cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sentosa : a feminist ethnography of a psychiatric hospital in Sarawak, East Malaysia
Creators: name: Ashencaen Crabtree, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2002
Subjects: Hospital Sentosa, Anthropology, Folklore, Medical care

description: This doctoral thesis is a feminist ethnographic study of psychiatric patients in the State of Sarawak, East Malaysia. The study took place at a psychiatric hospital located in the capital city of Kuching, commencing in 1997. Although Hospital Sentosa is a small institution it is the only psychiatric institution in the State and therefore constitutes an important mental health resource in this region. This ethnographic study primarily concentrates on the lives of women patients in keeping with my chosen methodological approach and seeks to explore the 'culture' of the hospital setting through facets such as daily interactions, activities and relationships. The feminist approach has not however precluded the accounts of male patients whose experiences are utilised in a comparative exercise with those of women counterparts. In addition the views of staff of both sexes and all ranks are considered in relation to their attitudes towards the care of psychiatric patients and the broader area of work-related concerns including collegial support and occupational hazards. In keeping with an ethnographic approach themes developed in the thesis are drawn through an analysis of findings as noted by observation methods as well as through interviews with participants. Furthermore a self-reflexive approach has been an important aspect of analysis commensurate with feminist methodology, in which my role as a researcher is considered in relation to issues of culture, gender and class as well as some of the difficulties of research in a post-colonial and unfamiliar cultural context. Although some avenues of inquiry in the study have not easily lent themselves to an analysis of gender, this thesis primarily argues that the hospital reproduces oppressive policies and practices that impact with greater severity on women patients. Oppressive practices in relation to gender and ethnicity at the hospital are viewed against a backdrop of contemporary psychiatric care as enacted on wards. It is argued that these practices can be viewed in turn as being, for the most part, historically premised upon imported British models of care replicated through colonialism in Malaya and by extension at a later period in the multicultural State of Sarawak.
The importance of fitting in: conformational preference of selenium 2′ modifications in nucleosides and helical structures
Creators: name: Adam Thompson, R.
name: Spring, Alexander M.
name: Sheng, Jia
name: Huang, Zhen
name: Germann, Markus W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Social Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Selenomethionine incorporation has proven useful in X-ray crystallography of proteins to obtain phase information. In nucleic acids, the introduction of selenium to different positions is beneficial for solving the phase problem as well, but its addition to the 2′ position also significantly enhances the crystal formation. The selenium modification in a single nucleotide shows a preference towards 2′-endo sugar puckering, which is in conflict with existing crystal structures where the duplex incorporated 2′-selenium-modified nucleotide is exclusively found in a 3′-endo conformation. Our work provides a rationale why 2′-selenium modifications facilitate crystallization despite this contradictory behavior.
Generalizing the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Method Through a Push-Out Leibniz Integration Approach
Creators: name: Ren, Xingyu
name: Fu, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize the generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) method through a novel push-out Leibniz integration approach. Extending the conventional push-out likelihood ratio (LR) method, our approach allows the sample space to be parameter-dependent after the change of variables. Specifically, leveraging the Leibniz integral rule enables differentiation of the parameter-dependent sample space, resulting in a surface integral in addition to the usual LR estimator, which may necessitate additional simulation. Furthermore, our approach extends to cases where the change of variables only locally exists. Notably, the derived estimator includes existing GLR estimators as special cases and is applicable to a broader class of discontinuous sample performances. Moreover, the derivation is streamlined and more straightforward, and the requisite regularity conditions are easier to understand and verify.
