cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Azophenyl-substitutedSchiff Base as a Cu(II) Sensor
Creators: name: Dev, Samrat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Molecular Sensor

description: This study investigates the physical mechanisms underlying the detection of Cu(II) using an azophenyl-substituted ortho-vanillin Schiff base (HL) probe. Its electronic and optical properties were analyzed using atomic spectroscopy and theoretical modeling. Upon interaction with Cu(II), the probe exhibits a distinct color change, confirmed through UV-Vis, FTIR, and EPR spectroscopy. The study of electronic transitions, particularly the blue shift and changes in absorption maxima, indicates a stable 1:2 stoichiometry between Cu(II) and the probe. These findings are supported by Job's plot and X-ray crystal structure analysis. Theoretical investigations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT), utilizing X-ray crystal structure data, provide detailed insights into electronic density redistribution and molecular orbital energy levels (HOMO-LUMO). During the formation of Cu(II) complexes, the observed decrease in the HOMO-LUMO gap reflects the physiochemical mechanism of electronic transitions and internal charge transfer. This process significantly alters the optical characteristics of the probe, highlighting its importance in metal ion detection and in understanding electronic charge dynamics. The HL probe demostraste significantly low cytotoxicity toward cancer cells, making it suitable for live-cell imaging of Cu(II) ions in MDA-MB 231 cellline. The probe is employed to detect cancer cells in the presence of normal cells. Its spectroscopic shifts, combined with theoretical analysis, offer a comprehensive model for studying electronic structures, energy level transitions, and molecular dynamics. This research underscores the probe’s potential not only in ion detection but also in advancing materials development and theoretical modelling for cellular and molecular processes.
title: Academic discourses and the twenty first century context
title: empowering all students with comprehension and critical engagement Nicola Rolls
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rolls, Nicola
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2011

description: Current economic, social, educational, and philosophical conditions of university learning in the 21st century are unique, resulting in a disjuncture between traditional academic discourse and the culture, literacy and the learning modes of current students. Driven by the knowledge economy and technology, governments have encouraged the massification and globalisation of university education and continue to promote access to university for non-traditional students. In regional, post-Dawkins universities of Australia, the student demographic is increasingly diverse, spanning age groups from 18-75, cultures, socio economic and educational backgrounds and English language proficiency. Evidence suggests that high levels of abstract and technical language exclude many students from academic discourse communities denying them an opportunity to succeed, affect performance and increase drop-out rates. In neglecting to provide specific strategies for ensuring all students have access to meanings in discourses, current theories for higher learning inadvertently fail to recognise that ‘knowledge’ is constructed through language. Further, university pedagogies continue to assume high levels of literacy previously associated with traditional university students. This thesis integrates learning theory and systemic functional language analysis to provide an understanding of, (1) how we use language to express abstract technical knowledge in the humanities, social science and science, and (2) what learning theory tells us about how we might best recruit students into academic discourse communities. To help establish the most effective ways of presenting discourse to first year students, it also compares three versions of discourse presenting the same knowledge and students’ views on how easy the discourse was to comprehend. Contemporary university language and learning theory, the linguistic features of academic discourses, and students’ responses to these are examined. This analysis informs a proposal for an inclusive pedagogy, effective in the apprenticing of students to become successful participants in academia, and the new knowledge world in general. These strategies build on the “Reading to Learn” scaffolding literacy approach of Rose (2007) by incorporating more explicitly, stages that acknowledge the importance of schema, concept mapping and experiential learning and our understanding of proclivities of the net generation.
title: Secessionism, Federalism and Constitutionalism in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Fessha, Yonatan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: On the morning of 4 August 2018, troops were seen taking over key positions in Jijiga, a capital city of the State of Somali, one of the constituent units of the Ethiopian federation. Heavily armed military vehicles were stationed outside the state parliament, the offices of state government and the state TV station. It was not an invasion by a foreign force. It was a federal intervention.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Development of a smart cricket ball for advanced performance analysis of bowling
Creators: name: Doljin, Batdelger
name: Fuss, Franz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Cricket bowling requires high level of skills in many ways (e.g. physically and mentally). The ball delivery technique is one of these important skills which can be optimised with advanced training methods. These training methods hinge on advanced performance parameters. Development of a low cost smart cricket ball will address the shortcomings of the existing systems and discover and explore cricket bowling kinematics and dynamics. In the past cricket bowling kinematics has not been properly studied using instrumented balls due to technical limitations of sensor system and electronics design. The aim of the project was to develop a highly portable instrumented cricket ball for recording the ball's kinematics and calculating dynamic performance parameters from kinematic data. The ball is designed in such a way that it exactly feels and looks (i.e. mass and material) as a real cricket ball. The ball is constructed from leather hemispheres, an impact proof Nylon6/6 nutshell, a shock damping foam material, and miniaturized electronics circuit.
