cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Results of a simulation study of methods for using historical data in the meta-analysis of aggregate data on exponential time-to-event outcomes
Creators: name: Holzhauer, Björn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 10402 Biostatistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: These are the results of a simulation study comparing methods for incorporating historical data in meta-analyses of aggregate data for exponential time-to-event outcomes. The following methods were evaluated:
1. Bayesian hierarchical model with vague priors fitted only to the trials in the main meta-analysis ignoring the historical prior information
2. the meta-analytic-combined (MAC) approach with a single Bayesian hierarchical model with vague priors fitted to all trials without any down-weighting of the historical prior information other than through the estimated between-trial variability
3. the robust meta-analytic predictive (rMAP) prior approach with the MAP prior approximated by a mixture distribution and with di erent choices for the weight for the weakly informative mixture component
4. Bayesian hierarchical meta-regression model with variable selection on the historical trial e ect using a shrinkage prior. As shrinkage priors we used the horseshoe, double-exponential (Laplace) and Cauchy priors with di erent choices for the scale parameters.
The Constructions and Experiences of Males with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
Creators: name: Dhillon, Jasbir Kaur
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: repertory grid
IPA
brain injury

description: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is predominantly experienced by males and younger populations in the United Kingdom (UK). Although some research exists exploring the experiences of individuals living with an ABI, no research exists in the UK specifically exploring the lived experiences of males with an ABI. This study aimed to explore the lived experience of males with a mild to severe ABI, and understand the construing that underpinned the meaning they gave to their experiences. A mixed methods design was used, combining the use of repertory grids and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of data collected via semi-structured interviews. Six working-age males with a moderate to severe ABI participated in the study. Five themes emerged from the data, including invisibility, painful relationship with society, post-injury growth, a vulnerable mind and importance of others in recovery. Repertory grids found commonalities within constructs, a predominantly tight process of construing as well as commonalities within the structure of construing. Repertory grids were also found to be a helpful method in supporting the research process. The clinical implications of this study were discussed, highlighting the need for further psycho-educational and psychological support. Recommendations for further research were suggested, including exploration of the experience of individuals with difficulties engaging with narrative form research, or from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK.
Surfing the Turbulence: Fluctuations in Self-Perceptions of Expertise in the Long Term Developmental Journeys of Expert-Like Male Sports Coaches
Creators: name: Turner, David
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Expertise
Sports Coaching
Developmental Journeys
Life History/Life Course
Exemplary Knowledge
Narrative Inquiry
Bourdieu
Adaptation
Abductive Reasoning

description: The aim of this study is to investigate how self-perceptions of expertise among sports coaches may develop, regress, and redevelop over time within the context of coaching, in light of recent reconceptualisations of expertise, expertise development, sports coaching, coach development, and adult learning. The developmental journeys of four expert-like sports coaches are explored using a life history/life course approach. Written life history accounts are gathered, and repeated semi-structured interviews undertaken (six per participant over two years), focussing upon critical incidents related to coach development and perceptions of expertise, to capture interpretations and feelings. Narrative inquiry is employed to investigate and represent participants’ lived experiences, and how they create meaning and identity from them. Co-constructed storied accounts of expert-like coaches’ developmental journeys are produced featuring local exemplary knowledge. Looking across the stories and their respective interconnections, to speculate on wider theoretical implications is a further aspect of the study. Theoretical standpoints from a new wave of literature across different subject domains, and a Bourdieusian perspective, are used as guiding interpretive frameworks. This study reveals a more nuanced and complex holistic portrayal of perceived expertise development in contrast to oversimplified conceptions that currently dominate in this field of inquiry. This uniquely longitudinal in-depth exploration of the lived developmental journey of expert-like coaches provides illuminating detail on the process, influences, and continuation of expertise development (that may inform the facilitation and flourishing of other practitioners); uncovering a more intricate conceptualisation of expertise development, encompassing the importance of change and adaptation upon ongoing and recursive (re)development.
Automated evaluation of building alignments in generalized maps
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiang
name: Stoter, Jantien
name: Ai, Tinghua
name: Kraak, Menno-Jan
name: Molenaar, Martien
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Geography

description: Evaluation is a key step to examine the quality of generalized maps with respect to map requirements. Map generalization facilitates the recognition of pattern generating processes by preserving and highlighting the patterns at smaller scales. This article focuses specifically on the evaluation of building patterns in topographic maps that are generalized from large to mid scales. Currently, there is a lack of knowledge and functionality on automatically evaluating how these patterns are generalized. The issues of the evaluation range from missing formal map requirements on building alignments to missing automated evaluation techniques. This article firstly analyses the requirements (constraints) related to the generalization of building alignments. Then, it focuses on three more specific constraints, i.e. on existence, orientation of alignments and spatial distribution of composing buildings. Later, a three-step approach is proposed to (1) recognize and (2) match alignments from source and generalized datasets and (3) evaluate building alignments in generalized datasets. Besides, many-to-many and partial matching between initial and target alignments is a side effect of generalization, which reduces the reliability of the evaluation results. This article introduces a confidence indicator to document the reliability and to inform intended users (e.g. cartographers) and/or systems about the reliability of evaluation decisions. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated by evaluating the alignments in both interactively (manually) generalized maps and automated generalized maps. Finally, we discuss how our approach can be used to control automated generalization and identify further improvements.
