cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Proposed FAHP-based Technology Selection and Specification Methodology
Creators: name: Chung Liu, Kin
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: In recent decades, selecting technology has become more difficult than ever due to complexity and abundance of technological options, higher cost of technology development, and rapid diffusion of technologies (Shehabuddeen et at., 2006). There is a visible need to decision makers to adopt appropriate methods for technology selection (TS). Most of the proposed approaches in the literature treat TS as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. For example, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (Saaty, 1980) was proposed for general MCDM problems and was proposed to address TS problems. However, the proposed MCDM methods in literature consider TS as a decision making process for support of project justification, and do not consider TS as a process within the system development life cycle (SDLC). In fact, both industrial practices and literature suggest that TS may happen in both or either 1) project justification stage (before SDLC begins), and 2) system design (an essential system development phase in SDLC). Project justification and system design have different concerns in TS problem. Project justification aims to make decision for strategic benefits, and system design aims to satisfy requirement specifications, although the specifications may also include some strategic requirements such as cost and development lead-time. There is lack of research attempt to incorporate requirement specifications into a TS problem. Furthermore, there are particular issues must be concerned in system design by TS, and these issues may not addressed by general MCDM problem. The research points out two system design issues: 1. a TS problem may require a solution composed by sub-solutions; and 2. there's an opportunity to improve efficiency by integrating TS with technology specifications (TSP) (a system design activity beside TS). These two issues present challenge to conventional MCDM approach. TS is a necessary process in system design in some IT projects, and thereby system designer faces two challenges as described above: 1) requirement specifications must be considered as TS criteria, and 2) system design issues must be addressed. As these two challenges are not addressed by literatures and are regarded as the gap, the research aims to bridge the gap by propose a new methodology for TS as well as TSP. The proposed methodology is based on FAHP (Fuzzy AHP), a MCDM approach, but has features to address above challenges. The ultimate objective of the proposed methodology is to achieve additional benefit - increased effectiveness and increased efficiency. The thesis presents not only the study of TS problem and relevant topics, and development of the proposed methodology, but also to validate the potential benefit.
Partially Penalized Immersed Finite Element Methods for Parabolic Interface Problems
Creators: name: Lin, Tao
name: Yang, Qing
name: Zhang, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present partially penalized immersed finite element methods for solving parabolic interface problems on Cartesian meshes. Typical semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes are discussed. Error estimates in an energy norm are derived. Numerical examples are provided to support theoretical analysis.
title: Lattice Boltzmann modelling of immiscible two-phase flows
Creators: name: Zhang, Duo
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The scope of the current thesis is the comprehensive understanding of the droplet impact and spreading dynamics on flat and curved surfaces with the aim of simulating high density ratio immiscible two phase flows in porous media. Understanding the dynamic behavior of droplet impingement onto solid substrate can provide significant information about the fluid flow dynamics in porous structures. The numerically study process will be realized by using a high density ratio multi-phase lattice Boltzmann model which is able to simulate multi-phase flows in complex systems. The interfacial information between the two immiscible phases can be captured without tracking or constructing the vapour-liquid interface. A three dimensional lattice Boltzmann model is applied on the study of the impaction of a liquid droplet on a dry flat surface for a liquid-gas system with large density ratio. The impaction of liquid droplet on a curved surface for the liquid-gas system with large density ratio and low kinematic viscosity of the fluid is computed by a two-dimensional multi-relaxation-time (MRT) interaction-potential-based lattice Boltzmann model based on the improved forcing scheme. The dynamics behaviors of the spreading of the liquid droplet on the flat surface as well as the impaction of the liquid droplet on a curved surface are computed, followed by their dependence on the Reynolds number, Weber number, Galilei number and surface characteristics. Moreover, an improved force scheme is proposed for the three-dimensional MRT pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann model which is based on the improved force scheme for the Single relaxation time (SRT) pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann model and the Chapman-Enskog analysis. The validation for the new developed three-dimensional multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann model is carried out through Laplace’s law ad by achieving thermodynamic consistency. In addition, the relationship between the fluid-solid interaction potential parameter Gw and the contact angle is investigated for the new developed three-dimensional MRT lattice Boltzmann model. The immiscible two-phase flow in porous media is carried out by a two dimensional MRT lattice Boltzmann model. The porous media structures with different geometrical properties are artificially generated by a Boolean model based on a random distribution of overlapping ellipses/circles. Furthermore, the impact of geometrical properties on the immiscible two-phase flows in porous media is investigated in the pore scale. The lattice Boltzmann model results provide significant information i on the interface between the two immiscible phases in complex systems, it is easy to apply for complex domains with bounce back boundary wall condition and be able to handle multi-phase and multi-component flows without tracing the interfaces between different phases.