Azophenyl-substitutedSchiff Base as a Cu(II) Sensor A Molecular Spectroscopyand DFT-BasedStudy
Creators: name: Dev, Samrat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Molecular Sensor

description: This study investigates the physical mechanisms underlying the detection of Cu(II) using an azophenyl-substituted ortho-vanillin Schiff base (HL) probe. Its electronic and optical properties were analyzed using atomic spectroscopy and theoretical modeling. Upon interaction with Cu(II), the probe exhibits a distinct color change, confirmed through UV-Vis, FTIR, and EPR spectroscopy. The study of electronic transitions, particularly the blue shift and changes in absorption maxima, indicates a stable 1:2 stoichiometry between Cu(II) and the probe. These findings are supported by Job's plot and X-ray crystal structure analysis. Theoretical investigations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT), utilizing X-ray crystal structure data, provide detailed insights into electronic density redistribution and molecular orbital energy levels (HOMO-LUMO). During the formation of Cu(II) complexes, the observed decrease in the HOMO-LUMO gap reflects the physiochemical mechanism of electronic transitions and internal charge transfer. This process significantly alters the optical characteristics of the probe, highlighting its importance in metal ion detection and in understanding electronic charge dynamics. The HL probe demostraste significantly low cytotoxicity toward cancer cells, making it suitable for live-cell imaging of Cu(II) ions in MDA-MB 231 cellline. The probe is employed to detect cancer cells in the presence of normal cells. Its spectroscopic shifts, combined with theoretical analysis, offer a comprehensive model for studying electronic structures, energy level transitions, and molecular dynamics. This research underscores the probe’s potential not only in ion detection but also in advancing materials development and theoretical modelling for cellular and molecular processes.
High-throughput generation of aircraft-like soot
Creators: name: Trivanovic, Una
name: Kelesidis, Georgios A.
name: Pratsinis, Sotiris E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: High-throughput, laboratory units for generation of aircraft-like soot are needed to quantify and understand the impact of such emissions on public health and climate change due to the high costs and limited access to aircraft engines. Enclosed spray combustion of jet fuel is used here to generate high soot concentrations, up to 255 mg/m3, three orders of magnitude higher than those typically obtained by widely-used soot generators that use vapor-fed flames. This is attributed mostly to the use of real jet fuels. The large mass concentrations enable routine characterization of the soot specific surface area (SSA) and pore size distribution (PSD) by N2 adsorption. The geometric mean mobility diameter, d¯m, of soot agglomerates was systematically varied from 15 to 180 nm by varying the equivalence ratio (EQR) at constant fuel feed rates, while the organic to total carbon (OC/TC) ratio is low (< 20%) at all conditions. The geometric mean primary particle (PP) diameter, d¯p, standard deviation, σg,p, and mass-mobility exponent, Dfm, were hardly altered in that EQR range. These measured Dfm and σg,p indicate that soot PPs were sinter-bonded by surface growth, in agreement with aircraft emissions literature. Most importantly, soot made at EQR ≤1.34 has mainly small pores (< 2 nm) and similar morphology (Dfm = 2.52 ± 0.17), SSA (160 – 239 m2/g), OC/TC (< 20%), d¯m (15 – 61 nm) and d¯p (14 nm) with those from high-thrust aircraft emissions.
Development of next-generation compression apparel
Creators: name: Belbasis, Aaron
name: Fuss, Franz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Enjoyment and participation in physical activity is often hindered by fear of injury. In particular, the muscles and joints in the lower limbs suffer from a higher likelihood of injuries due to muscle and ligament overloading/straining. High-end compression gear is currently limited only to providing passive muscular and vascular exercise response. Smart Apparel introduces the integration of a pressure mapping system into a compression garment, further extending its functional support in a range of applications, from an indispensable training aid within competitive sports through to the health industry. The purpose of this research was to investigate the design considerations and developmental steps necessary in developing such a ';Smart Garment'; for monitoring muscle and limb activity. It investigates the use of a novel approach to quantifying muscular exertion and loading through the measurement of surface pressures between a target muscular group and a compressive elastic garment. Surface pressure information about muscle loading is detected for both running and cycling, where the repeatable and quantifiable nature of the data aids in the modification of behaviours that predispose athletes to injury; thereby minimising injury risk, reducing recovery times, and maximising training potential.