title: Wax, text, flesh
title: the materiality of a queer practice
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Van Roden, Matthew
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2019

description: Wax, text, flesh: three elements that materialise a queer creative practice and in pursuit of a strategy of power. Charting its course through four Bodies of work: YOU TRAIN YOUR CHILD, I AM A TEXT, THE//WORD//BECOMES//FLESH and APOCRYPHILIA, the development of the work explores my relationship to biblical texts, the way they inhabit my body and the power through creative practice to disrupt, transform, redeploy and relocate them as otherwise. In exploring the locations and positions of the texts that I take up as objects of transformation, canon and apocrypha become zones for textual solidification and dissolution; articulated within my practice through the deployment and manipulation of wax.
Insight into the binding modes and inhibition mechanisms of adamantyl-based 1,3-disubstituted urea inhibitors in the active site of the human soluble epoxide hydrolase
Creators: name: Chen, Hang
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Ye, Chun
name: T. Feng, Ting
name: G. Han, Ju
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) is a promising new target for treating hypertension and inflammation. Considerable efforts have been devoted to develop novel inhibitors. In this study, the binding modes and interaction mechanisms of a series of adamantyl-based 1,3-disubstituted urea inhibitors were investigated by molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, binding free energy calculations, and binding energy decomposition analysis. Based on binding affinity, the most favorable binding mode was determined for each inhibitor. The calculation results indicate that the total binding free energy (ΔGTOT, the sum of enthalpy ΔGMM-GB/SA, and entropy −TΔS) presents a good correlation with the experimental inhibitory activity (IC50, r2 = .99). The van der Waals energy contributes most to the total binding free energy (ΔGTOT). A detailed discussion on the interactions between inhibitors and those residues located in the active pocket is made based on hydrogen bond and binding modes analysis. According to binding energy decomposition, the residues Asp333 and Trp334 contribute the most to binding free energy in all systems. Furthermore, Hip523 plays a major role in determining this class of inhibitor-binding orientations. Combined with the results of hydrogen bond analysis and binding free energy, we believe that the conserved hydrogen bonds play a role only in anchoring the inhibitors to the exact site for binding and the number of hydrogen bonds may not directly relate to the binding free energy. The results we obtained will provide valuable information for the design of high potency sEH inhibitors.
Impact Assessment of Information and Communication Technologies on Lesson Delivery and Students’ Performance in Selected Tertiary Institutions in Ghana
Creators: name: DICKSON ADOM
name: Prince Edem Dzakpasu,
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Information and Communication Technology has been part of Ghana’s education system since 1995. However, despite the huge economic investments in providing computer infrastructure, rigorous assessment of the impacts of its integration in lesson delivery and academic performance of students has not been carried out to be able to judge its effectiveness and challenges in its usage that requires improvement(s). This assessment is even more crucial in higher institutions of learning where students are instructed in Information and Communication Technology to utilize them for the world of work. A concurrent triangulation design of the mixed method research design was used to examine the impacts of the integration of Information and Communication Technology on lesson delivery and student performance. A descriptive study method with interviews, questionnaire and observations as instruments were used in generating data from a random and a stratified random sample of 496 respondents from four tertiary institutions in Ghana. The quantitative data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists software while the qualitative data was analyzed via thematic analysis. The findings from the study revealed that Information and Communication Technology has impacted favourably on the lesson delivery of lecturers and students’ learning outcomes in the areas of research, easy dissemination of information and assessment procedures. The study contends that to enhance the integration of Information and Communication Technology in the lesson delivery of lecturers and the academic performances of students, educational policies must be changed to factor in modern technological advancement to groom students with requisite skills to fit into the job market while professional technological training must be periodically organized for instructors to hone their skills to deliver effectively.