Optimizing Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes: A Narrative Review and Recommendations for Improvement
Creators: name: Jump, Robin
name: Sloane, Philip D.
name: Crnich, Christopher J.
name: Mody, Lona
name: Trautner, Barbara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The emerging crisis in antibiotic resistance and concern that we now sit on the precipice of a post-antibiotic era have given rise to advocacy at the highest levels for widespread adoption of programmes that promote judicious use of antibiotics. These antibiotic stewardship programmes, which seek to optimize antibiotic choice when clinically indicated and discourage antibiotic use when clinically unnecessary, are being implemented in an increasing number of acute care facilities, but their adoption has been slower in nursing homes. The antibiotic prescribing process in nursing homes is fundamentally different from that observed in hospital and clinic settings, with formidable challenges to implementation of effective antibiotic stewardship. Nevertheless, an emerging body of research points towards ways to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in nursing homes. This review summarizes the findings of this research and presents ways in which antibiotic stewardship can be implemented and optimized in the nursing home setting.
title: Rhodium-catalysed [(3+2)+2] carbocyclisation of heteroatom-substituted alkenes and synthetic studies towards (+)-repin
Creators: name: Baikstis, Tomass
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The stereoselective construction of fused 5,7-bicycles has attracted considerable attention due to the ubiquity of this motif in complex biologically active sesquiterpene lactones (dehydrocostus lactone, helenalin). Transition metal-catalysed carbocyclisation reactions represent a highly attractive approach towards the construction of functionalised cyclic and polycyclic molecules. Generation of 5- and 7-membered rings from strained 3-membered cycles has emerged as a particularly effective strategy, which is complementing more traditional pericyclic reactions. The description of the transition metal-catalysed carbocyclisation reactions of alkylidenecyclopropanes (ACPs) is provided in the introductory review, which seeks to highlight the evolution of these processes and their application in the context of the construction of 7-membered rings. Despite the numerous advantages that are afforded by this approach, the methods, that allow the synthesis of the suitably functionalised carbocycles for the synthesis of complex natural products, are still rare. Chapter 2 describes our work on the cycloaddition reactions of functionalised olefins, which resulted in the development of highly regio- and diastereoselective rhodium-catalysed [(3+2)+2] carbocyclisation of vinyl silanes with various monosubstituted alkynes. The transformation provides silylated cis-fused 5,7-bicyclic systems, which can be further modified in a number of ways. We have demonstrated that selective oxidation of the silyl group affords C6 hydroxylated 5,7-bicycles – a motif reminiscent of guaianolide and pseudoguaianolide natural products. We anticipate that the methodology outlined herein will find significant application in target directed synthesis. Chapter 3 provides an account of our synthetic efforts towards guaianolide (+)-repin. Rhodium-catalysed [(3+2)+2] carbocyclisation was successfully employed for the construction of the cis-fused 5,7-bicyclic system at the core of the molecule. In the course of these studies we developed an effective strategy for the functionalisation of the 7-membered ring through a series of oxidative transformations. The lactone moiety was introduced via substrate-controlled radical reaction of bromohydrin with silyl ketene acetal and constitutes the first application of these reaction conditions to bromohydrins for the direct synthesis of lactones. We believe that our strategy towards the tricyclic core of repin could also find application in related natural products, providing a general entry to the guaianolide family of compounds.