The Lost Kuśasthaḷī
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Kuśasthaḷī, we are told, is the original name of modern Kuṭṭhāḷæ or Cortalim, the village on the banks of river Zuari, between Sāṁkhavāḷæ (Sancoale) and Kēḷaśī (Quelossim). Kuśasthaḷī was also the name of the ancient Yadava city at the mouth of river Gomati on the western coast of the Kāṭhīyāvāḍa (Kathiawar) peninsula, just below the gulf of Kaccha. It is here that Kṛṣṇa built his new capital when he moved there from Mathurā. The place was not totally alien to him. According to Bhāgavata Purāna, the city was built by Revata, a descendant of king Śaryātī. [Bhāgavata Purāna, Canto 9, Chapter 3 : 27] Revata’s son Raivata Kāḍakumīṁ married his daughter Revatī to Kṛṣṇa’s elder brother Balarāma. But here the story becomes a little misleading. It appears that it was this connection that drove Kṛṣṇa to seek asylum in Kuśasthaḷī. What the Bhāgavata Purāna does not make clear is that Kṛṣṇa and king Śaryātī belonged to the same ancestral Yadava lineage; Kṛṣṇa’s ancestors had left Kuśasthaḷī for Mathurā, driven by hostile invaders. So Kṛṣṇa chose “a remote but already known ancestral home-town” for resettling his band of Yadavas; possibly at the invitation of Raivata. [Nayak et al, 1992 : Existence And Location Of Dvaraka City of Mahabharata Era And Its Subsequent Submergence, in New Trends In Indian Art And Archaeology, 480]
The Sophisticate and the Ingénue: Two Visions of la Parisienne in Jacques Deray’s La Piscine
Creators: name: Chaplin, Felicity
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: On a balmy summer evening, guests are arriving at a remote villa on the Mediterranean for a night of drinking and dancing. On the terrace the sound of crickets fills the night air. Marianne (Romy Schneider) appears in an iridescent sequined dress, featuring a kaleidoscope of dusty pink, silver blue, bronze and gold. The shimmering v-neck sleeveless dress displays her curvaceous figure and reveals her bronzed arms, shoulders and décolletage. With her hair meticulously coiffed and wearing heavy eyeliner, she is the picture of glamorous and sophisticated eroticism. She places her arms around her former lover Harry (Maurice Ronet), slow dances with half-closed eyes and an irrepressible smile, her hair moving lightly in the gentle breeze. Across the terrace, beside the still water of the swimming pool, Harry’s eighteen-year-old daughter Penelope (Jane Birkin) rests her head tentatively on the shoulder of Marianne’s lover, Jean-Paul (Alain Delon). Dressed in high-waisted flared denim jeans and a white crew-neck t-shirt, her long hair worn out and undressed, Penelope epitomises the bohemian ingénue. Jacques Deray’s La Piscine (1969) offers two contrasting versions of la Parisienne: the sophisticate and the ingénue.
O conceito de Deus na Teologia Fundamental
Creators: name: Duque, João
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: O artigo pretende abordar o significado do conceito (cristão) de Deus para a Teologia Fundamental. Se habitualmente o conceito (trinitário) de Deus é estudado no contexto da Dogmática, a perspectiva aqui apresentada é diferente. Ao mesmo tempo, daí resulta um ligeiro alargamento e mesmo alteração de certas perspectivas da Teologia Fundamental. De facto, esta não se reduz ao estudo das condições (racionais) de compreensão e mesmo de validade de um conceito de Deus dado de forma absolutamente dogmática e positiva. Mesmo que essa abordagem, ao estilo dos tradicionais praeambula fidei, continue a ser essencial, convém não perder de vista o facto de que a Teologia Fundamental, ao ser plenamente teologia, parte já do impacto que nela tem um (determinado) conceito de Deus revelado e transmitido pela tradição eclesial, por isso mesmo indedutível a priori, a partir de categorias pretensamente racionais. Este artigo aborda o referido impacto na perspectiva da possibilidade de pensar Deus, da verdade do seu conceito, da origem histórica da sua constituição-revelação e do seu conteúdo trinitário.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Mysterium Gottes und Mysterium des Menschen Zur Frage der christlichen Anthropozentrik
Creators: name: Wiedenhofer, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: No âmbito, quer de um modelo transcendental – semiótico (as religiões como sistemas de signos que são criados por uma experiência religiosa fundamental e que criam as experiências dos seus membros), quer da estrutura fundamental do credo trinitário, resulta a pergunta pela determinação recíproca da imagem de Deus e do homem. A resposta será a seguinte: Existe um certo antropocentrismo do Cristianismo na medida em que Jesus Cristo é o signo decisivo da manifestação e salvação de Deus. Mas uma vez que o mistério de Deus e o mistério do homem apenas são reciprocamente acessíveis, corresponde ao entendimento trinitário de Deus uma imagem complexa do homem e vice-versa.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Agnostos Theos und die christliche Rede von Gott : Irenäische Sichten
Creators: name: Jaschke, Hans-Jochen
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: Com o conceito de agnostos theos Ireneu de Lião ilumina o cerne da concepção gnóstica de Deus. Ele vai ao encontro dessa problemática, com a convicção fundamental de que Deus é agnostos, desconhecido, quanto à sua grandeza, mas não quanto ao seu amor. A convicção cristã sobre Deus sabe, por isso, que Deus se torna visível e palpável no Seu Filho. No artigo que se segue são analisados todos os textos relevantes dos livros Adversus Haereses acerca deste tópico. Da pesquisa panorâmica emerge um facto: a teologia de Ireneu mantém a sua actualidade até hoje.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Horizons of mystery and of wisdom in God: essay of rhetorical biblical analysis on Jb 28
Creators: name: Almendra, Luísa Maria
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: The focus of this study is to present the composition of Job 28, according to the procedures of Rhetorical Biblical Analysis as a concrete way to approach the biblical text using methodological reading and an attentive listening. Some recent attempts of classical rhetoric constitute a first step, but the results are not always very convincing, mainly in what respects the relation between the text and its interpretation. A brief looking to the results of the study of the composition of Job 28 will permit not only to emphasize the philological richness of the poem as to re-launch a greater understanding of this text (the context of) the Book of Job, and to reveal the pertinence of its thought in the singular field of Biblical Wisdom Literature, which is always woven of poetry and enigma.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Complex Sclerophyll
Creators: name: Li, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: If life is a race, then time is the winner. You run as fast as you can, but she has wings, and you thrash forward only to clasp her ever lengthening shadows. Crystal shuts her notebook.