Das Recht auf Teilhabe: Teilhabe von Personen mit Behinderung in der Individuellen Bedarfsermittlung der Behindertenhilfe Basel-Stadt – eine erste Bilanz
Creators: name: Beugger, Jannik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Seit dem 1. Januar 2017 wird in der Behindertenhilfe des Kantons Basel-Stadt der Bedarf einer Person mit Behinderung an Behindertenhilfeleistungen individuell ermittelt. Dabei durchläuft die betreffende Person mit Behinderung das sog. Individuelle Bedarfsermittlungsverfahren. Unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Teilhabe im Sinne von Art. 19 UNO-BRK spielt das Einbringen der eigenen Sichtweise bei der Ermittlung des individuellen Bedarfs eine wichtige Rolle. Die vorliegende Master-Thesis untersucht mithilfe eines Mixed Methods-Forschungsdesigns (sequenzielles Verallgemeinerungsdesign) das Recht auf Teilhabe empirisch. Sie beantwortet dabei spezifisch die Hauptfragestellung, wie sich die Teilhabe von Personen mit Behinderung in der Individuellen Bedarfsermittlung der Behindertenhilfe Basel-Stadt weiter fördern lässt. Methodisch stützt sich die empirische Untersuchung der Thesis einerseits auf qualitative Leitfadeninterviews mit sechs Expert*innen auf dem Gebiet der Individuellen Bedarfsermittlung sowie andererseits auf eine quantitative Online-Befragung von 53 Fach- und Vertrauenspersonen aus der Praxis der basel-städtischen Behindertenhilfe. Nebst der Herausarbeitung von positiven und negativen Teilhabeaspekten resultieren aus der empirischen Untersuchung sieben Empfehlungen zur Teilhabeförderung von Personen mit Behinderung. Diese betreffen das Bedarfsermittlungsverfahren, die Bedarfsermittlungsinstrumente sowie weitergehend mit der Bedarfsermittlung zusammenhängende Faktoren, wie beispielsweise Hilfsmittel oder Beratungs- und Ausbildungsangebote. Mithilfe dieser sieben Empfehlungen wird die Hauptfragestellung der Master- Thesis beantwortet.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
Extending WikiPathways to Improve Educational Capabilities
Creators: name: Windsor, Jacob
name: Willighagen, Egon
name: Riutta, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software

description: This thesis represents my work at the Maastricht Science Programme, Maastricht University to create "pathway stories" for WikiPathways.
Proposal: WikiPathways Pathway Presenter
Creators: name: Windsor, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software

description: Proposal for Google Summer of Code 2017 to create a WikiPahways pathway presenter
Insight into the binding modes and inhibition mechanisms of adamantyl-based 1,3-disubstituted urea inhibitors in the active site of the human soluble epoxide hydrolase
Creators: name: Chen, Hang
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Ye, Chun
name: T. Feng, Ting
name: G. Han, Ju
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) is a promising new target for treating hypertension and inflammation. Considerable efforts have been devoted to develop novel inhibitors. In this study, the binding modes and interaction mechanisms of a series of adamantyl-based 1,3-disubstituted urea inhibitors were investigated by molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, binding free energy calculations, and binding energy decomposition analysis. Based on binding affinity, the most favorable binding mode was determined for each inhibitor. The calculation results indicate that the total binding free energy (ΔGTOT, the sum of enthalpy ΔGMM-GB/SA, and entropy −TΔS) presents a good correlation with the experimental inhibitory activity (IC50,r2 = .99). The van der Waals energy contributes most to the total binding free energy (ΔGTOT). A detailed discussion on the interactions between inhibitors and those residues located in the active pocket is made based on hydrogen bond and binding modes analysis. According to binding energy decomposition, the residues Asp333 and Trp334 contribute the most to binding free energy in all systems. Furthermore, Hip523 plays a major role in determining this class of inhibitor-binding orientations. Combined with the results of hydrogen bond analysis and binding free energy, we believe that the conserved hydrogen bonds play a role only in anchoring the inhibitors to the exact site for binding and the number of hydrogen bonds may not directly relate to the binding free energy. The results we obtained will provide valuable information for the design of high potency sEH inhibitors.
Botulinum neurotoxin: unique folding of enzyme domain of the most-poisonous poison
Creators: name: Kumar, Raj
name: V. Kukreja, Roshan
name: Li, Li
name: Zhmurov, Artem
name: Kononova, Olga
name: Cai, Shuowei
name: A. Ahmed, Syed
name: Barsegov, Valeri
name: Singh, Bal Ram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), the most toxic substance known to mankind, is the first example of the fully active molten globule state. To understand its folding mechanism, we performed urea denaturation experiments and theoretical modeling using BoNT serotype A (BoNT/A). We found that the extent of BoNT/A denaturation from the native state (N) shows a nonmonotonic dependence on urea concentration indicating a unique multistep denaturation process, N → I1I2U, with two intermediate states I1 and I2. BoNT/A loses almost all its secondary structure in 3.75 M urea (I1), yet it displays a native-like secondary structure in 5 M urea (I2). This agrees with the results of theoretical modeling, which helped to determine the molecular basis of unique behavior of BoNT/A in solution. Except for I2, all the states revert back to full enzymatic activity for SNAP-25 including the unfolded state U stable in 7 M urea. Our results stress the importance of structural flexibility in the toxin’s mechanism of survival and action, an unmatched evolutionary trait from billion-year-old bacteria, which also correlates with the long-lasting enzymatic activity of BoNT inside neuronal cells. BoNT/A provides a rich model to explore protein folding in relation to functional activity.
