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'They are Exactly as Bank Notes are': Perceptions and Technologies of Bank Note Forgery During the Bank Restriction Period, 1797 - 1821
Creators: name: Mockford, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Forgery
Money
Schema
Credit
Paper
Print
Banknotes
Bank
Napoleonic
Old Bailey

description: Previous studies of Bank Note forgery in England during the Bank Restriction Period have adopted a highly institutional focus. Thus, much is known about the role played by both the Bank of England and the workings of the criminal justice system in combating both forgers and forged note utterers. The question of how the new system of small denomination Bank Notes impacted upon the day to day lives and understandings of the people that used them has received far less attention. The actual means by which Bank Notes were themselves forged has also been overlooked. This has led to a somewhat two-dimensional view of these notes as material objects. This thesis will engage with common mentalities and perceptions, seeking to write a 'new history from below' of both Bank Notes and their forgery in this period. Its primary aims will be to explore the question of why the English people were so easily imposed upon by forged Bank Notes; the various means by which forged notes could be constructed; and what an analysis of both of these points can tell us about economic and social understandings of non-elite people at this time. It will be argued that by studying instances in which small denomination Bank Notes were routinely exchanged, we can highlight a significant dichotomy of understanding in a society that was starting to engage with a new culture of promise based fiduciary paper money, yet was still deeply rooted in early-modern notions of paper instruments as objects of personal credit and debt. The thesis will show that heavy exposure to Bank Notes at this time clearly equipped some contemporaries with their own personalised sets of aesthetic and material "standards", against which the "goodness" of any monetary instrument with which they were presented would be compared. Others continued to examine the material aspect of Bank Notes via a direct comparison or consultation with others. Neither approach was always successful and indeed whatever method was adopted, the common occurrence of the materials and technologies required to construct a credible imitation of a Bank Note meant that it was not just illiterate persons that were susceptible to being deceived. Even a reading of the Bank Note's literate text failed to provide sufficient defence against the activities of the forger.
Anonymous Needlework: Uncovering British Patchwork, 1680 - 1820
Creators: name: Long, Bridget
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2014
Subjects: Textiles
Beds
Quilts
Girls’ education
Domestic life
Old Bailey
Metaphor

description: During the eighteen century there was a significant growth in patchwork materially and linguistically. It was the century when patchwork was stitched at all levels of society and has been identified as the time when patchwork moved out from the small domestic world of decorative sewing into the wider public sphere, leaving behind other needlework as it became embedded in the language and writing of the period. This research examines the social and cultural contexts relating to the making of patchwork in the long eighteenth century and in doing so contributes to the story of women and their material lives in the period. Noted for its longevity, surviving as a widespread practice across the century, patchwork was a democratic needlework that was practiced by any woman capable of stitching a variety of fabric pieces together to make a larger whole. A widespread understanding of the term and familiarity with the practice enabled it to be employed successfully in the literal and figurative language of the period. Patchwork was heralded as a fashionable activity in the early eighteenth century, but was later used to represent the ideal of the moral and capable housewife, devoted to her sewing skills and thrifty in her practice. The figurative style of the period allowed the simultaneous use of the word in differing ways so that patchwork was used both positively and negatively in literature, drama, critical review, political debate and theoretical discourse.
The Justified Ontology of Time
Creators: name: Andrews, Samuel
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2018
Subjects: Metaphysics
Philosophy of time
Justificationism
Special Relativity
Putnam
Stein
Presentism
Eternalism
Point-presentism

description: What are we justified in asserting when constructing an ontology of time? I believe a version of Presentism to be the only justified theory. ‘Justified’ here refers exclusively to a basis of empirical and epistemological evidence. What can we assert about the metaphysics of time when we start from a justificationist epistemology? Putnam and Rietdijk argue that the relativity of simultaneity supports Eternalism. My investigation examines the strength of justification Eternalism attains from the special theory of relativity (STR) and will argue that Eternalism is not justified by STR. I will also suggest that an alternative metaphysical theory of time, Point Presentism, attains justification from STR.
Supplementary text from Collective foraging in spatially complex nutritional environments
Creators: name: Lihoreau, Mathieu
name: Charleston, Michael A.
name: Senior, Alistair M.
name: Clissold, Fiona J.
name: Raubenheimer, David
name: Simpson, Stephen J.
name: Buhl, Jerome
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1. Accuracy of the environment generator. 2. Expected values of average nutritional states (p/c) for random food intakes in environments with two asymmetrically imbalanced foods (Fig. 1C).
SEAD: An Integrated Infrastructure to Support Data Stewardship in Sustainability Science
Creators: name: Hedstrom, Margaret
name: Alter, George
name: Kumar, Praveen
name: Inna Kouper
name: McDonald, Robert H.
name: Jim Myers
name: Plale, Beth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 419999
subject: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460199
subject: Applied computing not elsewhere classified

