cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identification of α-glucosidase inhibitors from the leaves of Pluchea indica (L.) Less., a traditional Indonesian herb: promotion of natural product use
Creators: name: Arsiningtyas, Ines Septi
name: Gunawan-Puteri, Maria D.P.T.
name: Kato, Eisuke
name: Kawabata, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A promising approach for treating diabetes mellitus (DM) is to decrease postprandial hyperglycaemia by suppressing carbohydrate digestion using α-glucosidase inhibitors. Pluchea indica leaf extracts possess inhibitory activity against intestinal maltase. Enzyme assay-guided fractionation by chromatography yielded five active caffeoylquinic acid derivatives (1–5). Their structures were elucidated by mass spectrometry and NMR analysis and completed by comparison with reference data. 3,5-Di-O-caffeoylquinic acid (1), 4,5-di-O-caffeoylquinic acid methyl ester (2), 3,4,5-tri-O-caffeoylquinic acid methyl ester (3), 3,4,5-tri-O-caffeoylquinic acid (4) and 1,3,4,5-tetra-O-caffeoylquinic acid (5) were isolated. Comparison of the activities of each isolate suggested that both methyl esterification of quinic acid and the number of caffeate groups in the molecule were important for the inhibitory activity. This study provides basic information for further examination of the suitability of P. indica as a functional food and medicinal supplement for the treatment and prevention of diabetes.
title: The Use of Narratives and Social Media in Arts & Culture Nonprofit Crisis Communication During COVID-19
Creators: name: Buuck, Jordan
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted established communication practices for organizations across the globe. While much attention focused on the adaptability of large corporations, less attention has been paid to how nonprofit organizations have responded. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic was creating ripple effects in social service needs, nonprofit organizations that did not directly address public health still fulfilled urgent missions and needed to communicate their legitimacy to assist with community resilience efforts. This study discovered the roles narratives and social media played in nonprofit organizational crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic through interviews with 12 participants. Using situational crisis communication and narrative theories, the study found that nonprofits engaged with different and diverse crisis communication strategies that extended far beyond those theorized. Nonprofit organizations successfully used narratives on social media during crisis communication to support and advance their missions in online spaces and encourage emotional identification with the organization. Most significantly, NPOs seemed concerned with appearing competent and in control throughout the crisis, and the use of narratives in crisis communication allowed nonprofits to preserve and promote organizational reputation.
Synthesis, characterization, and transfer hydrogenation of Ru(II)-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes
Creators: name: S. Yaşar
name: S. Çekirdek
name: İ. Özdemir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A new series of ruthenium(II) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes [RuL1,2,3(p-cymene)Cl2] (3a–c) (where L is a N-heterocyclic carbene), have been synthesized via transmetalation. The new ruthenium(II)-NHC complexes were applied to transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone derivatives and aldehydes using 2-propanol as a hydrogen source and KOH as a co-catalyst. The results show that the corresponding alcohols could be obtained in good yield with high catalyst activity (up to 100%) under mild conditions. [RuL1(p-cymene)Cl2] (3a) is much more active than the other complexes in transfer hydrogenation. Reactions, catalyzed by 3a–c, showed the highest reaction rates and yields of alcohol when the substrates bear more electron-withdrawing substituents. All new compounds were characterized by IR, elemental analysis, LC–MS (ESI), and NMR spectroscopy.
title: Analysis of cytokine expression in prostate cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy
title: correlation with clinicopathological outcomes
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Singh, Jagtar
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2018

description: The capacity to diagnose and stage prostate cancer (PC) is restricted and generally based on pre-treatment assessments such as the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), TNM stages, and the pathologic Gleason score. However, existing pre-treatment tools cannot be used to predict acute RT-induced toxicity. Therefore, new protein biomarkers are required in RT oncology to improve decision-making, treatment and therapy monitoring for PC patients. This prospective study aimed to assess the magnitude and frequency (increase/decrease) of changes in cytokine expression in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for PC and to link these changes to clinicopathological characteristics and acute RT-induced toxicity. Principal findings include the following: Firstly, IHC expression levels of TNF-α, TGF-β1 and IL-6 were significantly reduced with increased GSs and a significant correlation was only found between TNF-α expression levels and GSs. Secondly, a statistically significant correlation was found between the amount of pre-RT plasma levels and the staining intensity of the corresponding prostatic needle-biopsy specimens. Thirdly, profibrotic cytokine TGF-β1 levels were elevated at the end of RT over baseline. In addition, IL-6 increased after 3 months completion of RT when compared with baseline and end of RT blood plasma samples. Fourthly, elevated levels of TNF-α and IL-6 were associated with the higher probability of acute genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity. Finally, the levels of profibrotic TGF-β1 decreased as the severity of genitourinary and gastrointestinal increased. This dissertation provides the evidence of the overexpression of cytokines in prostatic needle-biopsy specimens and influence of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and radiotherapy (RT) on the changes in cytokine levels in blood plasma before and after curative treatments. In addition, our study also provides the evidence of the association of cytokines levels in blood and acute RT-induced toxicity.