Germplasm repository for grapevine - Newsletter 5
Creators: name: Dettweiler-Münch, Erika
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Ampelography - 3rd International Course at the Institute of Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof/Germany, July 14-17,1992 Erika Dettweiler-Münch
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 31 No. 4 (1992): Vitis
Stereospecific π–π stacking interactions between pseudo-enantiomeric sulfur-bridged dinuclear Co(III)–Pd(II) and Co(III)–Pt(II) complexes with optically active propanediamines
Creators: name: Nagasaki, Toshihiro
name: Miyoshi, Yusuke
name: Koikawa, Masayuki
name: Yamada, Yasunori
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Assemblies between pseudo-enantiomers with different d8 metal centers, Δ-[M(bpy){Co(aet)2(R-pn)}]3+ (M = Pd or Pt, bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine, aet = 2-aminoethanethiolate, pn = 1,2-propanediamine), and Λ-[M′(bpy){Co(aet)2(S-pn)}]3+ (M′ ≠ M, M′ = Pd or Pt), have been examined from stereo- and spectrochemical aspects. A mixture of equimolar amounts of the optically active sulfur-bridged dinuclear complex, Δ-[M(bpy){Co(aet)2(R-pn)}](NO3)3·7H2O, and its pseudo-enantiomer, Λ-[M′(bpy){Co(aet)2(S-pn)}](NO3)3·7H2O, in H2O crystallizes as [M(bpy){Co(aet)2(R-pn)}][M′(bpy){Co(aet)2(S-pn)}](NO3)6·4H2O, in which two complex cations with imperfect enantiomorphisms form a 1 : 1 π–π stacked unit.
title: The 2018 French Asylum and Immigration Act
Creators: name: Haguenau-Moizard, Catherine
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: As many others in the European Union, the French government attempts to tackle the so-called “migrants crisis”. A new bill aims at reducing the length of asylum proceedings and fighting against irregular migration. Despite disagreements between the two chambers, the National Assembly has adopted the last version of the bill on August 1st. Left-wing Members of Parliament have brought an action before the Constitutional Council. The bill may not be enacted before the Council has given its decision, at the beginning of September. The text will no longer change, unless some provisions are deemed unconstitutional.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Exploratory scoping of the literature on factors that influence oral health workforce planning and management in developing countries
Creators: name: Knevel, R. J.M.
name: Gussy, M. G.
name: Farmer, Jane
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: The purpose of this study was to scope the literature that exists about factors influencing oral health workforce planning and management in developing countries (DCs). Methods: The Arksey and O'Malley method for conducting a scoping review was used. A replicable search strategy was applied, using three databases. Factors influencing oral health workforce planning and management in DCs identified in the eligible articles were charted. Findings: Four thousand citations were identified; 41 papers were included for review. Most included papers were situational analyses. Factors identified were as follows: lack of data, focus on the restorative rather than preventive care in practitioner education, recent increase in number of dental schools (mostly private) and dentistry students, privatization of dental care services which has little impact on care maldistribution, and debates about skill mix and scope of practice. Oral health workforce management in the eligible studies has a bias towards dentist-led systems. Due to a lack of country-specific oral health related data in developing or least developed countries (LDCs), oral health workforce planning often relies on data and modelling from other countries. Discussion and conclusion: Approaches to oral health workforce management and planning in developing or LDCs are often characterized by approaches to increase numbers of dentists, thus not ameliorating maldistribution of service accessibility. Governments appear to be reducing support for public and preventative oral healthcare, favouring growth in privatized dental services. Changes to professional education are necessary to trigger a paradigm shift to the preventive approach and to improve relationships between different oral healthcare provider roles. This needs to be premised on greater appreciation of preventive care in health systems and funding models.
Localized shear generates three-dimensional transport
Creators: name: Smith, Lachlan D.
name: Rudman, Murray
name: Lester, Daniel R.
name: Metcalfe, Guy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Understanding the mechanisms that control three-dimensional (3D) fluid transport is central to many processes, including mixing, chemical reaction, and biological activity. Here a novel mechanism for 3D transport is uncovered where fluid particles are kicked between streamlines near a localized shear, which occurs in many flows and materials. This results in 3D transport similar to Resonance Induced Dispersion (RID); however, this new mechanism is more rapid and mutually incompatible with RID. We explore its governing impact with both an abstract 2-action flow and a model fluid flow. We show that transitions from one-dimensional (1D) to two-dimensional (2D) and 2D to 3D transport occur based on the relative magnitudes of streamline jumps in two transverse directions.
