cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The roles of alpha-Klotho isoforms in neuronal development and as therapeutic targets
Creators: name: Cararo-Lopes, Marina Minto
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: α-Klotho (α-KL) was discovered as a factor that modulates the aging process, and it has recently been studied for its role in neuroprotection and cognition. Transcription of the Klotho gene produces two splice variants, resulting in a membrane protein (mKL), which can be cleaved with the extracellular region released into the extracellular milieu, and a truncated secreted form (sKL). Despite mounting evidence for a role of αKL in brain function, specific roles for mKL and sKL on neuronal development have not yet been elucidated. In this dissertation, we examined the levels of α-Kl protein in rat brain and observed a region-specific pattern of expression in the adult that differs between mKL and sKL. In the developing hippocampus, the levels of α-Kl isoforms decrease after the third postnatal week, which marks the end of the critical period for hippocampal development. We further investigated the role of α-Kl in neuronal maturation by overexpressing α-Kl isoforms in primary cultures of rat hippocampal neurons and evaluated whether α-Kl isoforms affect brain-derived neurotrophic factor signaling (BDNF), an important extrinsic cue that regulates dendrite branching. Cortical cultures overexpressing mKL and sKL demonstrate attenuated response to BDNF and show significantly reduced levels of intracellular Ca+2 after a 72h treatment, with mKL promoting a more pronounced effect. In hippocampal neurons, overexpression of mKL and sKL leads to a partially overlapping phenotype in dendrite morphology characterized by reduced secondary and tertiary branching. mKL overexpression also increases primary dendrites. After BDNF treatment, neurons overexpressing sKL rescue the branching phenotype to that of control cells, whereas BDNF has no effect on mKL-promoted changes to dendrites. Finally, we characterized novel, noninvasive AAV-PHP.eB vectors that allow for overexpression of sKL or mKL in the central nervous system via intravenous administration. We confirmed that the AAV vectors promote the expression of recombinant mKL and sKL throughout the brain, and these proteins are mainly concentrated in synaptosome-enriched fractions. Taken together, the data presented herein support the idea that sKL and mKL have distinct biological functions in neuronal development, particularly in dendrite morphogenesis, and highlight the potential of AAV-PHP.eB-based approaches as a new avenue for noninvasive overexpression of α-Kl in the brain.
Allelopathic activity and chemical constituents of walnut (Juglans regia) leaf litter in walnut–winter vegetable agroforestry system
Creators: name: Wang, Qian
name: Xu, Zheng
name: Hu, Tingxing
name: ur Rehman, Hafeez
name: Chen, Hong
name: Li, Zhongbin
name: Ding, Bo
name: Hu, Hongling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology

description: Walnut agroforestry systems have many ecological and economic benefits when intercropped with cool-season species. However, decomposing leaf litter is one of the main sources of allelochemicals in such systems. In this study, lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. angustata) was grown in the soil incorporated with walnut leaf litter to assess its allelopathic activity. Lettuce growth and physiological processes were inhibited by walnut leaf litter, especially during early growth stage (1–2 euphylla period) or with large amount of litter addition. The plants treated by small amount of leaf litter recovered their growth afterwards, while the inhibition for 180 g leaf litter persisted until harvest. Twenty-eight compounds were identified in the leaf litter, and several of them were reported to be phytotoxic, which may be responsible for the stress induced by walnut leaf litter. Thus, for highest economic value of vegetables such as lettuce, excessive incorporation of leaf litter should be discouraged.
Embedded histories and biogeographic interpretations of forest diversity at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya
Creators: name: Medley, Kimberly E.
name: Maingi, John K.
name: Maingi, Kenny
name: Henkin, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Forest resources conserved at Mt. Kasigau, an Eastern Arc peak in southeastern Kenya, show a complex legacy of unique cultural adaptations influenced by profound effects from outside interventions. We compiled place-name maps, landscape narratives, and semi-structured interviews (2002–2015) to spatially interpret a dynamic history of biogeographical change since early settlement by the Kasigau Taita, influenced by regional trade networks, colonial ‘war-time’ authority, export markets, conservation enterprises, and a persistently growing need for incomes to offset livelihood insecurity. Adaptive co-management, if empowered through local participation, needs to better recognize and account for extra-local influences on livelihood strategies and their ecological effects.
