cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BaAMPs: the database of biofilm-active antimicrobial peptides
Creators: name: Mariagrazia Di Luca
name: Maccari, Giuseppe
name: Maisetta, Giuseppantonio
name: Batoni, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are increasingly being considered as novel agents against biofilms. The development of AMP-based anti-biofilm strategies strongly relies on the design of sequences optimized to target specific features of sessile bacterial/fungal communities. Although several AMP databases have been created and successfully exploited for AMP design, all of these use data collected on peptides tested against planktonic microorganisms. Here, an open-access, manually curated database of AMPs specifically assayed against microbial biofilms (BaAMPs) is presented for the first time. In collecting relevant data from the literature an effort was made to define a minimal standard set of essential information including, for each AMP, the microbial species and biofilm conditions against which it was tested, and the specific assay and peptide concentration used. The availability of these data in an organized framework will benefit anti-biofilm research and support the design of novel molecules active against biofilm. BaAMPs is accessible at http://www.baamps.it
Neolithic Science: A Student Hands-On Project: How To Build a Large Portable Pinhole Camera or Camera Obscura to Explore How Neolithic Optics at Newgrange Were Able To Accurately Determine the Time of the Winter Solstice
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 20102 Astronomical and Space Instrumentation
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Instrumentation, Techniques, and Astronomical Observations
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 219999 History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: 160199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified
subject: 160101 Anthropology of Development
subject: 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified

description: This article explains how to build and experiment with a room-sized, but inexpensive, camera obscura which would have been possible in the Neolithic era. This how-to article explains how a pinhole camera or camera obscura arrangement could have been possible in the Neolithic era which could have been used to measure the sun's position at the time of the winter solstice in real-time and by direct observation. This article describes how students or others could inexpensively make a large room-sized camera and configure it so that it magnifies or enhances the image of the sun. With a basic prehistoric optical device, the very difficult measurement of the position of the sun during the winter so1tice might have been determined. This determination was so difficult the Romans could not do it with direct observation 3000 years later and often made mistakes even when using other methods.
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies
Creators: name: Özatağan, Güldem
name: Eraydin, Ayda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some ‘left-behind’ places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey’s once extractive heartland, we unveil a volatile and particularly fragile political terrain and throw light on its contingency on changing modes of state intervention and power-laden strategies responsive to disaffection and discontent. We suggest that this power-laden mechanism that plays down, if not eradicates, the ability of places to transform and thrive precludes conceptions that invariably position left-behind places as ‘vengeful’ and invites dynamic and context-sensitive comprehensions of discontent and agential and processual reconceptions of left-behindness.
Resilience to disruptions: the role of regional soft spaces
Creators: name: McClelland, Andrew G.
name: Shaw, Duncan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A soft spaces lens enables a nuanced perspective on regional resilience governance to disruptions. Focusing on COVID-19, this article illuminates comparative insights into resilience governance in England and how the regional soft spaces of local resilience forums differentially experienced this momentous disruptive event. The pandemic has exposed the limited ability of these regional soft spaces to enhance resilience to disruptions and thus narrow the resilience implementation gap. This article contributes to theory and practice on the tensions and opportunities to progress resilience governance through regional soft spaces amid an evolving policy landscape post-pandemic.
The dynamic and persistent effects of tax increment financing as an example of place-based policy: evidence from Cook County, Illinois
Creators: name: Kim, Geon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Using a staggered difference-in-differences design, this paper analyses the effects of tax increment financing (TIF) in Cook County, Illinois. TIF is negatively correlated with the number of establishments in Chicago, likely due to unintended tax burdens and competition between TIF districts. In non-Chicago areas, TIF shows positive effects on employment for 6–20 years. Lastly, this study provides evidence of the persistent effects of TIF and its potential to move localities from low- to high-density economic activity, calling for a re-evaluation of the argument against subsidising economically lagging areas.
Building dynamic capabilities in the transition toward a knowledge-based bioeconomy: a case study of three Finnish regions
Creators: name: Laasonen, Valtteri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper analyses the role of various organisations’ dynamic capabilities in regional transitions toward a knowledge-based bioeconomy. It offers a more nuanced understanding of regional path development and agency by elucidating the concept of dynamic capabilities in regional contexts and analysing the roles and types of the dynamic capabilities of various organisations. This empirical research is based on case studies conducted in three Finnish regions using a combination of interviews, documents and statistical data. The paper argues that it is important to take a systemic perspective in analysing dynamic capabilities and look at simultaneous changes in different types of organisations.
Brief von Sählmann Wilhelm Wolters, Michael Sachs, Meyer Wolff Meyer und Mosé Simion von Jüdische Gemeinde / Schulvorstand (Berlin) an Leopold Zunz, 20.01.1845
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1845
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Betr. Gehalt von Zunz als Direktor des Schullehrerseminars
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions
Creators: name: Zezza, Francesco
name: Guarascio, Dario
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: This study analyses the regional impact of public expenditures focusing on three domains central to the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP): green, digital and knowledge. Relying on a regional public expenditures sectoral dataset for the period 2000–19, we perform a panel structural vector autoregressive (P-SVAR) model showing that fiscal policy has positive and long-lasting effects on gross domestic product (GDP) and private investments. A relevant heterogeneity is detected, relative to: (1) the effects of sectoral spending in crowding-in investment; (2) the impact on regions’ ‘structural upgrading’; and (3) a discrepancy in fiscal multipliers across macro-areas. Nevertheless, the results suggest that the NRRP may help in reducing the Italian divide.
Optimizing Two-level Supersaturated Designs using Swarm Intelligence Techniques
Creators: name: Weichung Wang
name: Phoa, Frederick Kin Hing
name: Ray-Bing Chen
name: Weng Kee Wong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: Supersaturated designs (SSDs) are often used to reduce the number of experimental runs in screening experiments with a large number of factors. As more factors are used in the study, the search for an optimal SSD becomes increasingly challenging because of the large number of feasible selection of factor level settings. This paper tackles this discrete optimization problem via an algorithm based on swarm intelligence. Using the commonly used E(s2) criterion as an illustrative example, we propose an algorithm to find E(s2)–optimal SSDs by showing that they attain the theoretical lower bounds in Bulutoglu and Cheng (2004) and Bulutoglu (2007). We show that our algorithm consistently produces SSDs that are at least as efficient as those from the traditional CP exchange method in terms of computational effort, frequency of finding the E(s2)-optimal SSD and also has good potential for finding D3 −, D4 − and D5 −optimal SSDs.