An investigation into Iranian EFL teachers’ knowledge sharing on Google Meet and self-efficacy: The mediating role of professional development
Creators: name: Farahian, Majid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description:
Given the complex and multi-faceted nature of teaching and learning English in general and in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts in particular and the ever-increasing integration of technology into second language curricula, it is incumbent upon EFL teachers to reflect on their teaching processes to incorporate new technological software and applications into their classrooms. In addition, a dearth of empirical and conceptual studies can be found in the literature on knowledge sharing and its relationship with teachers’ professional development and self-efficacy. Accordingly, the study investigated a structural model of EFL teachers’ knowledge sharing, professional development, and self-efficacy. About 83 EFL teachers in ten language schools were selected based on convenience sampling as the study's participants. Three questionnaires were used to collect the quantitative data, which were analyzed through descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient test, multiple regression, and path analysis. The findings revealed a significant relationship between EFL teachers’ knowledge sharing on Google Meet and their professional development. A significant relationship was found between EFL teachers’ professional development and their self-efficacy. It was also confirmed that EFL teachers’ professional development mediates the relationship between knowledge sharing and their self-efficacy. The effectiveness of training teachers to use online technology is discussed.
title: The Form-Function Complex of the Primate Masticatory Apparatus
Creators: name: C. Fitton, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Craniofacial morphology varies considerably between primate species with many aspects of structural variation occurring within the masticatory apparatus. These variations in masticatory fonn are frequently attributed to differences in diet however elucidating the relationship between masticatory form and function is complex. This study combines the techniques of shape analysis in a comparative study of the primate masticatory apparatus with three-dimensional biomechanical modelling of primate jaw mechanics. The relationship between masticatory form and function is investigated within a subfamily ofprimates, the Cercopithecinae. Species within this group display a range of masticatory forms, inhabit a wide range of environments, have varying diets and share close phylogenetic relationships making them an ideal group to investigate the relationship between structure and function. Using the techniques of geometric morphometrics a shape analysis was conducted in which variations within the masticatory forms of the Cercopithecinae were quantified. Functional predictions of observed shape differences were made and considered in light of known environmental and ecological factors with particular emphasis on dietary specialisations and fall back foods. The results of the shape analysis indicate that differences in body size, strata utilisation, and diet appear to play a major role in structuring adult morphological diversity within and among the Cercopithecinae. Many of the shape differences associated with an increased body size appear to reflect the selective pressures of increased predation risk, including increases in the length ofthe jaw and canine teeth. These morphological traits are associated with the production of a large gape and are hypothesised to be functional adaptations to the use of canines as weapons. Other major shape differences apparent between the Cercopithecinae were those associated with the proportion of leaves and fruit in the diet. The highly frugivorous Mandril/us species possessed features associated with increasing gape and retractile motions of the mandible ideal for incision of large fruits. By contrast the dietary specialist Theropithecus gelada possessed features associated with increasing the efficiency of food breakdown and muscle force production, necessary to process their more abrasive foodstuff (i.e. grasses).
Question of Lorentz invariance in muon decay
Creators: name: Noordmans, J. P.
name: Onderwater, C. J. G.
name: Wilschut, H. W.
name: Timmermans, R. G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possibilities to test the Lorentz invariance of the weak interaction in muon decay are considered. We derive the direction-dependent muon-decay rate with a general Lorentz-violating addition to the W-boson propagator. We discuss measurements of the directional and boost dependence of the Michel parameters and of the muon lifetime as a function of absolute velocity. The total muon-decay rate in the Lorentz-violating Standard Model Extension is addressed. Suggestions are made for dedicated (re)analyses of the pertinent data and for future experiments.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Interaural Time Discrimination of Envelopes Carried on High-Frequency Tones as a Function of Level and Interaural Carrier Mismatch
Creators: name: Buss, Emily
name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Grose, John H.
name: Blanks, Deidra A.
name: Fitzpatrick, Douglas C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The present study investigated interaural time discrimination for binaurally mismatched carrier frequencies in listeners with normal hearing. One goal of the investigation was to gain insights into binaural hearing in patients with bilateral cochlear implants, where the coding of interaural time differences may be limited by mismatches in the neural populations receiving stimulation on each side.
Encentridophorus (Encentridophorus) sarasini Walter 1915
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Encentridophorus
Encentridophorus sarasini

description: Encentridophorus (Encentridophorus) sarasini Walter, 1915
Records from the study area: Maharashtra, Karnataka—“ Encentridophorus indicus “ Cook (1967); “ E. indicus “ Prasad (1974).
Remarks: According to Cook (1986) the specimens from India tend to have fewer swimming hairs on III-L-5 (three dorsally, six ventrally) and its possible that, after additional study on the variability of Encentridophorus sarasini, the Indian populations (orginally described as E. indicus Cook 1967) may prove to be a different taxon.
Habitat: Ponds and slowly flowing streams.