A presença dos media nos diários pessoais
Creators: name: Mesquita, Mário
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: Neste ensaio, o autor analisa a relação entre os diários pessoais e os jornais. Compara os critérios de reconstrução dos acontecimentos nos diários e nos jornais, exemplificando com autores como José Régio, Miguel Torga ou Vergílio Ferreira. Nos diários, a impossível objectividade informativa cede lugar à não menos irrealizável sinceridade autobiográfica. O diarista procura ou simula a autenticidade, enquanto o noticiarista se legitima através da retórica da objectividade. Este artigo ocupa-se ainda da representação do jornalismo nas páginas dos diários, sendo que a presença dos media nos diários pessoais tanto assume a perspectiva crítica como revela fascínio pelos dispositivos mediáticos.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Public intellectuals: past, present and future
Creators: name: Pires, Maria Laura Bettencourt
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: This article addresses the various roles public intellectuals have played along the times and issues surrounding their positions in the past and in democratic societies in the twenty-first century and in the future. The title is intended to highlight that no specific chronological limits are considered for the subject. It also does not offer any new interpretation of the topic or a polemical statement that departs from arguments others have made. Although intellectual culture includes diverse skills and forms of knowledge, it can be reduced to the ability to argue, to reflect, to analyze, to criticize, to formulate and contest ideas. And, as Michael Oakeshott, in his essay “The role of poetry in the conversation of mankind” so originally taught us, it takes a command of intellectual discourse and its generalizing vocabularies to implement them effectively enough to intervene in the conversation of one’s culture, as public intellectuals should do.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Entrevista a Arjun Appadurai
Creators: name: Ferreira, Teresa
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: Antropólogo cultural, nascido em Mumbai, Índia, Arjun Appadurai é um dos mais relevantes intelectuais públicos da modernidade. Tem dedicado a sua obra a temáticas de interesse tão actual quanto a globalização, o urbanismo, o consumo e a migração, a par da análise aprofundada sobre os media como veículo catalisador de informação identitária e cultural. Conhecido a partir do lançamento de Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996), a análise do fenómeno da fluidez geográfica (populacional) leva-o a cunhar novos termos que servem a descrição da complexidade das redes culturais. O seu trabalho mais recente, Fear of Small Numbers. An Essay on The Geography of Anger (2006), foca as questões da pobreza e da inclusão social, sobretudo nas grandes cidades, tentando explicar, a partir de um ponto de vista [des]localizado, a natureza do terrorismo e da violência mundial. Desde 2004, é professor de Ciências Sociais na New School University de Nova Iorque, tendo anteriormente desempenhado as funções de professor de Estudos Internacionais (Antropologia, Ciência Política e Sociologia) na Universidade de Yale. Entre 2002 e 2004, distinguiu-se como director do Center for Cities and Globalization na mesma universidade. Além das obras já mencionadas, destacam-se ainda: Feelings Are Always Local (2005), o ensaio «Archive and Aspiration» (2004-05) e Space Identity Uncertainty (2006), também referido na entrevista que abaixo se transcreve, e que resulta do encontro com este comissário da conferência organizada pela Fundação Gulbenkian, em Lisboa, sobre o tema «Podemos Viver sem o Outro? As possibilidades e os limites da interculturalidade», Outubro de 2008.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
O Papel da Prova Técnica na Atuação do Terceiro Setor no Brasil
Creators: name: Marco Aurelio Muniz de Pontes
name: Diogo Severino Ramos da Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: RESUMO

 

Introdução: O Terceiro Setor no Brasil desempenha um papel fundamental na promoção do bem-estar social, na defesa de direitos e na busca por soluções para diversas questões enfrentadas pela sociedade; assim como a prova técnica, ela emerge como uma ferramenta essencial, contribuindo de maneira significativa para a eficácia e transparência das atividades desenvolvidas por organizações não governamentais, associações e demais entidades que compõem esse setor. Objetivo: explorar a importância da prova técnica no âmbito do Terceiro Setor, analisando como sua aplicação, através de seu fortalecimento e sua a credibilidade, seu impacto positivo das ações desenvolvidas por essas entidades, enquanto enfrentam desafios e buscam alcançar seus objetivos sociais. Método: Estudo de cunho bibliográfico, histórico e jurídico, elaborado através de artigos, livros e leis que tratam o papel da prova técnica e o terceiro setor no Brasil. Nos achados, a pesquisa apresentou uma média de 790.000 artigos/dissertações/livros/resenhas/TCC, destes, 150 foi incluso na busca minuciosa, restando 15 para pesquisa final. Resultado: O terceiro setor brasileiro veio ampliando seu espaço de atuação, em função das próprias demandas sociais da população e de mudanças institucionais diversas, intensificadas principalmente após a década de 70. A prova técnica, deverá ser elaborada por um profissional que possua conhecimento na área forense e que atuará na demanda solicitada como perito, podendo ser nas áreas de (direito, contabilidade, medicina, serviço social, enfermagem, psicologia, química, física, dentre outras graduações.