Understanding the geographical distribution of innovation in England: density, accessibility and spillover effects
Creators: name: Roper, Stephen
name: Jibril, Halima
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: We examine the role of population density and accessibility in shaping innovation intensity in the 32,000 lower super output areas (LSOAs) in England. Our analysis focuses on firms’ registered intellectual property – patents, trademarks and registered designs – and using spatial autoregression models suggests four key results. We find a positive relationship between population density and innovation intensity, a consistent negative relationship between longer journey times to the nearest town centre and innovation intensity, and a strong interaction effect between population density and accessibility. Finally, we find strong evidence of local innovation spillovers reflecting either competition or demonstration effects.
Density, viscosity, excess property and intermolecular interaction visualisation studies of trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane+water mixture
Creators: name: Li, Huanxin
name: Sun, Kenan
name: Yu, Bingling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: The determined density and viscosity data of trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane (t-DCH) + water mixtures decrease with the increase in the temperature from 293.15 K to 333.15 K at atmospheric pressure, while all of the data show a maximum value along with the molar fraction of t-DCH increasing. In addition, excess molar volume (VE), viscosity deviation (Δη) and excess Gibbs free energy (ΔG*E) were calculated and correlated using the Redlich-Kister equation. All of the VE values are negative, while Δη and ΔG*E are positive. The intermolecular interactions between t-DCH and water were characterised by quantum chemistry methods. The length of hydrogen bonds, binding energy, and the topological properties of electron density at bond critical points are calculated. The results show that the stability of the t-DHH trimer is stronger than that of the t-DH dimer. On the basis of theoretical calculation, the reason why the density and viscosity of t-DCH+water binary system increases first and then decreases is explained.
Refractive index and related properties for the mixture (1, 4-dioxane + water) at temperature T= (295.15, 298.15, 301.15, 304.15, 307.15, 310.15 and 313.15) K
Creators: name: Mejri, Imen
name: Kouissi, Taoufik
name: Toumi, Adel
name: Bounaz, Moncef
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: The refractive index nD for the mixture (1,4-dioxane (1) + water (2)) was measured over the whole composition range at different temperatures and atmospheric pressure. From measured values of the refractive indices, the molar refraction Rm, reduced molar free volumes VmRm, molecular radii r and internal pressure, Pint were calculated. On the other hand, some excess parameters were also deduced. The obtained results have been discussed and interpreted in terms of the type and nature of specific intermolecular interactions existed between the components. Furthermore, we have used nine mixing rules for refractive index proposed by different authors to calculate the refractive indices of the present mixture. A comparative study was carried out between the measured and calculated indices. The Redlich–Kister polynomial equation has been used to fit the presented excess parameters to derive the adjustable fitting coefficients and estimate the standard error values.
effect of sample size and repeated values for jackknife CI estimates of unweighted median
Creators: name: Martin, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A comparison of bootstrap variance and jacknife variance estimates of equally weighted sample medians for different sample sizes is presented, including examples of continuous and discrete distributions. The drop one jackknife variance estimates are calculated in the percentile scale and then backtransformed to the original measurement scale. Useful agreement between the jackknife and bootstrap confidence interval estimates, calculated using the boot() r package, is observed across the spectrum of sample sizes. This is a followup paper to results for continuous distributions. An R markdown file of the paper is available at at GitHub (see below)
Improved jackknife estimates for median variance in equally weighted samples using percentile scale based calculations
Creators: name: Martin, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The jackknife estimation of variance for the median, using the original measurement scale, has been shown to be inconsistent. However, it has also been shown that “transformation of means” to particular reference frames can improve jackknife variance accuracy of estimates of means. In this research, a suitable choice of reference frame for “transformation of median” that results in improved jackknife variance estimates is the percentile scale, where the observations are arranged and labelled in percentile order. An R Markdown file of the paper is available at GitHub (see below) A second paper on figshare has results for various sample sizes and discrete distributions (including algorithm change) "effect of sample size and repeated values for jackknife CI estimates of unweighted median"
BODY WEIGHT IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF HYPERGLYCEMIA
Creators: name: Nuritdinov, Sh. F.
name: Kayumov, U. K.
name: Aripov, O. A.
name: Ibadova, M. U.
name: Musaeva, Sh. Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report presents the results of a study of body weight in patients with impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes mellitus. A representative sample of the unorganized male population was examined at the age of 40-69 years. A total of 894 people were examined. Analysis of the state of glycemia was carried out on the basis of indicators of the standard glucose tolerance test. A positive association of body weight with type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance was established. At the same time, it has been shown that in individuals with normal levels of glycemic, the average Quetelet index levels are within the limits corresponding to the criteria for overweight. The conclusion is made about the expediency of continuing research to study the pathogenesis of overweight comorbidity and hyperglycemia.
การวิเคราะห์ความเข้าใจเรื่องวงจรไฟฟ้ากระแสตรงของนักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลายโดยใช้แบบทดสอบปรนัย
Creators: name: ชาญวิทย์ คำเจริญ
Publisher: name: หน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยศรีนครินทรวิโรฒ
Year: 2565
Subjects: ความเข้าใจของนักเรียน
วงจรไฟฟ้ากระแสตรง
แบบทดสอบปรนัย