Academics doing it differently: wooing, hooking up and spinning stories
Creators: name: Lemon, Narelle
name: McPherson, Megan
name: Budge, Kylie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Wooing, hooking up and spinning stories are not the usual behaviours to describe academics and the ways they make connections with other scholars. These behaviours are now how some academics build relations for research, support and professional development as a part of the way they work in and across academia with social media use. How academics reveal facets of their identity online and use social media speak to ideas about identity and agency in the contemporary university. Academics are using social media in the university and this has risks to both the academy and the academic. Academics are taking on these risks in different ways, publically representing their academic selves and their research, building networks of connections with other scholars and using Twitter to be (non) strategic to benefit their research interests and inquiries. In this paper, we focus on how academics use Twitter to make connections and relations with others. The paper draws on preliminary findings from a study of academics using Twitter that used a modified snowball recruitment method to garner participants. Informal interviews were used to discuss how the academics used Twitter, what images they used to represent and describe themselves. How their academic identity was represented online as branding, strategic or not, and their various relations was a starting point in this analysis. We examine the themes of academics branding and being (non) strategic by the stories they told of relationship building on Twitter. That is wooing, or having conversations on specific topics to make a connection and demonstrate relevance, hooking up, or networking, and spinning stories, or rather enacting professional dialogues. We argue that these behaviours demonstrate how some academics are an example of a new type of 21st century academic and conclude by suggesting that in doing so they are examples of new ways of being and becoming an academic context.
title: Seenotrettung als völkerrechtliche Pflicht: Aktuelle Heraus­forderungen der Massenmigrations­bewegungen über das Mittelmeer
Creators: name: Matz-Lück, Nele
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Ein sicherer Ort ist mehr als nur trockener Boden unter den Füßen. Es steht außer Frage, dass Libyen die Anforderungen an einen sicheren Ort für die geretteten Migranten nicht erfüllt. Die Praxis italienischer staatlicher Schiffe, Boote mit Migranten entweder so lange an der Weiterfahrt zu hindern, bis sie von der libyschen Küstenwache aufgenommen werden oder aber die aus Seenot geretteten Personen selbst nach Libyen zurückzubringen und dort auszuschiffen, ist ein klarer Verstoß gegen völkerrechtliche Verpflichtungen.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Zwischen Supreme Court und Zentralregierung: Zur drohenden Staatenlosigkeit der muslimischen Minderheit in Assam
Creators: name: Caspari, Catharina
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Femtosecond fabrication of waveguide-like micro-structures in a photorefractive polymer
Creators: name: Gu, Min
name: Rodgers, Tom
name: Day, Daniel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this letter, we report on, for the first time, the successful femtosecond micro-fabrication of continuous waveguide-like channels in the photorefractive polymer consisting of the nonlinear chromophore 2,5-dimethyl-4-(p-nitrophenylazo)anisole (DMNPAA), the photosensitive compound 2,4,7-trinitro-9-flourenone (TNF), and the plasticiser N-ethylcarbazole (ECZ) all doped in the polymer matrix poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). These channels are caused by the change in refractive index as a result of the localised heating of the polymer and therefore have an important potential for micro-photonic devices in future.
title: Why the Polish Supreme Court’s Reference on Judicial Independence to the CJEU is Admissible after all
Creators: name: Biernat, Stanislaw
name: Kawczynska, Monika
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: On August 2nd 2018, the Polish Supreme Court has referred questions to the European Court of Justice about whether or not the forced retirement of most of its senior judges and other infringements of judicial independence are compatible with EU law. That decision is a landmark step in the serious constitutional crisis in Poland that has been going on for several years. One issue is of fundamental importance: Is the SC’s preliminary reference  to the CJEU admissible?
