cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A way to go : curriculum needs of adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities
Creators: name: Andrew, RG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The focus of debate around the issue of equity and schooling has concentrated mainly upon access as a rights conditional to social justice, rather than the curriculum undertaken by students who are included in regular schools. This study first sought to describe and find priorities for the curriculum needs of young adolescents with Mild Intellectual Disabilities (MID) and second, to determine criteria by which stakeholders might evaluate the appropriateness of curriculum undertaken by MID students. Individuals from a spread of stakeholder groups were surveyed. They responded to paragraph length vignettes which described the schooling experiences of six students from both regular and special settings in a school District of North-eastern Tasmania. The stakeholder groups were teachers, parents, peers, employers, community agency professionals, administrators and taxpayers. Complementing the surveys, separate interviews were conducted over a two-and a half-year period with the six target students, their parents and their teachers. Research questions focused on the curriculum needs of MID adolescents, agreement in the perceptions of stakeholders with regard to the needs expressed, the balance of curriculum domains available to students in regular secondary school programs and the discrepancy between the 'needed' and the 'undertaken' curricula. Results indicated that: (1) the content and outcomes of non-academic curriculum domains were clearly favoured over those of the traditional academic curriculum domain; (2) the students' highest priorities (i.e., of social adjustments and life skills) were not reflected in the assessment records given most attention by teachers and the educational system; (3) alternative programs and assessment models were recognised by stakeholders as most important to school and post-school outcomes; (4) community-referenced, ecologically planned, cross-contextual learning was valued highly but not readily available; (5) while employers favoured more academic domain engagement for MID adolescents than did other stakeholders, they placed greatest importance on non-academic skills (e.g., punctuality and impulse control) of employees; and (6) proximal stakeholders and employers favoured earlier and more workplace experience for MID adolescents. The results have been used to propose several criteria for appropriate curriculum. Through a consideration of these, educators and advocates might design provisions that better meet the curriculum needs of students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities. The study has indicated that secondary schools' curricula fall short of meeting several of the criteria derived from the results. Given that students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities are the largest group affected by several states' inclusion initiatives, the study has strong implications for equity in the researched context and beyond.
Towards frame-like gauge invariant formulation for massive mixed symmetry bosonic fields. II. General Young tableau with two rows
Creators: name: Zinoviev, Yu. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we complete our construction of frame-like gauge invariant description for massive mixed symmetry tensor fields corresponding to arbitrary Young tableau with two rows started in [1]. We consider general massive theory in (A)dS spaces with arbitrary cosmological constant as well as all special limits which exist both in de Sitter and in anti-de Sitter spaces.
description: 22 pages, 11 LaTeX pictures
Dynamics and rheology under continuous shear flow studied by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy
Creators: name: Fluerasu, Andrei
name: Kwasniewski, Pawel
name: Caronna, Chiara
name: Destremaut, Fanny
name: Salmon, Jean-Baptiste
name: Madsen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) has emerged as a unique technique allowing the measurement of dynamics in materials on mesoscopic lengthscales. In particular, applications in soft matter physics cover a broad range of topics which include, but are not limited to, nanostructured materials such as colloidal suspensions or polymers, dynamics at liquid surfaces, membranes and interfaces, and the glass or gel transition. One of the most common problems associated with the use of bright X-ray beams with soft materials is beam induced radiation damage, and this is likely to become an even more limiting factor at future synchrotron and free electron laser sources. Flowing the sample during data acquisition is one of the simplest method allowing to limit the radiation damage. In addition to distributing the dose over many different scatterers, the method also enables new functionalities such as time-resolved studies in mixing cells. Here, we further develop an experimental technique that was recently proposed combining XPCS and continuously flowing samples. More specifically, we use a model system to show how the macroscopic advective response to flow and the microscopic dissipative dynamics (diffusion) can be quantified from the X-ray data. The method has many potential applications, e.g. dynamics of glasses and gels under continuous shear/flow, protein aggregations processes, the interplay between dynamics and rheology in complex fluids.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Priming pictures and words : an investigation of the N400 and LPC
