes from diagnosis of Coronavirus disease 2019 until July 2, 2020. Among 562 asthma patients, 199 (21%) were hospitalized, 15 (3%) received mechanical ventilation, and 7 (1%) died. Among the 2686 matched comparators, 487 (18%) were hospitalized, 107 (4%) received mechanical ventilation, and 69 (3%) died. The adjusted Hazard Ratios among asthma patients were 0.99 (95% Confidence Internal 0.80, 1.22) for hospitalization, 0.69 (95% Confidence Internal 0.36, 1.29) for mechanical ventilation, and 0.30 (95% Confidence Internal 0.11, 0.80) for death. In this matched cohort study from a large Boston-based healthcare system, asthma was associated with comparable risk of hospitalization and mechanical ventilation but a lower risk of mortality.
Selective and Efficient Oxidation of Benzylic Alcohols to Benzaldehydes and Methyl Benzoates by Dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin
Creators: name: Li, Zhongzhou
name: Zhu, Wei
name: Bao, Jinlong
name: Zou, Xinzhuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A selective and efficient method of oxidizing benzyl alcohols to benzaldehydes and methyl benzoates by using 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DBDMH) as oxidant is developed. One-step conversion of benzyl alcohols to methyl benzoates in methanol at room temperature for 12 hours is achieved without any catalysts. Moreover, para-substituted benzyl alcohols are obtained in 86–98% yield. When dichloromethane is used as solvent, further oxidation of benzaldehydes to esters is well controlled, selectively affording benzaldehydes in 89–99% yield within 30 minutes.
 [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]
Waiting for war: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, 1914-1918
Creators: name: Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro De
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2013

description: Although the First World War began officially on 28 July 1914, the countries of southern Europe were by no means unaccustomed to armed conflict. Whether in the colonial sphere (in the cases of Portugal, Spain, and Italy) or against a European power (in the cases of Italy and Greece), all four of the countries covered in this paper had recently been engaged in sometimes defensive, but more often aggressive, military action – so much so that the chronological limits of the First World War are beginning, in the opinion of many historians – to fray at the edges. Nevertheless, all four countries would find it impossible to contain the internal political, socioeconomic and cultural tensions unleashed by the war which, beginning in the Balkans, quickly spread across Europe, from France and Belgium to Russia and the Ottoman Empire, and beyond. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on these tensions in four countries whose ambitions were greater than their means, but in which interventionist figures saw in the war a shortcut to the fulfilment of their hopes for territorial aggrandizement, political ascendancy and a new status among the victorious nations. The consequences of this “pre-war” situation would, in all four cases (even if Spain was to remain neutral), have a dramatic impact on wartime and postwar politics.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 16 (2013): Pré-guerras
CULTURAL PRACTICES OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES AS A BIODIVERSITY MANAGERIAL STRATEGY FOR GHANA'S ENVIRONMENT: A RETROSPECTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
Creators: name: DICKSON ADOM
name: PRINCE EDEM DZAKPASU
name: SAAED ADAM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biodiversity depletion with its adverse environmental impacts continues to be a global canker facing numerous countries of the world. To
salvage the situation, various countries of the world have signed and ratified numerous international conventions and treaties that have
suggested pragmatic measures that are capable of conserving global biodiversity. In these international agreements, the need for an adoption of
the cultural practices of local communities as a biodiversity managerial strategy has often been stressed. Document analysis and Interpretative
phenomenological analysis under the qualitative research approach guided the thorough review of some of these international conventions
that Ghana is a signatory, to justify the significant roles that cultural practices can play in the management of biodiversity in the environment.
e study contends that to mitigate and effectively manage the decline of biodiversity in the environment, the cultural practices of local
communities must be espoused as an environmental managerial strategy. e research tasks environmentalists, policy makers and
biodiversity conservationists to fully embrace and incorporate cultural practices of local communities in the planning, decision-making and
management of the environment and its biodiversity resources.
Making a case for war. The lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in popular French fiction from 1905 to 1914
Creators: name: Anselmo, Frank
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2013