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Theropod fauna from Southern Australia indicates high polar diversity and climate-driven dinosaur provinciality
Creators: name: Benson, Roger B J
name: Rich, Thomas H.
name: Rich, Patricia
name: Hall, Mike
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Early Cretaceous fauna of Victoria, Australia, provides unique data on the composition of high latitude southern hemisphere dinosaurs. We describe and review theropod dinosaur postcranial remains from the Aptian–Albian Otway and Strzelecki groups, based on at least 37 isolated bones, and more than 90 teeth from the Flat Rocks locality. Several specimens of medium- and large-bodied individuals (estimated up to ∼8.5 metres long) represent allosauroids. Tyrannosauroids are represented by elements indicating medium body sizes (∼3 metres long), likely including the holotype femur of Timimus hermani, and a single cervical vertebra represents a juvenile spinosaurid. Single specimens representing medium- and small-bodied theropods may be referrable to Ceratosauria, Ornithomimosauria, a basal coelurosaur, and at least three taxa within Maniraptora. Thus, nine theropod taxa may have been present. Alternatively, four distinct dorsal vertebrae indicate a minimum of four taxa. However, because most taxa are known from single bones, it is likely that small-bodied theropod diversity remains underestimated. The high abundance of allosauroids and basal coelurosaurs (including tyrannosauroids and possibly ornithomimosaurs), and the relative rarity of ceratosaurs, is strikingly dissimilar to penecontemporaneous dinosaur faunas of Africa and South America, which represent an arid, lower-latitude biome. Similarities between dinosaur faunas of Victoria and the northern continents concern the proportional representatation of higher clades, and may result from the prevailing temperate–polar climate of Australia, especially at high latitudes in Victoria, which is similar to the predominant warm–temperate climate of Laurasia, but distinct from the arid climate zone that covered extensive areas of Gondwana. Most dinosaur groups probably attained a near-cosmopolitan distribution in the Jurassic, prior to fragmentation of the Pangaean supercontinent, and some aspects of the hallmark ‘Gondwanan’ fauna of South America and Africa may therefore reflect climate-driven provinciality, not vicariant evolution driven by continental fragmentation. However, vicariance may still be detected at lower phylogenetic levels.
π-radical formation by pyrrolic H abstraction of phthalocyanine molecules on molybdenum disulfide
Creators: name: Reecht, Gaël
name: Krane, Nils
name: Lotze, Christian
name: Franke, Katharina J.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: radicals
subject: single-molecule chemistry
subject: phthalocyanine
subject: molybdenum disulfide
subject: scanning tunneling microscopy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: For a molecular radical to be stable, the environment needs to be inert. Furthermore, an unpaired electron is less likely to react chemically when it is placed in an extended orbital. Here, we use the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope to abstract one of the pyrrolic hydrogen atoms from phthalocyanine (H2Pc) deposited on a single layer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) on Au(111). We show the successful dissociation reaction by current-induced three-level fluctuations reflecting the inequivalent positions of the remaining H atom in the pyrrole center. Tunneling spectroscopy reveals two narrow resonances inside the semiconducting energy gap of MoS2 with their spatial extent resembling the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of H2Pc. By comparison to simple density functional calculations of the isolated molecule, we show that these correspond to a single occupation of the Coulomb-split highest molecular orbital of HPc. We conclude that the dangling σ bond after N–H bond cleavage is filled by an electron from the delocalized HOMO. The extended nature of the HOMO together with the inert nature of the MoS2 layer favors the stabilization of this radical state.
A mini-review on functional multilayered materials
Creators: name: Alarcón López, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Multilayered materials are ubiquitous in nature o↵ering a wide range of relevant functionalities, going from mechanical performance to complex biosynthesis processes. In materials engineering, biomimickry or bio-inspiration approaches have been e↵ective strategies to develop complex multifunctional materials. The rational combination of the properties of di↵erent materi- als in multilayer systems have been capitalized in science and engineering for several practical applications. In this document, we review literature that present multilayered materials for di↵erent applications: mechanically enhanced materials, tissue-engineering, energy and sensing. The interest in these multifunctional materials comes not only from their properties but also from the great possibilities of extrapolating their usage in seemingly unre- lated areas with innovative techniques.
Synthesis, extraction and chromogenic properties of Amidoazocalix[4]arenes and their telomer derivatives
Creators: name: Karakuş, Özlem Özen
name: Hasalettin Deligöz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: The synthesis, extraction and chromogenic properties of calix[4]arenes, carrying phenylazo and amido groups on their upper and lower rims, respectively, are described. Novel azocalix[4]arene amides (1a–d, 2a–d, 3a–d) and some of their telomers (T1a–T1d) have been synthesised and characterised by spectroscopic methods as well as elemental analysis techniques. Compounds 1c and 2b were additionally characterised by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic methods. Some of the compounds were examined by absorption spectra using different solvents. The colour changes of the resulting solutions can be observed by the ‘naked eye’. Metal extraction abilities of compounds have been investigated comparatively. Telomer structures of azocalix[n]arenes exhibited higher extraction rates compared to those of their monomers. Products obtained under this study, especially telomers, can be used in the field of ion-selective electrodes.