An Experimental Study of Combustion Characteristics of Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Biodiesel
Creators: name: Pisac, Claudia A
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: FAME biodiesel
engine performance
engine emissions
biodiesel microbiological degradation
biodiesel by FT-IR
FAME C,H,N,S,O elemental analysis

description: The thesis presents an experimental investigation of combustion performance and emissions of waste cooking oil (WCO) based biodiesel. To evaluate the comparative performance of biodiesel and diesel, combustions tests were conducted using Continuous Combustion rig (CCR) and Land Rover VM diesel engine. Firstly, physical properties of WCO biodiesel and diesel samples were measured in the laboratory. Elemental analysis of WCO biodiesel showed that there are differences between the functional groups in diesel and biodiesel which lead to major differences in the combustion characteristics of the two fuel types. It was found that biodiesel had 10% lower carbon content, almost no sulphur content for biodiesel and up to 12% more oxygen content compared with diesel. This explains the lower caloric value for WCO biodiesel (up to l8 %) compared with diesel. However, higher oxygen content and double bounds in WCO biodiesel increase its susceptibility to oxidation. The CCR test results showed an increase in combustion gas temperature with the increases in biodiesel blend ratio in diesel. This was due to a faster reaction rate for biodiesel than that of diesel leading to a faster brakeage of the hydrocarbon chain to release more heat. The engine tests were performed to measure the torque and emissions for different engine speeds and loads. In general a decrease in engine torque with up to 9% for biodiesel was observed, which was due to the lower calorific value of biodiesel compared with that of diesel. The brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) increased as the biodiesel blend ratio in diesel increases due a greater mass of fuel being injected at a given injection pressure, compared with diesel. Using WCO blends ratio up to 75% in diesel showed a reduction in exhaust emission compared with diesel, however, at the cost of increased fuel consumption. A common conclusion can be drawn in favour of the WCO biodiesel as being a greener alternative to petro-diesel when used in blend with diesel. However, due to large variations in the biomass used for biodiesel production could lead to variations in physical and chemical properties between biodiesel produced from different biomass. Therefore more stringent standards need to be imposed for biodiesel quality in order to diminish the effect of variation in physicochemical properties on engine performance and emissions. The future work in developing standard test procedures for establishing fuel properties and limits/targets would be beneficial in using a large amount of waste cooking oil in the production of biodiesel, thus contributing to reduction in CO2 and waste minimisation.
Additional file 1 of METTL3-mediated m6A modification regulates cell cycle progression of dental pulp stem cells
Creators: name: Luo, Haiyun
name: Liu, Wenjing
name: Zhang, Yanli
name: Yang, Yeqing
name: Jiang, Xiao
name: Wu, Shiqing
name: Shao, Longquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Materials- Table 1. The sequence of primers used in PCR.
Editorial: Colloquy, Issue 32: Translation, September 2016
Creators: name: McFarlane, Rosalind
name: Noske, Catherine
name: Tarantini, Angela
name: Trevitt, Jessica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This is a special issue of Colloquy: text, theory, critique focusing on translation. It contains an original translation as well as several scholarly articles on the theme or act of translation. The issue has three articles, a translation with accompanying exegesis and three book reviews. The depth and expansive nature of these works show the versatility and endurance of translation as a critical enquiry as well as its significance in contemporary scholarship.