Distribution: New Caledonia, India, Australia, New Guinea.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: In-beam gamma and electron spectroscopy of 253No
Creators: name: Mistry, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The (S)ilicon (A)nd (Ge)rmanium (sage) spectrometer has been employed, together with the ritu gas-filled separator and the great focal plane spectrometer with Total Data Readout (TDR) at the University of Jyv¨askyl¨a to analyse the heavy actinide nucleus 253No (Z=102). Initially, the neutron-deficient odd-A isotope 177Au (Z=79) is studied using the recoil-decay tagging technique, enabling testing and demonstration of γ ray and conversion electron coincidence analysis techniques using sage. This has allowed for conversion coefficient measurements on a number of low-lying states. The main focus of the study is on 253No with combined in-beam γ ray and electron spectroscopy through the recoil-tagging technique. Orbitals emanating from the next shell closure above 208Pb are sensitive to measurement in the deformed heavy midshell region. Thus probing the single-particle structure of regional midshell heavy nuclei allows for exploration of the island of enhanced stability toward the next closed nucleon shells. Using 253No data from sage has enabled γ-electron coincidences to be established for level scheme construction with transition energies determined. Recoil-tagged prompt γ ray and internal conversion electron spectra are compared to Monte Carlo simulations to confirm the rotational structure nature of the bands. Internal conversion coefficient measurements establish the multipolarity of transitions within the bands. Measurement of the B(M1+E2’)/B(E2) interband-intraband ratio confirms the assignment of the bandhead configuration, with results presented strongly supporting the 9/2−[734]ν observed in previous studies. An isomeric state is measured with T1/2=28.6±2.3 µs confirmed through a decay via a 167 keV M2 transition resulting from the 5/2+[622]ν configuration. A 608±20 µs slower isomer has also been tentatively measured, potentially with decay through a non-yrast structure. Excited 249Fm states following the α-decay of 253No are also measured through the recoil-decay tagging technique.
Estimation of Zero Intelligence Models by L1 Data
Creators: name: Šmíd, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A unit volume zero intelligence (ZI) model is defined and the distribution of its L1 process is recursively described. Further, a generalized ZI (GZI) model allowing non-unit market orders, shifts of quotes and general in-spread events is proposed and a formula for the conditional distribution of its quotes is given, together with a formula for price impact. For both the models, MLE estimators are formulated and shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. Consequently, the estimators are applied to data of six US stocks from nine electronic markets. It is found that more complex variants of the models, despite being significant, do not give considerably better predictions than their simple versions with constant intensities.
Encentridophorus (Encentridophorus) similis Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Encentridophorus
Encentridophorus similis

description: Encentridophorus (Encentridophorus) similis Cook, 1967
New records: India, Assam State, Kamrup district, SW of Guwahati city, Deeper Beel wetland, between the water hyacinth Eichhornia corniculata, 26.10903N 91.68359E, 37 m asl., 8. xii. 2009, leg. Das & Bordoloi, 0/1/0 (mounted).
Records from the study area: Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Remarks: Encentridophorus similis resembles E. spinifer Koenike, a species known from Africa from which it differs in number of long, heavy setae at the posterior idiosoma margin (3 – 4 vs. 6 in E. spinifer). Lundblad (1969) considered Encentridophorus similis Cook to be synonymous with E. spinifer.
Habitat: Ponds
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Age Effects in Temporal Envelope Processing: Speech Unmasking and Auditory Steady State Responses
Creators: name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Mamo, Sara K.
name: Grose, John H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether temporal envelope processing is reduced in older listeners. Experiment 1 tested the hypothesis that older listeners exhibit reduced speech unmasking at higher modulation rates. Experiment 2 tested the hypothesis that auditory steady state response (ASSR) amplitudes are reduced in older listeners at high modulation rates.

DESIGN: Two groups of observers with relatively normal hearing (younger, mean age = 25.0 years and older, mean age = 68.7 years) participated in two experiments. Experiment 1 examined speech unmasking in modulated noise as a function of masker modulation rate (16 and 32 Hz) and target speech rate (normal and 33% time compressed). Experiment 2 measured ASSR amplitudes as a function of modulation rate (32 and 128 Hz) and carrier frequency (500 and 2000 Hz).

