cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Data Table of Animal Bone Specimens for Parnell Zooarchaeology [Structured Data from Open Context]
Creators: name: Neill Wallis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Context
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title: 02_1867
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: ALLOc : Surba : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

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

description: ABSTRACT Microcredit typically refers to petty collateral-free credits given to groups of poor members in the society for their socioeconomic emancipation. It is claimed to be an effective tool for enhancing income of the poor primarily through creation of self-employment opportunities for them in a variety of small economic activities. However, in this survey of microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh it is found that when self-employed family labor is paid wages at market rate, under the framework of economic-profit counting, economic productivity of credit for about 48 % of the borrowers is not enough to support payment of any interest. Similarly its social productivity in terms of job creation and women’s empowerment at family level is also found to be low and marginal. Even then about 90% of the borrowers prefer taking microcredit from microfinance institutions (MFIs) even at exorbitantly high interest rate, ostensibly to avoid compromising their socio-political rights and potentials at the hands of the local moneylenders or friends and relatives if credits are obtained from them. They see microcredit as a means of socio-political empowerment of the economically weak and underprivileged members of the society. As such they regard it as a more credible social than economic program.
Non-thermal emission from mildly relativistic dynamical ejecta of neutron star mergers: spectrum and sky image
Creators: name: Sadeh, Gilad
name: Linder, Noya
name: Waxman, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary neutron star mergers are expected to produce fast dynamical ejecta, with mildly relativistic velocities extending to $β=v/c>0.6$. In a preceding paper, we derived an analytic description of the time-dependent radio to X-ray synchrotron flux produced by collisionless shocks driven by such fast ejecta into the interstellar medium, for spherical ejecta with broken power-law mass (or energy) distributions, $M(>γβ)\propto(γβ)^{-s}$ with $s=s_\text{KN}$ at $γβ<γ_0β_0$ and $s=s_\text{ft}$ at $γβ>γ_0β_0$ (where $γ$ is the Lorentz factor). Here, we extend our analysis and provide analytic expressions for the self-absorption frequency, the cooling frequency, and the observed angular size of the emitting region (which appears as a ring in the sky). For parameter values characteristic of merger calculation results -- a "shallow" mass distribution, $15$, "fast tail" mass distribution -- the analytic results reproduce well (to tens of percent accuracy) the results of detailed numeric calculations, a significant improvement over earlier order-of-magnitude estimates (based on extrapolations of results valid for $γβ\ll1$).
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Initiatives and Challenges of Agricultural Crop Sector in East Coast Economic Region (ECER) Development Projects in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 140201 Agricultural Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract  The share of agriculture to GDP is continuously declining in Malaysia, but agricultural sector is very crucial to ensure food security, employment generation, socioeconomic improvement, economic growth, poverty reduction, and overall achievement of vision 2020. The East Coast Economic Region (ECER) represents 34% of total national agricultural area, which has a good potentiality to improve productivity and reduce high poverty intensity in this area. Realizing the importance, Malaysian government has taken a large development project in the ECER region in 2006, but much is not known about the project due to limited number of study and unavailability of official performance report of the project. Hence this study is an attempt to explore one of the niche areas, which is agricultural crops sector. The major initiatives of agricultural crops sector include establishing three agro valleys as major vegetable and short-term crop growing areas. These involve organized modern farming methods in a sustainable manner to improve efficiency and productivity of agricultural production of paddy, vegetables, and fruits. The prospects of the project are also very much anticipative, because the size of domestic market has grown in recent years. But there are lots of challenges to meet the target of the project. Institutional supports, physical infrastructural supports like transportations, irrigations, and preservation facilities are not adequate in this area. To meet the target and to ensure the success of the projects, some more initiatives for improvements and proper management are also necessary. These include, for example, farmer’s cooperative or institutional involvement for marketing the crops, financial supports and subsidies, cooperation among agents and departments, training to avoid environment degradations, and adaptation techniques to cope with adverse effects of climatic changes, etc. It is expected that the relevant government authority and agencies, especially the ECER project authority, will be highly benefited from the findings of the study.