 

Descritores:  Parecer de Especialista. Prova Pericial. Organização não governamental. Instituições.
Dietary interventions to reduce advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs)
Creators: name: NICOLE JANE KELLOW
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111104 Public Nutrition Intervention
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) are formed naturally inside the body, and within processed foods which we absorb from our diet. Elevated AGE levels in the body may contribute to the development of chronic diseases. A cross-sectional study found that a variety of lifestyle factors are associated with increased levels of AGE accumulation in skin. A clinical trial was conducted to determine whether a dietary fibre supplement could reduce circulating AGE levels in adults at risk of type 2 diabetes. While there were no changes in AGE levels, fibre consumption reduced waist circumference, urine protein levels and increased HDL(good) cholesterol levels.
MATERIAL OQIMLARINI KAM XARAJATLI TRANSPORT TARMOG'I ORQALI YETKAZIB BERISH MASALASI
Creators: name: Kuziyev, Abdimurot
name: Suyunov, Oltibek
name: Xaitov, Sharofiddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Paxta xomashyosini tashishda  hududning tumanlarga bo‘linishi hisobga olinadi, ya’ni  paxta xomashyosini  tayyorlovchi maskanlarining  paxta  qabul qilish punktlariga biriktirilishi hududlarning ma’muriy taqsimlanishini hisobga olgan holda amalga oshirilgan bo‘ladi. Natijada o‘rtacha yuk tashish masofasi va bajarilgan transport ishining tonna kmda o‘lchanadigan umumiy hajmi oshib ketadi. Tashilishi zarur bo‘lgan paxta xomashyosi oqimlarini optimallashtirish bajarilayotgan transport ishining minimumini ta’minlaydigan rejani aniqlashga imkon beradi.
A supportive pricing model for suppliers with purchase order financing
Creators: name: Wu, Andy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Traditionally, lowering the purchase price is welcomed by a business buyer since people believe it can reduce the costs. However, it can be another story if her supplier is short of money and applies for purchase order financing to fund the production. This paper identifies the conditions under which a buyer has the motivation of allowing higher purchase price to facilitate the supplier’s loan application and consequently improve the supply availability. We use a Stackelberg model to describe the interaction between the supplier’s plan (deciding the loan amount and production input simultaneously) and the buyer’s order design (deciding the purchase price and order size jointly). We show the buyer’s optimal order design has four kinds of closed-form solutions as the supplier’s operational state follows a two-point distribution. The design choice should depend on the item value and the supplier’s reliability. In short, this research shows when to increase the purchase price and how to coordinate the order size with it. Generally speaking, if the item value is high and the supplier’s reliability is medium, a buyer allowing a premium price can ensure the supply and actually maximise her expected profit.
Additional file 1: of Similarities and differences between variants called with human reference genome HG19 or HG38
Creators: name: Pan, Bohu
name: Kusko, Rebecca
name: Xiao, Wenming
name: Zheng, Yuanting
name: Liu, Zhichao
name: Xiao, Chunlin
name: Sakkiah, Sugunadevi
name: Guo, Wenjing
name: Gong, Ping
name: Zhang, Chaoyang
name: Ge, Weigong
name: Shi, Leming
name: Tong, Weida
name: Hong, Huixiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Perl and shell scripts. This file contains all the scripts for coordinate conversion and SNVs comparison. (PDF 164 kb)
Trygg Bil Stockholm AB
Creators: name: Trygg Bil Stockholm AB
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90203 Automotive Mechatronics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Vi är Volkswagens återförsäljare för service i Tyresö. Vi utför alla servicearbeten av Volkswagen personbilar och Volkswagen Transportbilar.