description: วารสารหน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ (JSTEL), 13, 1, 71-84
การศึกษาการประยุกต์ใช้เซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ร่วมกับหลังคาเขียวเพื่อเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการผลิตพลังงานไฟฟ้าของเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์
Creators: name: อรันย์ ศรีรัตนา ทาบูกานอน
Publisher: name: หน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยศรีนครินทรวิโรฒ
Year: 2565
Subjects: เซลล์แสงอาทิตย์
หลังคาเขียว
การลดอุณหภูมิ
ประสิทธิภาพเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์

description: วารสารหน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ (JSTEL), 13, 1, 85-98
กิจกรรมหุ่นยนต์เดินตามเส้นอัตโนมัติตามแนวทางสะเต็มศึกษาเพื่อพัฒนาแนวคิด เรื่อง แรงและการเคลื่อนที่
Creators: name: เอกพงศ์ บัวชุม
Publisher: name: หน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยศรีนครินทรวิโรฒ
Year: 2565
Subjects: หุ่นยนต์เดินตามเส้นอัตโนมัติ
แรงและการเคลื่อนที่
สะเต็มศึกษา

description: วารสารหน่วยวิจัยวิทยาศาสตร์ เทคโนโลยี และสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้ (JSTEL), 13, 1, 99-111
Brief von Marcus Krüger an Leopold Zunz, 20.03.1843
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1843
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Mitteilung über die Absicht und Bitte um Unterstützung in dem Bestreben, eine Sonntagsschule für jüdische Handwerkslehrlinge einzurichten
title: Global women at risk: Psychological landscape of young South Korean women studying and working in London
Creators: name: Cho, Chang-Eun
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2020

description: This thesis will argue that the strategic reconstruction of intimacy in the private sphere leaves young female South Korean educational migrants participating in the global meritocracy in ever increasing numbers emotionally and psychologically vulnerable. Using in-depth interviews and mobile ethnography, this dissertation contemplates the everyday life experiences and psychological landscape of 19 young female South Korean educational migrants in London to understand their motivations for migration and the outcomes. Although the women in this study come from different backgrounds, they had all migrated to London in order to gain economic, social, and cultural resources, that is, flexible citizenships, to ensure their upward mobility in the global meritocracy. They went believing opportunities were accorded based on individual capacity, but even in the newly reconstructed spaces of globalised universities and transnational companies, they found the cosmopolitan structure to be biased. As a result, many women in my study felt isolated, enduring varying degrees of loneliness and depression that they couldn’t adjust during their migration. These negative feelings from isolation to depression that they experienced are entangled with this flawed structure and demonstrate that the meritocracy is unequal in terms of gender, class, cultural background/ethnicity/race, and nationality. To counterbalance the inequality and achieve the initial goal of educational migration, that is, legal, social, and cultural flexible citizenships, they rationalised and instrumentalised intimacy and emotion in romantic relationships, friendships and social relationships, and familial relationships. However, these contractual relationships deprived them of the important bonds that build on trust, loyalty, reciprocity, and commitment, resulting in a lack of emotional support and inner energy and thus a disorganisation of their private sphere. As such, this study challenges previous women migration studies that claim participation in the global meritocracy emancipates and empowers women instead finding it takes a toll on women, causing disorganisation of the private sphere and consequently emotional vulnerability.
Plaquette d'information sur les outils recommandés par le service IST de l'IRD
Creators: name: Service IST, MCST
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: documentation scientifique
publication scientifique
base de données bibliographique
données de la recherche
sites web
ressources documentaires
recherche documentaire

description: Dépliant 4 pages présentant de façon graphique les outils recommandés par le service Information Scientifique et Technique de l'IRD : format cliquable pour le web.
Macroeconomic variables and stock returns in Malaysia: an application of the ARDL bound testing approach
Creators: name: YUSOF, ROSYLIN MOHD
name: MAJID, M. SHABRI A.B.D.
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2007

description: The study seeks to explore the extent to which macroeconomic variables affect the stock market behavior in the emerging market of Malaysia in the post 1997 financial crisis period, using the latest time series econometrics technique to test for cointegration, namely, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model. The estimation of results suggest that real effective exchange rate, money supply, industrial production index, and federal funds rate seem to be suitable targets for the government to focus on, in order to stabilize the stock market and to encourage more capital flows into the economy. Changes in U.S. monetary policy as measured by the changes in the federal funds rate seem to also have a significant direct impact on the Malaysian stock market behavior during the period of analysis. This implies that any changes in the U.S. monetary policy affect the Malaysian stock market.
Luminescent phosphate sensor based on upconverting graphene quantum dots
Creators: name: Shujuan Zhuo
name: Luyang Chen
name: Yongjun Zhang
name: Guangxia Jin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Engineering