New quinoline alkaloid from Ruta graveolens aerial parts and evaluation of the antifertility activity
Creators: name: Josline Y. Salib
name: El-Toumy, Sayed A.
name: Hassan, Emad M.
name: Shafik, Nabila H.
name: Abdel-Latif, Sally M.
name: Brouard, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bioassay-guided isolation of methanol extract of Ruta graveolens L. leaves yielded a new quinoline alkaloid, (4S) 1,4-dihydro-4-methoxy-1,4-dimethyl-3-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)quinoline 2,7-diol, and nine phenolic compounds including rutin as a major compound. Structures of the isolated compounds were determined by using chromatography, UV, HR-ESI-MS and 1D/2D 1H/13C NMR spectroscopy. The uterotonic activity of methanol extract fractions (ethyl acetate, n-butanol and aqueous fraction) as well as the isolated major compounds was tested in the isolated mouse uterus in vitro. The n-butanol-soluble fraction was found to demonstrate the most potent uterotonic activity in a dose-dependent manner, also the major isolated compound rutin revealed the occurrence of an uterotonic response, which was maximum at a concentration level of 0.25 mg/mL, accounting for 68.7% of that exhibited by the chosen concentration of oxytocin.
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF KAJAL USING HAIRS OF COCONUT SHELL
Creators: name: Ms. Chitralekha G. Therkar,  Mr. Ganesh Awari,  Ms. Divya Chaple,   Ms. Priyanka R. Boratwar,  Ms. Jija K. Lode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Kajal is an inseparable part of women’s beauty because of its cosmetic and medicated effect on human eyes. In India, kajal is mainly used as a cosmetic for eye makeup and some spiritual causes like to get protection from evil eyes. Herbal kajal is used to treat eye inflammation and eliminate redness in the eyes. In this attempt, we try to prepare kajal using hairs of coconut shell, cow ghee, and rose oil which is the best alternative for the kajal which is chemically prepared. The kajal has been evaluated based on selected criteria and shown promising results.

Keywords: Kajal, Coconut Shell, Eye Makeup, Eye Inflammation
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF KAJAL USING HAIRS OF COCONUT SHELL
Creators: name: Ms. Chitralekha G. Therkar, Ms. Divya Chaple, Mr. Ganesh Awari,  Ms. Esha R. Gurnule, Ms. Snehal Soor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Kajal is an inseparable part of women’s beauty because of its cosmetic and medicated effect on human eyes. In India, kajal is mainly used as a cosmetic for eye makeup and some spiritual causes like to get protection from evil eyes. Herbal kajal is used to treat eye inflammation and eliminate redness in the eyes. In this attempt, we try to prepare kajal using hairs of coconut shell, cow ghee, and rose oil which is the best alternative for the kajal which is chemically prepared. The kajal has been evaluated based on selected criteria and shown promising results.

Keywords: Kajal, Coconut Shell, Eye Makeup, Eye Inflammation
Instabilities in ternary diffusion
Creators: name: Miller, L.
name: Spurling, Thomas
name: Mason, E. A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Two series of experiments on gaseous diffusion instabilities are reported. In one series the convection cells are made visible with ammonium chloride smoke; the observed behavior appears quite complex. In the other series the stability limits in osmotic diffusion are investigated as a function of pressure and composition for H2-CH4-CO2. Reasonable agreement is obtained with a stability theory based on Rayleigh's treatment of thermal convection.
A new triterpenoid from Sapium baccatum (Euphorbiaceae)
Creators: name: L.M. Ramadhan Al Muqarrabun
name: Norizan Ahmat
name: S. Ruzaina S. Aris
name: Norhazana Norizan
name: Nurdiana Shamsulrijal
name: Yusof, Farida Z.M.
name: M. Nazip Suratman
name: M. Izwan M. Yusof
name: Salim, Fatimah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A new triterpene, malaytaraxerate (1), and four known compounds, taraxerol (2), taraxerone (3), docosyl isoferulate (4) and docosanoic acid 2′,3′-dihydroxypropyl ester (5), were isolated from the acetone extract of Sapium baccatum stem bark. The structures of the isolated compounds were determined using several spectroscopic methods, including UV–Vis, FT-IR, 1D and 2D NMR, and mass spectrometry. Major isolated compounds were assayed for cytotoxicity. The chemotaxonomic significance of this plant was also studied.