RESULTS: Experiment 1 indicated that older listeners show reduced speech unmasking for normal-rate speech and reduced recognition of rapid speech in steady noise. However, for rapid speech, there is no age effect for speech unmasking and no difference in the magnitude of masking release as a function of modulation rate. In general, effects of listener age and masker modulation rate on the magnitude of masking release are observed only for normal-rate speech. Experiment 2 showed that the ASSR amplitudes of older listeners are reduced for a 128-Hz modulation rate but not for a 32-Hz modulation rate, irrespective of carrier frequency.

CONCLUSION: These results suggest that the reduced speech unmasking seen in older listeners for relatively slow modulation rates is not caused by deficits in envelope processing but rather is associated with the more constrained redundancy of the speech material available during the masker minima. Deficits in temporal envelope processing are evident in advanced age but only for relatively high envelope frequencies.
Limit Cycles Sparked by Mutation in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Creators: name: Toupo, Danielle F. P.
name: Rand, David G.
name: Strogatz, Steven H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a replicator-mutator model of the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma involving three strategies: always cooperate (ALLC), always defect (ALLD), and tit-for-tat (TFT). The dynamics resulting from single unidirectional mutations are considered, with detailed results presented for the mutations TFT $\rightarrow$ ALLC and ALLD $\rightarrow$ ALLC. For certain combinations of parameters, given by the mutation rate $μ$ and the complexity cost $c$ of playing tit-for-tat, we find that the population settles into limit cycle oscillations, with the relative abundance of ALLC, ALLD, and TFT cycling periodically. Surprisingly, these oscillations can occur for unidirectional mutations between any two strategies. In each case, the limit cycles are created and destroyed by supercritical Hopf and homoclinic bifurcations, organized by a Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation. Our results suggest that stable oscillations are a robust aspect of a world of ALLC, ALLD, and costly TFT; the existence of cycles does not depend on the details of assumptions of how mutation is implemented.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Neumania (Ecpolopsis) multiscutata subsp. bharatensis Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Neumania
Neumania multiscutata
Neumania (ecpolopsis) multiscutata bharatensis cook, 1967

description: Neumania (Ecpolopsis) multiscutata bharatensis Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Karnataka—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Burma.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
A survey on spaces of homomorphisms to Lie groups
Creators: name: Cohen, Frederick R.
name: Stafa, Mentor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this article is to give an exposition of topological properties of spaces of homomorphisms from certain finitely generated discrete groups to Lie groups $G$, and to describe their connections to classical representation theory, as well as other structures. Various properties are given when $G$ is replaced by a small category, or the discrete group is given by a right-angled Artin group.
description: 18 pages
Energy Efficient Broadcast in Mobile Networks Subject to Channel Randomness
Creators: name: Zhang, Zijie
name: Mao, Guoqiang
name: Anderson, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless communication in a network of mobile devices is a challenging and resource demanding task, due to the highly dynamic network topology and the wireless channel randomness. This paper investigates information broadcast schemes in 2D mobile ad-hoc networks where nodes are initially randomly distributed and then move following a random direction mobility model. Based on an in-depth analysis of the popular Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered epidemic broadcast scheme, this paper proposes a novel energy and bandwidth efficient broadcast scheme, named the energy-efficient broadcast scheme, which is able to adapt to fast-changing network topology and channel randomness. Analytical results are provided to characterize the performance of the proposed scheme, including the fraction of nodes that can receive the information and the delay of the information dissemination process. The accuracy of analytical results is verified using simulations driven by both the random direction mobility model and a real world trace.
description: accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Effects of Stimulation Level and Electrode Pairing on the Binaural Interaction Component of the Electrically Evoked Auditory Brain Stem Response
Creators: name: Abbas, Paul J.
name: He, Shuman
name: Brown, Carolyn J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of stimulation level and electrode pairing on the binaural interaction component (BIC) of the electrically evoked auditory brain stem response (EABR) in Nucleus cochlear implant users.