description: ABSTRACTIn this paper, we have presented a novel graphene quantum dots based upconversion fluorescent sensor for detection of phosphate. The upconversion fluorescence of graphene quantum dots with emission wavelength at 407 nm was quenched by rare earth ion, Eu3+ in proper concentration. The quenching constant is calculated from Stern–Volmer equation. Importantly, quenched fluorescence of graphene quantum dots-Eu3+ could be recovered with the addition of phosphate based on a competition mechanism, which provides a turn-on sensing strategy for phosphate assay. The recovered fluorescence is proportional to the concentration of phosphate. The linear range for the detection of phosphate was 1 to 12 µM with a detection limit of 100 nM. The proposed sensing system has been successfully used for the assay of phosphate in real river water samples, indicating the practical potential.
Scaled Predictor Envelopes and Partial Least Squares Regression
Creators: name: Cook, Dennis
name: Zhihua Su
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: Partial least squares (PLS) is a widely used method for prediction in applied statistics, especially in chemometrics applications. However, PLS is not invariant or equivariant under scale transformations of the predictors, which tends to limit its scope to regressions in which the predictors are measured in the same or similar units. Cook et al. (2013) built a connect between nascent envelope methodology and PLS, allowing PLS to be addressed in a traditional likelihood-based framework. In this article, we use the connection between PLS and envelopes to develop a new method – scaled predictor envelopes (SPE) – that incorporates predictor scaling into PLS-type applications. By estimating the appropriate scales, the SPE estimators can offer efficiency gains beyond those given by PLS, and further reduce prediction errors. Simulations and an example are given to support the theoretic claims.
title: History of Terengganu 1942-1973
title: with special reference to Islam, politics and socio-economic development
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Manaf, Azmah Abdul
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2008

description: The main argument of this thesis is that the people of Terengganu, who have been described as being religious, did not choose the party with Islamic platform when they were introduced to a modern political system that involved them directly in the process of electing political officials. The Islamic influence amongst the people became apparent when PAS an Islamic political party was elected as the Terengganu state government in the 1959 election but their hegemony was short lived. PAS stayed in power until end of 1961 and then did not win the elections until 1999. Did this mean that the people of Terengganu have changed their ways of thinking vis-à-vis politics? This question is the major issue discussed in this study and Islam has been used as the framework as it was an important element in the state politics and education regardless of political maneuvers. Primary sources such as files from various departments of the Terengganu state government, political parties’ collections, personal collections and newspapers were used to analyse the questions regarding the stance and support for political parties which contested for control of the state government from 1955 to 1969. These materials also were used to analyse the state government’s performance which influenced the voters’ decision as to whether to stay loyal or to change the government. This study shows that elections can be used as an index for the political, economic and educational development in Terengganu. The Malaysian general elections have a significant impact for both political parties and the people especially in Terengganu. The survival of political parties is heavily dependent on the people during each election. The people in Terengganu chose only the parties that would bring good governance which would bring fair and just development for all.
Modeling an Augmented Lagrangian for Blackbox Constrained Optimization
Creators: name: Gramacy, Robert B.
name: Genetha A. Gray
name: Digabel, Sébastien Le
name: Lee, Herbert K. H.
name: Ranjan, Pritam
name: Wells, Garth
name: Wild, Stefan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Constrained blackbox optimization is a difficult problem, with most approaches coming from the mathematical programming literature. The statistical literature is sparse, especially in addressing problems with nontrivial constraints. This situation is unfortunate because statistical methods have many attractive properties: global scope, handling noisy objectives, sensitivity analysis, and so forth. To narrow that gap, we propose a combination of response surface modeling, expected improvement, and the augmented Lagrangian numerical optimization framework. This hybrid approach allows the statistical model to think globally and the augmented Lagrangian to act locally. We focus on problems where the constraints are the primary bottleneck, requiring expensive simulation to evaluate and substantial modeling effort to map out. In that context, our hybridization presents a simple yet effective solution that allows existing objective-oriented statistical approaches, like those based on Gaussian process surrogates and expected improvement heuristics, to be applied to the constrained setting with minor modification. This work is motivated by a challenging, real-data benchmark problem from hydrology where, even with a simple linear objective function, learning a nontrivial valid region complicates the search for a global minimum. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Prior-free probabilistic prediction of future observations
Creators: name: Martin, Ryan
name: Lingham, Rama T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Prediction of future observations is a fundamental problem in statistics. Here we present a general approach based on the recently developed inferential model (IM) framework. We employ an IM-based technique to marginalize out the unknown parameters, yielding prior-free probabilistic prediction of future observables. Verifiable sufficient conditions are given for validity of our IM for prediction, and a variety of examples demonstrate the proposed method's performance. Thanks to its generality and ease of implementation, we expect that our IM-based method for prediction will be a useful tool for practitioners.
Modeling an Augmented Lagrangian for Blackbox Constrained Optimization
Creators: name: Gramacy, Robert B.
name: Genetha A. Gray
name: Digabel, Sébastien Le
name: Lee, Herbert K. H.
name: Ranjan, Pritam
name: Wells, Garth
name: Wild, Stefan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Constrained blackbox optimization is a difficult problem, with most approaches coming from the mathematical programming literature. The statistical literature is sparse, especially in addressing problems with nontrivial constraints. This situation is unfortunate because statistical methods have many attractive properties: global scope, handling noisy objectives, sensitivity analysis, and so forth. To narrow that gap, we propose a combination of response surface modeling, expected improvement, and the augmented Lagrangian numerical optimization framework. This hybrid approach allows the statistical model to think globally and the augmented Lagrangian to act locally. We focus on problems where the constraints are the primary bottleneck, requiring expensive simulation to evaluate and substantial modeling effort to map out. In that context, our hybridization presents a simple yet effective solution that allows existing objective-oriented statistical approaches, like those based on Gaussian process surrogates and expected improvement heuristics, to be applied to the constrained setting with minor modification. This work is motivated by a challenging, real-data benchmark problem from hydrology where, even with a simple linear objective function, learning a nontrivial valid region complicates the search for a global minimum. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Quantifying Avian Predation on Fish Populations: Integrating Predator-Specific Deposition Probabilities in Tag Recovery Studies
Creators: name: Hostetter, Nathan J.
name: Evans, Allen F.
name: Cramer, Bradley M.
name: Collis, Ken
name: Lyons, Donald E.
name: Roby, Daniel D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology

description: Accurate assessment of specific mortality factors is vital to prioritize recovery actions for threatened and endangered species. For decades, tag recovery methods have been used to estimate fish mortality due to avian predation. Predation probabilities derived from fish tag recoveries on piscivorous waterbird colonies typically reflect minimum estimates of predation due to an unknown and unaccounted-for fraction of tags that are consumed but not deposited on-colony (i.e., deposition probability). We applied an integrated tag recovery modeling approach in a Bayesian context to estimate predation probabilities that accounted for predator-specific tag detection and deposition probabilities in a multiple-predator system. Studies of PIT tag deposition were conducted across three bird species nesting at seven different colonies in the Columbia River basin, USA. Tag deposition probabilities differed significantly among predator species (Caspian terns Hydroprogne caspia: deposition probability = 0.71, 95% credible interval [CRI] = 0.51–0.89; double-crested cormorants Phalacrocorax auritus: 0.51, 95% CRI = 0.34–0.70; California gulls Larus californicus: 0.15, 95% CRI = 0.11–0.21) but showed little variation across trials within a species or across years. Data from a 6-year study (2008–2013) of PIT-tagged juvenile Snake River steelhead Oncorhynchus mykiss (listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act) indicated that colony-specific predation probabilities ranged from less than 0.01 to 0.17 and varied by predator species, colony location, and year. Integrating the predator-specific deposition probabilities increased the predation probabilities by a factor of approximately 1.4 for Caspian terns, 2.0 for double-crested cormorants, and 6.7 for California gulls compared with traditional minimum predation rate methods, which do not account for deposition probabilities. Results supported previous findings on the high predation impacts from strictly piscivorous waterbirds nesting in the Columbia River estuary (i.e., terns and cormorants), but our findings also revealed greater impacts of a generalist predator species (i.e., California gulls) than were previously documented. Approaches used in this study allow for direct comparisons among multiple fish mortality factors and considerably improve the reliability of tag recovery models for estimating predation probabilities in multiple-predator systems.Received August 1, 2014; accepted November 11, 2014
Specimens from Schärer et al. 2019, "A phylogenetically informed search for an alternative Macrostomum model species, with notes on taxonomy, mating behavior, karyology and genome size"
Creators: name: Schärer, Lukas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Macrostomum