An unusual edentulous pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil
Creators: name: Headden, Jaime A.
name: Hebert B.N. Campos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biological Sciences

description: Numerous taxa make up the Early Cretaceous fauna of Brazil, including Ornithocheiroidea, Tapejaridae, Thalassodromidae, Chaoyangopteridae and a purported member of Azhdarchidae. Dsungaripteridae has only been tentatively assumed to be present in the form of ‘Santanadactylus’ spixi. New study of NMSG SAO 251093 (a specimen referred to Thalassodromeus sethi) suggests it is a previously unknown species of dsungaripterid, Banguela oberlii, tax. nov., differing from Thalassodromeus and other pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil by a unique combination of characters, including an upturned jaw tip, a short dorsal mandibular symphyseal shelf (dmss), and an autapomorphic thin crest placed halfway along the fused mandibular symphysis without a keel along the ventral margin of the jaw. B. oberlii, tax. nov., is referred to Dsungaripteridae based on a dmss no longer than the ventral shelf, U-shaped caudal margin of the ventral shelf and lateral margins of the mandibular symphysis concave in dorsal view. B. oberlii, tax. nov., is the youngest known dsungaripterid, and expands known morphological diversity in the clade as well as the Early Cretaceous pterosaur fauna of South America.
title: New German Intersex Law: Third Gender but not as we want it
Creators: name: Baars, Grietje
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: The new German draft law to introduce a third option in personal status law has overwhelmingly been decried as a missed historical opportunity, or even as counterproductive, for a variety of reasons. The main criticisms are that the third option does not fully recognize gender diversity as it will only be available to those with a medical diagnosis of an intersex condition, and that the government failed to genuinely consider the alternative option presented by the Constitutional Court – that of scrapping sex/gender registration altogether.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Growth dynamics of Australia's polar dinosaurs
Creators: name: Woodward, Holly N.
name: Rich, Thomas H.
name: Chinsamy, Anusuya
name: Rich, Patricia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Analysis of bone microstructure in ornithopod and theropod dinosaurs from Victoria, Australia, documents ontogenetic changes, providing insight into the dinosaurs' successful habitation of Cretaceous Antarctic environments. Woven-fibered bone tissue in the smallest specimens indicates rapid growth rates during early ontogeny. Later ontogeny is marked by parallel-fibered tissue, suggesting reduced growth rates approaching skeletal maturity. Bone microstructure similarities between the ornithopods and theropods, including the presence of LAGs in each group, suggest there is no osteohistologic evidence supporting the hypothesis that polar theropods hibernated seasonally. Results instead suggest high-latitude dinosaurs had growth trajectories similar to their lower-latitude relatives and thus, rapid early ontogenetic growth and the cyclical suspensions of growth inherent in the theropod and ornithopod lineages enabled them to successfully exploit polar regions.
Recent publications By: Nader Ale Ebrahim
Creators: name: Ebrahim, Nader Ale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: Education
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: A list of over 30 journal publications in the fields of: Technology Management, Virtual R&D teams, Virtual Teams, Computer-Mediated Communication Stage-Gate, Global Virtual Teams, Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development, R&D Management, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs), Industrial Engineering, New Product Development, Collaborative systems, Electronic-Collaboration, Collaboration Technology, Concurrent Engineering, Research Tools, Bibliometrics, e-skills Plagiarism Turnitin Publication marketing Increase H-Index Research impact
Feasibility of an electronic survey on iPads with in-person data collectors for data collection with health care professionals and health care consumers in general emergency departments
Creators: name: Scott, Shannon D.
name: Albrecht, Lauren
name: Given, Lisa
name: Arseneau, Danielle
name: Klassen, Terry P
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320207
subject: Emergency medicine
classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction

description: Background: Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids was established to bridge the research-practice gap in pediatric emergency care by bringing the best evidence to Canadian general emergency departments (EDs). The first step in this process was to conduct a national needs assessment to determine the information needs and preferences of health professionals and parents in this clinical setting.

Objective: To describe the development and implementation of two electronic surveys, and determine the feasibility of collecting electronic survey data on iPads with in-person data collectors in a busy clinical environment.

Methods: Two descriptive surveys were conducted in 32 general EDs. Specific factors were addressed in four survey development and implementation stages: survey design, survey delivery, survey completion, and survey return. Feasibility of the data collection approach was determined by evaluating participation rates, completion rates, average survey time to completion, and usability of the platform. Usability was assessed with the in-person data collectors on five key variables: interactivity, portability, innovativeness, security, and proficiency.