title: Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Several Heart Rate Monitors in Wearable Technology While Mountain Biking
Creators: name: Carrier, Bryson
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: This study sought to assess the validity and reliability of several heart rate (HR) monitors during mountain biking (MTB), compared to the Polar H7® HR monitor, used as the criterion device. Methods: A total of 20 participants completed two MTB trials wearing 6 HR monitors (1 criterion, 5 test devices). HR was recorded on a second-by-second basis for all devices analyzed. After data processing, validity measures were calculated, including 1. Error analysis: mean absolute percentage errors (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean error (ME), and 2. Correlation analysis: Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) and Pearson’s correlation coefficient ®. Validity was determined for overall HR as well as stratified HR data based on 5 HR zones. Thresholds for validity were set at MAPE0.7. Reliability measures were also determined comparing trial 1 to trial 2 via two statistical tests: 1. Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) and 2. Coefficient of variation (CV). The predetermined reliability threshold was set at an ICC of >0.7 and a CV
Pressure dependence of the diffusion thermoeffect in gases (Dufour effect)
Creators: name: Mason, E. A.
name: Miller, L.
name: Spurling, Thomas
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A modified Loschmidt apparatus for the measurement of the diffusion thermoeffect as a function of pressure is described. Measurements are reported for H2-Ar, H2-CO2, and H2-CH 4 for pressures between 1 and 20 atm at room temperature. The experimental results have been explained semiquantitatively in terms of the pressure dependence of the relevant transport coefficients and their first composition derivatives. Terms arising because of the nonideality of the gases are also included in the phenomenological description. Relative values of diffusion coefficients for the three systems determined from the measurements are in good agreement with those determined by other methods, and the effect of pressure on the diffusion thermoeffect parallels the pressure dependence of the thermal diffusion factor as determined from gas-unmixing measurements. Suggestions are made for the future use of the method in determining other transport coefficients.
Synthesis, characterization and transfer hydrogenation of Ru(II)-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes
Creators: name: S. Yaşar
name: S. Çekirdek
name: İ. Özdemir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A new series of ruthenium(II) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes, [RuL1,2,3(p-cymene)Cl2] (3a-c) (where L is a N-heterocyclic carbene), have been synthesized via transmetalation. The new ruthenium(II)-NHC complexes were applied to transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone derivatives and aldehydes using 2-propanol as a hydrogen source and KOH as a co-catalyst. The results show that the corresponding alcohols could be obtained in good yield with high catalyst activity (up to 100%) under mild conditions. [RuL1(p-cymene)Cl2] (3a) is much more active than the other complexes in transfer hydrogenation. Reactions, catalyzed by 3a-c, showed the highest reaction rates and yields of alcohol when the substrates bear more electron-withdrawing substituents. All new compounds were characterized by IR, elemental analysis, LC-MS(ESI) and NMR spectroscopy.
title: What does a Bolsonaro Presidency mean for Brazilian Law? Part 1: Reforms from the Far Right
Creators: name: Arguelhes, Diego
name: Pereira, Thomasz
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Applying stakeholder theory to analyze corporate environmental performance: Evidence from Australian listed companies
Creators: name: Elijido-Ten, Evangeline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Stakeholder theory has been used extensively as it offers a way to address the changing demands in a dynamic business environment. This study aims to use stakeholder theory to analyze corporate environmental behavior by Australian listed companies. By adopting Ullmann's three-dimensional framework comprising stakeholder power, strategic posture, and economic performance, an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model is developed. Three measures of stakeholder power are used: shareholder power (SP), creditor power, and government power (GP). Strategic posture is represented by the level of management's environmental concern (EC) and economic performance is proxied by the firm's return on assets (ROA). Using the 2002 Australian Conservation Foundation environmental performance ranking, the OLS model tests for any significant relationships between corporate environmental performance and the three components of the framework. The findings suggest that the level of ownership dispersion (SP), the industry sensitivity characterized by the increased governmental sanctions (GP) as well as the management's concern for the environment (EC) are the significant factors influencing the decision to incorporate superior environmental activities in corporate strategic plans. Measures of economic performance (ROA) show no significant relation with the firms' environmental performance. Likewise, suggestions that size and age of the firms could act as intervening variables are not supported by the results. The empirical results provide evidence that the application of stakeholder theory can contribute towards one's understanding of how corporate entities behave, particularly in adapting to the rapidly changing business environment where environmental issues are becoming increasingly important.