description: This is a postion paper for the SEAD DataNet Prototype presented at the CASC Research Data Management Implementation Symposium held on March 13-14, 2013 in Arlington, VA.
Kannabis landarearen kimika
Creators: name: Aizpurua-Olaizola, Oier
name: Omar, Jone
name: Etxebarria, Nestor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry

description: Atal honetan, Kannabis landareari buruz arituko gara, landarea osatzen duten molekula bereziei buruz hain zuzen ere. Euren molekula-egitura eta ezagutzen diren ezaugarriak azalduz, usain eta eragin psikotropikoaren erantzule diren molekulakaztertuko dira. Bestalde, landarea kontsumitzeko modu anitz egon daitezke, eta haien deskribapena eta bakoitzaren berezitasunak emango dira. Amaitzeko, hasiera bateanazaldutako molekulen analisi-teknikak adieraziko dira.
Structural transformation of the porcine corneal stroma during air-drying versus equilibration from The structural response of the cornea to changes in stromal hydration
Creators: name: Hayes, Sally
name: White, Tomas
name: Boote, Craig
name: Kamma-Lorger, Christina S.
name: Bell, James
name: Sorenson, Thomas
name: Terrill, Nick
name: Shebanova, Olga
name: Meek, Keith M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Tabulated format of data presented in Figure 5 of the main manuscript
Kannabisa: ageriko altxor ezkutua
Creators: name: Aizpurua-Olaizola, Oier
name: Omar, Jone
name: Olivares, Maitane
name: Navarro, Patricia
name: Etxebarria, Nestor
name: Aresatz Usobiaga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry

description: Etorkizun hurbilean kannabisa sendagai bezala erabili ahal izateko bi urrats eman dira lan honetan. Alde batetik, landareak euren efektu fisiologikoekin lotzeko lagungarria izan daitekeen kannabinoideen hatz-marka ikertzeko metodo bat garatu da fragmentazio bikoitzeko masa-espektometriari akoplaturiko eraginkortasunhandiko likido kromatografia bidez (HPLC-MS/MS High Performance Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry). Bestalde, kannabis landareko konposatuen produkzioa optimizatzeko kimiotipo ezberdineko landareen hazkuntzan zeharreko kannabinoideen eta terpenoen garapena aztertu da. Bertan, konposatu garrantzitsuenenkontzentrazio maximoak noiz agertzen diren ikusteaz gain, landare-mota bakoitzaren ezaugarri diren terpenoak zeintzuk diren aurkitu da.
Motorboat noise impacts parental behaviour and offspring survival in a reef fish supplementary material
Creators: name: Nedelec, Sophie L.
name: Radford, Andrew N.
name: Pearl, Leanne
name: Nedelec, Brendan
name: McCormick, Mark I.
name: Meekan, Mark G.
name: Simpson, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary information on methods and lists of fish community results
The Variability of M Dwarfs
Creators: name: Goulding, Niall Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2013
Subjects: Low mass stars
Stellar variability
Stellar spots
M dwarfs
Galactic astronomy
Time series analysis

description: M dwarfs have been the subject of renewed interest as potential habitable planet hosts and have increasingly become the targets of planet detection surveys. Currently, however, the number of detections of transiting M dwarf planets remain low. The characterisation of M dwarf activity is an important consideration for such surveys, and provides constraints on the modelling of magnetically active low mass stars. Currently the spottedness of M dwarfs is not well understood owing to their intrinsic faintness and the lack of diagnostics for assessing starspot morphologies and distributions. The WFCAM Transit Survey (WTS) contains long term observations of M dwarfs in the near infra-red and presents an opportunity to study the long term variability of M dwarfs. The M dwarfs in the WTS are identified by use of colour-spectral type relations, and the periodically variable M dwarfs in the sample are detected using a Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis. A total of 72 periodically variable M dwarfs are found with periods ranging from 0.16 to 90.33 days. The relations between the spectral subtypes, amplitudes and periods are studied and comparisons to earlier works studying M dwarf rotation are made. A number of examples of significant spot evolution are found, which exhibit complex light curve morphologies that vary in form and amplitude over periods of months to years. This provides an indication as to the nature of the spottedness of these stars. Simulations are performed to probe the connection between spot coverage, temperature and light curve amplitude. Using the results from these simulations, the spot coverage fractions of the WTS M dwarfs are estimated and they are found to be heavily spotted. Dynamic models with spots evolving at various average rates are used to explore how spot evolution can drive increased dispersion in the light curves, and to what extent this affects the detectability of periodicity by the method used. It is found that spot evolution can invoke significant noise in an M dwarf light curve, and in combination with photon noise, can in some instances inhibit the detection of a period. In reflection of the results, the relation between the light curve dispersion and spot coverage of the WTS M dwarfs is considered and it is found that more heavily spotted M dwarfs have intrinsically noisier light curves. The morphologies of the light curves produced by the simulations, and the manner in which they evolve, are qualitatively similar to the real M dwarfs in the WTS sample and indicate how models extrapolated from sunspot distributions can explain behaviour seen in active M dwarf light curves.
ESM_1 from Yolk vitamin E prevents oxidative damage in gull hatchlings
Creators: name: Parolini, Marco
name: Khoriauli, Lela
name: Possenti, Cristina Daniela
name: Colombo, Graziano
name: Caprioli, Manuela
name: Santagostino, Marco
name: Nergadze, Solomon G.
name: Milzani, Aldo
name: Giulotto, Elena
name: Saino, Nicola
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Details of field procedures, experimental plan and laboratory analyses
The Role of Referrals in New Client Capture Within the Field of Independent Financial Advice
Creators: name: Grierson, Stuart William
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2015
Subjects: Referrals
advisors
clients
word-of-mouth (WOM)
recommendation