In front of her, a few passengers sit motionless, spread like a hand of cards, their true selves withheld behind the identical stoops, except for a rectangular man, chatting to the driver from the side seat, his generous eyes and lips beaming with Southern European warmth. Crystal feels an urge to commit this face to memory. Stirred by her gaze, he turns her way, but she withdraws before their eyes meet.
Philosophy or Philology? Barnaby Norman. Mallarmé’s Sunsets: Poetry and the End of Time. London: Legenda, 2014 [Review article]
Creators: name: Gelder, Christian R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 200511 Literature in French
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Outside of Mallarmé studies, Mallarmé is a proper name often invoked to signify something vague, something or perhaps someone foundational, but no doubt important to the other proper nouns and names that populate the academy: Philosophy, Literature, History, but also Hegel, Blanchot, and Derrida. Inside of Mallarmé studies, by contrast, scholarship over the past thirty years or so has sought to relinquish the properness of Mallarmé’s proper name. Whether by revisiting his supposed “difficulty” to show the absolutely egalitarian nature of his poetics or by situating him against his immediate competitors, interlocutors, and adversaries to tease out the specific influences on his poetry, recent readings of Mallarmé have reconstructed both his life and thought in its philological richness; attempting to demystify the otherness of a poet too often thought to have wandered more lonely than a cloud.
Supplementary document for Enhanced diffraction efficiency with angular selectivity by inserting an optical interlayer into diffractive waveguide for augmented reality displays - 5967386.pdf
Creators: name: Lin, Yinyue
name: Xu, Hengshen
name: Shi, Rui
name: Lu, Linfeng
name: Zhang, Shan-Ting
name: Li, Dongdong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental explanation of the data and discussions in manuscript
Henry Lawson. Franca Cavagnoli, Ed. Racconti. Rome, Italy: Idragomanni, 2014 [Book review]
Creators: name: Gadd, Anna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Henry Lawson (1867–1922), a prolific writer of short stories and poems set in the bush in the Australian colonial period, is well known for his attention to characters and dialogues and for the use of a sharp writing style that matches the harshness and severity of life in the Australian outback be- tween the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Racconti is a collection of short stories by Lawson translated into Italian by Translation Studies students supervised by Franca Cavagnoli (the Italian translator of Mark Twain, David Malouf, Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee and others). Cavagnoli reviewed all of the students’ translations, wrote the afterword, a contextualising chapter on the history and culture of Australia in the colonial period, and maintained oversight of the whole publication. Racconti includes some of the most iconic short stories by Lawson, such as “A Double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek” and “The Loaded Dog,” here with the titles “Un calesse doppio a Lahey’s Creek” and “Il cane carico.”
Kent MacCarter. Sputnik’s Cousin. Melbourne: Transit Lounge: 2014 [Book review]
Creators: name: Hodge, Siobhan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Much like its title, Sputnik’s Cousin is at once familiar and not quite of this world, or alternatively, entirely too reflective of this world and jarringly confronting. “Sputnik” not only refers to the Earth’s first artificial satellite, heralding a massive step in scientific ingenuity, but also means “fellow traveller” in Russian. To be Sputnik’s “cousin,” linked to this image of probing advancement, ironically committed to the quiet extremes of space, is to herald the collection’s connections to uncomfortable truths, but an oddly familial, encouraging means of conveyance.