Longitudinal Evaluation of Wound Healing after Penetrating Corneal Injury: Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Study
Creators: name: Zheng, Kang Keng
name: Cai, Jianhao
name: Song Rong, Shi
name: Peng, Kun
name: Xia, Honghe
name: Jin, Chuan
name: Lu, Xuehui
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Chen, Haoyu
name: Jhanji, Vishal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Ocular imaging can enhance our understanding of wound healing. We report anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT) findings in penetrating corneal injury. Methods: Serial ASOCT was performed after repair of penetrating corneal injury. Internal aberrations of wound edges were labeled as “steps” or “gaps” on ASOCT images. The wound type was characterized as: type 1: continuous inner wound edge or step height ≤ 80 µm; type 2: step height > 80 µm; type 3: gap between wound edges; and type 4: intraocular tissue adherent to wound. Surgical outcomes of different wound types were compared. Results: 50 consecutive patients were included (6 females, 44 males; mean age 33 ± 12 years). The average size of wound was 4.2 ± 2.6 mm (type 1, 8 eyes; type 2, 27 eyes; type 3, 12 eyes; type 4, 3 eyes). At the end of 3 months, 70% (n = 35) of the wounds were type 1. At the end of 6 months, all type 1 wounds had healed completely, whereas about half of type 2 (48.1%) and type 3 (50%) wounds had recovered to type 1 configuration. The wound type at baseline affected the height of step (p = 0.047) and corneal thickness at 6 months (p = 0.035). Conclusions: ASOCT is a useful tool for monitoring wound healing in cases with penetrating corneal injury. Majority of the wound edges appose between 3 and 6 months after trauma. In our study, baseline wound configuration affected the healing pattern.
Climate Change Induced Adaptation by Paddy Farmers in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60306 Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Climate Science

description: Abstract  The climatic factors are changing very rapidly in Malaysia. For the farmers to adapt with the changes, government and other external agencies are providing several supports. But still there is a gap between farmers’ adaptability with climate change and current level of supports. This study uses descriptive statistics, ordinal regression, and percentile analysis to measure the level of farmers’ adaptability to climate change as a result of the various existing supports and encouragements provided by the government and other external agencies, and new supports expected by farmers. The data were collected through questionnaire survey on 198 paddy producing farmers in the area of Integrated Agricultural Development Area (IADA), North-West Selangor, Malaysia. The study found that among current types of supports provided by different agencies, only farmers’ accessibility in the market is statistically significant for influencing their current adaptability to climatic changes. Though 58.6% of the farmers agree that government supports are enough to cope properly with climate change, 12.1% of farmers are not able to cope with climate change with the current level of supports. Farmers’ expectations of several new supports has no statistically significant influences on their current adaptability with climatic changes, but their priority ranking for these expected supports will help policymakers to determine the future supports for climatic change adaptation for agriculture sustainability and livelihood sustainability under adverse climatic changes scenarios, especially for Malaysia.
THE LIMITATIONS OF MICROCREDIT FOR PROMOTING MICROENTERPRISES IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance

description: Abstract Microcredit is regarded as a tool for poverty alleviation. A stereotyped delivery system is designed and used for promoting and serving survival- and subsistence-level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh its success has raised social expectations as to its potential as also a promoter of microenterprises, which are growth-yielding small businesses beyond subsistence-level economic activity. The field survey shows that about 11.7% of the microcredit borrowers are this kind of potential or growing microentrepreneur. It also shows that microcredit’s standardised delivery system, particularly in respect of gender preference, loan size, loan disbursement, and repayment schedules, is a strong limiting factor in effectively serving the microenterprises, which require a more flexible credit package. Therefore a methodological modification is necessary to accommodate flexibility in the microcredit delivery system.