description: The field of regulated financial services has been ill-served by marketing theory. As a consequence: (1) the nature of marketing in this sector has been misunderstood; (2) the key mechanism for generating new business in the field, namely, referrals, has been the subject of serious misapprehension; and, (3) the guidance offered to practitioners has been negligible. In particular, the role of the independent financial advisor (IFA) appears to have been conceptualised as a sales role, and the nature of the relationship between the IFA and the client has been addressed as though it were a straightforward buyer-seller relationship, with the IFA selling products to the client. It is unlikely that these conceptualisations were ever satisfactory and following recent regulatory changes in the sector they have become even less relevant. Since January 1st 2013 commission-based selling of financial investment products to consumers has been prohibited so that independent financial advice has become largely a fee-based service. The focus of this research is on referrals as a method of generating new business; the research context is the UK independent financial advice industry. The objectives of the study are to: (1) define and conceptualise referrals in the context of the financial advice industry; (2) develop a framework of the referral process; (3) provide practitioners with empirical evidence in connection with their embedded beliefs about referrals in this industry; (4) explore whether (as many practitioner believe) it is possible to actively manage referral generation within a financial advice business; and, (5) to investigate the importance of referrals as a means of generating new business for advisors. It was found that practitioners believe they influence referrals in four main ways: excellent service, higher qualifications, contact frequency and speed of response. However the results of this study clearly indicate that referrals are not the outcome of agency; they are a random occurrence, determined by happenstance and the result of an opportunist conversation between a prospect and a client. In turn, contrary to the advice of consultancy providers, asking for referrals was found to be ineffective and not welcomed by consumers. While word-of-mouth (WOM) often instigates referral generation, the value of WOM, needs be treated with caution, since consumers were found to have limited understanding of the service provided by independent advisors. Despite the importance consumers attribute to investment performance practitioners do not, commonly, provide investment benchmarks nor do consumers use analytical tools to assess the performance of their advisor. The absence of performance measures connects with the finding that practitioners have difficulty in describing what they do hence consumers are uncertain how to describe the service and what to say about it when asked.
Improved Aerosol Deposition Profiles from Dry Powder Inhalers
Creators: name: Parisini, Irene
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2015
Subjects: de-agglomeration mechanisms
cyclone technology
dry powder inhalers
fine particle fraction
spacers