New quinoline alkaloid from Ruta graveolens aerial parts and evaluation of the antifertility activity
Creators: name: Josline Y. Salib
name: El-Toumy, Sayed A.
name: Hassan, Emad M.
name: Shafik, Nabila H.
name: Abdel-Latif, Sally M.
name: Brouard, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Bioassay-guided isolation of methanol extract of Ruta graveolens L. leaves yielded a new quinoline alkaloid, (4S) 1,4-dihydro-4-methoxy-1,4-dimethyl-3-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)quinoline 2,7-diol, and nine phenolic compounds including rutin as a major compound. Structures of the isolated compounds were determined by using chromatography, UV, HR-ESI-MS and 1D/2D 1H/13C NMR spectroscopy. The uterotonic activity of methanol extract fractions (ethyl acetate, n-butanol and aqueous fraction) as well as the isolated major compounds was tested in the isolated mouse uterus in vitro. The n-butanol-soluble fraction was found to demonstrate the most potent uterotonic activity in a dose-dependent manner, also the major isolated compound rutin revealed the occurrence of an uterotonic response, which was maximum at a concentration level of 0.25 mg/mL, accounting for 68.7% of that exhibited by the chosen concentration of oxytocin.
title: What does a Bolsonaro Presidency mean for Brazilian Law? Part 2: the Reforms and the Court
Creators: name: Pereira, Thomaz
name: Arguelhes, Diego
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Affective roles for agents in local government corporate real estate projects
Creators: name: Heywood, Chris
name: Missingham, Greg
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Corporate real estate (CRE) projects require, among other things, the navigation of a psychological 'Affective domain' because there are subjective evaluations of the projects and their management. Australian local government CRE research reveals that agents of CRE management (CREM) playa role in delivering positive affective assessments of the outcomes of CRE projects. Two projects are illustrative of these roles. One role was in the first project's design team's commission to consult, design and communicate on behalf of CREM. Qualitative analysis allows evidence of affect to be traced across each stage of this commission, including the management of affect to provide positive assessments. The second role is an internal organizational agent that buffers facility users' affective responses. Considering agents' roles in the psychological of managing CRE conceptually advances the field's understanding of how to deal with and achieve positive subjective assessments of CRE and its management.
Modeling Politicization on Short Form Text Data
Creators: name: Olsen, Noah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Social media platforms have become one of the most popular places for individuals to express their political opinions and beliefs. One of the topic areas where this trend is the most pronounced is politics, with supporters from all sides of the political arena actively engaging with each other and voicing their beliefs and opinions. This project attempts to use the tweets of members of congress to establish a model whereby text can be categorized into bins based on political ideology. Using pre-trained GloVe vectors as input to a recurrent neural network using Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) tweets classified as either moderate, liberal and conservative.
Synthesis, characterization, and transfer hydrogenation of Ru(II)-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes
Creators: name: S. Yaşar
name: S. Çekirdek
name: İ. Özdemir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A new series of ruthenium(II) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes [RuL1,2,3(p-cymene)Cl2] (3a–c) (where L is a N-heterocyclic carbene), have been synthesized via transmetalation. The new ruthenium(II)-NHC complexes were applied to transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone derivatives and aldehydes using 2-propanol as a hydrogen source and KOH as a co-catalyst. The results show that the corresponding alcohols could be obtained in good yield with high catalyst activity (up to 100%) under mild conditions. [RuL1(p-cymene)Cl2] (3a) is much more active than the other complexes in transfer hydrogenation. Reactions, catalyzed by 3a–c, showed the highest reaction rates and yields of alcohol when the substrates bear more electron-withdrawing substituents. All new compounds were characterized by IR, elemental analysis, LC–MS (ESI), and NMR spectroscopy.
Phylogenetic relationships of ithomiine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) as implied by combined morphological and molecular data
Creators: name: Brower, Andrew V. Z.
name: Willmott, Keith R.
name: Silva-Brandão, Karina L.
name: Garzón-Orduña, Ivonne J.
name: Freitas, André V. L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Morphological and molecular data from two prior publications are combined with new data resulting in a mostly well-supported cladistic hypothesis of relationships among subtribes and genera of Ithomiini, a diverse clade of Neotropical butterflies. A revised classification for relationships among the nine tribes and 46 genera comprising the group is proposed, and Athesitina new subtribe is described for Athesis Doubleday, 1847 and Patricia Fox, 1940. Oxapampa Brabant, 2004 is synonymized with Veladyris Fox, 1945.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EE6B75B-94B3-42FF-8149-1E9A18417438
Dispelling the complexity MYTH: Founding lean construction on location-based planning
Creators: name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There has been a recent trend toward believing that projects are complex, unpredictable and that control systems of late intervention such as Last Planner are necessary to solve the problem. The complexity assumption is challenged in this paper, and it is shown that the some of the apparent complexity arises from a simple mathematical problem which is easily resolved and thus better planning becomes not only possible but a better solution. A complex refurbishment project is used to illustrate the different approaches and to show where apparent complexity arises. It is then shown how under normal planning methods the sites are asked to resolve an intractable problem. They do their best, but they have been let down by the planners.