Entrevista a Andreas Huyssen
Creators: name: Maurício, Ana Fabíola
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: Andreas Huyssen é professor de Alemão e de Literatura Comparada na Universidade de Columbia, em Nova Iorque, onde fundou o Centre for Comparative Literature and Society, tendo sido também director do Departamento de Línguas Germânicas. Vencedor do Prémio Mark van Doren, atribuído pela Universidade de Columbia aos que demonstram «espírito humanitário, devoção à verdade e liderança inspiradora», Andreas Huyssen tem vindo a desenvolver o seu trabalho em torno de várias problemáticas que se interligam, e das quais se destacam questões relacionadas com o estudo do papel dos intelectuais, do modernismo, do pós-modernismo, dos fenómenos da memória histórica, e com a análise de diferentes aspectos da globalização.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
title: Influence of transported anthropogenic pollution on regional tropospheric ozone using NOAA aircraft measurements
Creators: name: Bahaveolos, Cristina
Publisher: name: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2021

description: Anthropogenic pollution can travel long distances through the troposphere to impact the air quality of communities, regions, and countries downwind of emissions sources. In this study, carbon monoxide (CO)— a tracer of anthropogenic emissions—is used to quantify the influence of transported anthropogenic pollution on regional tropospheric ozone (O3)—a predominant secondary pollutant. Both O3 and CO data were sourced from two offshore NOAA aircraft sampling sites (NHA = 42.95°N, 70.63°W, CMA = 38.83°N, 74.32°W) located in the northeast United States downwind of a megalopolis, from 2006 through 2016. Differentiation between the sampling of fresh pollution plumes and atmospherically aged air masses was detected and removed from analysis using threshold CO/CO2 ratios. An ordinary least squares method analysis was conducted within altitude layers (lower = 0–3 kmasl, middle = 3–6 kmasl, upper = 6–8 kmasl) for summer and winter. Tropospheric O3 and CO were found to be weakly correlated (r2 < 0.2) within all altitude layers and seasons at both sites; except for the upper troposphere during winter at the CMA site (r2 = 0.72). This did not align with the results of previous studies for this region. The low correlations can be attributed to multiple inverse relationships between O3 and CO. Quantification of the tropospheric O3-CO relationship in the northeast United States using NOAA aircraft data requires additional analyses to detect and isolate the sources of these inverse relationships; such as fresh anthropogenic pollution plumes and stratospheric intrusion events.
Entrevista a Daniel Dayan
Creators: name: Veiga, Pedro
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: Daniel Dayan é um dos mais notáveis investigadores na área dos media, destacando- se no tratamento do terrorismo e dos media events na comunicação social. É o actual director do Centro Nacional de Investigação Científica, em Paris, e professor no Instituto Marcel Mauss e na Universidade de Genebra. Tem uma formação abrangente, que inclui diplomas em Antropologia, Literatura Comparada, Semiótica e Film Studies. É ainda doutorado em Estética. Esteve recentemente em Portugal, para apresentar o livro O Terror Espectáculo: Terrorismo e Televisão. Nesta entrevista, abordamos a forma como guerra e terrorismo são tratados pela comunicação social.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Eocene paleobotanical altimetry of Victoria's Eastern Uplands
Creators: name: D. R. Greenwood
name: R. L. Keefe
name: T. Reichgelt
name: J. A. Webb
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: On the high-elevation, low-relief Bogong Plateau, within the Eastern Uplands in Victoria, well-preserved diverse macrofloras and microfloras have been recovered from Eocene sediments at two sites underlying Eocene–Oligocene basalts. Estimates of mean annual temperature (MAT) were made from the floras at each site, using a novel method calculating probability density functions and maximum likelihood co-occurrence climate envelopes of the nearest living relatives of multiple fossil taxa, and the proportion of non-toothed rather than toothed leaf margins of all fossil leaves. The most likely scenario is an Eocene MAT at Bogong Plateau of 18°C, consistent with the cloudy mesothermal montane environment indicated by the abundance of tree ferns and other flora. From the MAT, the maximum Eocene paleo-elevation of the flora sites on the plateau can be calculated using the ‘lapse rate’ method, and was probably around 550−700 m above sea-level (∼1000 m lower than at present), but with large uncertainties for these estimates. The macrofloras accumulated in stream valleys, so the maximum elevation of the Eastern Uplands at the time was greater, matching other estimates of >800 m. Uplift to the present elevation probably occurred ca 8–4 Ma, so the alpine environment on the high plains dates to this time, and the high-altitude biota has therefore developed in the last 8 million years.
An Investigation into the Feasibility of an Online National Probability Panel Study in New Zealand
Creators: name: Greaves, Lara
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Survey Results
subject: 140304 Panel Data Analysis
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This report was conducted to investigate the feasibility of setting up a national probability sample online survey panel for academic research purposes. The report reviews existing panels, both internationally and nationally, and reviews practical considerations for setting up a national probability panel study, including the pilot study, sampling, response rates, attrition, size, and accessibility issues. The report concludes that setting up a national probability sample online survey panel is feasible, with a comprehensive pilot study and careful consideration of areas reviewed within the report itself.