description: Lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are major health burdens on the global population. To treat diseases of the lung, topical therapies using dry powder inhalers (DPIs) have been employed. However, a relatively small amount of dose (5.5 – 28 %) reaches the lung during DPI therapy leading to high inter-patient variability in therapy response and oropharyngeal deposition. Strategies were assessed to take patient variability in inhalation performance into account when developing devices to reduce throat deposition and to mitigate flow rate dependency of the emitted aerosol. A cyclone-spacer was manufactured and evaluated with marketed and in-house manufactured formulations. An in vivo study showed that a high resistance inhaler would produce longer inhalation times in lung disease patients and that a spacer with high resistance may prove a suitable approach to address inter-patient variability. Two spacer prototypes were evaluated with cohesively- and adhesively-balanced particle blends. The data suggested that the throat deposition dramatically decreased for the emitted particles when the spacers were used with the inhalers (e.g. 18.44 ± 2.79% for salbutamol sulphate, SS 4 kPa) due to high retention of the formulation within the spacer (87.61 ± 2.96%). Moreover, variation in fine particle fraction and dose was mitigated when increasing the flow rate (82.75 ± 7.34 %, 92.2 ± 7.7 % % and 77.0 ± 10.1 % at 30, 45 and 60 Lmin-1, respectively). The latter was an improvement over previous proposed DPI spacers, where variability in emitted dose due to airflow rate was a major issue. Due to the different physicochemical properties of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used in the formulation, throat deposition and respirable fraction for adhesively-balanced particles (e.g. SS) were double that of the cohesively- balanced particles (salmeterol xinafoate, SX) (e.g. 65.83 ± 8.99 % vs. 45.83 ± 5.04 % for SS:Coarse Lactose (CL) and SX:CL, respectively). Scanning electron microscopy revealed that surface-bound agglomerates were more freely removed from the carrier, but subject to decreased impaction-type deagglomeration forces in the spacer than for carrier-bound drug. An ex vivo study using breath profiles from healthy volunteers identified the minimization of differences between adhesively- and cohesively-balanced blends when full breath profiles were studied compared to square-wave airflow. Therefore the use of constant flow for in vitro testing should not be the sole flow regime to study aerosolization when developing new inhalation devices and formulations.
Time required for equilibration to be achieved from The structural response of the cornea to changes in stromal hydration
Creators: name: Hayes, Sally
name: White, Tomas
name: Boote, Craig
name: Kamma-Lorger, Christina S.
name: Bell, James
name: Sorenson, Thomas
name: Terrill, Nick
name: Shebanova, Olga
name: Meek, Keith M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Details of a preliminary study performed to determine the minimum time required for equilibration to occur
Epidemiology and Control of Powdery Mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) on Strawberry
Creators: name: Jin, Xiaolei
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: Strawberry powdery mildew
Chasmothecia
Reduced disease susceptibility
Silicon nutrient