Facilitating Collaboration among Children with Autism through Robot-assisted Play
Creators: name: Wainer, Joshua
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2013
Subjects: autonomous robots
Collaborative play
Robot-assisted play
Children with autism

description: This thesis discusses how autonomous robots can be used to foster and support collaborative play among children with autism in a number of different settings. Because autism impairs one’s skills in social communication and social interaction, this makes it particularly difficult for children with this disorder to participate in many different forms of social play, particularly collaborative play due to the interpersonal skills needed to coordinate and synchronize people’s actions through constantly communicating with them. Since these children have trouble playing collaboratively, this further hinders their ability to develop the necessary skills of interacting and communicating with others. I approached this idea from an empirical, behaviourist perspective instead of a theoretical one, in the sense that I conducted three different experiments in which I observed the behaviours of children with autism participating in controlled play sessions both with and without robots. To this end, I designed simple, effective control architectures which allowed LEGO NXT robots and KASPAR the humanoid robot to autonomously interact with people while playing with them. Additionally, I designed many collaborative video games such as arena games, “Tilt & roll”, and “Copycat”, that served as environments in which children with autism could play with the autonomous robots. The experiments in this thesis attempted to show that not only would children with autism improve their social behaviours while playing collaborative video games with autonomous robots, but these improvements would also transfer into similar settings in which the children would only interact with other people. By recording videos of the children’s interactions and performing observational analyses on the children’s behaviours, the data from my first exploratory experiment indi- cated that the amount of enjoyment the children showed in an after-school robotics was more positively correlated with their social behaviour than the number of play sessions in which they interacted. Using similar means, the results from my more streamlined second experiment suggested that children with autism displayed more social behaviours while playing with a typically developed adult after playing with KASPAR than they did beforehand, and the findings from my more rigorous third experiment strongly indicated that different pairs of children with autism showed improved social behaviours in playing with each other after they all played as groups with KASPAR compared to before they did so.
Stu Hatton. glitching. Melbourne, Australia: (outer) publishing, 2014 [Book review]
Creators: name: McFarlane, Rosalind
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature

description: Divided into ten sections, each with three to eight poems, Stu Hatton’s glitching at first appears to be a collection that is quite divided. However, the thematic differences begin to complement each other in what seems to be an accidental and haphazard way, but is instead a deliberate invitation to the reader to consider how errors, transformations and strange pairings form partial and hesitant, but nonetheless fascinating, ways to connect.
Software Defect Prediction Using Static Code Metrics: Formulating a Methodology
Creators: name: Gray, David Philip Harry
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2013
Subjects: software engineering
machine learning
defect prediction
fault prediction
code metrics
data quality

description: Software defect prediction is motivated by the huge costs incurred as a result of software failures. In an effort to reduce these costs, researchers have been utilising software metrics to try and build predictive models capable of locating the most defect-prone parts of a system. These areas can then be subject to some form of further analysis, such as a manual code review. It is hoped that such defect predictors will enable software to be produced more cost effectively, and/or be of higher quality. In this dissertation I identify many data quality and methodological issues in previous defect prediction studies. The main data source is the NASA Metrics Data Program Repository. The issues discovered with these well-utilised data sets include many examples of seemingly impossible values, and much redundant data. The redundant, or repeated data points are shown to be the cause of potentially serious data mining problems. Other methodological issues discovered include the violation of basic data mining principles, and the misleading reporting of classifier predictive performance. The issues discovered lead to a new proposed methodology for software defect prediction. The methodology is focused around data analysis, as this appears to have been overlooked in many prior studies. The aim of the methodology is to be able to obtain a realistic estimate of potential real-world predictive performance, and also to have simple performance baselines with which to compare against the actual performance achieved. This is important as quantifying predictive performance appropriately is a difficult task. The findings of this dissertation raise questions about the current defect prediction body of knowledge. So many data-related and/or methodological errors have previously occurred that it may now be time to revisit the fundamental aspects of this research area, to determine what we really know, and how we should proceed.
Editorial and front matter: Colloquy, Issue 28, December 2014
Creators: name: Colloquy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: COLLOQUY text theory critiqueissue 28, december 2014--Issue twenty-eight of Colloquy: text, theory, critique is a general issue, consisting of four articles and five book reviews. The strength of this material demonstrates Colloquy’s dedication to quality scholarly work and all articles published in this issue are by current postgraduate students and early career researchers.