Using location-based techniques for cost control
Creators: name: Seppänen, Olli
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Performance measurement is an important component of lean-based management systems, however cost management systems or analysis have largely been applied at a high level and have not attempted to measure or model the production cost impacts of disruption on a lean project. While it is important to develop systems for practical site management, it is equally important to ensure that such systems can accommodate mainstream performance measurement systems. In this paper, the performance system known as Earned Value Analysis is adapted to a location-based method for planning and controlling work known as flowline or line-of-balance. The resultant method for forecasting cash flow, modeling the costs of interference and controlling costs, is described. The method is compatible with location-based scheduling methods. It uses location-based quantities and their unit prices as starting data. Because the location-based quantities are also used in developing the flowline schedule, the start and finish date for each quantity is also known. This information can be used to calculate cash flow more accurately than previously. In the preplanning phase, quantity estimates and estimated prices are used to create a location-based cost estimate. During the production phase, more accurate quantity data is available and prices from contracts can be used directly to arrive at a first cost forecast, before commencing the work. When the work is being done, cost controlling can be done by surveying the actual quantities of each location. The cost forecast is then updated based on these actual quantities and using the contract prices. The location-based schedule forecast can be used to forecast overhead costs and to forecast costs of interference. The paper contributes to our understanding of monitoring and control in a flowline-based management system in a lean-construction methodology. It also demonstrates that effective locationbased control of the payment system allows better management of sub-contractors during production.
Flavonoid content and radical scavenging potential of extracts prepared from tobacco cultivars and waste
Creators: name: Docheva, Margarita
name: Soleya Dagnon
name: Statkova-Abeghe, Stela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The flavonoid-rich natural products exert a wide range of pharmacological properties. This investigation aimed at obtaining extracts from tobacco cultivars and waste enriched with flavonoids and purified from nicotine and phenolic acids, and evaluating their radical scavenging potential. Extraction with a mixture of ethyl acetate–methanol (1:1, v/v) was employed resulting in 100% yield for flavonoids and 36% yield for phenolic acids. The crude extracts were purified using preparative column chromatography on silica gel. The content of flavonoids in the purified extracts varied from 8.8 ± 1.1% to 14.3 ± 1.8%. Nicotine was not detected in amounts higher than 0.3 μg mL− 1. The content of phenolic acids was lower than 1.0%. The radical scavenging potential of extracts from tobacco cultivars exhibited values from IC50 = 35.0 ± 3.1 to 64.6 ± 7.5 μg mL− 1. The extracts obtained by the proposed procedure are enriched with flavonoids with high radical scavenging potential and are purified from nicotine and phenolic acids. They can be regarded as potential biopharmaceuticals.
Evaluating community facilities in local government: Managing for service enablement
Creators: name: Brackertz, Nicola
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Strategic management of facilities is now generally accepted best practice. Appraisal of facility performance has developed correspondingly and financial measures are no longer seen as the prime indicator of success. Holistic models that include the processes supporting fulfilment of an organisation?s strategic aims are now considered to provide more appropriate measures. Recent focus in the service-oriented context of local government authority (LGA) facility management has particularly turned toward such models. This paper discusses the issues and inherent tensions arising from the strategic measurement of local government facilities in a service delivery context. It is argued that outwardly the strategic objective of service delivery is common to the private and public sectors, but fundamental differences in the desired outcomes and responsibilities of the two sectors require different solutions. Even if one accepts the current trend in ?balanced? performance measurement, differing parameters in the private and public sectors impact on the design and evaluation of performance measures, especially in relation to process, efficiency, strategy formulation and responsiveness of the organisation to customer needs. If a facility is considered to be an enabler of processes that lead to desired outcomes, these differences must necessarily affect the design of facility performance measurement tools. The research with eight LGAs, reported here, supports the need for a new model for the evaluation of community facilities applicable in the local government context. Using stakeholder-based focus groups, the need was identified for a service-oriented model, where the facility is understood as the intersection of aspects of service provision, physical building substance and the community utilising the facility.
Comparative root morphological anatomy of Zingiberaceae
Creators: name: E. Uma
name: T. Muthukumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The root anatomy and morphology of 23 species of Zingiberaceae from three tribes and eight genera were examined. Roots were sectioned, with a microtome or freehand, and examined using a variety of staining techniques. The anatomical characters of roots were thoroughly studied and analysed laying emphasis on 21 qualitative and 16 quantitative characters. Statistical tools such as UPGMA Cluster analysis, PCoA and PCA were used to elucidate species boundaries. The prominent anatomical characters in the roots were as follows: all the gingers examined had a piliferous epidermis, followed by an exodermis which contained one or more layers of compact, suberized cells. The cortex had two regions (outer and inner layers) with intercellular air spaces that were radially extended, either linear (Curcuma spp. and Kaempferia galanga), tetrangular (Zingiber officinale), or triangular. The uniseriate endodermis had ‘U’-shaped thickening at maturity. Stele included a thin-walled, uniseriate pericycle and polyarch vascular tissues. Phloem strands in Alpinia, Curcuma, Hedychium and Zingiber often extended radially inwards, forming phloem islands. The peripheral ground tissues of stele were mostly fibrous and occasionally parenchymatous. The medulla commonly occupied the centre of the stele. Tuberous roots of Globba, Hedychium and Kaempferia had a wide, starch-filled cortex with stele diameter similar to non-tuberous roots. Oil cells were found in Alpinia spp. and members of the tribe Zingibereae. Starch grains were also found in the parenchymatous cortex and medulla in Hedychium. The perforation plates of the tracheary elements were scalariform to simple. Anatomical characters of the roots in Zingiberaceae could not only help in the identification of the plant species but also in authenticating plant materials used in medicine. A phylogenetic analysis of anatomical characters provided information regarding the closely allied species and could be further confirmed by molecular techniques.