Creators: name: Ayre, Marie Louise
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Two ERP components are discussed in relation to studies of semantic and mnemonic processing, namely the N400 and LPC. The N400 is a monophasic negativity typically observed between 250 - 500 ms post-stimulus. Semantic and repetition priming studies utilising linguistic stimuli in the visual modality (i.e. words, nonwords), and stimulus paradigms (i.e. sentence priming and lexical decision tasks) have indicated that the N400 is readily evoked by semantic anomaly and is sensitive to word frequency (low frequency words eliciting greater amplitude N400s than high frequency words), word class (larger N400s to content words), semantic relatedness (larger N400s to unrelated words), subject expectancy (larger N400s to unexpected words within a context), phonology (larger N400s to non-rhyming words and nonwords), and repetition (attenuated N400s following word repetition). Theoretical formulations suggest the N400 indexes the degree of spreading activation throughout the semantic network (Morton, 1969), contextual integration (Rugg, 1990), semantic expectancy (Kutas & Hillyard, 1984), or a memory search process (Bentin & McCarthy, 1994). Which of these formulations most accurately explains the N400 is currently unresolved. Whether the negativity observed following semantic anomaly in paradigms employing nonlinguistic stimuli (e.g. pictures, faces, and music) is reflecting the same process as the N400 elicited by linguistic anomaly, is also the subject of considerable debate. Enhanced LPC amplitudes in language tasks are typically recorded to sentence final words. The broad, post N400 positivity, occurs approximately 550-800 ms post-stimulus and is presumed to reflect processes associated with closure (Friedman, Simson, Ritter, & Rapin, 1975; Kutas & Hillyard, 1982), certainty (Stuss, Picton, Cerri, Leech, & Stethem, 1992), and integrative elaborative processing (Andrews, Mitchell, & Ward, 1993). All task relevant stimuli appear to elicit the LPC, its amplitude being inversely related to subjective probability. The LPC is also associated with certain aspects of mnemonic processing. Enhanced LPC amplitudes have been recorded to stimuli which are subsequently recognised, to 'seen' stimuli as compared to 'unseen', and to the second presentations of stimuli. Subsequent to these findings, it has been hypothesised that the LPC observed in memory and repetition paradigms reflects some process associated with both encoding and retrieval. Resulting from the perceived similarity between the LPC component elicited in these various paradigms, some investigators posit that similar episodic processes subserve them (Besson & Kutas, 1993).
A new iridoid glucoside from the roots of Morinda officinalis
Creators: name: Huyen, Le Thi
name: Hien, Nguyen Thi
name: Anh, Nguyen Viet Duy
name: Thao, Vu Mai
name: Thoa, Nguyen Thi Kim
name: Hang, Nguyen Thi Minh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A new iridoid glucoside, moridoside (1), and nine known compounds, asperulosidic acid (2), 6-O-epi-acetylscandoside (3), geniposidic acid (4), 2-hydroxymethylanthraquinone (5), 2-hydroxymethyl-3-hydroxyanthraquinone (6), damnacanthol (7), lucidine-ω-methyl ether (8), 2-hydroxy-1-methoxyanthraquinone (9), and 3,8-dihydroxy-1,2-dimethoxyanthraquinone (10) were isolated from the methanol extract of Morinda officinalis How. roots. Their structural identification was carried out based on the spectroscopic evidence. All compounds were evaluated for their nitric oxide (NO) production inhibitory activities in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages. Compounds 5-7 significantly inhibited the production of NO with IC50 values of 28.4, 33.6, and 30.5 μM, respectively.
Asterosaponins from the starfish Protoreaster nodosus
Creators: name: Vien, Le Thi
name: Hanh, Tran Thi Hong
name: Quang, Tran Hong
name: Van Thanh, Nguyen
name: Cuong, Nguyen Xuan
name: Nam, Nguyen Hoai
name: Do Cong, Thung
name: Van Kiem, Phan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Five asterosaponins (1–5), including one new compound named protonodososide (1), were isolated from the methanol extract of the starfish Protoreaster nodosus, after subjecting to various chromatographic separations. The structural elucidation was confirmed by careful analysis of the 1D, 2D NMR, and HR ESI QTOF mass spectra. The cytotoxicity of isolated compounds was evaluated on five human cancer cell lines including HepG2, KB, MCF7, LNCaP, and SK-Mel2.