title: 01_0994
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
A short synthetic chimeric sequence harboring matrix attachment region/PSAR2 increases transgene expression in Chinese hamster ovary cells
Creators: name: Li, Qin
name: Wang, Wen
name: Guo, Xiao
name: Jia, Yan-Long
name: Wang, Yan-Fang
name: Wang, Tian-Yun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: A chimeric DNA fragment containing an interferon-beta matrix attachment region (MAR) and an immunoglobulin MAR (PSAR2) was synthesized. PSAR2 was cloned into the upstream or downstream region of an enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) expression cassette in a eukaryotic vector, which was then transfected into CHO cells. The results showed that PSAR2 did not effectively increase transgene expression when it was cloned into the upstream region of the eGFP expression cassette. However, when inserted downstream of the eGFP expression cassette, PSAR2-enhanced transient transgene expression and significantly increased the numbers of stably transfected cells compared with the control vector. Additionally, PSAR2 significantly increased eGFP copy numbers as compared with the control vector. PSAR2 could significantly enhance transgene expression in CHO cells according to the position in the vector and increased transgene copy numbers. We found a short chimeric sequence harboring two MARs effectively increased transgene expression in CHO cells. PSAR2 could significantly enhance transgene expression in CHO cells according to the position in the vector and increased transgene copy numbers.
Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Malaysia: Issues for Agricultural Sector
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Abstract  Malaysia is one of the highly vulnerable countries due to climatic changes. Here the changes in climate factors cause adverse impacts on agricultural sustainability and relevant livelihood sustainability. To adapt to these changes a prudent adaptation policy is very important. Several countries follow different adaptation policy based on their localized socioeconomic and geographical status. While defining its adaptation policy, Malaysia also needs to consider several crucial factors. This study discusses issues relevant to the farmers’ adaptation to climate change in Malaysia and also provides few recommendations that will help policy makers to prepare the agricultural adaptation policy for climate change.
Enhanced rutin accumulation in tobacco leaves by overexpressing the NtFLS2 gene
Creators: name: Shi, Junli
name: Li, Wenzheng
name: Gao, Yulong
name: Wang, Bingwu
name: Li, Yong
name: Song, Zhongbang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Rutin, one of the metabolites of the flavonoid pathway, shows great potential in industrial applications as a key component in pharmaceutical medicines and biological pesticides. Although the genetic manipulation of transcription factors (TFs) could increase rutin levels in plants, the accompanying accumulation of structurally similar chemicals complicates industrial rutin extraction. In this study, we demonstrated remarkably elevated rutin content (3.5-4.4-fold relative to controls) in transgenic tobacco plants by overexpressing NtFLS2. The levels of other intermediates in the branch pathway did not change much except for a moderate increase of kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside. Furthermore, the transcript levels of pathway genes in transgenic lines were comparable with controls, indicating genetic engineering did not significantly alter the branch pathway. Additionally, the transgenic tobacco plants appeared normal except for a flower color change from light red to white suggesting that it could be a valuable material for industrial extraction of rutin.
Farmers’ Perceptions Study on Required Supports for ClimateChange Adaptation in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60306 Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Abstract The agriculture of Malaysia is one of the most vulnerable sectors due to the rapid changes in climatic factors in Malaysia. In order to face and manage the situation, farmers are trying in various ways and government and other external agencies are providing several supports to adapt to these climatic vulnerabilities. Still, there is a gap between farmers’ adaptability and adverse impacts of climatic change. Here, sustainability of agriculture and relevant livelihood is strongly dependent on the external supports, and farmers also expect to increase this level. Now, the focus on farmers’ adaptability to climate change needs to go beyond the incentive and subsidy. They also need trainings, conceptual supports, and technological innovations. This study finds out the required supports that farmers need to adapt to climate change through a questionnaire survey on 198 paddy producing farmers in the area of Integrated Agricultural Development Area (IADA), North-West Selangor, Malaysia. The data of the study has been analyzed by descriptive statistics, ordered regression, percentile, and scale analysis. The findings of the study are important for the policy makers and relevant agencies.
Phenyl-functionalized diiron propanediselenolato complexes containing intramolecular bridging diphosphine ligands
Creators: name: Xu, Guang-Ri
name: Liu, Lu
name: Gao, Hui-Ling
name: Shang, Jing-Yan
name: Li, Chang-Gong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Reactions of [(μ-SeCH2)2CHC6H5]Fe2(CO)6 (A) with 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf) or 1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane (dppp) in refluxing xylene yielded [(μ-SeCH2)2CHC6H5]Fe2(CO)4(μ-dppf) (1) or [(μ-SeCH2)2CHC6H5]Fe2(CO)4(μ-dppp) (2) in moderate yields. The chemical structures of both complexes were characterized by spectroscopic methods and X-ray crystallography, and the electronic structures were further investigated by UV–vis. The redox properties of both complexes in the absence and presence of acetic acid were observed by cyclic voltammetry (CV).
title: ALLOc : Caychax : Parabole
Creators: name: LDOR
name: Sauzet, Patrick
name: Thésaurus Occitan
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occitan/Languedocien
subject: oci
subject: translating_and_interpreting

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Cet enregistrement provient des enquêtes dialectologiques en vue de constituer l'Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique du Languedoc Occidental. Une traduction de la Parabole de l'Enfant Prodigue a été enregistrée dans chaque point d'enquête.