Reconfiguring Antiracism: Cyborgs, Response-ability, and Canada's Parliament Hill
Creators: name: Grant, Nichole Elaine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: antiracism
posthumanism
cyborgs
praxis
Parliament Hill

description: Antiracism consistently decries its lack of transformative effects, particularly in relation to embodied experiences of racism and the complexity of racist processes and experiences (e.g., Ahmed, 2004; Hage, 2016). By contrast, cyborgian theory (Gray, 1996; Haraway, 1991) highlights the cyborg as a powerful resource for an embodied transformative politics that is responsive to the structures and processes of embodied understandings, and to the entanglements of knowledge and being. This thesis theorizes how the cyborg may be operationalized for antiracism specifically. I reconfigure antiracism considering the cyborg through three steps. First, building on my own embodied experience as a white, cisgendered woman, I ground antiracism in a praxis of embodied response-ability (Haraway, 2016) moving from a reactive form of antiracism to an on-going project of engagement. Second, I draw on posthumanist anti-oppressive and feminist theory (e.g., Braidotti, 2011; Thweatt-Bates, 2016) to align antiracism with Donna Haraway’s (1991, 1992, 2016) conceptualization of the cyborg. This alignment refigures antiracism as actively embodied, theoretically grounded, and attentive to relationality and processes of cultural production. Third, I operationalize my theorizing through my embodied engagement with Canada’s parliamentary precinct, Parliament Hill. My diffractive mapping through an antiracism attuned to the cyborg shows how Parliament Hill produces and continues racism through an assemblage of mechanisms of nationalist dominance that actively fortify overt boundaries, network dialectic understandings of identity, and pattern racist relations of belonging and otherness. My analysis reveals how intimately and insidiously racism lives and entangles in knowledge production. It also shows how engaging the world, recognizing the onto-epistemological orientation in posthuman cyborg provides a means for critically living in and with entanglements of embodied racisms that enable a transformative antiracist praxis.
Flavonoid content and radical scavenging potential of extracts prepared from tobacco cultivars and waste
Creators: name: Docheva, Margarita
name: Soleya Dagnon
name: Statkova-Abeghe, Stela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The flavonoid-rich natural products exert a wide range of pharmacological properties. This investigation aimed at obtaining extracts from tobacco cultivars and waste enriched with flavonoids and purified from nicotine and phenolic acids, and evaluating their radical scavenging potential. Extraction with a mixture of ethyl acetate–methanol (1:1, v/v) was employed resulting in 100% yield for flavonoids and 36% yield for phenolic acids. The crude extracts were purified using preparative column chromatography on silica gel. The content of flavonoids in the purified extracts varied from 8.8 ± 1.1% to 14.3 ± 1.8%. Nicotine was not detected in amounts higher than 0.3 μg mL− 1. The content of phenolic acids was lower than 1.0%. The radical scavenging potential of extracts from tobacco cultivars exhibited values from IC50 = 35.0 ± 3.1 to 64.6 ± 7.5 μg mL− 1. The extracts obtained by the proposed procedure are enriched with flavonoids with high radical scavenging potential and are purified from nicotine and phenolic acids. They can be regarded as potential biopharmaceuticals.
title: Macht gibt Macht, Recht muss sie wieder nehmen: Minister und Abgeordnete im Wahlkampf
Creators: name: Roßner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Phylogenetic relationships of ithomiine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) as implied by combined morphological and molecular data
Creators: name: Brower, Andrew V. Z.
name: Willmott, Keith R.
name: Silva-Brandão, Karina L.
name: Garzón-Orduña, Ivonne J.