description: Strawberry powdery mildew, caused by Podosphaera aphanis, has the potential to cause over 20% yield loss, particularly where strawberries are grown under cover. A holistic approach to the control of strawberry powdery mildew (P. aphanis) is important, since the disease is never absent from the crop. The new disease assessment key was developed to assess strawberry powdery mildew (the old one is for assessing red blotches on leaves, See appendix 8). The results (Chapter 3) showed that the disease is present in the crop when new plants are bought in from a propagator, with 14% of strawberry crowns were infected by P. aphanis in July 2013 and 4% of the strawberry plants had symptoms of powdery mildew in pre-assessment of plants for the 2013 Si nutrient fertigation field experiment. Control measures used in one growing season reduced the disease carry-over, thus reducing the initial inoculum in the following season. The use of a late autumn fungicide spray and a fungicide spray before the plants were covered by fleece in spring reduced the number and maturity of overwintering chasmothecia, thus contributing to a reduction in initial inoculum. The use of silicon (Si) nutrient (foliar spray and root treatment) also suppressed strawberry powdery mildew development (Chapter 4). The results of Area Under Disease Progress Curve (AUDPC) and the rate of epidemic growth curve (r) in 2012 indicated that the high concentration of Si nutrient foliar spray inhibited (r = 0.002, AUDPC = 44) the epidemic build-up of P. aphanis better than the low concentration of Si nutrient (r = 0.012, AUDPC = 51) and untreated (r = 0.018, AUDPC = 70). The Si nutrient root treatment (AUDPC = 12.8) was better in inhibiting strawberry powdery mildew development than the Si nutrient foliar spray treatment. Moreover, the high concentration of Si nutrient foliar spray resulted in fewer chasmothecia compared to the untreated. Si nutrient foliar spray and root treatments increased the concentration of Si in the plants and produced physiological changes in the plants, including wax formation on the adaxial leaf surface, greater leaf thickness and cuticle layer and increased Brix0 value in plants, which all were associated with reduced disease incidence. The integrated use of all these control strategies suppresses disease development so that control is achieved with less use of conventional fungicides.
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКАЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ УЧИТЕЛЯ НАЧАЛЬНЫХ КЛАССОВ
Creators: name: Комилова, Наргиза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Эти мероприятия включают планирование уроков, проведение обучения, оценку учащихся, предоставление обратной связи, дифференциацию обучения, создание позитивной учебной среды и сотрудничество с коллегами и родителями. Участвуя в этой педагогической деятельности, учителя начальной школы играют решающую роль в формировании образовательного опыта и результатов своих учеников, закладывая основу для их будущего успеха и обучения на протяжении всей жизни.
Extended scenarios for solar radio emissions with downshifted electron beam plasma excitations
Creators: name: Lazar, M.
name: López, R. A.
name: Shaaban, S. M.
name: Poedts, S.
name: Fichtner, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principle studies of radiative processes aimed at explaining the origin of type II and type III solar radio bursts raise questions on the implications of downshifted electron beam plasma excitations with frequency (slightly) below the plasma frequency ($ω\lesssimω_{pe}$) in the generation of radio emissions. Unlike the beam-induced Langmuir waves ($ω\gtrsim ω_{pe}$) in the standard radio emission plasma model, the primary wave excitations of cooler and/or denser beams have predominantly downshifted frequencies. Broadbands of such downshifted excitations are also confirmed by in situ observations in association with terrestrial foreshock and electron beams (in contrast to narrowband Langmuir waves), but their involvement in radiative processes has not been examined so far. We revisit three radiative scenarios specific to downshifted primary excitations, and the results demonstrate their direct or indirect involvement in plasma radio emission. Downshifted excitations of an electron beam primarily play an indirect role, contributing to the relaxation to a plateau-on-tail still able to induce Langmuir beam waves that satisfy conditions for nonlinear wave-wave interactions leading to free radio waves. At longer time scales, the primary excitations can become predominantly downshifted, and then directly couple with the secondary (backscattered) Langmuir waves to generate the second harmonic of radio emissions. Two counterbeams are more efficient and lead to faster radiative mechanisms, involving counterpropagating downshifted excitations, which couple to each other and generate intense, broadband and isotropic radio spectra of downshifted second harmonics. Such a long-lasting (second) radio harmonic can thus be invoked to distinguish regimes with downshifted ($ω\gtrsim ω_{pe}$) primary excitations.
description: Submitted for publications at JGR: Space Physics
Novel spiroisatin-pyranopyrazole hybrids as anticancer agents with TrkC inhibitory potential
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Somayeh
name: Mortazavi, Motahareh
name: Poustforoosh, Alireza
name: Moosavi, Fatemeh
name: Saso, Luciano
name: Edraki, Najmeh
name: Firuzi, Omidreza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Cancer still represents a global health concern due to its high mortality and morbidity rates. Isatin-and pyrazole-based compounds have recently garnered interest as novel anticancer agents. A series of 15 novel spiroisatin pyranopyrazole derivatives were synthesized. Anticancer potential of synthesized agents against EBC-1, HT-29, A549, and AsPC-1 cell lines, representing cancers of the lung, colon, and pancreas, were evaluated using the MTT assay. The possible molecular mechanism contributing to antiproliferative activities of the most potent compounds was further investigated in silico by using SuperPred web server, a ligand-based tool. Docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies were carried out to investigate the binding affinity and key interactions of the agents with their predicted target. Among the tested compounds, four cyanide-containing derivatives 6c, 6d, 6f, and 6g with bromobenzyl, chlorobenzyl, p-tButyl benzyl and methylbenzyl moieties on the isatin ring, respectively, displayed the highest antiproliferative effects against all four cell lines. These compounds were particularly effective against EBC-1, and HT-29 cells with IC50 values of 3.3–7.1 and 7.3–10.2 μΜ, respectively, while relatively sparing non-cancer cells. The obtained target prediction results suggested that the growth inhibitory activity of the analyzed analogues could be related to tropomyosin receptor kinase C (TrkC) inhibition. The outcomes of molecular docking and MD simulation demonstrated that the most active agents may interact closely with the active site of the suggested target, further confirming target prediction findings. The findings of this study suggest the potential of spiroisatin pyranopyrazole analogues for further exploration as novel targeted anticancer agents.
Pre-Data Report
Creators: name: Dorrough, Angela Rachael
name: Neumayer, Jonas
name: Binder, Uli
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2018

description: This project is a replication of the “contagion account´s processing insensitivity hypothesis”, which was originally tested in the 5th study of the article “Are additives unnatural? Generality and mechanisms of additivity dominance” from Scott, S. & Rozin, P. (2017)
The Creation of Transformative Learning Cultures in Higher Education
Creators: name: Messenger, Hazel Susan
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2013
Subjects: higher education
activity theory
student development
transformative learning culture
visualisation
pedagogical pattern
identity workspace