Influences on Beginning Teacher Construing: Beliefs, Stories and Trajectories
Creators: name: Parry, Stefan
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Teacher education
Teacher training
Construing
Constructs
Collaborative narrative approach
Pedagogy

description: This study focuses on the experiences of beginning teachers in the British Army’s training and education branch. The research sought to identity what influenced participants’ construing about teaching and learning, teacher identity, role, and trajectory during initial teacher education. By utilising Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) and Communities of Practice as analytical frameworks, the impact of influences on the construing of the research participants was identified. The research was underpinned by a constructivist and interpretive epistemology and utilised a collaborative, narrative-based case study approach. Interviews, Repertory Grids and Trajectory Targets were used to provide insight into the construing and experiences of the participants during their teacher education. The research was conducted by a former Army officer and data were collected from and analysed with five participants during their teacher education programme. Research data suggested that these beginning teachers were highly influenced by their previous experience as a student and this experience left strong personal biographies and images of teaching that appeared to be maintained throughout their early explorations of professional practice. The beginning teachers in this study appeared to rely heavily on these stable images and constructs during their early practice when classroom 'survival' was paramount and at this point attached little value to the pedagogical content of their teacher education programme. Data further suggested that it is only once these beginning teachers built a level of confidence, began to 'routinise' aspects of their practice, and had the opportunity to validate their initial images of teaching that they become more receptive to other influences such as their teacher education or their community of practice. This confirmed the findings of a number of other studies and, by utilising the theories that underpin PCP, a rationale for this situation was advanced. The implications of the research findings suggest that care must be taken to ensure that teacher education courses are designed to allow the opportunity for beginning teachers to critically analyse and validate their initial beliefs and constructs through the experience of practice before embarking on significant theoretical and practical pedagogical content. It is argued that this initial period of professional practice provides the opportunity for beginning teachers to develop the cognitive and emotive dissonance or 'anxiety' that appears to be required before they are willing to step away from the relative stability and safety of their personal biographies. Based on these research findings a '4-dimensional' pedagogical model (Do, Discover, Diversify, Deepen) is developed to underpin the design of practice-based teacher education programmes.
Violence, Authority, Cultures and Communities in Sussex and Kent c.1690-1760
Creators: name: Poore, Lyndsay Claire
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: violence
culture
community
eighteenth century
smugglers
Sussex
Kent
seventeenth century

description: Violence, authority, cultures and communities in Sussex and Kent c.1690-1760 Lyndsay Claire Poore Submitted to the University of Hertfordshire in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of PhD. December 2013 Abstract This thesis deploys both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the role and meanings of violence within the context of Sussex and Kent in the early part of the eighteenth century. Historians have often approached the topic of violence from the perspective of a history of crime and therefore deviance. The focus has frequently been on measurements of levels and has ignored cultural contexts. In contrast, this research is grounded in experiences of violence demonstrating that it is not a uniform concept and includes a wide variety of behaviours from brawls to murder. By drawing on a range of sources it has been possible to allow the ritual and meaning of violent actions to be explored in detailed context. Quantitative data is taken from the quarter sessions records of both counties and analysed alongside the interpretations of previous historians. This is supplemented with depositions, literature, letters and notebooks to provide a ‘thick description’ of the contexts and circumstances of violence. The experience of violence is explored from a range of angles and at several levels, from anonymous brawls in the street to gang violence to household chastisement, the ritual and meaning of violent actions is investigated in detail. This analysis demonstrates that violence was a subjective concept, dependent on context. No clear definition of violence can be found, instead there are a range of descriptions, portrayals and accounts which all combine to illustrate the plurality of this concept. This thesis concludes that violence was often meaningful and connected with cultural concepts of order, authority and community. It was not random and its purpose can often be found if the signs are read. Evidence for struggles over authority and power can frequently be found as the basis of violent disputes and this can be found at the household, community and county level. This thesis demonstrates how violence was regulated through both formal and informal methods involving concepts of legitimacy and acceptability, as although violence was defined legally the border between legitimate or acceptable and illegitimate and unacceptable was blurred and contested.
Using Infographics for Engaging Visual Communication. (2017). Australian Law Librarian 25(1), 33.
Creators: name: Aizpurua, Michelle De
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Technology seems to be constantly evolving at a rapid rate. This poses the challenge of developing one’s knowledge and skills at an equivalent pace, because with all this new technology comes many new and exciting opportunities. Accordingly, it is imperative for information professionals and educators to stay abreast of these technological developments, and to trial their use to improve the learning experiences of library patrons. Infographics are a prime example of how a new presentation format can be utilised for a variety of information dissemination purposes...