name: Freitas, André V. L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Morphological and molecular data from two prior publications are combined with new data resulting in a mostly well-supported cladistic hypothesis of relationships among subtribes and genera of Ithomiini, a diverse clade of Neotropical butterflies. A revised classification for relationships among the nine tribes and 46 genera comprising the group is proposed, and Athesitina new subtribe is described for Athesis Doubleday, 1847 and Patricia Fox, 1940. Oxapampa Brabant, 2004 is synonymized with Veladyris Fox, 1945. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EE6B75B-94B3-42FF-8149-1E9A18417438
A service delivery approach to measuring facility performance in local government
Creators: name: Brackertz, Nicola
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper present s a new metho d for measurin g facility performanc e that encompasse s financial and nonfinancial indicators . This metho d is the outcome of pilot study conducted with a local government authorit y (LGA) in Melbourne , Australia. The servic e balanced scorecard takes a stakeholde r approach to the setting of performanc e objective s in relation to the LGAs key result areas, and then assesse s facility performanc e balancing financi al and nonfinancial indicators. The servic e balanced scorecar d takes into account four different perspective s of facility performanc e ± the community, services, building and financial perspectives ± resultin g in a facility performanc e profile. While in this particular instance the servic e balanc ed scorecard was used in local government , the method may also be adapted for use in a corporate environment.
title: „Mythos Interpol” und sein Missbrauch durch autoritäre Regime
Creators: name: Pekárek, Hendrik
name: Wegner, Kilian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: Though this be Madness, yet there’s Method in’t: Pitting the Polish Constitutional Tribunal against the Luxembourg Court
Creators: name: Biernat, Stanisław
name: Kawczyńska, Monika
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Enabling processes for strategic outcomes: Cre in the Australian private and public sectors
Creators: name: Brackertz, Nicola
name: Heywood, Chris
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Private as well as public sector organisations now recognise the contribution that CRE makes to enabling the processes that lead to desired strategic outcomes. Here a focus group study is described that identifies issues in Australian CRE, contrasting the public and private sectors. Building on this, the authors present a strategic facilities management tool that was developed as a major initiative with eight local government partners in Victoria, Australia. Quantitative as well as qualitative data is contributed by multiple stakeholders via a centralised database that is accessible over the Internet, thereby facilitating access from multiple points as well as benchmarking. Indicators relate to strategically important aspects of facility performance and can be weighted according to their strategic importance.
Methods for PRMT6 cellular assay
Creators: name: Szewczyk, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: PRMT6, protein arginine methyltransferase, arginine methylation, histone H3R2 asymmetric dimethylation, MS023

description: The methods for PRMT6 cellular assay posted on openlabnotebook.org
An energy-efficient clustering algorithm for multihop data gathering in wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Selvakennedy, Selvadurai
name: Sukunesan, Suku
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Wireless sensor networks afford a new opportunity to observe and interact with physical phenomena at an unprecedented fidelity. To fully realize this vision, these networks have to be self-organizing, self-healing, economical and energy-efficient simultaneously. Since the communication task is a significant power consumer, there are various attempts to introduce energy-awareness within the communication stack. Node clustering, to reduce direct transmission to the base station, is one such attempt to control energy dissipation for sensor data gathering. In this work, we propose an efficient dynamic clustering algorithm to achieve a network-wide energy reduction in a multihop context. We also present a realistic energy dissipation model based on the results from stochastic geometry to accurately quantify energy consumption employing the proposed clustering algorithm for various sensor node densities, network areas and transceiver properties.
Percepção do Conhecimento Popular Sobre a Leishmaniose Visceral Canina
Creators: name: Caetano, João Pedro
name: Ilha, Pedro Henrique Oliveira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Percepção; Saúde pública; Leishmaniose visceral; zoonose.

description: A Leishmaniose Visceral Canina é uma enfermidade zoonótica de grande importância para a saúde pública e muito negligenciada principalmente nos países em desenvolvimento. O objetivo desde projeto é realizar um levantamento da percepção da população quanto à Leishmaniose Visceral Canina, como sua causa, forma de transmissão, prevenção e controle, assim como sua importância para saúde pública.
Phylogenetic relationships of ithomiine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) as implied by combined morphological and molecular data
Creators: name: Brower, Andrew V. Z.
name: Willmott, Keith R.
name: Silva-Brandão, Karina L.
name: Garzón-Orduña, Ivonne J.
name: Freitas, André V. L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Morphological and molecular data from two prior publications are combined with new data resulting in a mostly well-supported cladistic hypothesis of relationships among subtribes and genera of Ithomiini, a diverse clade of Neotropical butterflies. A revised classification for relationships among the nine tribes and 46 genera comprising the group is proposed, and Athesitina new subtribe is described for Athesis Doubleday, 1847 and Patricia Fox, 1940. Oxapampa Brabant, 2004 is synonymized with Veladyris Fox, 1945.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EE6B75B-94B3-42FF-8149-1E9A18417438
title: Toleranz ja! Aber gegenüber wem?: Der österreichische Blasphemiestraftatbestand vor dem EGMR
Creators: name: Th. Müller, Andreas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
T-ANT: A nature-inspired data gathering protocol for wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Selvakennedy, S.