description: This research claims that transformative as opposed to informative learning cultures in higher education are capable of promoting student identity development alongside subject development. It makes a significant pedagogical, conceptual, methodological and contextual contribution to contemporary discussions regarding the nature and purpose of higher education in the 21st century. Transformative learning cultures, based on the pedagogical values of the teachers involved, create an identity workspace where student development is encouraged. This workspace reflects the active demonstration of empathy on the part of the teachers and is represented by an integrated pedagogical pattern consisting of four elements; the development of trust, (ii) the creation of collaborative and supportive communities where students have the opportunities to play different roles, (iii) active confrontation and challenge and (iv) the effective use of pedagogical time and space. A naturalistic, ethnographic methodology and case study approach was used to answer the question ‘what is going on here?’ with teachers of Foundation Degrees in two colleges across several subject disciplines in order to explore the nature and purpose of the learning cultures created. A conceptual framework was developed through the active integration of empirical research and scholarship resulting in a socio- cultural approach to understanding the learning contexts. This was supported by the collection of rich and varied data including photographs, observations and interviews with both teachers and students. Visualisation also supported the interpretation and representation of data in an accessible format. An activity theory approach was adopted to support an integrated analysis of the data, enabling the isolation and identification of the influence of teacher intentions, student dispositions, roles and relationships and how development was influenced by time, space and context.
title: Development and characterization of antioxidant-rich haskap-based (Lonicera caerulea L.) functional beverages
Creators: name: Reid, Beverley
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.) exhibits tremendous potential as a functional dietary constituent, owing to its robust phytochemical composition. The current investigation was carried out to develop a novel technique using sous vide for optimal extraction of phytochemicals from haskap, and subsequent incorporation of these antioxidant-rich extracts into four functional beverages. The beverages were formulated using different combinations of haskap, sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa), and ginger (Zingiber officinale) root extracts. A sensory analysis was conducted on the beverages, which were then characterized for their bioactive compounds, and their total antioxidant activities were measured using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and 2,2′-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) assays. The sous vide approach showed optimal yield at 40 °C for 60 min using ethanol: water (1:1) solvent. This technique yielded significantly (p < 0.05) more anthocyanin and showed higher antioxidant activity than the conventional extraction. Furthermore, haskap with sorrel and ginger showed the highest antioxidant activity of the four beverages, with 369.41 ± 1.70 μmol TE 100 mL⁻¹, and 298.96 ± 1.21 μmol TE 100 mL⁻¹ for ABTS and FRAP respectively. Haskap with sorrel and haskap with sorrel and ginger beverages had the highest consumer preference, with bioactive components comparable to marketed functional beverages. These products demonstrate great potential as commercially viable functional beverages. Additionally, the utilization of the sous vide technology is an excellent method for extracting bioactive compounds from berries.
Factors Affecting the Performance of Trainable Models for Software Defect Prediction
Creators: name: Bowes, David Hutchinson
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2013
Subjects: defect prediction
machine learning
metrics
defects
data quality
software engineering
binary classification
predictive performance
systematic literature review
confusion matrix

description: Context. Reports suggest that defects in code cost the US in excess of $50billion per year to put right. Defect Prediction is an important part of Software Engineering. It allows developers to prioritise the code that needs to be inspected when trying to reduce the number of defects in code. A small change in the number of defects found will have a significant impact on the cost of producing software. Aims. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the factors which a ect the performance of defect prediction models. Identifying the causes of variation in the way that variables are computed should help to improve the precision of defect prediction models and hence improve the cost e ectiveness of defect prediction. Methods. This dissertation is by published work. The first three papers examine variation in the independent variables (code metrics) and the dependent variable (number/location of defects). The fourth and fifth papers investigate the e ect that di erent learners and datasets have on the predictive performance of defect prediction models. The final paper investigates the reported use of di erent machine learning approaches in studies published between 2000 and 2010. Results. The first and second papers show that independent variables are sensitive to the measurement protocol used, this suggests that the way data is collected a ects the performance of defect prediction. The third paper shows that dependent variable data may be untrustworthy as there is no reliable method for labelling a unit of code as defective or not. The fourth and fifth papers show that the dataset and learner used when producing defect prediction models have an e ect on the performance of the models. The final paper shows that the approaches used by researchers to build defect prediction models is variable, with good practices being ignored in many papers. Conclusions. The measurement protocols for independent and dependent variables used for defect prediction need to be clearly described so that results can be compared like with like. It is possible that the predictive results of one research group have a higher performance value than another research group because of the way that they calculated the metrics rather than the method of building the model used to predict the defect prone modules. The machine learning approaches used by researchers need to be clearly reported in order to be able to improve the quality of defect prediction studies and allow a larger corpus of reliable results to be gathered.
Species study of the relationship between PEG concentration and equilibrated stromal hydration from The structural response of the cornea to changes in stromal hydration
Creators: name: Hayes, Sally
name: White, Tomas
name: Boote, Craig
name: Kamma-Lorger, Christina S.
name: Bell, James
name: Sorenson, Thomas
name: Terrill, Nick
name: Shebanova, Olga
name: Meek, Keith M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Tabulated format of data presented in Figure 3 of the main manuscript
Appendix for "Are Happy Developers more Productive? The Correlation of Affective States of Software Developers and their self-assessed Productivity"
Creators: name: Graziotin, Daniel
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
name: Abrahamsson, Pekka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This file contains the guidelines, which were employed to administer the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) [1] and the productivity questionnaire to the participants of the experiment reported in [2]. The guidelines have been written by following the technical manual by Lang et al. [3].
This document will be updated while preparing the camera-ready version of the paper. The camera-ready version of the paper will be made available on Figshare as well (the publisher permits that)
 