title: An exploration of the Interpersonal and Intrapersonal experiences of women who are morbidly obese
Creators: name: Marshall, Kirsty
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Obesity is a complex condition that impacts on multiple aspects of functioning and can result in serious health conditions and reduced life expectancy and psychological distress. Obesity disproportionately affects women and current incidence rates are indicative of a ‘global epidemic’. The aim of this study was to explore experiences of interpersonal and intrapsychic emotional functioning, and the functions of food and eating in women who were severely or morbidly obese. The final participant sample were seven adult women all in the morbidly obese range (BMI ≥40kg/m²), all of whom were under assessment at a psychological therapies service. The women were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule and transcripts were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The following four master themes were derived from their transcripts: 1)‘Uncertainty in Close Relationships’, 2)‘Behind the Mask: The Pursuit of Self-Worth’, 3)‘Emotional Expression: The Conflict of Sharing or Withholding’, 4)‘The On-Going Battle with Weight and Emotions’. The study findings highlighted the complex and multidirectional relationship between interpersonal experiences and functioning, self-worth and emotional functioning and the development and maintenance of problematic eating patterns and weight difficulties. Early interpersonal experiences had influenced the development of the self and expectations of relationships. Problematic relationships with food and eating had developed in response to the distress of intra- and interpersonal functioning. The consequential weight difficulties were experienced as frustrating and distressing and difficult to overcome, further impacting on emotional distress and self-worth. The findings have implications for treatment approaches, emphasising the importance of non-stigmatising multicomponent services that empower and offer therapeutic interventions focusing on problematic relational patterns and self-worth and the development of adaptive coping mechanisms. This study has the capacity to inform future research on relational and intra-psychic emotional factors in the development and maintenance of obesity and consideration of the mediating mechanisms of emotional eating.
title: The effect of board structure and presence of female directors on corporate risk taking in the UK
Creators: name: Kharabsheh, Buthiena
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Abstract This study investigates the effects of board structure and the presence of female directors on corporate risk-taking behaviour of UK public firms. The research employs a sample of 589 firms from the non-financial sector and 276 firms from the financial sector listed in the FTSE All-Share Index on the London Stock Exchange over the period 2003-2012. The main objective of this research is thus to examine the effect of board structure characteristics and the presence of female directors on corporate risk taking in UK publicly listed companies. After controlling for three types of endogeneity, i.e. simultaneity, unobserved heterogeneity and dynamic endogeneity, through the application and use of a dynamic panel estimator system GMM, this study finds that board structure and female directors are important determinants of corporate risk taking in the UK. Board independence and CEO/Chairperson duality are negatively related to corporate risk taking in both the financial and non-financial companies. In addition, the findings indicate that larger boards in the non-financial sector result in lower corporate risk taking whereas no impact of board size was found in the financial sector. While analysing the percentage number of female directors on corporate risk taking, it was revealed that the presence of female directors on corporate boards in the non-financial sector increases the corporate risk taking and thus works in line with shareholders’ interests and expectations. Moreover, the study finds that this positive significant effect has a quadratic concave effect on corporate risk taking. However, in the financial sector no significant effect on risk taking is shown by the presence of female directors. After considering the effect of financial crisis, it was found that the non-executive directors work in line with shareholders’ interests and support more risky investments in the pre-crisis period in the non-financial companies. However, the non-executive directors in the financial sector behave in a more conservative way, and negatively affect corporate risk taking in both the pre-crisis and post-crisis periods. Moreover, in both sectors duality is found to be negatively related to corporate risk taking during the crisis period only, with no significant effect found for duality in the pre- and post-crisis periods. Further, the positive effect of female ix directors in the non-financial companies appears only in the pre-crisis period. Overall, the findings of this research would be important for the regulators and policymakers responsible for establishing corporate governance regulations for both the financial and non-financial sectors in the UK.
title: The radical experiment in Liverpool and its influence on the reform movement in the early Victorian period
Creators: name: Foggo, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: This thesis investigates the development of radical politics in Liverpool in the first half of the nineteenth century and argues that distinctive events and trends in Liverpool exercised an important influence on the activities of the Reform Movement nationally between 1848 and 1854. It addresses two important but largely neglected areas of historiography: first, the political history of Liverpool in the years between the abolition of the slave trade and the mass influx of Irish refugees in mid-century, during which time the town rose to commercial pre-eminence; secondly, the influence of major provincial centres such as Liverpool on politics at the national level. The origins of Liverpool’s reformist Town Council of 1835-1841 are traced and show a continuity of thought and personalities over several decades against a backdrop of Tory paternalism and institutionalised corruption. The new reformist administration is seen as laying the foundations of a modern society through good governance, financial economy, civil liberty and innovation. On the Corn Laws issue, Liverpool’s reformers were reluctant to follow Manchester’s lead, preferring to pursue free trade on a broad front. This study follows their progress and shows how, ultimately, their thinking on financial reform influenced Cobden’s “National Budget” and remained an ever-present stimulus for several decades. The most prominent of Liverpool’s radical reformers was Sir Joshua Walmsley, whose achievements in both municipal and national politics have received much less attention from historians than they have merited. This study details the influences and experiences in his early career and then traces how, through political dexterity, he pushed parliamentary reform to the forefront of the national political agenda and established the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association in 1849. The influence exerted by his Liverpool background on both his political development and style of campaigning may be seen throughout his parliamentary career.