Flavonoids as emerging notch signaling pathway modulators in cancer
Creators: name: Singh, Atul Kumar
name: Kumar, Shashank
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved pathway important for the developmental processes and implicated in the tumor formation. Notch signaling pathway (NSP) inhibitors have been tested in clinical trials alone or in combination with the chemotherapy but none got clinical approval due to severe toxicity in patients. Flavonoids inhibit NSP by inhibiting notch receptor cleavage and/or inhibiting transcriptional regulation by Notch intracellular domain (NICD). Interestingly, some flavonoids are reported to inhibit NSP by mediating the microRNA expression. NSP inhibitory flavonoid(s) in combination with standard therapy is might be an effective strategy in cancer treatment.
Enhanced squeezing with parity kicks
Creators: name: Ni, Xiao-Tong
name: Liu, Yu-Xi
name: Kwek, L C
name: Wang, Xiang-Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using exponential quadratic operators, we present a general framework for studying the exact dynamics of system-bath interaction in which the Hamiltonian is described by the quadratic form of bosonic operators. To demonstrate the versatility of the approach, we study how the environment affects the squeezing of quadrature components of the system. We further propose that the squeezing can be enhanced when parity kicks are applied to the system.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Permission to disturb
Creators: name: Martin-Stone, Karen
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
[Documentation of work produced within the Master of Fine Art course]
Creators: name: Bonde, Ian
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: My first paper, 'Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and Plumbism' has been written primarily as a case study. I believe that it is an important example in describing the connection between the body and the mind. Questions surrounding this relationship have for millenia, lain prominently within the domain of human self discovery. Attempts to quantify and qualify the connection between our bodies and our minds have produced a plethora of theories and ideas. Some are more plausible than others. However, none have completely and satisfactorily explained this most basic and fundamental aspect of our selves. Just as this vexing question remains as one of the great enigmas of existence, so too is the life and work of this eighteenth century sculptor. His curious set of busts continues to invite speculation. Having previously developed an interest in his work, I was fortunate enough whilst in London, to see an exhibition of many of his busts shown in conjunction with overdrawings by Arnulf Rainer at the I.C.A. This was a marvelous opportunity to view the works. The true power and sense of oddity can only be felt in front of the actual objects. Upon the commencement of my M.F.A. course, I began with the notion of representing the spiritual and the physical, the mind and the body. The strange sculpture of Franz Messerschmidt seemed an appropriate avenue to investigate. I have written an account which considers his work within the guise of the body/mind question and posits a possible explanation. My second paper developed as my practical work progressed. I distilled my interest in the body/mind problem, settling into a direction concerned with the Seven Deadly Sins. I had been curious as to the historical development of this notion and noted the interest shown in this subject in recent times. The work of Heironymus Bosch in the Prado museum in Madrid impressed me greatly. His images and ideas (and those of other medieval artists such as Breugel) provided an intriguing insight into another time and another world. It also gave me an alternative viewpoint on the connection between the physical and the spiritual, the body and the mind. The underlying theme behind all the written work is a questioning of human self. The connection between the papers, the documentation, and my practical work, is the broader investigation of the relationship between the body and the mind.
Anomalous Behavior of the Diffusion Coefficient in Interacting Adsorbates
Creators: name: Zayzoune, S.
name: Mazroui, M.
name: Boughaleb, Y.
name: Kara, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Langevin simulations provide an effective way to study collective effects of Brownian particles immersed in a two-dimensional periodic potential. In this paper, we concentrate essentially on the behaviour of the tracer (DTr) and bulk (DB) diffusion coefficients as function of friction. Our simulations show that in the high friction limit, the two physical quantities DTr and DB present qualitatively the same behaviour, for both coupled and decoupled substrate potentials. However, for the low friction regime, and especially for the coupled potential case, an anomalous diffusion behaviour is found. We also found that in the case of weak dynamical coupling between the ad-particles and the substrate, the exponents are not universal and rather depend on the potentials. Moreover, changes in the inter-particle potentials may reverse the behaviour to a normal one.