[1] Bradley, L.: Measuring emotion: the self-assessment semantic differential. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 25, 1, 49–59 (1994).
[2] Graziotin, D., Wang, X., & Abrahamsson, P.. Are Happy Developers more Productive? The Correlation of Affective States of Software Developers and their self-assessed Productivity. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2013). LNCS vol. 7983, pp. 50-64.
[3] Lang, P.J. et al.: International affective picture system (IAPS): Technical manual and affective ratings. Gainesville FL NIMH Center for the study of emotion and attention University of Florida. Technical Report A–6 (1999).
The Rotation of the Halo of NGC 6822 Determined From the Radial Velocities of Carbon Stars
Creators: name: Thompson, Graham Peter
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: astrophysics
local group
galaxy
NGC6822
carbon stars
spectra
calcium triplet
cross correlation
radial velocity
galaxy rotation

description: The kinematics of stars in galaxies is becoming a key means to understand the dynamics of galaxies, their formation and merger history. For many years, kinematics has been measured using integrated field techniques in the optical, infra-red and radio wavebands, but modern CCD multi-channel cameras are now making it possible to measure the spectra of individual stars in galaxies and thus enabling more detailed analysis of galaxy kinematics. Using spectra taken with the AAOmega spectrograph, I measure the radial velocities of over 100 stars, many of which are intermediate age carbon stars, in the direction of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. Kinematic analysis suggests that the carbon stars in the sample are associated with NGC 6822, and estimates of its radial velocity and galactic rotation are made from a star-by-star analysis of its carbon star population. I calculate a heliocentric radial velocity for NGC 6822 of -51 _ 3 km s¯1 and show that the population rotates with a mean rotation speed of 11:3 _ 2:1 km s¯1 at a mean distance of 1.1 kpc from the galactic centre, about a rotation axis with a position angle of 25_ _ 14_, as projected on the sky. This is close to the rotation axis of the HI gas disk and suggests that NGC 6822 is not a polar ring galaxy, but is dynamically closer to a late type galaxy. However, the rotation axis is not aligned with the minor axis of the AGB isodensity profiles and this remains a mystery. Finally, further work is suggested which would examine stars in the galaxy outside the central sample for which I had data, to confirm my findings and to attempt to understand the misalignment of the rotation axis and isophotes. In addition, I suggest further work to constrain the dynamical mass of the galaxy, which up to now is not well determined.
Human immune globulin treatment controls Zika viremia in pregnant rhesus macaques
Creators: name: Dudley, Dawn
name: Koenig, Michelle R.
name: Stewart, Laurel M.
name: Semler, Matthew R.
name: Newman, Christina M.
name: Shepherd, Phoenix M.
name: Yamamoto, Keisuke
name: Breitbach, Meghan E.
name: Schotzko, Michele
name: Kohn, Sarah
name: Antony, Kathleen M.
name: Qiu, Hongyu
name: Tunga, Priyadarshini
name: Anderson, Deborah M.
name: Guo, Wendi
name: Dennis, Maria
name: Singh, Tulika
name: Rybarczyk, Sierra
name: Weiler, Andrea M.
name: Razo, Elaina
name: Mitzey, Ann
name: Zeng, Xiankun
name: Eickhoff, Jens C.
name: Mohr, Emma L.
name: Simmons, Heather A.
name: Fritsch, Michael K.
name: Mejia, Andres
name: Aliota, Matthew T.
name: Friedrich, Thomas C.
name: Golos, Thaddeus G.
name: Kodihalli, Shantha
name: Permar, Sallie R.
name: O'Connor, David H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This dataset includes the raw data used to generate the figures in the manuscript published in PLOS ONE entitled: Human immune globulin treatment controls Zika viremia in pregnant rhesus macaques. The title of each file corresponds to the figure number in the manuscript. The figure legends from the manuscript are provided for context.
PARENTING RELATIONSHIP DURING ADOLESCENCE: A STUDY OF JAMMU (URBAN)
Creators: name: Sharma, Anupa
name: Sharma, Neeru
name: Sharma, Neha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: classificationCode: 520202
subject: Behavioural neuroscience