Results: Health professional participation rates (1561/2575, 60.62%) and completion rates (1471/1561, 94.23%) were strong. Parental participation rates (974/1099, 88.63%) and completion rates (897/974, 92.09%) were excellent. Mean time to survey completion was 28.08 minutes for health professionals and 43.23 minutes for parents. Data collectors rated the platform “positively” to “very positively” on all five usability variables.

Conclusions: A number of design and implementation considerations were explored and integrated into this mixed-mode survey data collection approach. Feasibility was demonstrated by the robust survey participation and completion rates, reasonable survey completion times, and very positive usability evaluation results.
Internet policy and australia’s northern territory intervention
Creators: name: Rennie, Ellie
name: Goldenfein, Jake
name: Thomas, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 2007, Australia’s Commonwealth Government took a dramatic new approach to the governance of remote Indigenous communities. The ‘Northern Territory Intervention’ aimed to combat abuse and violence in remote Indigenous communities, and included far-reaching changes to welfare administration, employment programmes and policing. This paper considers a hitherto obscure aspect of the Intervention: the surveillance of publicly funded computers and internet use. Between 2007 and 2012, providers of internet and computer access facilities in the affected communities were required to audit and record computer use. In this paper we examine the legal and policy dimensions of this case of governmental surveillance, using interviews, published materials and documents obtained through freedom of information processes.
Events that matter: specific incidents, media coverage and agenda-setting in a Ghanaian context
Creators: name: Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Traditional agenda-setting research has convincingly demonstrated that the media's agenda influences the public's agenda in a somewhat linear fashion. Following from that, agenda-setting researchers are now investigating the attributes of culturally specific agendas. Their studies provide insight into what appears to be a complex process that may be affected by factors beyond those already documented. This paper similarly examines the intricate connections between media, specific events, and agenda-setting in Ghana. In this context it considers two specific events with significant sociocultural implications - events that were framed by the media to produce agenda-setting effects. The paper argues that the media's framing of those events provided their audience with certain ready-made patterns of cognition, thereby enhancing the possibility of agenda-setting.
Identification of a novel vitispirane precursor in Riesling wine
Creators: name: Waldmann, D.
name: Winterhalter, P.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Glycoconjugated forms of diastereoisomeric 1-(3-hydroxybutyl)-6,6-dimethyl-2-methylene-3-cyclohexen-1-ols have been identified as new natural vitispirane precursors in Riesling wine. Model degradation studies carried out with synthetic references of the precursors showed the easy formation of isomeric vitispiranes at pH conditions of wine. Based on these results a hypothetic pathway for vitispiranes in Riesling wine is proposed. Identifizierung eines neuen Vitispiranvorläufers in Rieslingwein Zwei Diastereomere von 1-(3-Hydroxybutyl)-6,6-dimethyl-2-methylen-3-cyclohexen-1-ol wurden erstmals als Aglykone in Glykosidextrakten von Rieslingwein identifiziert. Modellreaktionen bei pH 3,2 lieferten die isomeren Vitispirane als Hauptabbauprodukte. Aufgrund dieser Ergebnisse wird ein erweitertes Modell zur Vitispiranbildung in Rieslingwein vorgestellt.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 31 No. 3 (1992): Vitis
title: Disenfranchised by Accident: the Brexit Initiative and Brits abroad
Creators: name: Platon, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 340

description: On the 23rd of July 2018, the European Commission registered a European Citizens’ Initiative called “Permanent European Union Citizenship”, with the objective, in the context of Brexit, to ask the Commission to “propose means to avoid risk of collective loss of EU citizenship and rights, and assure all EU citizens that, once attained, such status is permanent and their rights acquired”. The aim of this initiative is, for British citizens, to retain European Union citizenship post Brexit. However, paradoxically enough, a considerable number of British expats, who are the main concerned, are legally unable to support this initiative (or any other as it turns out) because of a legal conundrum.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Vier kurze Gedanken zum Europaschulen-Beschluss des BVerfG
Creators: name: Mayer, Franz
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog vom Blatt: FRANZ MAYER schreibt auf, was ihm beim Durchlesen des heutigen Europaschulen-Beschlusses des Bundesverfassungsgerichts ein- und auffällt.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Evolution et localisation des principaux cations au cours du développement du raisin
Creators: name: Donèche, B.