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON INCOME AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 91305 Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Abstract This study investigates the inter-temporal causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Bangladesh during the period 1971-2007. This issue is of fundamental importance for the developing economy of Bangladesh. We use the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration tests to explore the dynamic relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Bangladesh. We apply newly developed methods based on simulations that are robust to the violation of statistical assumptions especially when the sample size is small as is the case in this paper. The interesting results of the paper are that unidirectional causality runs from energy consumption to economic growth in Bangladesh and then restrictions on the use of energy could lead to a reduction in economic growth. There is a convergence process in the long-run dynamics of energy use to real GDP so that any shock in energy adjusts with real GDP by 2-2.5 year. The growth hypothesis suggests that energy consumption plays an important role in economic growth in Bangladesh.
Paddy Farmers’ Adaptation Practices to Climatic Vulnerabilities in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60306 Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Abstract The climatic factors in Malaysia have been changing very rapidly affecting agricultural productivity and farmers’ sustainable livelihood. Agriculture which depends heavily on climate is becoming increasingly vulnerable to risk and uncertainty. In order to face and manage the situation farmers are trying in various ways to adapt to these climatic vulnerabilities. This study analyses paddy farmers’ perception of climatic variations and vulnerabilities and focuses on the techniques they use to adapt to the situation. It uses primary data collected through a questionnaire survey on the paddy farmers in the Integrated Agricultural Development Area (IADA), North-West Selangor in Malaysia. Through a descriptive analysis of the data, the study finds that most farmers do not have a clear perception of the climatic changes and vulnerabilities. Farmers’ adaptation practices to the climatic vulnerability are mostly based on their common sense responses. It suggests that farmers need necessary training and support from the government and international agencies to make them able to effectively adapt to the climatic vulnerability and avert any adverse effect on their socioeconomic sustainability and national food security.
Predicting the activity of hydroxamic acid analogues
Creators: name: Jia, Qingzhu
name: Liu, Ying
name: Yan, Fangyou
name: Wang, Qiang
name: Ma, Peisheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In a novel therapeutic approach, hydroxamic acids analogues such as Histone deacetylases (HDACs) inhibitors, have been identified as attractive drugs to treat cancer and related diseases. In this work, based on the Euclidean distance matrix and property matrix of HDACs inhibitors’ structures, a new norm index was proposed, and then according which the pIC50 values (the half maximal inhibitory concentration) of 143 HDACs inhibitors were predicted using the quantitive structure–activity relationship (QSAR) method. Results suggested that this model could give satisfactory prediction effect with high relationship coefficient of leave-one-out/5-fold/10-fold cross-validation. Moreover, the application domain of this model was validated to be satisfaction by applying the leverage approach. The statistical and comparison results showed that this new model could effectively improve the accuracy and predictive ability for predicting the bioactivity of HDACs inhibitors. All the above could demonstrate that this developed QSAR model could be effectively utilised for the description of structure–activity relationship at the molecular level. Therefore, this norm index-based QSAR model could provide an effective method for predicting the bioactivity of hydroxamic acids analogues drugs, which also might be valuable for the design of potential leading drugs.