description: The present study was undertaken to study the role of parents during adolescence. The sample size for
the present study consists of 60 parents of the adolescent boys (n=30) and girls (n=30) and Parenting Relationship
Questionnaire (PRQ) was used to gather the data. The major findings of the present study shows an average level
of attachment of parents with their adolescents, an average level of- communication, disciplinary practices, parent's
involvement with their child, parenting confidence, their satisfaction with school and relational frustration.
Significant differences among fathers and mothers of boys and girls were observed in 'disciplinary practices' in the
present research.
Additional file 1: of Insights into the historical assembly of global dryland floras: the diversification of Zygophyllaceae
Creators: name: Wu, Sheng-Dan
name: Zhang, Lin-Jing
name: Lin, Li
name: Yu, Sheng-Xiang
name: Chen, Zhi-Duan
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Table S1. Species, voucher information and GenBank accession numbers for the dataset of four markers. Table S2. The parameters of the best-fit model for each DNA region. Table S3. The crown group ages and ancestral habitat types of eleven representative plant groups in different drylands. (PDF 143 kb)
Targeting the endocannabinoid system: future therapeutic strategies
Creators: name: Aizpurua-Olaizola, Oier
name: Elezgarai, Izaskun
name: Rico-Barrio, Irantzu
name: Iratxe Zarandona
name: Etxebarria, Nestor
name: Aresatz Usobiaga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biochemistry

description: The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is involved in many physiological regulation pathways in the human body, which makes this system the target of many drugs and therapies. In this review, we highlight the latest studies regarding the role of the ECS and the drugs that target it, with a particularfocus on the basis for the discovery of new cannabinoid-based drugs. In addition, we propose some key steps, such as the creation of a cannabinoid–receptor interaction matrix (CRIM) and the use of metabolomics, toward the development of improved and more specific drugs for each relevant disease.
Rule-based Visual Mappings - with a Case Study on Poetry Visualizatio
Creators: name: Abdul-Rahman, Alfie
name: Lein, Julie
name: Coles, Katharine
name: Maguire, Eamonn
name: Meyer, Miriah
name: Wynne, Martin
name: R. Johnson, Christopher
name: Trefethen, Anne
name: Chen, Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: classificationCode: 470599
subject: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460199
subject: Applied computing not elsewhere classified

description: In this paper, we present a user-centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule-based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner’s nested design model to maintain high-level interactions with the end users in a closed loop. In addition, we examine three design options for alleviating the difficulty in visualizing poems latitudinally. We present several
example uses of poetry visualization in scholarly research on poetry.
Presented at EuroVis 2013 in Leipzig, Germany.
Structural transformation of the human and porcine corneal stroma with changing hydration from The structural response of the cornea to changes in stromal hydration
Creators: name: Hayes, Sally
name: White, Tomas
name: Boote, Craig
name: Kamma-Lorger, Christina S.
name: Bell, James
name: Sorenson, Thomas
name: Terrill, Nick
name: Shebanova, Olga
name: Meek, Keith M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Tabulated format of data presented in Figure 4 of the main manuscript
Online Resource 1 and 2 from Indirect effects of ocean acidification drive feeding and growth of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci
Creators: name: Kamya, Pamela Z.
name: Byrne, Maria
name: Mos, Benjamin
name: Hall, Lauren
name: Dworjanyn, Symon A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Online Resource 1: Mean seawater treatment conditions during experiments. Online Resource 2: Statistical analyses.
Simultaneous quantification of major cannabinoids and metabolites in human urine and plasma by HPLC-MS/MS and enzymealkaline hydrolysis
Creators: name: Aizpurua-Olaizola, Oier
name: Iratxe Zarandona
name: Ortiz, Laura
name: Navarro, Patricia
name: Etxebarria, Nestor
name: Aresatz Usobiaga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A high performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method for simultaneous quantification of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), its two metabolites 11-hydroxy-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (11-OH-THC) and 11-nor-9-carboxy-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC-COOH), and four additional cannabinoids (cannabidiol (CBD), cannabigerol(CBG), tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), and cannabinol (CBN)) in 1mL of human urine and plasma was developed and validated. The hydrolysis process was studied to ensure complete hydrolysis of glucuronide conjugates and the extraction of a total amount of analytes. Initially, urine and plasma blank samples were spiked with THC-COOH-glucuronide and THC-glucuronide, and four different pretreatment methods were compared: hydrolysis-free method, enzymatic hydrolysis with Escherichia Coliβ-glucuronidase, alkaline hydrolysiswith 10MNaOH, and enzyme-alkaline tandemhydrolysis. The last approach assured themaximum efficiencies (close to 100%) for both urine and plasmamatrices. Regarding the figures of merit, the limits of detection were below 1 ng/mL for all analytes, the accuracy ranged from 84% to 115%, and both within-day and between-day precision were lower than 12%. Finally, the method was successfully applied to real urine and plasma samples from cannabis users.