Power and Narrative in Project Management: Lessons Learned in Recognising the Importance of Phronesis
Creators: name: Rogers, Michael David
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Complex responsive processes
phronesis
habitus
narrative
thick description
abstract
sense making
project management
reflective
reflexivity
thick simplification

description: A component part of modern project management practice is the ‘lessons learned’ activity that is designed to transfer experience and best practice from one project to another, thus improving the practice of project management. The departure point for this thesis is: If we are learning lessons from our experiences in project management, then why are we not better at managing projects? It is widely cited in most project management literature that 50–70% of all projects fail for one reason or another, a figure that has steadfastly refused to improve over many years. My contention is that the current rational approach to understanding lessons learned in project management, one entrenched in the if–then causality of first-order systems thinking where the nature of movement is a ‘corrective repetition of the past in order to realise an optimal future state’ (Stacey 2011: 301), does not reflect the actual everyday experience of organisational life. I see this as an experience of changing priorities, competing initiatives, unrealistic timescales, evaporation of resources, non-rational decisions based on power relations between actors in the organisations we find ourselves in; and every other manner of challenge that presents itself in modern large commercial organisations. I propose a move away from what I see as the current reductionist view of lessons learned, with its emphasis on objective observation, to one of involved subjective understanding. This is an understanding rooted in the particular experience of the individual acting into the social, an act that necessarily changes both the individual and the social. My contention is that a narrative approach to sense making as first-order abstractions in the activity of lessons learned within project management is what is required if we are to better learn from our experiences. This narrative approach that I have termed ‘thick simplification’ supports learning by enabling the reader of the lessons learned account to situate the ‘lesson learned’ within their own experience through treating the lessons learned as a potential future understanding .This requires a different view of what is going on between people in organisations – one that challenges the current reliance on detached process and recognises the importance of embedded phronesis, the Aristotelian virtue of practical judgement. It is an approach that necessarily ‘focuses attention directly on patterns of human relating, and asks what kind of power relations, ideology and communication they reflect’ (Stacey 2007: 266).
Informational Constraints and Organisation of Behaviour
Creators: name: Van Dijk, Sander Gerrit
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Information Theory
Behaviour
Cognitive Burden
Relevant Information
Goal-Directed
Sensor Evolution

description: Based on the view of an agent as an information processing system, and the premise that for such a system it is evolutionary advantageous to be parsimonious with respect to informational burden, an information-theoretical framework is set up to study behaviour under information minimisation pressures. This framework is based on the existing method of relevant information, which is adopted and adapted to the study of a range of cognitive aspects. Firstly, the model of a simple reactive actor is extended to include layered decision making and a minimal memory, in which it is shown that these aspects can decrease some form of bandwidth requirements in an agent, but at the cost of an increase at a different stage or moment in time, or for the system as a whole. However, when combined, they do make it possible to operate with smaller bandwidths at each part of the cognitive system, without increasing the bandwidth of the whole or lowering performance. These results motivate the development of the concept of look-ahead information, which extends the relevant information method to include time, and future informational effects of immediate actions in a more principled way. It is shown that this concept can give rise to intrinsic drives to avoid uncertainty, simplify the environment, and develop a predictive memory. Next, the framework is extended to incorporate a set of goals, rather than deal with just a single task. This introduces the task description as a new source of relevant information, and with that the concept of relevant goal information. Studying this quantity results in several observations: minimising goal information bandwidth results in ritualised behaviour; relevant goal and state information may to some point be exchanged for one another without affecting the agent’s performance; the dynamics of goal information give rise to a natural notion of sub-goals; bottlenecks on goal memory, and a measure of efficiency on the use of these bottlenecks, provide natural abstractions of the environment, and a global reference frame that supersedes local features of the environment. Finally, it is shown how an agent or species could actually arrive at having a large repertoire of goals and accompanying optimal sensors and behaviour, while under a strong information-minimisation pressure. This is done by introducing an informational model of sensory evolution, which indicates that a fundamental information-theoretical law may underpin an important evolutionary catalyst; namely, even a fully minimal sensor can carry additional information, dubbed here concomitant information, that is required to unlock the actual relevant information, which enables a minimal agent to still explore, enter and acquire different niches, accelerating a possible evolution to higher acuity and behavioural abilities.