'Lift Up Your Hearts': a Contribution to the Understanding of John Calvin's Teaching on the Eucharist and its Setting Within his Theology
Creators: name: Smith, Allan Robert
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2015
Subjects: Communion
Divine accommodation
Duplex gratia
Edward Schillebeeckx
Epistemology
Eucharist
Faith
Holy Spirit
John Calvin
Koinonia
Knowledge of God
Lord’s Supper
Nicodemites
Piety
Prayer
Reformed Church
Rhetoric
Roman Catholic Church
Sacrament
Sixteenth Century
Substance
Theology
Transignification
Transubstantiation

description: This dissertation considers the possibility that, flowing from his broader theological framework and historical background, John Calvin’s eucharistic theology ‘re-invents’ a doctrine where the ‘substance’ (meaning) of the elements becomes the body and blood of Christ, and the believer who receives them is drawn, through understanding, into participation in Christ. The study begins with the historical setting and the second chapter sketches Calvin’s life. Chapter 3 considers epistemology and the impact of classical rhetoric on Calvin’s approach to knowledge. The following chapter considers Calvin’s understanding of our relationship with the Father, and of Christ as Mediator and as means of salvation. Chapter 5 considers the work of the Spirit in nurturing faith, a ‘higher knowledge’, through preparing us for knowledge of Christ and mediating our understanding of and participation in him. In this manner the Spirit acts as an instrument of revelation to enable us to participate in Christ. Chapters 6 and 7 move to consider Calvin’s writing on the Sacraments, their nature as sign and seals of the promise made in Christ, their substance and their role in our participation in Christ and, in the light of the duplex gratia, as gateways to participation. In Chapter 8 Calvin’s teaching is examined in terms of his opposition to the doctrine of transubstantiation, and his understanding of substance is considered. The possibility that Calvin ‘re-invents’ the doctrine is proposed. This is not to suggest that there is a conscious copying of the doctrine, but that through the process of forming his doctrine, using an alternate philosophical framework, Calvin’s understanding bears significant similarities to the doctrine he so deeply opposed. His key opposition to transubstantiation can then be seen to be to the materialist interpretations that impede the ability of the believer to lift his attention beyond the physical elements to the divine offer they represent. The study concludes by briefly considering the significance of Calvin’s ‘reinvention’ for contemporary understandings.
Passivation process and the mechanism of packing particles in the Fe0/GAC system during the treatment of ABS resin wastewater
Creators: name: Lai, Bo
name: Zhou, Yuexi
name: Wang, Juling
name: Zhang, Yunhong
name: Chen, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: This study provides mechanistic insights into the passivation of the packing particles during the treatment of acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) resin wastewater by the Fe0/GAC system. The granular-activated carbon (GAC) and iron chippings (Fe0) were mixed together with a volumetric ratio of 1:1. GAC has a mean particle size of approximately 3–5 mm, a specific surface of 748 m2 g−1, a total pore volume of 0.48 mL g−1 and a bulk density of 0.49 g cm−3. The iron chippings have a compact and non-porous surface morphology. The results show that the packing particles in the Fe0/GAC system would lose their activity because the removal of TOC and for ABS resin wastewater could not carried out by the Fe0/GAC system after 40 days continuous running. Meanwhile, the availability of O2 and intrinsic reactivity of Fe0 play a key role on the form of passive film with different iron oxidation states. The passive film on the surface of iron chippings was formed by two phases: (a) local corrosion phase (0–20 d) and (b) co-precipitation phase (20–40 d), while that of GAC was mainly formed by the co-precipitation of corrosion products with and because and would not easily reach the Fe0 surface. Therefore, in order to avoid the occurrence of filler passivation, high concentrations of and in wastewater should be removed before the treatment process of the Fe/GAC system.
“Time that travels sings concurrently to the path of letters”: Translation in Padcha Tuntha-obas’ composite. diplomacy.
Creators: name: Hodge, Siobhan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Translating a text into English not only renders the text accessible to new linguistic audiences, but also can expose issues linked to processes of language transition, both historical and on-going. In poetry collections, thanks to the diversity of structural and prosodic techniques available to the writer, there is additional potential for layers of critical engagement with translation and its impacts to be presented. Further complexity can be invoked when the original poet is also the translator.
Leaves of Whitman: Felipe, Borges and the Hybrid Translator
Creators: name: Shames, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Walt Whitman looms large in the sphere of Hispanic letters. Scholars such as Fernando Alegría have traced the reception of his work in the Spanish-speaking world, generally beginning with the appearance of Whitman as a subject of late 19th century texts written by José Martí and Rubén Darío, prominent poets of the Latin American modernista movement. With the possible exception of Martí, up until the 1912 publication of Poemas, a Spanish translation of Whitman’s works by the Uruguayan modernista Álvaro Armando Vasseur, most Latin American readers had come to know Whitman through translations of his work into languages other than Spanish. The 1912 Vasseur translation, more than just piquing interest in Whitman, is credited with generating within the modernista movement a shift in focus away from symbolism and towards a poetry with a more marked political consciousness.