description: With the approach of the twentieth century, many French nationalists became increasingly interested in the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which France had ceded to Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. As the spirit of revanchisme spread throughout France at this time, many nationalistic French writers regularly presented the circumstances of Alsatians and Lorrainers in their novels. This article will analyze a selection of patriotic French novels that were published in France from 1910 to 1914. Taking the plight of the population that was living under the German annexation in the ceded territories as their primary topic, these popular narratives were instrumental in preparing the French nation to accept a renewed military conflict with Germany with the not so subtle goal of liberating the annexed territories from Germany and restoring them to France.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 16 (2013): Pré-guerras
Supplementary document for Quantitative chemical sensing of drugs in scattering media with Bessel beam Raman spectroscopy - 5735647.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Nan
name: Ren, Feng
name: Li, Li
name: Wang, Haoyu
name: Wang, Lin
name: Zeng, Qi
name: Song, Yali
name: Zeng, Tingting
name: Zhu, Shouping
name: Chen, Xueli
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Notes and Figures
Fragile zones. Fragile memories, fragile images: the semantics of blurred, darkened and destroyed images in literature
Creators: name: Schmitz-Emans, Monika
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2013

description: Photos remind us of the claim or disposition to remember, as Giorgio Agamben’s plausible thesis goes – and the idea of a Judgment Day is only a metaphor for a future that commemorates (and it is the night of the same day). This claim is not only voiced by the victims of genocides and mass murders. It is conventional. Art deals with this claim, and does so with critical emphasis in the examples presented in this paper. These works reflect the failing or failure of memory, the inevitability of forgetting, and this happens on the occasion of trying to remember the past by way of narratives and photographs, the apparently most important media of remembrance. Blurry, darkened, destroyed pictures, those that refuse any reliable observation may point out, similar to incomplete or refused testimonies, that the past refuses to be seized by memory: it vanishes, gradually, yet inevitably. We can model literary or artistic work as a process that generates outlined fits for that which abstains to positive representation: for the indefeasible past as such. Next to remembering, the book and the photograph are also representative of the act of commemorating. The objects of this commemoration, however, remain unseizable.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 16 (2013): Pré-guerras
Two new coordination polymers based on N-heterocyclic carboxylic acids
Creators: name: Wang, Na
name: Yu, Xiao-Yang
name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Gao, Wei-Ping
name: Xin, Rui
name: Zhang, Hong
name: Yang, Yan-Yan
name: Qu, Xiao-Shu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two new coordination polymers, [(Cu2(o-HPIDC)2(H2O)2]n (1) and {[Nd(p-HPIDC)(ox)0.5(H2O)]·2H2O}n (2) (o-H3PIDC = 2-(pyridine-2-yl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid, p-H3PIDC = 2-(pyridine-4-yl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid, H2ox = oxalic acid), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by elemental and thermogravimetric analyses (TGA), infrared spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In 1, o-HPIDC2− ligands link Cu(II) centers into infinite 1-D chains that are stabilized by hydrogen bonds and π···π stacking interactions into a 3-D supramolecular architecture. In 2, ox2− ligands link the 2-D [Nd(p-HPIDC)]n layers into a (4·82)(4·85) 3-D network structure featuring two pairs of left-handed and right-handed helical chains. TGA of 1 and 2 are presented. In addition, the fluorescence properties of 2 have been studied in the solid state at room temperature.
We fight for the future. The rhetoric of children in CNN’s coverage of the conflict between the United States and Iraq
Creators: name: Finney, Mark
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, I present the findings of a qualitative, rhetorical analysis of the way children appeared in the text of CNN’s coverage of the conflict between the United States and Iraq preceding war in 2003. Combining previously conducted quantitative research with a qualitative rhetorical analysis, this study demonstrates that politicians and pundits used children in news coverage as persuasive devices, and that using children in this way has the opportunity to powerfully persuade Western audiences to favor war over other potential strategies for resolving a conflict. By examining the representation of Saddam Hussein’s atrocities against children, his inability to provide basic care to children, the threat that Hussein was said to pose to American and other non-Iraqi children, as well as the presentation of the children of U.S. soldiers headed to Iraq, this study points to the use of children in news coverage as significant and meaningful. Because of their cultural, historical, and religious significance in Western society, rhetorical arguments about children have the potential for dramatic effects, even when only a small quantitative portion of the overall coverage. This research is part of a larger project aimed at understanding the role of media in international conflicts. It furthers scholarly understanding of the significance of news accounts in conflict processes by implicating the role of media in shaping knowledge and language about conflicts, which in turn shape behavior.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 16 (2013): Pré-guerras
Two new coordination polymers based on N-heterocyclic carboxylic acids
Creators: name: Wang, Na
name: Yu, Xiao-Yang
name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Gao, Wei-Ping
name: Xin, Rui
name: Zhang, Hong
name: Yang, Yan-Yan
name: Qu, Xiao-Shu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two new coordination polymers, [(Cu2(o-HPIDC)2(H2O)2]n (1) and {[Nd(p-HPIDC)(ox)0.5(H2O)]·2H2O}n (2) (o-H3PIDC = 2-(pyridine-2-yl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid, p-H3PIDC = 2-(pyridine-4-yl)-1H-imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid, H2ox = oxalic acid), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by elemental and thermogravimetric analyses, infrared spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In 1, o-HPIDC2- ligands link Cu(II) centers into infinite one-dimensional (1D) chains that are stabilized by hydrogen bonds and π···π stacking interactions into a three-dimensional (3D) supramolecular architecture. In 2, ox2- ligands link the two-dimensional (2D) [Nd(p-HPIDC)]n layers into a (4·82)(4·85) 3D network structure featuring two pairs of left-handed and right-handed helical chains. Thermogravimetric analyses of 1 and 2 are presented. In addition, the fluorescence properties of 2 have been studied in the solid state at room temperature.
Bioética e teologia: a mais-valia de uma relação mútua
Creators: name: Coutinho, Vítor
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2006