Ethics Approval
Creators: name: Aquino, Kisha
name: Lo, Elaine
name: Her, Alexus
name: Ahmad, Hafsa
name: Woodward, Amanda Mae
name: Pham, Yen
name: Rosas, Michelle
name: Chang, Loraine
name: Vi Ung
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020

description: Our ethics approval is provided below
Video of Procedure
Creators: name: Woodward, Amanda Mae
name: Pham, Yen
name: Her, Alexus
name: Aquino, Kisha
name: Chang, Loraine
name: Ahmad, Hafsa
name: Vi Ung
name: Lo, Elaine
name: Rosas, Michelle
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020

description: This component contains a walkthrough of our procedure as a participant would see it. It is an online synchronous study hosted on Qualtrics
DECEPTIVE GAME OF TODAY’S CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION: Evidence from Malaysia’s Experience
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160505 Economic Development Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Abstract Globalization is the economic policy of integration of national economies with global economy on the basis of free market competition. It is a neoliberal prescription for industrialization and growth of the emerging economies of the South and a project of capital accumulation for the capitalist North through a process of securing disproportionate share of benefits at the expense of the developing South. The content analysis and Malaysia’s globalization experience poise to support the hypothesis that globalization has high potential to contribute to industrialization and growth of the emerging economies, but at the same time, the way it is practiced, it is a deceptive game of the North and cannot be trusted wholeheartedly for emancipation of the developing economies. The paper suggests for a policy of target oriented ‘inclusive globalization’ to ensure equitable share of benefits of specialization and globalization.
New draft item
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance

description: Abstract Microcredit is regarded as a tool for poverty alleviation. A stereotyped delivery system is designed and used for promoting and serving survival- and subsistence-level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh its success has raised social expectations as to its potential as also a promoter of microenterprises, which are growth-yielding small businesses beyond subsistence-level economic activity. The field survey shows that about 11.7% of the microcredit borrowers are this kind of potential or growing microentrepreneur. It also shows that microcredit’s standardised delivery system, particularly in respect of gender preference, loan size, loan disbursement, and repayment schedules, is a strong limiting factor in effectively serving the microenterprises, which require a more flexible credit package. Therefore a methodological modification is necessary to accommodate flexibility in the microcredit delivery system.
Effect of water molecules on nanoscale wetting behaviour of molecular ethanol on hydroxylated SiO2 substrate
Creators: name: Nie, Xuechuan
name: Chen, Jige
name: Sheng, Nan
name: Zeng, Li
name: Yang, Haijun
name: Wang, Chunlei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The wettability property of silica (SiO2) substrate by the ethanol molecules may play important roles in nanomedicine and nanomaterials fabrication. In this paper, by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we show that ethanol molecules can form an ordered monolayer on hydroxylated β-cristobalite SiO2 (1 1 1) substrate, therefore an ethanol droplet can form on this ordered monolayer. We found that water molecules could affect the formation of ethanol monolayer on SiO2 surface when the amount of water molecules is large, thus regulates the wetting transformation of ethanol molecules. The absorbed water molecules would disrupt the ordered ethanol monolayer and the ethanol molecules could not form the droplet.
Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Development: A Non-Resident Infrastructure Fund in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Abstract Infrastructure is considered as the engine of growth for an economy with possibilities of high return for the investors. However, in Bangladesh the infrastructure sector has been suffering a lot due to fund shortage. Bangladesh is one of the highest remittance recipient countries in the world, but the current saving schemes of the country are not enough to attract the non-resident Bangladeshis (NRB). In this situation, an NRB Infrastructure Fund (NIF) can be established, where NRBs will invest in private infrastructure projects like toll roads, private power plant, land and seaport etc. In 2004, the Government prepared the Private Sector Infrastructure Guidelines (PSIG) that emphasized formation of NRB funds for infrastructure sectors. Except for three general mutual funds for NRB under Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), there has been no other initiative. The viability of the fund remains far below the expectations. This paper proposes an NRB fund for private infrastructure development with option to trade the shares in the local market. The fund will be used for a longer period of time in the company in compliance with the infrastructure project parameters. The paper also provides some technical and commercial proposals for forming such a fund in the country and examines its impacts on the economy as a whole.
Design and synthesis of a novel photoaffinity probe for labelling EGF receptor tyrosine kinases
Creators: name: Zheng, You-Guang
name: Wu, Xiao-Qing
name: Su, Jun
name: Jiang, Ping
name: Xu, Liang
name: Gao, Jian
name: Cai, Bin
name: Ji, Min
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and HER2 are two important tyrosine kinases that play crucial roles in signal transduction pathways that regulate numerous cellular functions including proliferation, differentiation, migration, and angiogenesis. In the past 20 years, many proteomic methods have emerged as powerful methods to evaluate proteins in biological processes and human disease states. Among them, activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is one useful approach for the functional analysis of proteins. In this study, a novel photoaffinity probe 11 was designed and synthesised to assess the target profiling of the reactive group in the photoaffinity probe 11. Biological evaluation was performed, and the results showed that the novel photoaffinity probe binds to EGFR and HER2 proteins and it hits targets by the reactive group.