Processing of Temporal Fine Structure as a Function of Age
Creators: name: Mamo, Sara K.
name: Grose, John H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the processing of temporal fine structure diminishes with age, even in the presence of relatively normal audiometric hearing. Temporal fine structure processing was assessed by measuring the discrimination of inter-aural phase differences (IPDs). The hypothesis was that IPD discrimination is more acute in middle-aged observers than in older observers but that acuity in middle-aged observers is nevertheless poorer than in young adults.
Spectral Integration and Bandwidth Effects on Speech Recognition in School-Aged Children and Adults
Creators: name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Buss, Emily
name: Mlot, Stefan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Previous studies have shown that adult listeners are more adept than child listeners at identifying spectrally-degraded speech. However, the development of the ability to combine speech information from different frequency regions has received little previous attention. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of age on the bandwidth necessary to achieve a relatively low criterion level of speech recognition for two frequency bands, then to determine the improvement in speech recognition that resulted when both speech bands were present simultaneously.
title: An archaeological and geomorphological survey of the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
Creators: name: Colton, Dan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this research was to develop an understanding of the geomorphological processes that have affected the archaeological record in the South Luangwa National Park area of the Luangwa Valley, in eastern Zambia, and determine the extent to which genuine behavioural residues survive. Prior to this research little or no investigation had been initiated into Pleistocene and Holocene geomorphological processes, or the archaeological record.
Masking by a Remote-Frequency Noise Band in Children and Adults
Creators: name: Leibold, Lori J.
name: Neff, Donna L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: OBJECTIVE: Werner and Bargones (1991) observed that a 4-10-kHz noise band can mask a 1-kHz signal during infancy. The purpose of this study was to examine whether remote-noise masking extends into the school-aged years.

DESIGN: Listeners were 4-6-yr-olds, 7-9-yr-olds, and adults. Detection thresholds were measured for the 1-kHz signal in quiet and in the presence of the remote-frequency noise. In separate conditions, masker level was either 40 or 60 dB SPL.

RESULTS: On average, thresholds for the 1-kHz signal were elevated in the presence of the remote-frequency noise for 4-6-yr-olds, but not for 7-9-yr-olds or adults. Group average thresholds were similar across masker levels, indicating nonperipheral effects.

CONCLUSIONS: Susceptibility to remote-frequency masking in children extends to 4-6 yrs of age for some children.
Four-State Study of Midwest Identity
Creators: name: Middle West Review
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2024

description: Regional identity (3); approve/disapprove of regional political figures (3); South Dakota constitutional amendments (2); support state efforts to encourage out-of-staters to move to South Dakota (1); preferred candidate in 2024 (1); 2024 primary elections (1); 2024 senate elections (5); should Donald Trump be on the ballot in 2024 (1); abortion (1); sports betting (1).
title: An investigation into the impact of aspects of a Learning Intervention Programme, and the use of perceived preferred learning styles, on the effectiveness of learning in a secondary school in Merseyside : a case study
Creators: name: William Storrar, John
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates, through a systematic and critical analysis, how one school in Merseyside (the Case Study School,'CSS) has attempted to introduce, and use, a Learning Intervention Programme (LIP) as part of its overall strategy to raise pupil achievement by aiming to create a climate in its classrooms, which leads to more effective learning. The study suggests that the introduction and use of a six-part lesson-planning cycle at CSS, based on experiential learning cycles, has had an overall positive effect on the climate of learning within the school, particularly when pupils are more actively engaged in their lessons. Pupils were found to appear to respond more favourably to short, engaging activities and were less motivated by long periods of teacher exposition. Positive aspects of the introduction of LIP were often linked to lesson structure and planning: all teachers interviewed agreed, most of them strongly, that LIP has made them think about new teaching strategies and most thought that it had helped them to plan lessons better. There are also some indications that pupils see its importance and there is evidence that pupils value the contribution of 'starters', lesson objectives', 'lesson outcomes' 'recap' and the review of prior learning. The study notes that there is considerable overlap, both with work on Assessment for Learning (AfL) and with the major national projects 'Learning to Learn' (L2L) and 'Learning How to Learn' (LHTL).