Photographing la Parisienne: Some Motifs in Baudouin
Creators: name: Chaplin, Felicity
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Art

description: n 2006 French photographer Baudouin embarked on an exploration of the “icon of elegance and savoir-vivre,” la Parisienne. His book, 75 Parisiennes, published in October 2013 and accompanied by an exhibition at the Clémentine de la Féronnière gallery in Paris, consists of 75 portraits of Parisian women selected from 8750 photographs taken over 250 shoots. Baudouin’s book is interesting in terms of the treatment of the Parisienne type because it puts into play various pre-existing themes or motifs, revealing the vitality and currency of la Parisienne, a type or figure ubiquitous in the art and letters of nineteenth century France. In his book, Baudouin sets out to depict modern-day Parisiennes in contemporary interior settings. In doing so, he both reinvents and reinforces the Parisienne type, which has undergone several transformations since it came to prominence in nineteenth-century French culture. The depth of Baudouin’s work is found, in part, in this cultural history.
How Cohesive Are Community Search Results on Online Social Networks?: An Experimental Evaluation
Creators: name: Zhao, Yining
name: Bhowmick, Sourav S
name: Fischer, Nastassja L.
name: Chen, SH Annabel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, numerous community search methods for large graphs have been proposed, at the core of which is defining and measuring cohesion. This paper experimentally evaluates the effectiveness of these community search algorithms w.r.t. cohesiveness in the context of online social networks. Social communities are formed and developed under the influence of group cohesion theory, which has been extensively studied in social psychology. However, current generic methods typically measure cohesiveness using structural or attribute-based approaches and overlook domain-specific concepts such as group cohesion. We introduce five novel psychology-informed cohesiveness measures, based on the concept of group cohesion from social psychology, and propose a novel framework called CHASE for evaluating eight representative community search algorithms w.r.t. these measures on online social networks. Our analysis reveals that there is no clear correlation between structural and psychological cohesiveness, and no algorithm effectively identifies psychologically cohesive communities in online social networks. This study provides new insights that could guide the development of future community search methods.
The Amplified Resonance Light Scattering Signal Detection of DNA Hybridization Using Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as a Probe
Creators: name: Ma, Ying
name: Cai, Changqun
name: Yang, Huimin
name: Luo, Lin
name: Chen, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: ABSTRACTA simple and rapid method has been developed to detect the nucleic acid–based polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as a probe by the amplified resonance light scattering signals of DNA hybridization. Five polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, pyrene, fluoranthene, anthracene, and phenanthrene, particularly naphthalene, with double-stranded DNA and single-stranded DNA in aqueous solution were investigated. Through amplified resonance light scattering signals, the complementary and mismatched sequences of DNA can be both detected and identified easily. Mechanism investigations by multiple spectra have shown that groove binding occurs between PAHs and double-stranded DNA.
 Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Spectroscopy Letters to view the supplemental file.
Additional file 1 of Exosomal hsa_circ_0006859 is a potential biomarker for postmenopausal osteoporosis and enhances adipogenic versus osteogenic differentiation in human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells by sponging miR-431-5p
Creators: name: Zhi, Feng
name: Ding, Yi
name: Wang, Rong
name: Yang, Yujiao
name: Luo, Kaiming
name: Hua, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Top five up/downregulated circRNAs in the microarray.
“A Sort of Buzzing”: Queer Sound in David Malouf’s Blood Relations
Creators: name: Marland, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: David Malouf’s only stage play, Blood Relations, is an Australian re-telling of Shakespeare’s comedy, The Tempest. Following its premiere at the Sydney Theatre Company in 1987, the play received a mixed critical reception and has generated relatively little scholarly interest since. While much of the critical discourse concerned with Malouf’s work centres on his novels and poetry, Blood Relations is important for providing a dramatic lens on issues that are recognisable in much of his work, such as his exploration of postcolonial Australia. In fact, Blood Relations operates as a postcolonial palimpsest that problematises the relationship between the European settlers (represented through the Greek-born character Willy) and Australia’s Indigenous population (represented through the Aboriginal character Kit).