description: The deposited folders contain image and video material of free-living flatworm specimens that were documented in vivo. These data support the following publication: Schärer, L., J. N. Brand, P. Singh, K. S. Zadesenets, C.-P. Stelzer, and G. Viktorin. 2019. A phylogenetically informed search for an alternative Macrostomum model species, with notes on taxonomy, mating behavior, karyology and genome size. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12344 For more information about these specimens see also http://macrostomorpha.myspecies.info.
Local and global dynamical control parameters are not so easily separated
Creators: name: Liley, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Hierarchical systems such as cortical tissue will indeed exhibit dynamics that are scale-dependent, but Nunez’s conjecture that theoretically independent transfer functions for each level can be specified and then combined ignores the fact that, in cortex, the same excitatory neuronal populations will contribute to both local and global dynamics.
Die Ausbildung von Sonderpädagoginnen und Sonderpädagogen in Zürich und der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens. Ein internationaler Vergleich im Rahmen des Erasmusprojektes TeTeTi
Creators: name: Jans, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik
Year: 2024
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Ausbildung
Sonderpädagoge
Sonderpädagogin
Zürich
deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens
internationaler Vergleich
Erasmusprojekt TeTeTi

description: Das Erasmus+ Projekt «Teaching Teacher in Times of Inclusion» untersucht, wie sonderpädagogisches Wissen in die Aus- und Weiterbildung von Lehrpersonen integriert wird. Vertretende aus deutschsprachiger Hochschulinstitutionen besuchen sich gegenseitig, um das jeweilige Ausbildungssystem kennenzulernen und Interviews mit sonderpädagogischen Lehrpersonen durchzuführen. Die Masterarbeit fokussiert auf die Aus- und Weiterbildung von sonderpädagogischen Lehrpersonen der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens und in Zürich. Die Interviews wurden anhand der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Kuckartz und Rädiker ausgewertet, um Rückschlüsse für die Weiterentwicklung der Aus- und Weiterbildungssysteme zu ziehen. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse werden vor dem Hintergrund der regionalen Aufgaben- bzw. Kompetenzprofile, den aktuellen Ausbildungsinhalten sowie themenspezifischer Literatur, diskutiert.
Praktikum 2 Divisi Magnoliophyta Kelas Magnoliopsida Anak Kelas Magnoliidae
Creators: name: Rindah Listiyanti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: PRAKTIKUM 2 REVISI FIX div Mangnoliophyta kelas magnoliopsida anak kelas magnoliidae
Study of the dynamic behavior of the cruzain enzyme in free and complexed forms with competitive and noncovalent benzimidazole inhibitors
Creators: name: dos Reis, Caroline Rodrigues Chaves
name: de Souza, Hellen Valério Chaves Moura
name: Leme, Rennan Papaleo Paes
name: Castelo-Branco, Frederico Silva
name: Fernandes, Tácio Vinício Amorim
name: Boechat, Núbia
name: Dias, Luiza Rosaria Sousa
name: Hoelz, Lucas Villas Bôas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: There are only two drugs for the treatment of Chagas disease, namely, nifurtimox and benznidazole, that can cause several adverse effects. Despite the effectiveness of these drugs in the disease's acute phase, they are not recognized as curative in the chronic phase, establishing the need for more effective treatment in all stages of the disease. Cruzain is an enzyme that plays a vital role in the life cycle of the etiologic agent, the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, being relevant as a therapeutic target in the planning of new drugs. Using molecular docking and dynamics simulations, we have investigated the structural and dynamic factors that can be involved in the enzyme inhibition process at the atomic-molecular level by benzimidazole compounds that are potent cruzain inhibitors with in vitro trypanocidal activity. The study suggests that these inhibitors bind cruzain through steric and hydrogen bonding interactions without altering its secondary structure content and protein compaction. Besides, we observed that these inhibitors decrease the correlation of movements between Cα-atoms of cruzain, increasing the number of atomic communities, mainly in the α-helix that presents the catalytic Cys25 residue. As expected, we also observed a correlation between the inhibitory activity of each inhibitor and their respective binding-free energies, reinforcing that the affinity of the complexes seems to be a relevant factor for enzymatic inhibition. Hence, the results presented in this work contribute to a better understanding of the cruzain enzyme inhibition mechanism through competitive and non-covalent inhibitors. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Islambezogene Themen in interreligiösen Bildungsprojekten der Eugen-Biser-Stiftung
Creators: name: Zinsmeister, Stefan
name: Karakaya, Erdoğan
Publisher: name: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift
Year: 2020