description: A relação mútua entre questões biomédicas e pensamento teológico tem uma longa tradição na qual a medicina surge como lugar de encontro entre religião e ética. A própria origem da bioética como disciplina autónoma não se pode explicar sem recorrer ao contributo da reflexão ético-teológica. O artigo, assumindo uma concepção interdisciplinar da bioética, põe em relevo a relação entre medicina e religião, e recorre aos elementos fundamentais da antropologia teológica para elaborar algumas referências ético-teológicas relevantes para a bioética. Procura, por um lado, justificar a presença legítima de uma ética teológica no debate bioético, e, por outro lado, definir a especificidade desta presença.
description: Didaskalia, v. 36 n. 1 (2006): A teologia escrita por portugueses
Liturgia e arquitectura: uma nova arquitectura para um novo projecto litúrgico
Creators: name: Gomes, José Manuel Pereira Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2006

description: A tese faz a análise dos documentos surgidos após a Reforma Conciliar, numa perspectiva «arquitecturológica», de modo a estabelecer os princípios fundamentais para «construção» dum verdadeiro espaço litúrgico. A nova eclesiologia, como as novas condições de vida (habitat) do homem moderno, exigem um génie du lieu chrétien onde um conjunto de significações imediatamente perceptíveis, dizem d’Aquele que congrega à volta do altar a comunidade de todos os crentes. O modelo da igreja-casa é o modelo onde uma dimensão de acolhimento e de hospitalidade, própria às nossas casas, diz da reunião «por Cristo, com Cristo e em Cristo».
description: Didaskalia, v. 36 n. 1 (2006): A teologia escrita por portugueses
Lecture juive du Nouveau Testament : deux exemples
Creators: name: Manns, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2006