The Influence of Solid Additives on the Tribological Properties of Lubricants
Creators: name: Zhao, Chuanli
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2013
Subjects: Zinc borate
Cerium Oxide
Surface modification
Solid lubricant additives
Tribology

description: The present work investigates the tribological properties of solid particles as lubricant additives in lubricants. Two types of solid particles, Ceria nanoparticles (CeO2) and Zinc borate ultrafine powders (ZB UFPs), were used as the lubricant additives in this study. The friction and wear behaviours of these lubricant additives in different base lubricants were identified. With an appropriate application of these solid lubricant additives, the friction reduction and wear resistance properties of the lubricant have been successfully improved. Without assistance of surfactant or surface modification, the two types of solid particles behave very differently. Evident performance was observed that pure ZB UFPs were capable of considerably reducing the friction coefficient of sunflower oil and liquid paraffin when they were used as a lubricant additive without further treatment. On the contrary, CeO2 nanoparticles did not show noticeable contribution to friction reduction when they were used as the only additive in water. Only when surfactant Sorbitan monostearate was employed to enhance the dispersibility of CeO2 nanoparticles in water, the application of this additive was capable of reducing friction coefficient of the water based lubricant effectively. Surface modification of the solid particles was carried out to improve the dispersibility of these particles in base lubricants. Oleic acid (OA) and Hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (HDTMOS) were selected as the modification agents. Modified CeO2 nanoparticles and ZB UFPs revealed outstanding wear resistance property. An improvement of up to 15 times was identified although this improvement on wear resistance, in this case, was often companied by a rise in friction coefficient. Tribo-films generated by tribo-chemical reaction were observed on most of the worn surfaces and the formation of this tribo-film appeared to have played an important role in the friction and wear behaviours of a system. A tenacious tribo-film with good surface coverage was only generated on the worn surface when HDTMOS modified solid particles were used as lubricant additives. The mechanical properties and elemental composition of the tribo-film were studied with nano-indentation and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). Finally, based on the experimental evidence, different functionalities of CeO2 nanoparticles and ZB UFPs as solid lubricant additives were recognized.
Framing The Bling Ring: (Im)material Psychogeography and Screen Technology
Creators: name: Henderson, Laura
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Many authors (notably Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Brian Massumi and Lev Manovich) have considered aspects of the material/virtual collapse. However, the emergence of new media platforms has revealed a new avenue of inquiry: a currently unexplored connection between material and immaterial landscapes through psychogeography. Taking Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013) as a case study, this paper outlines the permeation of the virtual and actual in contemporary Los Angeles (or, more specifically, Hollywood), a transfer aided by expectation and repetition. Blurring the distinction between the filmic and the geographic, this paper presents a meditation on the impact of landscapes on the spectator, and of the spectator on these landscapes. With specific reference to the intrusion of small screen and camera technology in the world of The Bling Ring, this paper examines how the proliferation of screens has led to an enriched, framed and digital cartography of the material world. The Hollywood depicted in The Bling Ring is revealed to be a reflection of a reflection, a cinematic representation that recursively alters our expectation of a place, and in turn changes the manner of its depiction. Thus The Bling Ring both expresses Coppola’s psychogeographic impression while constituting further alteration of the collective psychogeography of Los Angeles. For clarity’s sake, this paper refers to “psychogeography” as outlined by Giuliana Bruno in Atlas of Emotion: that of a fundamentally imaginary space suffuse with memory and emotion, one drawn from either fiction or from the subject’s impressionistic memories of place. Psychogeography in this sense exists at the intersection between a space’s affect and materiality; and the subject’s impression and expectation. In order to understand the roots of the spectator’s relationship with psychogeography, I begin my inquiry as broadly as possible, by examining the theory of collective place from Michel de Certeau’s Practice of Everyday Life. When applying these concepts of impression and emotion onto film spectatorship and modern life, the frame is revealed as a key figure in both material landscapes and their immaterial abstraction. This paper considers the idea of the frame that encloses the landscape as introduced by Anne Friedberg in The Virtual Window. The importance of the frame is compounded by the intrusion of mobile technology into everyday life. I draw support for this idea from both Deleuze’s work on the power of repetition, and by engaging the limitations and quirks of human neuroanatomy and the impact of such elements on the lived experience.