Boileau’s Longinus, Imitative Translation, and the Scriblerians: Neoclassicism as Event
Creators: name: Knight, Bill
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In what follows, I propose that Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux’s 1674 translation of Longinus’ Peri Hypsous into French contributed to a period of the profound reconceptualisation of poetic subjectivity, producing in English letters a series of concerted efforts to describe the function and limits of imitation in translation and in poetics. This translation event generated ethical and poetic adherents whose culmination was the work of the Scriblerians—Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Gay, among others—who mobilised the fictional author Martinus Scriblerus and wrote in his name. Longinus’s emphasis on imitation and associated phenomena (translation, paraphrase, association of ideas) as acts of poetic piety and Boileau’s exemplification of these ideals in his translation of the Greek philosopher catalysed a shift in the conceptions of imitation available for and influential on English writers in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Detailing the development of neoclassical translation theory and aesthetics of imitation in the wake of Boileau, this paper argues that this transition in conceptions of translation helped to shape the aesthetic and ethical features of the satirical writing of the circle of poets whose Peri Bathous; or The Art of Sinking in Poetry (1727), attributed to Scriblerus, represents an imitative “translation” of Boileau’s Longinus.
Buenos Aires: The City as a Chart, Chronicles and Tales. Translation of Primeros Dias Porteños by Anna Kazumi Stahl
Creators: name: Jefremov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200514 Literature in Spanish and Portuguese

description: Arriving in a city having prepared oneself neither cartographically nor linguistically is a fortuitous minor disaster, an apprenticeship left to the hand of fate. Events occur sequentially but without any apparent syntax and lacking their normal coherence. Words express a certain music. Roads form a maze. Gestures return to their primal state of corporeal movement, although one always suspects a profusion of possible meanings. Everything happens as in the eye of a storm.
The Environments of Active Galaxies over Cosmic Time
Creators: name: Dodd, Elizabeth Frances
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quasars
subject: AGN
subject: Neural networks
subject: High redshift
subject: Galaxy clusters
subject: Star formation
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the environments of AGN, in particular, the density of galaxies in the environments of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN. This determines whether AGN trace dense environments at high redshifts and whether the environments are important in addressing the problem of radio-loud dichotomy. I extend my research by investigating whether star-formation evolves differently in high-redshift AGN environments compared to the field. I begin by investigating the environments of 169 AGN using Spitzer data at z ∼ 1. I investigate the source density of star-forming galaxies in the environments of radio galaxies, radio-loud quasars and radio- quiet quasars. I do not find any significant overdensity of star-forming galaxies in these environments, although I find tentative evidence for a diff erence in the colours of galaxies in the radio galaxy environments compared to the quasar and field environments. I next use VIDEO data to investigate the environments of the quasars out to z ∼ 3. Firstly, I use a training sample of QSOs and galaxies, which trains a neural network to detect QSOs in the VIDEO data. I detect 274 possible QSOs in the VIDEO data using this method. I am able to determine that the efficiency of the neural network clas- sification is 95 per cent using the training sample. I compare these results to a colour selection method, which detects 88 QSOs in the VIDEO data, and find that the neural network is able to detect ∼ 80 per cent of the colour selected QSOs at Ks = 21. I then investigate the source overdensity using a radial analysis on the environments of the VIDEO QSOs. I find a significant overdensity of galaxies in the environments of the whole QSO sample and in the environments of the radio-loud quasars compared to the radio-quiet quasars. I extend the density analysis by using a second density measure, called the spatial clustering amplitude technique, to compare the environments of the quasars with their radio luminosities, absolute magnitudes and redshifts. I do not fi any significant correlations between environmental density and radio luminosity, absolute magnitude or redshift for the QSOs. I extend this research to investigate the type of galaxies found in the AGN environments. However, I do not find any significant differences between the type of galaxies found in the QSO environments and the background field.
Translating a Translingual text: Primeros Dias Porteños by Anna Kazumi Stahl [Exegesis]
Creators: name: Jefremov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: On 6 July 1988 I arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first stop on a ten- week tour of the Americas, north and south. Invited to join a university friend at the start of what for him would be a six month world tour, it was my first overseas journey as an adult, one for which I was enthusiastic, but quite unprepared. I spoke no Spanish and knew almost nothing about South America. My only knowledge of Argentina had been gleaned a few years earlier waking up each morning over a period of several weeks and listening together with my mother to radio accounts of events overnight in the country’s short war with Britain. Born and raised in Australia, I was strongly influenced by my mother ́s British culture and, to a lesser extent, by a quite mixed set of eastern and northern European traditions from my father’s side of the family.
Emmanuelle Guattari. I, Little Asylum. Transl. E. C. Belli. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2014 [Book review]
Creators: name: Trevitt, Jessica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: I, Little Asylum is the English translation by E. C. Belli of Emmanuelle Guattari’s debut short novel, La Petite Borde. First published in French in 2012, the work draws on Guattari’s experiences as a child living at “La Borde” psychiatric clinic in the Loire Valley, France.