ZdiM100-Levumi N3. Test zu Rechenoperationen zur Lernverlaufsdiagnostik. „Zahlen dividieren (Zahlenraum 100)“ der Onlineplattform www.levumi.de
Creators: name: Buchwald, Katharina
name: Lutz, Stephanie
name: Gebhardt, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Lernverlaufsdiagnostik, Rechentest, Sonderpädagogik, Divisionsaufgaben im Zahlenraum 100, CBM, Progress Monitoring, Test, Lehrzielkontrolle
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Die Onlineplattform Levumi (www.levumi.de) ist im Bereich Mathematik Grundlagen um das Testverfahren „Zahlen dividieren“ erweitert worden. Der Test beinhaltet Divisionsaufgaben im Zahlenraum 1-100 (N3). Die Anforderung des Tests besteht darin den Quotienten der Division zu ermitteln. Dieser Rechenoperationstests ist als schülerzentrierter Speedtest mit einer Durchführungszeit von fünf Minuten konstruiert. Im Folgenden wird ein kurzer Einblick in die Konzeption des Testverfahrens „Zahlen dividieren“ und dessen Umsetzung auf der Onlineplattform Levumi gegeben. Für einen Einsatz als Printversion sind dem Dokument im Anhang drei parallele Testversionen angehängt (Versionen 1–3).
Adopt-a-Monument
Creators: name: Macqueen, Eila
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
the archaeology of this day
Creators: name: Gchitty
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Buoyant Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: O'Neill, S. M.
name: De Young, D. S.
name: Jones, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of 3D MHD simulations of the dynamics of buoyant bubbles in magnetized galaxy cluster media. The simulations are three dimensional extensions of two dimensional calculations reported by Jones & De Young (2005). Initially spherical bubbles and briefly inflated spherical bubbles all with radii a few times smaller than the intracluster medium (ICM) scale height were followed as they rose through several ICM scale heights. Such bubbles quickly evolve into a toroidal form that, in the absence of magnetic influences, is stable against fragmentation in our simulations. This ring formation results from (commonly used) initial conditions that cause ICM material below the bubbles to drive upwards through the bubble, creating a vortex ring; that is, hydrostatic bubbles develop into "smoke rings", if they are initially not very much smaller or very much larger than the ICM scale height. Even modest ICM magnetic fields with beta = P_gas/P_mag ~ 10^3 can influence the dynamics of the bubbles, provided the fields are not tangled on scales comparable to or smaller than the size of the bubbles. Quasi-uniform, horizontal fields with initial beta ~ 10^2 bifurcated our bubbles before they rose more than about a scale height of the ICM, and substantially weaker fields produced clear distortions. On the other hand, tangled magnetic fields with similar, modest strengths are generally less easily amplified by the bubble motions and are thus less influential in bubble evolution. Inclusion of a comparably strong, tangled magnetic field inside the initial bubbles had little effect on our bubble evolution, since those fields were quickly diminished through expansion of the bubble and reconnection of the initial field.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 2 of An Ensemble Deep Learning based Predictor for Simultaneously Identifying Protein Ubiquitylation and SUMOylation Sites
Creators: name: He, Fei
name: Li, Jingyi
name: Wang, Rui
name: Zhao, Xiaowei
name: Han, Ye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Table S2: Details of the dataset division of the 10-fold cross-validation
Interactions in coinage-metal/ligand complexes, CM–L, and their cations (CM = Cu, Ag, Au; L = CO, N2 and H2)
Creators: name: Davies, Alexander R.
name: Azim, Hiba
name: Wright, Timothy G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The CM–L and CM+–L complexes for the three coinage metals, CM = Cu, Ag and Au interacting with three key ligands, L = CO, N2 and H2, are investigated. Calculations are undertaken using various quantum chemical methods to ascertain the equilibrium geometries and interaction energies; the latter are calculated at the coupled-cluster level of theory, and extrapolated to the basis set limit. Some of the neutral species are found to be particularly challenging, and significant disparity is found in some cases for the geometry and/or harmonic vibrational wavenumbers. In addition, molecular orbital diagrams, atomic charges, and orbital contour plots are presented, in order to gain insight into the interactions occurring in these complexes.