title: Flax, Linseed :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
Dramatherapy Performance and Schizophrenia
Creators: name: Yotis, Lambros
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2002
Subjects: Medicine, Psychology

description: This research project examines the impact of therapeutic performance-making within Dramatherapy practice for clients with schizophrenia. "Dramatherapy Performance", a specific model of therapeutic work which is defined and presented here, consists of the clients' construction of a performance through a therapeutic process and its presentation to an invited audience of their Significant Others. The context of existing evaluation methods in Dramatherapy concerns either the development of the clients' abilities within a group process, such as role-playing or dramatic involvement, or the change of the clients' symptoms after a groupwork as measured by existing psychometric scales. However, no specific method of evaluation of performance-making to be used within clinical practice has been constructed yet. For this reason a new instrument for evaluating this model of work was formulated, namely the "Dramatherapy Performance Evaluation", which derives from a combination of psychiatric and theatre semiotics. This instrument is inspired by Aristotle's "Poetics", used for the first time for assessment in Dramatherapy and analyses the structural elements of a performance in relation to the clients' schizophrenic psychopathology. Furthermore, this project examines the effect of a "Dramatherapy Performance" on the clients' overall psychopathology, and their relationship to self and others. A clinical trial conducted in a Day Hospital for young adult clients with schizophrenia allowed a qualitative evaluation of the therapeutic process as well as quantitative measurements of the clients' symptom change. The outcomes of this project suggest that "Dramatherapy Performance" has a significant effect on the clients' dramatic involvement within the group process, on the decrease of their overall "negative symptomatology", on increasing their "competence and efficacy" and on changing their perceived support from their significant others. The "Dramatherapy Performance Evaluation" showed the importance of the performance's unifying cathartic structure as well as demonstrating how non-verbal therapeutic processes reinforce the impact of verbal processes. It also distinguished the usefulness of collective techniques- such as participation in a chorus- for the less functional clients as opposed to character work for the more functional clients. This research confirms the value of "Dramatherapy Performance" as a treatment for specific schizophrenic symptoms, in addition to medication, and provides Dramatherapy practice with a new and useful instrument for the evaluation of both the therapeutic process and the progress of clients with schizophrenia.
Beneath Lowry’s Carnival: The Abject in Under the Volcano
Creators: name: McLeod, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The cacophony of carnival rings loudly through English novelist Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 work Under the Volcano, often viewed as one of the major novels of the twentieth century. As Jonathan Arac observes in his “pioneer- ing”4 essay on Lowry’s magnum opus, that sense of carnival arises from not only the imagery and themes of Under the Volcano, but also from its form. However, despite the grotesques, the ferris wheels, the hetero- glossia, and the echoes of laughter that pervade the novel, a carnivalesque approach to Under the Volcano creates contortions and uncomfortable unities within the text. To consider the abundance of carnival tropes in Under the Volcano to be indicative of a Mikhail Bakhtinian “carnival sense of the world” ultimately proves reductive and problematic. Many of those tropes are present, as are other Bakhtinian trademarks, but the combined effect of these themes and forms is ultimately far-removed from the carnival form Bakhtin describes.
David Herman. Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind. Cam- bridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013 [Book review]
Creators: name: Noske, Catherine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: David Herman’s argument in Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind shifts across an array of conceptualisations as to how narrative and storytelling come to be implicated within the world. His investigation, as he suggests in his preface, centres on “two key questions: How do stories across media interlock with interpreters’ mental capacities and dispositions, thus giving rise to narrative experiences? And how (to what extent, in what specific ways) does narrative scaffold efforts to make sense of experience itself?” (ix) His work is structured across three main points of focus (the three parts of his text) to interrogate narrative as representing intentionality, and as both a target for interpretation and a vehicle for making meaning in the world. Insightful and detailed, particularly in terms of the depth of research it responds to, Herman’s work offers challenging new positions for consideration across both literary studies and the sciences of the mind. But the greatest contribution made by this text is the manner in which it both exemplifies and argues for a new cross-disciplinarity in academic research.
Manuel Portela. Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines. Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, London, England: MIT Press, 2013 [Book review]
Creators: name: LJ Maher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Scripting Reading Motions provides a comprehensive and engaging examination of the recent evolution of reading practices spanning the codex through to new media formats. Portela offers insight into the complex operations required by readers to engage with various modes of, as he puts it, “bibliographic and computational inscription” (364). By interrogating a number of literary practices—spanning art books, book modification, the digitization of codex works, and hypertextual literature—Portela provides an overview of the ways in which readers experience meaning as a manifested, or embodied, element of the reading process in a given medium. Scripting Reading Motions proves a valuable contribution to a body of literature largely dominated by analyses of monomedial textual engagements.
Looked after adolescents' experience of mental health services
Creators: name: Mann, Kelly
Publisher: name: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2005

description: The main aim of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of looked after adolescents' views of what help they needed for their mental health difficulties and their experience of the mental health services that are currently available to them. It was hoped that this investigation would provide ideas to improve current service provision. Semi-structured interviews were used to interview six females aged 13-17 years from a Looked After Children (LAC) Team, which is part of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was employed to analyse the accounts generated in the interviews. The results indicated a number of mental health as well as social difficulties for the participants. They described a variety of emotional and behavioural difficulties, which included experiencing depression, self-harming behaviour and eating difficulties. Relationships also seemed to be an area of difficulty that featured for this sample of young people. With regards to mental health services, the participants' talked about having a positive experience, feeling supported, their relationship with their therapist and their ambivalence about receiving services. Whilst positive experiences were discussed the participants' were also able to reflect on negative aspects of the service, and consequently ideas for service improvement were generated.