description: O autor começa por nos apresentar as três grandes etapas da investigação exegética acerca da relação entre Jesus e o judaísmo do seu tempo, assim definidas: uma primeira perspectiva que seria de descontinuidade entre a pregação de Jesus e a dos Apóstolos (Reimarus), atribuindo-se a Paulo a fundação do cristianismo como um sistema em oposição ao judaísmo; numa segunda fase temos a teoria do confronto entre Jesus e o judaísmo do seu tempo (Käsemann); por fim, desde há décadas a esta parte, reforça-se a perspectiva da ‘inserção de Jesus no judaísmo do seu tempo’, tese que tem recebido a adesão de inúmeros estudiosos, tanto judeus como cristãos. Dum contexto de oposição entre Jesus e o judaísmo passou-se hoje a falar, de modo pacífico, do judaísmo como quadro de referência para a compreensão da mensagem de Jesus. Para ilustrar esta perspectiva, Manns apresenta dois textos doNT: um alusivo à ressurreição, “a pedra removida do túmulo”, e o título dado por Jesus a Pedro, “Simão, filho de João” (Jo 1,43 e 21,15-17). O autor interpreta estas passagens, contextualizando-as numa longa tradição judaica bem ilustrada por inúmeros textos do judaísmo: targumim, midrashim e outros escritos.
description: Didaskalia, v. 36 n. 2 (2006): O dossier Jesus
The social construction of women's trade union participation : the role of women-only courses in MSF and TGWU
Creators: name: Kirton, Gill
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2003

description: Women have struggled for more than a century for equality within trade unions and various forms of separate organising have played a central role in achieving incremental gendered transformation of internal structures and hierarchies. Despite huge advances, the goal of gender equality or democracy has not been fully realised in 2003; hence women's separate organising remains an important strategic vehicle through which union women are able to access the necessary power resources to continue their struggle. This thesis provides an original, in-depth exploration of the impact and influence on union women of one form of separate organising, namely women-only courses, in two large, male-dominated trade unions. It contributes to the growing body of feminist industrial relations literature concerned with women's under-representation in union structures. The thesis establishes the link between a significant, but under-researched area of union activity - union education - with the debates surrounding gender democracy, by showing the enormous impact women-only courses have on participants, their gender and union identities and their union careers. With its primary focus on a group of union women, rather than on a union structure, the study also produces important methodological insights for industrial relations research. By taking a qualitative, multi-method, case study approach within a feminist paradigm, the thesis investigates the women's routes to participation and involvement, their perceptions and experiences of women-only courses and the unfolding of their union careers over time. In so doing it engages with contemporary debates surrounding women's lesser participation in the structures and processes of union democracy, the gendered barriers to union involvement, the role and utility of women's separate organising. Importantly, it also offers insights into the myriad ways in which women use their personal agency to surmount such barriers and navigate a union career.
A requirements-based software process maturity model
Creators: name: Beecham, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2003

description: The requirements phase of software development is an on-going problem for the software engineering community. The many disparate recommendations and best practices found in the literature make it difficult for software organisations to recognise which practices apply to their individual needs. The aim of this thesis is to pull together key solutions into a framework that allows practitioners to assess where their requirements process needs strengthening and to provide a means in which improvements can be achieved. In this thesis I show how I design, develop and validate a model of requirements engineering processes. This requirements capability maturity model (R-CMM) adheres to the characteristics of the Software Engineering Institute's Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) and is designed to take practitioners from an immature process capability through to an advanced capability. I contribute to the body of knowledge in both software process improvement and requirements engineering (RE) by providing rigorous detail of how a process maturity framework is developed to support RE practices. The model is generic and should apply to many software development organisations. The R-CMM guides users towards a view of RE that is based on goals and is problem driven. The SW-CMM framework is transformed into a simplified model that relates goals and problems to individual RE practises.
Isolation and purification of orientin and vitexin from Trollius chinensis Bunge by high-speed counter-current chromatography
Creators: name: Yu, Xiao-Xue
name: Huang, Jie-Yun
name: Xu, Dan
name: Xie, Zhi-Yong
name: Xie, Zhi-Sheng
name: Xu, Xin-Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Orientin and vitexin are the two main bioactive compounds in Trollius chinensis Bunge. In this study, a rapid method was established for the isolation and purification of orientin and vitexin from T. chinensis Bunge using high-speed counter-current chromatography in one step, with a solvent system of ethyl acetate–ethanol–water (4:1:5, v/v/v). A total of 9.8 mg orientin and 2.1 mg vitexin were obtained from 100 mg of the ethyl acetate extract, with purities of 99.2% and 96.0%, respectively. Their structures were identified by UV, MS and NMR. The method was efficient and convenient, which could be used for the preparative separation of orientin and vitexin from T. chinensis Bunge.
Quantitative analysis of six lignans in fruits with different colours of Schisandra chinensis by HPLC
Creators: name: Sun, Dan
name: Li, Qian
name: Li, Hongbo
name: Li, Yanhui
name: Piao, Zhongyun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A simple and rapid high-performance liquid chromatography method was utilised for the simultaneous determination of six major lignans in Schisandra chinensis with different colours continuously for the next 2 years. Six lignans were successfully separated on a C18 column at 254 nm using a gradient of acetonitrile and water. The assay was applied for analysing six lignans in the different colours of fruits of S. chinensis such as red, pink or white, and the component stability for the next 2 years was also detected. The result indicated that the total content of lignans in fruits with different colours varied remarkably, which was relatively high in red fruits, followed by white fruits and the lowest in pink fruits. Moreover, the contents of lignans in the samples of S. chinensis examined for the next 2 years changed irregularly and marginally.
Study 2 Pilot
Creators: name: Crozier, William
name: Strange, Deryn
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2016