Master of Fine Arts theory papers
Creators: name: Armstrong, Daniel
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: There is a vast history of Art that deals with the sublime and luminescent images and objects, with many contemporary artists, such as James Turrell and Keith Sonnier, making use of the material of light itself within their work. In the course of my M.F.A. studies I have actively sought out reviews, articles and books which feature such artists and their work. Clearly my own work can be considered within the context of such art. My aim in writing this paper is to establish the specific events and influences within my life which have been responsible for my \initial\" interest in photography and the luminous image and have consequently formed the foundations of my current work. This paper provides a personal context rather than a broader historical and contemporary context of which much has already been written."
Design, synthesis and anti-bacterial evaluation of novel 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives bearing a semicarbazone moiety
Creators: name: Wan, Jinlin
name: Gan, Yiyuan
name: Hu, Weinan
name: Meng, Jiao
name: Tian, Kun
name: Li, Xiaoqin
name: Wu, Shouqun
name: Xu, Yang
name: Ouyang, Guiping
name: Wang, Zhenchao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: Novel 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives bearing a semicarbazone moiety were prepared and evaluated for their anti-bacterial activities against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri (Xac) by performing a turbidimetre test. The products were structurally characterised by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, 19F NMR and HRMS. Anti-bacterial testing showed that most of the evaluated compounds (6a-6s) exhibited excellent activity (≥74.19%) against Xoo at a concentration of 200 µg/mL, with 50% effective concentration (EC50) values ranging from 12.21 to 67.20 µg/mL, which were superior to the commercial antibacterial agent bismerthiazol (92.23 µg/mL). Among them, compound 2-((2-chloro-1H-indol-3-yl)methylene)-N-(5-((2-chlorobenzyl)thio)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)hydrazine-1-carboxamide (6b) demonstrated good inhibitory activity against Xac (89.46% at 200 µg/mL) and Xoo (EC50 = 18.28 µg/mL); compound 2-((2-chloro-1H-indol-3-yl)methylene)-N-(5-((4-methoxybenzyl)thio)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)hydrazine-1-carboxamide (6g) displayed excellent activity against Xoo with EC50 value of 12.21 µg/mL.
Radicarbon dating samples
Creators: name: Madgwick, Richard
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Anxiety and cognition in children and adolescents
Creators: name: Burrows, Linda J
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The link between distorted thinking and anxiety in children and adolescents has long been established; however, there have been few studies which address gender differences or the effect of age on anxiety and cognition. The major aims of the thesis are to investigate age (via grade) and gender differences in the anxiety-induced cognitive output of children and adolescents, and to assess the effect of positive statements, coping statements and threat statements on state anxiety. To this end, a number of hypotheses are explored involving children from different grade levels in a series of four experiments. First it is hypothesised that there will be increases in the number of anxiety-induced cognitions as grade increases. Second, females will report significantly more coping and threat statements and significantly less positive statements. Third, that trait anxiety will be significantly positively correlated with coping and threat statements, and in addition, the relationship between positive cognitions and anxiety will be explored. Fourth it is hypothesised that those presented with positive statements will report significantly less state anxiety than those presented with coping or threat statements. It has been demonstrated that there are developmental changes in the presentation and intensity of children's fears, and previous research in the area has not controlled for these differences in selecting stimuli items to induce anxiety. Experiment 1 selected three fear items to be used to induce anxiety in later experiments which control for age differences. The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II (FSSC-II; Gullone & King, 1992a) and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, 1983) or the State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC; Spielberger 1973) were administered to 311 children from grades 3, 4, 5, 7 and 10. The selected items did not display significant effects of grade, were significantly positively correlated with trait anxiety and they were reported with notable levels of fear. It was not possible to select items that did not show gender differences because the majority of items were feared significantly more by females. The final selected items were 'having no friends', 'having an operation' and 'sharks'.