Genetic screening of SCNN1B and SCNN1G genes in early-onset hypertensive patients helps to identify Liddle syndrome
Creators: name: Yang, Kun-Qi
name: Lu, Chao-Xia
name: Fan, Peng
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Meng, Xu
name: Dong, Xue-Qi
name: Luo, Fang
name: Liu, Ya-Xin
name: Zhang, Hui-Min
name: Wu, Hai-Ying
name: Cai, Jun
name: Zhang, Xue
name: Zhou, Xian-Liang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Liddle syndrome is an autosomal dominant form of monogenic hypertension. Phenotypic variability makes it difficult to identify patients with Liddle syndrome, resulting in misdiagnosis and severe complications at early age. Objectives: To identify mutation in SCNN1B and SCNN1G genes in an adolescent with suspicious Liddle syndrome and his family members and to explore the screening target subjects of Liddle syndrome. Methods: Genetic analysis of the C-terminus of SCNN1B and SCNN1G genes was conducted in an adolescent, with treatment-resistant hypertension and hypokalemia, who was suspected of having Liddle syndrome, and his family members. A Medline research of the reported cases with Liddle syndrome was also performed. Results: A recurrent SCNN1B mutation, c.1853C>A (p.P618H), was detected in the 19-year-old male patient, and family screening identified five additional members who were heterozygous for the mutation. The diagnosis of Liddle syndrome was made in all affected individuals. Despite the phenotypic variability, a systematic review of 54 reported index cases revealed the early-onset hypertension, aged no more than 30 years, as a common feature. Conclusions: Genetic screening for Liddle syndrome should be considered in hypertensive subjects with early penetrance, maybe no more than 30 years, after exclusion of common secondary causes of hypertension.
Phase II dose–response trials: A simulation study to compare analysis method performance under design considerations
Creators: name: Rekowski, Jan
name: Köllmann, Claudia
name: Bornkamp, Björn
name: Ickstadt, Katja
name: Scherag, André
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Phase II trials are intended to provide information about the dose–response relationship and to support the choice of doses for a pivotal phase III trial. Recently, new analysis methods have been proposed to address these objectives, and guidance is needed to select the most appropriate analysis method in specific situations. We set up a simulation study to evaluate multiple performance measures of one traditional and three more recent dose-finding approaches under four design options and illustrate the investigated analysis methods with an example from clinical practice. Our results reveal no general recommendation for a particular analysis method across all design options and performance measures. However, we also demonstrate that the new analysis methods are worth the effort compared to the traditional ANOVA-based approach.
Genetic screening of SCNN1B and SCNN1G genes in early-onset hypertensive patients helps to identify Liddle syndrome
Creators: name: Yang, Kun-Qi
name: Lu, Chao-Xia
name: Fan, Peng
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Meng, Xu
name: Dong, Xue-Qi
name: Luo, Fang
name: Liu, Ya-Xin
name: Zhang, Hui-Min
name: Wu, Hai-Ying
name: Cai, Jun
name: Zhang, Xue
name: Zhou, Xian-Liang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Liddle syndrome is an autosomal dominant form of monogenic hypertension. Phenotypic variability makes it difficult to identify patients with Liddle syndrome, resulting in misdiagnosis and severe complications at early age. Objectives: To identify mutation in SCNN1B and SCNN1G genes in an adolescent with suspicious Liddle syndrome and his family members and to explore the screening target subjects of Liddle syndrome. Methods: Genetic analysis of the C-terminus of SCNN1B and SCNN1G genes was conducted in an adolescent, with treatment-resistant hypertension and hypokalemia, who was suspected of having Liddle syndrome, and his family members. A Medline research of the reported cases with Liddle syndrome was also performed. Results: A recurrent SCNN1B mutation, c.1853C>A (p.P618H), was detected in the 19-year-old male patient, and family screening identified five additional members who were heterozygous for the mutation. The diagnosis of Liddle syndrome was made in all affected individuals. Despite the phenotypic variability, a systematic review of 54 reported index cases revealed the early-onset hypertension, aged no more than 30 years, as a common feature. Conclusions: Genetic screening for Liddle syndrome should be considered in hypertensive subjects with early penetrance, maybe no more than 30 years, after exclusion of common secondary causes of hypertension.