Passivation process and mechanism of packing particles in Fe0/GAC system during the treatment of ABS resin wastewater
Creators: name: Lai, Bo
name: Zhou, Yuexi
name: Wang, Juling
name: Zhang, Yunhong
name: Chen, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: This study provides mechanistic insights into the passivation of the packing particles during the treatment of ABS resin wastewater by Fe0/GAC system. The granular activated carbon (GAC) and iron chippings (Fe0) were mixed together with a volumetric ratio of 1:1. GAC has a mean particle size of approximately 3-5 mm, a specific surface of 748 m2·g−1, a total pore volume of 0.48 mL·g−1 and a bulk density of 0.49 g·cm−3. The iron chippings have a compact and non-porous surface morphology. The results show that the packing particles in Fe0/GAC system would lose their activity because the removal of TOC and PO43- for ABS resin wastewater could not carried out by Fe0/GAC system after 40 days continuous running. Meanwhile, the availability of O2 and intrinsic reactivity of Fe0 play a key role on the form of passive film with different iron oxidation state. The passive film on the surface of iron chippings was formed by two phases, (a) local corrosion phase (0-20 d), (b) co-precipitation phase (20-40 d), while that of GAC was mainly formed by the co-precipitation of corrosion products with SO42- and PO43- because SO42- and PO43- would not easily reach the Fe0 surface. Therefore, in order to avoid the occurrence of filler passivation, the high concentration SO42- and PO43- in wastewater should be removed before the treatment process of Fe/GAC system.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Il grande Gatsby. Trans. Franca Cavagnoli. Milan, Italy: Feltrinelli, 2011 [Book review]
Creators: name: Allira Hanczakowski
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The Great Gatsby is a notable classic of American literature written by novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896- 1940), first published in 1925. He is arguably one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and the success of The Great Gatsby proves to be nothing less than one of his greatest works. The novel is set in the 1920’s, the period of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald’s novel portrays this era by encompassing themes such as social and moral values, parties, and jazz music, contrasting with darkness, and a sense of loneliness and hardship that followed the First World War. Italian translator, writer and professor Franca Cavagnoli, took on the challenge of translating this classic for the Italian speaking world; her very admirable translation was published in 2011 and won the “von Rezzori Prize” for translation that same year. Fitzgerald is greatly valued in the Italian speaking world, with the majority of his English-language works being translated, many by the prestigious publishing company Mondadori.
Passivation process and the mechanism of packing particles in the Fe0/GAC system during the treatment of ABS resin wastewater
Creators: name: Lai, Bo
name: Zhou, Yuexi
name: Wang, Juling
name: Zhang, Yunhong
name: Chen, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: This study provides mechanistic insights into the passivation of the packing particles during the treatment of acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) resin wastewater by the Fe0/GAC system. The granular-activated carbon (GAC) and iron chippings (Fe0) were mixed together with a volumetric ratio of 1:1. GAC has a mean particle size of approximately 3–5 mm, a specific surface of 748 m2 g−1, a total pore volume of 0.48 mL g−1 and a bulk density of 0.49 g cm−3. The iron chippings have a compact and non-porous surface morphology. The results show that the packing particles in the Fe0/GAC system would lose their activity because the removal of TOC and for ABS resin wastewater could not carried out by the Fe0/GAC system after 40 days continuous running. Meanwhile, the availability of O2 and intrinsic reactivity of Fe0 play a key role on the form of passive film with different iron oxidation states. The passive film on the surface of iron chippings was formed by two phases: (a) local corrosion phase (0–20 d) and (b) co-precipitation phase (20–40 d), while that of GAC was mainly formed by the co-precipitation of corrosion products with and because and would not easily reach the Fe0 surface. Therefore, in order to avoid the occurrence of filler passivation, high concentrations of and in wastewater should be removed before the treatment process of the Fe/GAC system.
Vincenzo Ferrara. Dialettismi Italiani nei Lessici Bilingui. Roma: Bonanno Editore, 2013 [Book review]
Creators: name: Tarantini, Angela
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The aim of Ferrara’s book is to provide readers and translators with a de- tailed dictionary of Italian dialectal, regional, and local expressions, and idioms. In the introduction, the author describes the genesis, aim of the study, and research methodology. He outlines the structure of the book, lists the abbreviations used throughout his work and provides the bibliography of the monolingual and bilingual dictionaries analysed. Ferrara’s introduction situates his work critically between lexicography and the vast area of study of Italian dialectology.