Development of IME and thermoforming-1
Creators: name: López, Laura
name: Sáez, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Deliverable 2.2 exposes advances related to WP2 – T2.3 – Plastic processing. It entails a description of the tests obtained for thermoforming and/or over-moulding of selected substrates for demonstrators and active components as antennas and organic photodetectors (OPD) printed with innovative materials developed within MADRAS’ project.
 Regarding antennas, firstly compatibility of injected polymers like thermoplastics polyurethane (TPU) with nanocellulose foils (NCF) has been analysed. Secondly, redesign of the antennas by simulation has been carried out, considering the presence of a TPU layer of different thickness over the printed UHF and UWB antennas.
 Regarding fingerprint sensor, the different comprising parts of the demo have been addressed separately: substrate, TFT and OPD. Firstly, a first design for thermoforming and injection mould tool for the demo has been drawn. The mould is designed to be compliant, since the very first stage of the project, with the final motorbike-selected part integration.
 Secondly, thermoforming tests on the PI/TPU/PC stack has been carried out. These initial set of experiments has enabled to test the resistance of the stack of substrate materials to the shape of demo 2 mould. Moreover, TFT test structures platform has been designed for testing thermoforming parameters stepwise: pressure and temperature limits, thermoforming of TFT and TFT/OPD full stack.
 Finally, initial experiments on plastic injection on OPD are presented with the aim of setting up a platform that enables to study the stability of OPD constituent materials (photoactive layers, charge transport layers, electrodes and encapsulant materials) to injection processes and film/injected polymer compatibility.
 The partners participating in this task are EUT, TNO, INF, UWL and AWCP. The document entails the work carried out from month 8 to month 15.
An examination of the use of the injunction in labour management disputes
Creators: name: Rowney, Edward William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of the study was to determine if the labour injunction was a necessary recourse for Canadian labour management disputes. It was hypothesized that the use of injunctions is a function of attitudes rather than legislation; that there tends to be an increase in the incidence of injunctions during periods of industrial conflict; and that the injunction must be available to protect the right to private property and the right to private contract. These postulates were substantiated through a review of the injunctive processes of Great Britain, Australia, the United States and Canada (Ontario and British Columbia). It was further hypothesized, that if the injunctive legislation was necessary, then the present process required change, as it is not as efficacious as originally postulated. The alternatives presented are based on data obtained from the analysis of the three previously named countries and Canada. The proposed changes are presented in relation to British Columbia, but are applicable to the other provinces of Canada.
How to generate a significant effective temperature for cold dark matter, from first principles
Creators: name: McDonald, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show how to reintroduce velocity dispersion into perturbation theory (PT) calculations of structure in the Universe, i.e., how to go beyond the pressureless fluid approximation, starting from first principles. This addresses a possible deficiency in uses of PT to compute clustering on the weakly non-linear scales that will be critical for probing dark energy. Specifically, I show how to derive a non-negligible value for the (initially tiny) velocity dispersion of dark matter particles, , where δv is the deviation of particle velocities from the local bulk flow. The calculation is essentially a renormalization of the homogeneous (zero order) dispersion by fluctuations 1st order in the initial power spectrum. For power law power spectra with n>-3, the small-scale fluctuations diverge and significant dispersion can be generated from an arbitrarily small starting value -- the dispersion level is set by an equilibrium between fluctuations generating more dispersion and dispersion suppressing fluctuations. For an n=-1.4 power law normalized to match the present non-linear scale, the dispersion would be ~100 km/s. This n corresponds roughly to the slope on the non-linear scale in the real \LambdaCDM Universe, but \LambdaCDM contains much less initial small-scale power -- not enough to bootstrap the small starting dispersion up to a significant value within linear theory (viewed very broadly, structure formation has actually taken place rather suddenly and recently, in spite of the usual "hierarchical" description). The next order PT calculation, which I carry out only at an order of magnitude level, should drive the dispersion up into balance with the growing structure, accounting for small dispersion effects seen recently in simulations.