description: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift, Bd. 69 Nr. 2 (2018)
Supporting online Web-based teamwork in offline mobile mode too
Creators: name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research into Web based teamwork support has assumed that the network connection exists permanently, i.e. online. However, there is an increasing demand that teamwork environments should also support the offline mobile scenario that is so far not well addressed. The paper describes the radical requirements, novel mechanisms and innovative prototype for team members to work in an offline mobile mode in addition to that of the normal online mode. The prototype supports teamwork between the online and offline mobile modes with smooth switching over.
Luminescent Phosphate Sensor Based on Upconverting Graphene Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Shujuan Zhuo
name: Luyang Chen
name: Yongjun Zhang
name: Guangxia Jin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Engineering

description: In this paper, we have presented a novel graphene quantum dots based upconversion fluorescent sensor for detection of phosphate. The upconversion fluorescence of graphene quantum dots with emission wavelength at 407 nm was quenched by rare earth ion, Eu3+ in proper concentration. The quenching constant is calculated from Stern–Volmer equation. Importantly, quenched fluorescence of graphene quantum dots-Eu3+ could be recovered with the addition of phosphate based on a competition mechanism, which provides a turn-on sensing strategy for phosphate assay. The recovered fluorescence is proportional to the concentration of phosphate. The linear range for the detection of phosphate was 1 to 12 µM with a detection limit of 100 nM. The proposed sensing system has been successfully used for the assay of phosphate in real river water samples, indicating the practical potential.
Modeling an Augmented Lagrangian for Blackbox Constrained Optimization
Creators: name: Gramacy, Robert B.
name: Genetha A. Gray
name: Digabel, Sébastien Le
name: Lee, Herbert K.H.
name: Ranjan, Pritam
name: Wells, Garth
name: Wild, Stefan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Medicine

description: Constrained blackbox optimization is a difficult problem, with most approaches coming from the mathematical programming literature. The statistical literature is sparse, especially in addressing problems with nontrivial constraints. This situation is unfortunate because statistical methods have many attractive properties: global scope, handling noisy objectives, sensitivity analysis, and so forth. To narrow that gap, we propose a combination of response surface modeling, expected improvement, and the augmented Lagrangian numerical optimization framework. This hybrid approach allows the statistical model to think globally and the augmented Lagrangian to act locally. We focus on problems where the constraints are the primary bottleneck, requiring expensive simulation to evaluate and substantial modeling effort to map out. In that context, our hybridization presents a simple yet effective solution that allows existing objective-oriented statistical approaches, like those based on Gaussian process surrogates and expected improvement heuristics, to be applied to the constrained setting with minor modification. This work is motivated by a challenging, real-data benchmark problem from hydrology where, even with a simple linear objective function, learning a nontrivial valid region complicates the search for a global minimum.
HÁZIRGI KÚNDEGI MÁLIMLEME KITAPXANA ISI TARAWÍNDAǴÍ AKTUAL MÁSELELER
Creators: name: Xudaybergenova, Marjan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Kitap insannıń aqılıy hám ruwxıy jaqtan rawajlanıwınıń tiykarǵı deregi esaplanadı. Sonlıqtan, málimleme-kitapxanalıq jumıstı durıs shólkemlestiriw, onıń iskerligin keń en jaydırıw házirgi kúnde jámiyet aldında turǵan tiykarǵı mashqalardan biri esaplanadı. Sol sebepli, bul maqalada málimleme-kitapxanalıq jumıs tarawı, wazıypası, áhmiyeti hám mashqalaları keltirip ótilgen.
Taxonomic reevaluation of Eremias strauchi strauchi Kessler, 1878 and Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972, based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae)
Creators: name: Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani
name: Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani
name: Wink, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology

description: Strauch's Racerunner, Eremias strauchi, is represented by two subspecies, Eremias strauchi strauchi Kessler, 1878 and Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972, occurring in opposite margins on the northern Iranian Plateau. We sequenced 3926 base pairs of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from 16 samples of Eremias strauchi, Eremias lalezharica and Eremias velox collected from northeastern, northwestern and southern Iran. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that Eremias lalezharica is sister to Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica and caused the currently recognised species Eremias strauchi to be paraphyletic. According to the estimated genetic distances in the mitochondrial fragments among the lineages, E. s. strauchi diverged from E. s. kopetdaghica and E. lalezharica with a mean genetic distance of 14.0% and 13.9% respectively. Our data indicate enough molecular divergence between the two currently recognised subspecies of E. strauchi and justify upgrading them to full species level as Eremias strauchi (for the north-western clade) and Eremias kopetdaghica (for the north-eastern clade).