description: The goal of pilot testing was to develop a DRM Story paragraph for the critical lure "guilty." We tested two possible paragraphs using the words from previous "Guilty" list studies: one using 14 words, and one using 7 words embedded in a paragraph about the criminal justice process.

Our original goal was to develop a DRM story for "guilty" with 30% free recall or recognition recall rates, based on the success of previous DRM story studies (Dewhurst, Pursglove, & Lewis (2007). Surprisingly, both our 14-word and 7-word paragraphs greatly surpassed this expectation.

14-word Free Recall: 49/69 (71.0%)
14-word Recognition Recall: 57/69 (82.61%)

7-word Free Recall: 17/24 (70.8%)
7-word Recognition Recall: 22/24 (91.6%)
(Free recall: #ofSs who included "guilty" in their paragraph / Total N; Recognition Recall: #ofSs who rated "guilty" as old / Total N)

Based on these rates, it seems free recall is stable across formats at a decent mean - encouraging, given that past DRM Story studies have used free recall over recognition tests.

For Study 2, we will use the 7-word list. Although the Recognition Recall rate is very high (and potentially approaching ceiling), the Free Recall rate is acceptable. Further, the goal of Study 2 is to eliminate the last word "guilty" word and replace it with a specific form of evidence. With this in mind, a single form of evidence will likely have more impact in a shorter paragraph. As such, a 7-word format will allow each form of evidence to "contribute" to activating "guilty" more than a 14-word format, in which the evidence may be "buried" by all the other words in the longer paragraph.
title: Fortins et pricipales routes, Chaco boréal 1931
title: Fortines y principales rutas, Chaco boreal 1931
Creators: name: Richard, Nicolas
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Chaco War, 1932-1935

description: Source: Nicolas Richard, “Les chiens, les hommes et les étrangers furieux : archéologie des identités indiennes dans le Chaco boréal” (Doctorat en Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie, EHESS - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008), http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0321
Effects of nitrogen, potassium and organic matter on growth, chemical components and seed yields of IS 23585 forage sorghum cultivar
Creators: name: Pholsen, Suradej
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2003
Subjects: Sorghum, Fertilizers

description: Sorghum is considered to be of African origin and subsequently spread to most countries in tropical and subtropical regions. Sorghum has outstanding resistance against drought conditions. Grain and fodder from sorghum plants have been used for man's and animals' consumption respectively for many decades. Experiments were conducted on Yasothon soil series (Oxic Paleustults) in Northeast Thailand, this is considered a poor soil. Growth parameters of sorghum were affected most by nitrogen chemical fertiliser followed by potassium chemical fertiliser. An increase in nitrogen level increased growth parameters and seed yields/ha of the sorghum plants whilst an increase in potassium also increased growth parameters and seed yields but to a lesser extent. High application rates of both nitrogen and potassium were required to achieve high total dry weights and seed yields/ha. Fermented cattle manure significantly increased growth parameters of the sorghum plants and soil properties. were also improved by cattle manure. Total dry weights and seed yields/ha were affected most by seasons and treatments whilst seasons x treatments had highly significant effects on seed yields/ha but not total dry weights/ha. In terms of economic viewpoint, optimum application rates for nitrogen at a range of 300-450 kg N/ha and 100 kg K20/ha for potassium plus 40 tonnes/ha of fermented cattle manure were the recommended rates for optimum above ground total dry weight (15,940-26,282 kg/ha) and seed yield (5,047- 6,374 kg/ha) of IS 23585 forage sorghum cultivar on Yasothon soil series. An increase in nitrogen fertiliser application increased estimated crude protein (CP) of the sorghum plants whilst potassium did not. Both nitrogen and potassium had no Significant effects on acid detergent fibre (ADF), neutral detergent fibre (NDF), and dry matter degradability (DMO). However, seasons had significant effects on CP, NDF, ADF, DMD and brix values. Treatments also had significant effects on all components except DMD, and brix values. Seasons x treatments had significant effects on all components except CP and brix values.
Freedom and torture: the new architecture of domination and refusal. The aesthetics of refusal and architectural atavism
Creators: name: Biddle, Erika
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2013