Total Synthesis of (±)-Glabridin
Creators: name: Ji, Wen-Hua
name: Gao, Qian-Shan
name: Lin, Yun-Liang
name: Gao, Hong-Mei
name: Wang, Xiao
name: Geng, Yan-Ling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: An efficient formal synthesis of (±)-glabridin was accomplished in 10 steps from resorcinol using Raney Ni to reduce carbon–carbon double bonds in α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound as the key step.
 [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]
Karen Thornber. Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012 [Book review]
Creators: name: McFarlane, Rosalind
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: As a key figure in world literature, comparative literature and East Asian studies, Karen Thornber’s book Ecoambiguity draws on all these disciplines to provide an ecological reading of works from China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, with a focus on ecodegradation. While written to be understandable by English speakers, the book includes enough direct quotations from the novels, short stories and poems discussed that those with knowledge of the original languages these works are written in have the opportunity to engage with the texts on a deeper level. The book also allows for multiple audiences, giving enough background information that those new to East Asian studies or ecocriticism are not excluded, but those with an understanding of the fields are given enough direction that they can skip the historical overviews.
Criação e nova criação : o que pensa o judaísmo intertestamentário?
Creators: name: Lourenço, João
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: A teologia da ‘Criação – nova Criação’ é um dos dossiers mais ricos de toda a teologia bíblica. Trata-se de um debate que percorre toda a história bíblica, tanto naquela que se faz ad-intra, ou seja, o pensamento bíblico em diálogo com si mesmo, como naquela que se desenrola ad-extra, no confronto com as culturas e as mitologias dos povos circunvizinhos. As implicações deste debate não se limitam ao Pentateuco nem se ficam pela literatura cultual (por exemplo, Salmo 8). Alargam-se, de uma forma muito significativa, aos grupos e movimentos que representam o judaísmo intertestamentário, onde a questão, face à cultura grega, assume uma nova relevância. A fonte que inspira e alimenta a teologia da (nova) criação está no pensamento profético, mormente do Deutero-Isaías, no período pós-exílico e na teologia da ‘Nova Aliança’ de Jeremias e de Ezequiel e também na ideologia político-real que conheceu o seu desenvolvimento na exaltação do Templo e de Jerusalém como morada de Yahwé, através da mediação da dinastia davídica cuja missão era instaurar uma nova ordem social. Os textos sobre esta temática são abundantes, mormente na literatura apocalíptica e de Qumrãn. Aludo apenas a alguns: 1 Henoc 91, 15-16; 1 Henoc 45, 5--6; Jubileus 1, 23-25; 23, 26-32; 1QH 3, 28-35; 13,1.11-12; 15, 13-17; José e Asenath 8,11; 15,3-4.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão
Efficient Mo(VI)-Catalyzed Hydration of Nitrile with Acetaldoxime
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaoyun
name: He, Ying
name: Lu, Ming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: A method for the selective hydration of nitrile to amide by employing commercially available acetaldoxime and inexpensive oxometallate such as molybdate, vanadate, and tungstate in environmentally friendly water is described. Under this protocol, nitriles including aromatic nitriles, heterocyclic nitriles, and aliphatic nitriles were converted into the corresponding amides in good to excellent yields.
 [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications® for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]
O exercício do desejo
Creators: name: Carvalho, Maria Manuela De
Publisher: name: Didaskalia
Year: 2008

description: O exercício do desejo marca o ritmo da vida cristã, à qual podemos chamar vida de oração, isto é, vida de relação com Deus que, tendo-se tornado próximo do homem na liberalidade do amor Trinitário, é sempre liberdade infinita de amor a convidar a finita liberdade humana a participar livremente na vida divina. Reflectir sobre o desejo de Deus leva a tocar humildemente o Mistério Trinitário e procurar delinear a sua relação com a história. Relação que envolve a Encarnação do Verbo de Deus, mas que lhe é anterior e se perde no desígnio eterno da Trindade, como lhe é posterior na acção do Espírito Santo no coração do mundo na comunhão de santidade.
description: Didaskalia, v. 38 n. 2 (2008): O conhecimento de Deus: homenagem a Henrique de Noronha Galvão