COVID-19 Science Report: Clinical Characteristics
Creators: name: Jason Chin-Huat Yap,
name: Ian Yi Han Ang,
name: Sharon Hui Xuan Tan,
name: Jacinta I-Pei Chen,
name: Ruth Frances Lewis,
name: Qian Yang,
name: Rowena Kah Sin Yap,
name: Bob Xian Yi Ng,
name: Hao Yi Tan,
Publisher: name: National University of Singapore
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
2019-nCoV
novel coronavirus
symptoms
incubation
laboratory parameters
radiographic findings
complications
mortality
clinical characteristics

description: The COVID-19 Science Report: Clinical Characteristics summarises and synthesises current literature on the clinical presentation of COVID-19. This includes signs and symptoms, laboratory parameters, radiographic findings, and factors associated with morbidity and mortality.
Mainstreaming Third-Sector Economics by Adopting Islamic Principles of Entrepreneurship
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Economics

description: Abstract   The ‘private’ and ‘public’ sector economics found their own strong places to play roles in the mainstream economy. At the end, however, these two systems – the private, popularly called the first sector economy, and the public, called the second sector economy - both individually and jointly have been found seriously inadequate and incapable to ensuring wellbeing of human societies nationally and globally. Responding to such a situation a number of non-conventional approaches like cooperatives and social enterprises, waqaf, foundations, and other non-profit institutions, etc., together called third sector economy, were moved and promoted to ensure social justice and wellbeing of mankind. Initially it emerged as a make-up and defensive strategy of the market-state model to meet the minimum of unmet requirements in the sectors where the market and state have grossly failed. It, thus, played only a subordinate role. As a result, it could not help much to solve the problem of economic inequity, concentration of wealth, and social divides. However it is strongly felt that a broadly based third sector economic model with both not for-profit business like enterprises and for-profit businesses blended with social justice is necessary to play its role as a mainstream model not only for poverty alleviation but also for economic growth to bridge the economic and social divides. Mainstreaming the third sector is the urgent call of the day. Islamic entrepreneurship, which is basically a community-centric mode of business initiative, is an antidote to the problem of intolerable economic and social dualism in the economies. It is a natural strategy against all forms of capitalist exploitations, like in the past through European colonialism and now through American led terrorism, to control resources. Accordingly it is the natural model for solving the problems of economic inequity, concentration of wealth, and social divides. Therefore, this study finds the Islamic mode of entrepreneurship as most suitable and effective for widening and mainstreaming the third sector economics, more particularly in the developing countries. Johor Corporation (JCorp) in Malaysia and Sheba Polly in Bangladesh are examples of two types of Islamic style third sector enterprises – one is staunchly business like initiative and the other is cost based charity initiative for social benefit. For the development and promotion of the community-centric third sector economics model, the paper recommends for urgently establishing a research and development centre on third sector economics preferably under an Islamic Research and Development Institute in any reputed university.
COVID-19 Science Report: Diagnostics
Creators: name: Jason Chin-Huat Yap,
name: Ian Yi Han Ang,
name: Sharon Hui Xuan Tan,
name: Jacinta I-Pei Chen,
name: Ruth Frances Lewis,
name: Qian Yang,
name: Rowena Kah Sin Yap,
name: Bob Xian Yi Ng,
name: Hao Yi Tan,
Publisher: name: National University of Singapore
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
2019-nCoV
novel coronavirus
diagnostics
diagnosis
genetic material
polymerase chain reaction
RT-PCR
serology
antibody
CT scan

description: The COVID-19 Science Report: Diagnostics provides a consolidated summary of the latest diagnostic protocols, developments in new diagnostic approaches, as well as available and upcoming diagnostics for research or clinical use.