Predicting the Absorption Rate of Chemicals Through Mammalian Skin Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Ashrafi, Parivash
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: Machine learning
Regression
Classification
Skin permeability
Gaussian Processes
Support Vector Machines
QSAR
QSPR
Growing Neural Gas
Hyperparameters optimisation methods
categorical kernel
Visualisation

description: Machine learning (ML) methods have been applied to the analysis of a range of biological systems. This thesis evaluates the application of these methods to the problem domain of skin permeability. ML methods offer great potential in both predictive ability and their ability to provide mechanistic insight to, in this case, the phenomena of skin permeation. Historically, refining mathematical models used to predict percutaneous drug absorption has been thought of as a key factor in this field. Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) models are used extensively for this purpose. However, advanced ML methods successfully outperform the traditional linear QSAR models. In this thesis, the application of ML methods to percutaneous absorption are investigated and evaluated. The major approach used in this thesis is Gaussian process (GP) regression method. This research seeks to enhance the prediction performance by using local non-linear models obtained from applying clustering algorithms. In addition, to increase the model’s quality, a kernel is generated based on both numerical chemical variables and categorical experimental descriptors. Monte Carlo algorithm is also employed to generate reliable models from variable data which is inevitable in biological experiments. The datasets used for this study are small and it may raise the over-fitting/under-fitting problem. In this research I attempt to find optimal values of skin permeability using GP optimisation algorithms within small datasets. Although these methods are applied here to the field of percutaneous absorption, it may be applied more broadly to any biological system.
London Charity Beneficiaries, c. 1800-1834: Questions of Agency
Creators: name: Webber, Megan
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: agency
charity
philanthropy
poverty
poor relief
Poor Law
nineteenth century
London
lying-in
childbirth
vaccination
education
begging
moral reform
infant schools
district visiting
Society for the Suppression of Mendicity
Evangelical

description: In recent decades historians have ‘discovered’ agency in a wide range of geographical and temporal contexts, amongst many different types of actor. This dissertation employs the concept of agency to dissect the dynamics of power in early nineteenth-century London charities. Concurrently, it uses charity to test the potential applications of agency as a historical concept and as a tool for historical analysis. Through case studies of five different types of charity in early nineteenth-century London, this dissertation explores the varied ways in which plebeians exercised their agency. The case studies engage with current definitions of agency —intentional action, resistance, the defence of rights and customs, exerting control over one’s own life, autonomy, strategy, choice, and voice— and test the boundaries of the concept, proposing different ways in which scholars might characterise agency. This dissertation not only examines how the poor exerted their agency, but also how philanthropists conceptualised the agency of the poor. Although agency had a different set of meanings in the early nineteenth century than it does today, Georgian commentators nevertheless discussed the same phenomena that historians today label as agency. This dissertation considers how philanthropists attempted to mould the agency of their beneficiaries and how the agency of the poor shaped charitable organisations. For all its prevalence, agency is an under-theorised and problematic concept. There is no consensus about what agency is or how to locate it. As a result, agency is a slippery concept that seems to elude meaning. Historians are often so personally invested in the project of recovering the agency of subalterns that they underestimate the structural constraints acting on agency or they project modern conceptions of agency on to the subjects of their study. This dissertation subjects agency to critical examination that is long overdue. It argues that agency, as an ‘essentially contested’ concept, is a powerful tool for dissecting subtle and diverse dynamics of power. This dissertation proposes and demonstrates ways in which scholars can employ the concept usefully, mitigating its problematic aspects.
TransparentGS: Fast Inverse Rendering of Transparent Objects with Gaussians
Creators: name: Huang, Letian
name: Ye, Dongwei
name: Dan, Jialin
name: Tao, Chengzhi
name: Liu, Huiwen
name: Zhou, Kun
name: Ren, Bo
name: Li, Yuanqi
name: Guo, Yanwen
name: Guo, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The emergence of neural and Gaussian-based radiance field methods has led to considerable advancements in novel view synthesis and 3D object reconstruction. Nonetheless, specular reflection and refraction continue to pose significant challenges due to the instability and incorrect overfitting of radiance fields to high-frequency light variations. Currently, even 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS), as a powerful and efficient tool, falls short in recovering transparent objects with nearby contents due to the existence of apparent secondary ray effects. To address this issue, we propose TransparentGS, a fast inverse rendering pipeline for transparent objects based on 3D-GS. The main contributions are three-fold. Firstly, an efficient representation of transparent objects, transparent Gaussian primitives, is designed to enable specular refraction through a deferred refraction strategy. Secondly, we leverage Gaussian light field probes (GaussProbe) to encode both ambient light and nearby contents in a unified framework. Thirdly, a depth-based iterative probes query (IterQuery) algorithm is proposed to reduce the parallax errors in our probe-based framework. Experiments demonstrate the speed and accuracy of our approach in recovering transparent objects from complex environments, as well as several applications in computer graphics and vision.
description: accepted by SIGGRAPH 2025; https://letianhuang.github.io/transparentgs/