description: Since 1963, artists Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins have attempted to realize a body made immortal by reskilling its habitual experience of architecture. Their project to “reverse destiny” entails the affective recompositioning of social forms via cognitive, sentient, perceptual and proprioceptive crosstraining exercises conjoining the body and architecture. They have garnered accolades from artists, critics and theorists drawn by their ambition to transform the habits that take life away from life. This paper argues that much of the attraction to their project is on the level of language and not practice. While their rhetoric promises new avenues of freedom, their production remains bound to the object and the synthetic nuclear family home. Contrary to the view that Arakawa and Gins’ work is playful and horizontalist, underlying this veneer of play is a politics of force, of carving their ideal into the body through the spectacular imposition of architecture on habit.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 15 (2013): Arte e poder
Initial Study: Food-related Emotional Stroop Task Construction
Creators: name: Ardelia, Vania
name: Nido Dipo Wardana
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2021
Subjects: Anorexia Nervosa
Attentional Bias
Emotional Stroop Task
Indonesia

description: This initial project aims to select word stimuli for a food-related emotional Stroop task that will be used in a study investigating the role of food-related attentional bias in eating behavior among Indonesian adolescents and emerging adults.
Quem És Tu?, de João Botelho. Contaminação de imagens e produção de sentido(s)
Creators: name: Avelar, Mário
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2013

description: Este ensaio propõe uma reflexão em torno da presença da pintura em Quem És Tu?, o filme de João Botelho sobre Frei Luís de Sousa, de Almeida Garrett. Ao longo destas páginas convoca-se a memória da elaboração teórica suscitada em torno do debate sobre as artes do espaço e do tempo, de modo a melhor compreender a função da pintura enquanto instrumento de problematização e ampliação hermenêuticas. Consequentemente, aborda-se, num primeiro momento, a função específica do conceito de gaze, a partir do qual se introduz a dimensão do jogo, e, em momentos subsequentes, os diálogos específicos com Caravaggio, El Greco e Francis Bacon, através dos quais João Botelho insinua uma pedagogia da imagem.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 15 (2013): Arte e poder
O baptismo fora da Igreja: implicações do diálogo entre católicos e ortodoxos
Creators: name: Eleutério, João
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2006

description: O documento de Bari (1987) da Comissão mista internacional para o diálogo teológico católico-ortodoxo consagrado à articulação entre a fé, os sacramentos e a unidade da Igreja é um documento de convergência onde se manifestam as divergências das Igrejas sobre o baptismo. A questão do valor do baptismo dos parceiros do diálogo, fulcral em todas as suas implicações, é um campo em aberto e promissor na exigência de uma nova lógica de compreensão das relações eclesiais. Revestindo-se de um cariz de natureza sistémica, o diálogo em torno do valor do baptismo e o seu reconhecimento na relação entre estas duas Igrejas obriga-as a reinventar métodos perspectivados em termos de «consenso diferenciado» e modelos cuja matriz se poderá encontrar no modelo das «Igrejas irmãs». É na perspectiva de contributo para esta reinvenção que este artigo se situa.
description: Didaskalia, v. 36 n. 1 (2006): A teologia escrita por portugueses