name: Sukunesan, Suku
name: Shang, Yi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There are many difficult challenges ahead in the design of an energy-efficient communication stack for wireless sensor networks. Due to the severe sensor node constraints, protocols have to be simple yet scalable. To this end, collective social insects' behavior could be adopted to guide the design of these protocols. We exploit the simple heuristics of ant colony in foraging and brood sorting to design a hierarchical and scalable data gathering protocol. Also, we demonstrate how it could exploit data correlations in sensor readings to minimize communications cost in the data gathering process towards the sink. This approach selects only a subset of sensor nodes to reconstruct data for the entire network. A distributed variance estimation algorithm is introduced to capture data correlations with negligible state maintenance. It is shown that this algorithm is able to predict the values rather accurately. Due to the general robustness of any nature-inspired algorithm, our data gathering protocol is reliable. It is fully distributed, and promises scalability and substantial energy savings.
title: Die EU als wehrhafte Demokratie, oder: Warum Brüssel eine Kopenhagen-Kommission braucht
Creators: name: Müller, Jan-Werner
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Nematicidal activity of microbial pigment from Serratia marcescens
Creators: name: Suryawanshi Rahul
name: Patil Chandrashekhar
name: Borase Hemant
name: Narkhede Chandrakant
name: Shinde Laxmikant
name: Patil Satish
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Ineffectiveness of available nematicides and the high damage caused by plant-parasitic nematodes result in the urgent need to find some natural remedy for their control. Bioactivity of the pigment extracted from Serratia marcescens was screened for controlling nematodes at their juvenile stage. Test pigment was found effective against juvenile stages of Radopholus similis and Meloidogyne javanica at low concentrations (LC50 values, 83 and 79 μg/mL, respectively) as compared with positive control of copper sulphate (LC50 values, 380 and 280 μg/mL, respectively). The pigment also exhibited inhibition on nematode egg-hatching ability. Characterisation of extracted pigment with TLC, FTIR, HPLC, HPTLC and spectroscopic analysis confirmed the presence of prodigiosin as a bioactive metabolite. Considering the sensory mechanism of pathogen recognition by nematodes, the use of microbial secondary metabolites can be effective for nematode control rather than using whole organism.
Comparative root morphological anatomy of Zingiberaceae
Creators: name: E. Uma
name: T. Muthukumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: The root anatomy and morphology of 23 species of Zingiberaceae from three tribes and eight genera were examined. Roots were sectioned, with a microtome or freehand, and examined using a variety of staining techniques. The anatomical characters of roots were thoroughly studied and analysed laying emphasis on 21 qualitative and 16 quantitative characters. Statistical tools such as UPGMA Cluster analysis, PCoA and PCA were used to elucidate species boundaries. The prominent anatomical characters in the roots were as follows: all the gingers examined had a piliferous epidermis, followed by an exodermis which contained one or more layers of compact, suberized cells. The cortex had two regions (outer and inner layers) with intercellular air spaces that were radially extended, either linear (Curcuma spp. and Kaempferia galanga), tetrangular (Zingiber officinale), or triangular. The uniseriate endodermis had ‘U’-shaped thickening at maturity. Stele included a thin-walled, uniseriate pericycle and polyarch vascular tissues. Phloem strands in Alpinia, Curcuma, Hedychium and Zingiber often extended radially inwards, forming phloem islands. The peripheral ground tissues of stele were mostly fibrous and occasionally parenchymatous. The medulla commonly occupied the centre of the stele. Tuberous roots of Globba, Hedychium and Kaempferia had a wide, starch-filled cortex with stele diameter similar to non-tuberous roots. Oil cells were found in Alpinia spp. and members of the tribe Zingibereae. Starch grains were also found in the parenchymatous cortex and medulla in Hedychium. The perforation plates of the tracheary elements were scalariform to simple. Anatomical characters of the roots in Zingiberaceae could not only help in the identification of the plant species but also in authenticating plant materials used in medicine. A phylogenetic analysis of anatomical characters provided information regarding the closely allied species and could be further confirmed by molecular techniques.
Data dissemination based on ant swarms for wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Selvakennedy, S.
name: Sukunesan, Suku
name: Shang, Yi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There are many difficult challenges ahead in the design of an energy-efficient communication stack for wireless sensor networks. Due to the severe nodes' constraints, protocols have to be simple yet scalable. To this end, collective social insects behavior could be adopted to guide the design of these protocols. We exploit the simple behaviors of ant swarms in foraging and brood sorting to design a hierarchical and scalable data dissemination strategy. In order to allow a realistic evaluation, a comprehensive simulator involving critical components of the communication stack is incorporated. The proposed scheme promotes a uniform distribution of clusterheads, which subsequently enables substantial energy savings over other clustering algorithms.