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Electronic excitation and electric field as switching mechanism for a single-molecule switch
Creators: name: Früchtl, Herbert
name: Robertson, Lorna M.
name: van Mourik, Tanja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: DFT calculations show that a combination of an electric field and electronic excitation is a promising mechanism to force a molecular switch based on amino-imino tautomerisation into one of its two states. By calculating the effect of an electric field in the direction of the moving hydrogen on the shape of the barrier in the ground and low-lying excited states of previously proposed molecular switches consisting of 5- and 7-membered rings with adjacent amino and imino groups, we demonstrate that electric fields and photons in experimentally accessible ranges introduce sufficient asymmetry to push the switch into the desired configuration. Excitation to states with inverted order of the preferred geometry allows reversible switching without reversal of the electric field.
Power in philosophy : two arguments for nonviolence today
Creators: name: Alomes, A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Contemporary philosophy has a case to answer when it only offers a range of accounts on power which implicate violence. An analysis showing that violence cannot be legitimate fuels even deeper concern. It would appear that the moral agent is left facing two (rather unsatisfactory) choices: either pursue power through violent means, or renounce violence and remain powerless. For some, this situation will be deeply counter-intuitive requiring an alternative solution. As an alternative candidate for power, Western nonviolent action contains some useful beginnings for a theoretical account, but its apparent limitations have led to a dismissal of the subject by mainstream philosophy. Two contemporary examples (the Tibetan community in exile and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa) successfully demonstrate the exercise of power through nonviolence. By taking a Western and non-Western philosophical approach and bringing the theoretical foundations together we find compelling evidence for a new action theory of power based on nonviolence. This approach through \fusion philosophy\" brings to philosophical discourse new definitions of violence and nonviolence and a fresh perspective on the roots of violence and the pathway to the antidote. The contemporary application of MK Gandhi's satyagraha or \"truth insistence\" through the work of Professor Samdhong Rinpoche highlights the important moral issue that nonviolent action is not only descriptive but also representative and what it represents is the truth. Here we find the context for individual action and accountability and a mechanism for effective social change. Contemporary theorists writing on power who make necessary connections between power and violence fail to notice that violence is also representative and fail to ask what it represents. While the change from violent action to nonviolent action may not suit some progress should at least reflect a choice; and contemporary philosophy is faced with providing the conceptual scaffolding to support the increasing number of individuals groups and nations moving through this important transition. This thesis seeks to answer the question: \"Is it reasonable for the epistemological foundations of power to reflect only violence?\" concluding that it is not. I argue that violence is too narrowly defined and offer new definitions of violence and nonviolence. Further that violent action represents falsity or error and is morally wrong. It also represents the supposed legitimate exercise of power when it is in fact illegitimate and unjustifiable. I conclude that nonviolence represents a more morally acceptable type of action because it represents the truth in two senses-- about the way things are and about the way things ought to be."
Enabling Lock-Free Concurrent Fine-Grain Access to Massive Distributed Data: Application to Supernovae Detection
Creators: name: Nicolae, Bogdan
name: Antoniu, Gabriel
name: Bougé, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of efficiently managing massive data in a large-scale distributed environment. We consider data strings of size in the order of Terabytes, shared and accessed by concurrent clients. On each individual access, a segment of a string, of the order of Megabytes, is read or modified. Our goal is to provide the clients with efficient fine-grain access the data string as concurrently as possible, without locking the string itself. This issue is crucial in the context of applications in the field of astronomy, databases, data mining and multimedia. We illustrate these requiremens with the case of an application for searching supernovae. Our solution relies on distributed, RAM-based data storage, while leveraging a DHT-based, parallel metadata management scheme. The proposed architecture and algorithms have been validated through a software prototype and evaluated in a cluster environment.