O que significa Estudos de Cultura?: um diagnóstico cosmopolita sobre o caso da cultura alemã
Creators: name: Gil, Isabel Capeloa
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2008

description: O artigo discute a formação do campo de Estudos de Cultura relativamente a duas formações geralmente a ele associadas, os Estudos Culturais e as Ciências da Cultura, de vertente literário-hermenêutica. A partir do estudo de caso da subdisciplina Cultura alemã, argumenta-se que os Estudos de Cultura se definem como campo de estudos metadisciplinar e organizado de forma temática, respondendo à exigência de complexidade das sociedades contemporâneas e demonstrando a relevância das Humanidades para a produção de sentido nas sociedades democráticas.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 6 (2008): Culturalite
Cultura portuguesa/culturas da Europa: aporias e interrogações de Eduardo Lourenço
Creators: name: Quadrio, Miguel-Pedro
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2008

description: Neste ensaio tenta sinalizar-se a evolução recente do pensamento de Eduardo Lourenço acerca da cultura portuguesa. A decisão do ensaísta de recentrar este debate, considerando um processo de integração europeia que leva já vinte e dois anos (e que tem tido por horizonte uma forte tendência institucional centrípeta), leva-me à tentativa de definir novos quadros conceptuais e procedimentos metodológicos que sustentem esta pertinente e irrecusável horizontalização.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 6 (2008): Culturalite
An Investigation into the Feasibility of an Online National Probability Panel Study in New Zealand
Creators: name: Greaves, Lara
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Survey Results
subject: 140304 Panel Data Analysis
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This report was conducted to investigate the feasibility of setting up a national probability sample online survey panel for academic research purposes. The report reviews existing panels, both internationally and nationally, and reviews practical considerations for setting up a national probability panel study, including the pilot study, sampling, response rates, attrition, size, and accessibility issues. The report concludes that setting up a national probability sample online survey panel is feasible, with a comprehensive pilot study and careful consideration of the areas reviewed below.
Entrevista a Lawrence Grossberg
Creators: name: Pereira, Sónia
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2008

description: Figura de relevo incontornável na área dos cultural studies norte-americanos, Lawrence Grossberg traçou um percurso notável ao longo das últimas décadas. Estudou em Inglaterra sob supervisão de Stuart Hall no Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) de Birmingham, no início dos anos 70, e concluiu depois um doutoramento em Comunicação, com a orientação de James Carey, na Universidade de Illinois. O trabalho de investigação que desenvolveu nas décadas de 80 e 90 resultou no reconhecimento da música popular e da cultura jovem como legítimos objectos de estudo académico. Hoje, admite que a música já não é a mesma e que os seus interesses se deslocaram maioritariamente para as áreas da economia e da política. Afinal, argumenta, os cultural studies sempre acreditaram na importância das ideias e na sua possibilidade de mudar o mundo.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 6 (2008): Culturalite
O jornalismo e a intelligentsia portuguesa nos finais da Monarquia Constitucional
Creators: name: Sardica, José Miguel
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: No Portugal monárquico das últimas décadas do século xix e dos primeiros anos do século xx, a imprensa tornou-se o meio por excelência para a reorganização sociocultural da nação, e os jornalistas os grandes agentes construtores e porta-vozes desse novo país acordado para uma maior consciência e participação cívicas. Perante um espaço público e uma opinião pública em processo de alargamento, o papel exercido pelos jornais na orientação da vida política e do quotidiano tornou-se tópico de redobrada discussão entre a intelligentsia, sobre a utilidade, as virtualidades, os defeitos e os perigos do jornalismo. Este texto procura explorar as cambiantes dessa reflexão, que oscilou entre o entusiasmo e o cepticismo, esclarecendo algumas das esperanças conjunturais e dos estrangulamentos estruturais do Portugal desse tempo.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Ousar lutar, ousar vencer: a imprensa periódica oitocentista como motor da promoção intelectual feminina
Creators: name: Lopes, Ana Maria Costa
Publisher: name: Comunicação & Cultura
Year: 2009

description: As mulheres de Oitocentos que ousaram inverter a ordem estabelecida e se assumiram publicamente como intelectuais na imprensa periódica foram verdadeiras heroínas. Os textos por elas escritos sobre a sua evolução intelectual, ou sobre a emancipação da mulher, sobre a igualdade entre sexos e sobre as condições de vida das mulheres do seu tempo, são testemunhos de arrojo raro. Desmontando múltiplos preconceitos relativos à educação e à instrução, elas provocaram a mudança de velhas e impostas identidades relativas à mulher.
description: Comunicação & Cultura, n. 7 (2009): Intelectuais e média
Inherently Edge Preserving Depth Map Coding Using Context Adaptive Arithmetic Coding and Binary Tree Based Decomposition
Creators: name: SHAMPA SHAHRIYAR
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80106 Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There has been a growing research interest in 3D and free viewpoint video systems to enrich the immersive viewing experience of multimedia users. To efficiently support such video transmissions, a multi-view video plus depth coding architecture has recently been introduced using depth maps. Depth maps have distinct spatial and temporal characteristics and existing coding techniques are unable to exploit these characteristics fully in coding, which also affects the image quality of depth-image-based rendering. This thesis aims at designing an independent and autonomous depth map coder capable of exploiting unique depth characteristics to achieve high compression efficiency with better depth quality.