name: Chardonnet, C.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: L'évolution des principaux cations de la baie de Cabernet Sauvignon a été étudiee de la floraison à la maturation. Les teneurs en calcium, potassium et magnesium ont été déterminées dans la pulpe et la pellicule et au niveau des parois et du contenu intracellulaire des cellules de ces deux tissus. Au cours du développement du raisin, les quantités de cations par baie augmentent; à maturite, les baies présentent 15 fois plus de potassium et deux fois plus de calcium et de magnesium par rapport aux baies vertes. En conséquence, le rapport K/Ca augmente et les proportions respectives de magnésium et de calcium restent relativement constantes. Au cours de la maturation, les cellules de la pellicule s'enrichissent en potassium et en calcium tandis que les cellules de la pulpe accumulent essentiellement du potassium. La repartition du magnésium dans les différentes parties de la baie varie peu. A maturité, les parois cellulaires de la pellicule sont riches en calcium; les cellules de la pulpe sont caracterisées par des quantités importantes de potassium intracellulaire et de faibles teneurs en calcium parietal. Evolution and localisation of the main cations during grape berry development The evolution of the main cations was studied in developing grape berries (Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Sauvignon) from anthesis to ripeness. The calcium, potassium and magnesium contents of the skin and the fruit flesh and their distribution within cell wall and cell compartment were determined. The concentrations of these cations on per berry basis increased during the entire period of berry development. The ripe berry showed a potassium level 15 times more than green berries but calcium and magnesium increased only twofold. It resulted in an increase of the K/Ca ratio since Mg/Ca ratio remained constant during berry ontogeny. In contrast to the flesh cells which overall accumulated potassium, skin cells grew richer in potassium and calcium during ripening. There was little change in the magnesium distribution within the different parts of the berry. At maturity, a high calcium content characterised the skin cell wall; the flesh cells contained large quantities of potassium and little wall-calcium.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 31 No. 4 (1992): Vitis
Effect of Students' Physical Exercise on Cognitive Memory
Creators: name: Pruitt, Courtenay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applied Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: Health Care

description: Students’ physical exercise was examined in this study to determine the effects of the exercise on cognitive memory. Cognitive memory was determined by the students’ grade point averages (GPA). Participants took a survey online answering demographic questions, how much weekly physical exercise they partake in, and what their grade point average currently is. The study found that male students’ grade point average was negatively correlated with the amount of physical exercise they partake in on a weekly basis, and female students’ grade point average had no correlation with the amount of physical exercise they partake in on a weekly basis. In other words, the more physical exercise a male student engages in, the more tendency they have that their grade point average is lower than those who do very little or do not engage in physical exercise.
MOSDEN: A scalable mobile collaborative platform for opportunistic sensing applications
Creators: name: Jayaraman, Prem Prakash
name: Perera, Charith
name: Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios
name: Zaslavsky, Arkady
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mobile smartphones along with embedded sensors have become an efficient enabler for various mobile applications including opportunistic sensing. The hi-tech advances in smartphones are opening up a world of possibilities. This paper proposes a mobile collaborative platform called MOSDEN that enables and supports opportunistic sensing at run time. MOSDEN captures and shares sensor data acrossmultiple apps, smartphones and users. MOSDEN supports the emerging trend of separating sensors from application-specific processing, storing and sharing. MOSDEN promotes reuse and re-purposing of sensor data hence reducing the efforts in developing novel opportunistic sensing applications. MOSDEN has been implemented on Android-based smartphones and tablets. Experimental evaluations validate the scalability and energy efficiency of MOSDEN and its suitability towards real world applications. The results of evaluation and lessons learned are presented and discussed in this paper.
Inheritance of chloroplast DNA in two full-sib Vitis populations
Creators: name: Strefeler, M. S.
name: Weeden, N. F.
name: Reisch, B. I.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The mode of transmission of chloroplasts in 2 grape populations was determined using restriction fragment length polymorphisms of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) to trace the origin of plastids in the progeny. The populations examined were formed by crossing 2 complex interspecific hybrids: NY 62.136.2 x Yates and Cayuga White x Aurore. Analysis of the restriction banding patterns of total DNA of the 4 parents probed with cpDNA of grape and petunia revealed a high level of polymorphism (63 %) between parents ot the first cross and a low level of polymorphism (15 %) between the parents of the second cross. The restriction banding patterns of the 4 parents were unique, indicating that there were 4 distinct chloroplast genotypes. Analysis of the restriction banding patterns of total DNA of the progeny probed with cpDNA showed that all progeny from both crosses exhibited the banding pattern of the maternal parent. Thus, the mode of plastid transmission in these populations of grape was strictly maternal.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 31 No. 4 (1992): Vitis