title: Chemical and molecular markers of hepatic drug bioactivation, apoptosis and necrosis
Creators: name: James Antoine, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Hepatotoxicity represents one of the most prevalent drug-induced adverse effects seen in the clinic and is a major cause of attrition of new chemical entities in development. Some adverse drug reactions are associated with metabolic activation to a chemically reactive intermediate. The hepatotoxicity associated with acetaminophen (APAP; paracetamol) and furosemide (FS) in mice is initiated by the formation of a reactive metabolite which has been well characterised. APAP hepatotoxicity is a major clinical problem, and with FS represents an important tool to investigate mechanisms of drug induced liver injury (DILI) in animal models.
Neumania (Ecpolopsis) multiscutata subsp. multiscutata Piersig 1906
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Neumania
Neumania multiscutata
Neumania (ecpolopsis) multiscutata multiscutata (piersig, 1906)

description: Neumania (Ecpolopsis) multiscutata multiscutata (Piersig, 1906)
New records: India, West Bengal, Malda district, Ravindrasarobar area, temporary pool, viii. 2009 leg. Chatterjee, 4/3/0.
Records from the study area: West Bengal, Maharashtra—Lundblad (1969).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Effects of Age and Hearing Impairment on the Ability to Benefit From Temporal and Spectral Modulation
Creators: name: Roush, Patricia A.
name: Grose, John H.
name: Buss, Emily
name: Hall, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: At poor signal-to-noise ratios, speech understanding may depend upon the ability to combine speech fragments that are distributed across time and frequency. The goal of this study was to determine the effects of development and hearing impairment on this ability.
title: Investigating population structure and mechanisms driving pyrethroid resistance in Anopheles funestus reveals a selective sweep in Southern Africa
Creators: name: Barnes, Kayla
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Resistance to pyrethroids, the only insecticide class approved for bednets, threatens the control of the major African malaria vectors, Anopheles funestus. In Malawi, where resistance has been previously reported, little is known about the nation-wide resistance profile, mechanisms and patterns of gene flow driving the spread of resistance. To manage resistance effectively, it is crucial to understand the dynamics and evolution of resistance. To fill this gap in knowledge, this study has determined the levels of insecticide resistance in Malawi in a South/North transect across the highly endemic and densely populated lake and southern agricultural area. An. funestus was resistant to pyrethroids, carbamates, and DDT but fully susceptible to organophosphates. Microarray and qRT-PCR analysis revealed the key role of cytochrome P450 genes including as CYP6P9a, CYP6P9b and CYP6M7. However, a significant shift in the over-expression of these CYP450s was detected across a south/north transect, with CYP6M7 more highly over-transcribed in the two northern locations and CYP6P9a and CYP6P9b more greatly over-transcribed in the south. CYP6M7 was under neutral selection while CYP6P9a and CYP6P9b were directionally selected, which was more pronounced in the South than in the North. Additionally, a new CYP450 gene, CYP6AA1, located on the pyrethroid resistance QTL (rp1) near CYP6P9a and CYP6P9b, was consistently overexpressed in resistant mosquitoes (5.20
Coping Race
Creators: name: Beluci, Totti Ligia Maria Messias
name: Carlos, Junior Antônio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Angustia Psicológica, Educação em Saúde, Adaptação Psicológica

description: As estratégias de Coping são as habilidades para domínio e adaptação ao estresse, que podem ser utilizadas de duas formas, centrada no problema ou focada na emoção. Os profissionais de saúde de saúde podem contribuir para modulação do coping, utilizando como uma estratégia de humanização do cuidado em saúde para redução do estresse, trazendo conforto ao paciente e otimizando o processo de recuperação. Pensando nisso, criamos um jogo com objetivo de familiarizar os profissionais de saúde com as estratégias de enfrentamento (coping) em relação ao estresse. O conhecimento, o domínio dessas estratégias podem dar contribuição significativa para os profissionais de saúde que lidam rotineiramente com uma variedade muito grande de situações estressantes.