Development of an Optimized Tide and Hurricane Storm Surge Model for the Northern Gulf of Mexico for Use With the ASGS
Creators: name: Bilskie, Matthew V.
name: Hagen, S.C.
name: Medeiros, S.C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: An overview of how a mesh was simplified to help reduce simulation wall-clock time, reduce the total mesh node count and combine "optimal mesh generation procedures" to produce a mesh with minimal computation nodes without sacrificing modeling accuracy.
Latest applications of ADCIRC+SWAN for tides, waves, currents, storm surge, and hydrology coupling in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Lopez, Juan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: An overview of the application of ADCIRC+SWAN in Puerto Rico. Two different wind models were compared, CFSR/CFSv2 and parametric winds.  The effects of reefs, shallow banks and shelf break on non-linear wave field transformation and dissipation were examine. And finally ADCIRC+SWAN was coupled the GSSHA.
SamplEase
Creators: name: Alhaddad, Hasan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: This poster describes an application developed by Hasan Alhaddad and Bader Alhajeri to simplify camel sample and data collection. This poster was prepared for the poster dat at KU
Additional file 1 of Plant organ- and growth stage-diversity of endophytic bacteria with potential as biofertilisers isolated from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Creators: name: Pang, Fahu
name: Tao, Aili
name: Ayra-Pardo, Camilo
name: Wang, Tan
name: Yu, Ziwei
name: Huang, Siliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
DFT study on the bonding properties of Pu(III) and Pu(IV) chloro complexes
Creators: name: Jeong, Keunhong
name: Woo, Seung Min
name: Bae, Sungchul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Understanding of chemical bonding is a fundamentally important topic. Given the importance of bonding studies, we performed quantum calculations on plutonium chloro complexes (PuClx(III) and PuClx(IV)) that are believed to form as molten chloride salts during nuclear waste treatment. The result of these calculations was verified by comparing them to experimental data on a similar actinide chloro complex. Charge and bond order analyses of the complexes provide insight into the electronic properties, bonding, and nuclear magnetic resonance characteristics of the plutonium chloro complexes. The chemical shift of the Pu(III) complexes are found to be negative while those of Pu(IV) are positive.
Effect of Pu-rich agglomerates in MOX fuel on reactivity analysis of light water reactor MOX core physics experiments
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Toru
name: Sakai, Tomohiro
name: Iwahashi, Daiki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The effect of Pu-rich agglomerates in U-Pu mixed oxide (MOX) on the reactivity analysis of light water reactor MOX core physics experiments was studied with the continuous-energy Monte Carlo calculation code MVP II. First, the following three different models were compared in the analysis of a representative unit cell of a MOX core tested at the KRITZ reactor: a Lattice model where Pu-rich agglomerates were assumed to exist in a fixed pitch, a statistical geometry (STG) model of MVP II, and a Random model where the random distribution of Pu-rich agglomerates was directly modeled. Since the three models gave comparable results, the STG model was used in parametric calculations to systematically understand the reactivity effect depending on the characteristics of Pu-rich agglomerates. In addition, the selected unit cells composing the MOX cores and one representing MOX core tested at the EOLE criticality facility were analyzed with the measured characteristics of Pu-rich agglomerates in MOX fuel. Consequently, the reactivity differences between the calculations assuming the homogeneous Pu distributions and those considering Pu-rich agglomerates were less than 0.0005 Δk/k/k', indicating that the effect of Pu-rich agglomerates was small on the reactivity analysis of the MOX cores tested in the EOLE facility.
Helium bubbles and trace of lithium in B4C control rod pellets used in JOYO experimental fast reactor
Creators: name: You, Yan
name: Yoshida, Katsumi
name: Inoue, Toshihiko
name: Yano, Toyohiko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: B4C pellets used in the control rod of the experimental fast reactor ‘JOYO’ with different 10B burnups from lower than 10 × 1020 captures/cm3 to 80 × 1020 captures/cm3 and irradiated at less than 800 °C were examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In a B4C pellet irradiated in an irradiation capsule of ‘JOYO’ at 800 °C up to 30 × 1020 captures/cm3, intragranular helium bubbles appeared in flat plate-shapes with the plane of the plate parallel to the (111) rhombohedral plane. However, in the other specimens that were taken from an actual control rod, the helium gas formed very tiny spherical intergranular bubbles with a diameter of a few nanometers . These tiny bubbles make wavy arrays roughly parallel to the (111) plane. The B4C specimens were heated on a TEM in situ heating holder up to 1040 °C for 10 min. Clustering of tiny bubbles was observed, but did not extend to the plate-shaped bubbles. In high burnup specimens, large bubbles/cracks were rarely found along the {100} planes, which may correspond to the amorphous bands caused by the slip. While heating the specimens in TEM over 800 °C, liquid phases of lithium-bearing compoundsappeared on the surface of specimen.