Electronic circular dichroism of proteins computed using a diabatisation scheme
Creators: name: Rogers, David M.
name: Do, Hainam
name: Hirst, Jonathan D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a powerful technique employed to study the structure of biomolecules. More accurate calculation of CD from first principles will aid both computational and experimental studies of protein structure and dynamics. We apply a diabatisation scheme to improve the description of nearest neighbour interactions between two electronic transitions (nπ* and πnbπ*) localised on each individual peptide bond (amide group) in a protein. These interactions are incorporated into DichroCalc, an exciton-based computational method to calculate CD, and yield improvements over the standard DichroCalc parameter set, particularly for calculation of CD for important secondary structural elements such as an α helix.
Molecular and physiological studies of Pisum mutants
Creators: name: Batge, SL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The characterisation of developmental mutants generates insights into plant growth processes. This thesis presents a molecular investigation of three phytochrome A mutants of Pisum sativum L. (garden pea), and a study of the influence of abscisic acid (ABA) on seed development in the gibberellin (GA)- deficient mutant lh-2. Phytochromes are plant biliproteins which sense red (R, 600 - 700 nm) and far-red (FR, 700 - 760 nm) light and act in concert with other photoreceptors to influence developmental processes, such as germination, seedling de-etiolation, daylength perception and transition to flowering, in response to environmental cues. Two allelic mutants at the funl locus are deficient in phytochrome A. Point mutations have now been identified within the PHYA structural gene of both fun1-1 and fun1-2. These cause premature stop codons, predicted to result in production of a truncated and inactive phytochrome A protein in the mutant plants. This is consistent with the demonstration that fun1-2 plants lack immunodetectable PHYA, and with the previously described phenotypes. Co-segregation between the fun1-2 mutant phenotype and the identified molecular lesion confirms that the funl mutant phenotype is the direct result of disruption to the PHYA structural gene. The funl mutants can now be used confidently in future rigorous analyses of the physiological and developmental roles of the phytochrome family in pea. The AF05 mutant phenotype is similar to that described for transgenic phytochrome A-overexpressing lines in other species. Results presented in this thesis indicate that there is no mutation in the PHYA gene of this mutant, either in the coding region or promoter. Possible explanations for the phenotype are discussed. In Arabidopsis and tomato, phytochrome A mediates a FR-light induced block of greening when seedlings are transferred from FR to white light. This response is considered with regard to the phytochrome A mutants of pea. Gibberellin (GA)-deficient lh-2 mutant plants of pea are dwarf in stature and show increased seed abortion and decreased seed weight, compared with seeds of the wild type. This aberrant seed development is associated with reduced levels of active GA, and with an accumulation of abscisic acid (ABA) in young seeds. Hormonal influence on seed development was investigated by construction of an lh-2 wil double mutant. The wi/ mutation blocks ABA biosynthesis, and reduces ABA levels in young seeds by 10-fold, such that introduction of the wi/ mutation reduces the endogenous ABA levels in young lh-2 seeds. However, this fails to rescue the seeds from abortion. This indicates that the effects of lh-2 on seed development are not mediated through increased ABA levels, and is consistent with previous evidence that GAs are the controlling factor underlying the lh-2 seed phenotype in pea.
Mirror Source based Overcurrent and Short Circuit Protection Method for High Power SiC MOSFETs
Creators: name: Sommer, Fabian
name: Soltau, Nils
name: Stamer, Fabian
name: Menger, Nikolas
name: Idaka, Shiori
name: Hiller, Marc
Publisher: name: VDE Verlag
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dual-Active-Bridge
SiC
MOSFET
Overcurrent Protection
Short Circuit Protection
High Power

description: This paper presents a fast overcurrent and short circuit protection based on the mirror source detection method for 1200V/1200A Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs used in a high power Dual Active Bridge (DAB). It will be shown that this protection method is feasible for a low inductive short circuit caused by a half bridge shoot through, a high inductive short circuit based on a failure inside the load as well as short circuits of Type 1 or hard switching fault. Additionally, the short circuit behaviour is analyzed for different junction temperatures of the MOSFETs. Experimental results proof that using the investigated method always ensures the operation in the Short Circuit Safe operating Area (SCSOA) of the MOSFET after triggering short circuits.